The extended analysis session convened immediately, Rodriguez recognizing that whatever careful, patient timeline the crisis's previous deliberations had permitted no longer applied given this genuinely urgent development.
"I want comprehensive projection," he said, addressing Dr. Chen and her assembled technical team alongside entity researchers and Sekar's continued analytical contribution. "Not general concern about deteriorating coherence. Specific assessment of what timeframe we're actually working with, and what genuine outcomes we should be preparing for."
Dr. Chen worked through the accumulated data with characteristic thoroughness, cross-referencing everything the recent assault's detailed analysis had revealed against Sohrn's decades-old historical precedent regarding the sealed Timeline's own eventual fate.
