Metafire

He just said, "They're asleep up there, right?"

"New Boston time is three A.M. What are you thinking John?"

"Can we get our FBI team over to their capsule, before they know what's happened. Can we put them to sleep?"

"John, this is not exactly something these guys have practiced. What are you thinking?"

"Major, is Jill coming in?"

"Captain?" he deferred to an aide.

"Yes sir, we called her. She is on her way in. We have called everybody in."

Ferguson then responded to the Major, "Major, I'm thinking we have big problems. Hopefully the guys in Sante Fe arrested everyone in the company while they were sleeping. They won't be a problem unless somebody messes up. But the people in the colony are going to figure out that they have been cut off. Then, if they are the terrorists, we may have big problems."

Jill walked in. "Jill," Ferguson called her over, "Jill, take hold of the communications console. We want to fake messages to the Metafire colony. As long as possible we want them to think they still have communication with the outside world."