The first draft named one recoverable objective.
Core.
Tessa read the line twice before asking the coastal delegate to keep the document open. Around the summit table, people had begun discussing a return window and the equipment needed to use it. The opening assumptions were already becoming invisible under the practical work.
“What happens if there are injured people inside?” she asked.
The Aegis technical representative looked toward the coastal delegate. “The expedition isn’t a general relief operation.”
“That doesn’t answer the question.”
“We have no established population.”
“We have a recovered person whose earlier injury had been treated before the fatal one.”
