[LOCATION: Ares Fleet Formation - Secondary Briefing Room]
[LOCAL TIME: 10:17 Fleet Standard]
The team sat around a smaller conference table, surrounded by hastily gathered materials—star charts pulled from the ship's archives, mathematical reference texts, computational tablets, and holographic displays showing constellation patterns. Everything they could find to recreate the riddle that had vanished with Kelvin and Lyra.
Diana stared at the mess of information with undisguised frustration. "This is bullshit," she said flatly. "Kelvin is the only one good at this kind of analysis. The rest of us are just fumbling around with concepts we barely understand."
Lucas looked up from a star chart he'd been studying for the past hour. "We have to try something. We can't just sit here waiting."
