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One good thing about it, she thought it wasn't equipped to eye her back. "It goes back to the time," the Commissioner said, "when Mantelish and Fayle and Azol were conducting the first League investigation of the plasmoids on Harvest Moon. You recall the situation?" "If you mean their attempts to get the things to show some signs of life, I do, naturally."
They feel it could develop suddenly into a dangerous one. They may be right." "In what way?" Trigger asked. "Well, suppose that key unit is lost and stays lost. Suppose all the other plasmoids put together don't contain enough information to show how the Old Galactics produced the things and got them to operate." "Somebody would get that worked out pretty soon, wouldn't they?"
It could be induced to go into action and to activate the other plasmoids. With further observation and refinement of method, its action undoubtedly could be shifted from the random to the purposeful. Finally, and most importantly, it had shown itself capable of producing a different form of plasmoid life to fulfill a specific requirement.
It was also true that until fairly recently plasmoids were being produced here. By the simple method of looking where they were thickest, Selan's people even had located the plasmoid which had been producing the others, several days before Mantelish arrived to confirm their find.
I've done all I can do until I get further instructions from the people supposedly directing this supposedly very urgent and important project! Mantelish doesn't even seem to have a second in command...." Plemponi nodded. "I was told he hadn't selected his Project assistants yet." "Except," said Trigger, "for that little flock of Junior Scientists who keep themselves locked in with the plasmoids.
"Plasmoids generally, you feel about them now as you feel about potatoes ... rocks ... neutral things like that?" "That's about it," Trigger said. She still looked puzzled. "We'll go over what seems to have changed your attitude there in a minute or so.
Your section of the project is supposed to be raidproof anyway." Rak glanced at his companions again and apparently received some undetectable sign of consent. "Miss Farn, as you know, our group has been entrusted with the care of two League plasmoids here.
"The Space Scouts thank you for those kind words," the Commissioner told her. "Those weren't League guards. When it came to deciding who was to keep an eye on you, I overruled everybody." She smiled. "I might have guessed it. What's there for the professor to be investigating on the other side of Manon?" "He's hunting for some theoretical creatures he calls wild plasmoids." "Wild plasmoids?"
Included was a recommendation to authorize distribution of ten per cent of the less significant plasmoids to various experimental centers in the Hub the big and important centers which had been bringing heavy political pressure to bear on the Federation to let them in on the investigation. That should keep them occupied, while the U-League concluded the really important work.
She waited till he had lifted the car off the ground in a reckless swoop. "That business yesterday it really was a grabber raid?" "We're almost sure it was," Mihul said behind her, "though I did hear some talk they might have been after those two top-secret plasmoids in your Project." "That's not very likely," Trigger remarked.
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