INFORMATIONAL DISPATCH #0931

(REPLY TO HOUSTON TRANSMISSION #5455,5-20-25) 5-21-25

DSV RINGMASTER (NASA 447D, L5/1, HOUSTON-COPER- NICUS GCR BASELINE)

JONFS, CIROCCO, MISCOM

SECURITY INTERLOCK *ON* CODE PREFIX DELTADELTA BEGINS.

1. Concur your analysis of Themis as interstellar space vehicle of the generation type. Don't forget we suggested it first.

2. Latest photo follows. Note increased resolution of bright areas. Still no luck finding docking facilities at hub; will keep looking.

3. Concur your mid-course scheduled 5122.

4. Request updated tracking as new orbital insertion is approached, beginning 5125 and continuing until insertion commences, then upgraded. I don't care if this means shifting in another computer 1 don't think our on-board will handle this volume.

5. Turnaround 5122,0400 UT, after the mid-course bum. 22

WORMA'EONALENDS PERSONAL (CIRCULATION LIMITED TO RINGMASTER MISSION CONTROL COMMN-TEE) BEGINS:

Re the Contact Committee which has been bending my car: 'buzz off!' I don't care WHO'S on the damn thing. I've been get- ting contradictory instructions that sound like they have the

force of direct orders. Maybe you don't like my ideas of how to handle this, maybe you do. The fact is it's going to have to be my show. Time-lag alone is enough to make that necessary. You gave me the ship and the responsibility, so 'GET OFF MY BACK!'*

ENDS

Cirocco hit the ENCODE button, then TRANSMIT, and leaned back in her chair. She rubbed her eyes. A few days ago there had been too little to do. Now she was snowed under with the status cheek to ready Ringmaster for orbital insertion.

Everything was changed, and all by those six tiny points of light in Gaby's telescope. There seemed little sense in exploring the other Saturnian moons now. They were committed to an early rendezvous with Themis.