Rodriguez called the full council session within hours of Rama and Sekar's proposal reaching him, understanding that whatever emerged from this deliberation carried genuine, consequential weight given both the proposal's promising rationale and its acknowledged, considerable risk.
"I want to hear the complete reasoning directly from Sekar," he said, once the assembled representatives had gathered. "Not secondhand summary. The full proposal, with every safeguard she's developed."
Sekar presented her proposal with characteristic thoroughness, working through every technical detail the extensive preparation this attempt would require had already begun addressing.
