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." No response.
He sat and thought. Someone had tried to kill him by locking him out of the computer. The chief said the computer was fine when she checked it on the ground. Which meant that the killer had tampered with the computer after the chief had checked it. Which meant the killer was on board Vigilance. And either the killer had silenced Armstrong or else ...
Good God! Xris and Ito!
Whoever tried to kill me wouldn't be likely to stop there, Rowan realized. The only reason to kill me is to halt this mission!
He had to warn them, tried the frequency he'd been given.
"Delta One, this is Javelin. Come in, Delta One."
Nothing. No response.
Rowan tried again and again until at last he was trying only out of sheer frustration. Either he'd been given the wrong cipher--Xris and Ito wouldn't respond to anything except the correct daily codes--or Rowan had been given the wrong coordinates. Or maybe both. It was all starting to fit together ....
"Pilot, navigation and flight computers have been restored."
"Thank you, maintenance. Return control back to the primary computers and maintain surveillance of all computer activity. Tell me if any other nonstandard code shows up."
The restart of the nav computer had wiped its short-term memory. The landing coordinates on TISor 13 were no longer displayed. The sensor array still held a fix on the mother ship, however
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