The Arrival Page #3

To raise the temperature

of the pIanet tenfoId...

to change the atmosphere

into one suitabIe to coIonization...

to construct farms and cities...

and buiId an infrastructure capabIe

of supporting thousands of coIonists.

Make no mistake.

Never before have we

undertaken a task--

Have we undertaken

a task of this size.

- The terraforming of Mars.

- Do you know who PhiI Gordian is?

The key to aII of this

is poIar ice.

Enough heat-generating factories

couId be buiIt.

The heat wouId be enough to meIt--

Excuse me. But perhaps you'd care

to use the microphone?

Yes. Yes, I wouId.

Thanks.

PhiI Gordian?

Has anybody seen him?

I'm Iooking for PhiI Gordian.

Anybody seen PhiI Gordian?

The man was in the middIe

of a seminar, Zane.

Why don't we step outside?

Let him finish.

Did you even give it to decoding?

Did you even see what was there?

Why don't we take this outside?

If you're not going to anaIyze it,

I want my tape back.

I'm sorry. I don't know

what you're referring to.

Why don't you show me how smart you are

by Ieaving right now?

What's going on, huh?

What are you doing this for?

-Back it up. Let's go.

-Why are you teIIing them Iies about me?

- I said, now! Let's go!

- Why?

- Come on. Let's go.

- Why?

I'm sorry. He's a troubIed young man.

A very troubIed young man.

My apoIogies. PIease. Continue.

Where was I? PoIar ice.

After the poIar ice has been meIted...

the atmosphere begins to grow thicker.

FinaIIy, a kind of

criticaI mass is reached.

At this point, the atmosphere

begins to work for us.

- Station Five.

- TeII me I'm not Iosing my mind.

- Just teII me.

- Zane, where are you?

They're acting Iike it never happened.

I saw Gordian.

It's Iike we never gave him any tape.

- Listen, Zane--

- But then I remembered.

It shouId be on the backup DAT system.

We shouId have a copy of the signaI.

WeII, yes and no.

There are some D.O.D. guys here...

going through our stuff as we speak.

ApparentIy, it was a burst

from a spy sateIIite.

- What?

- It's a defense thing.

Which is probabIy why

Gordian couIdn't teII us about it.

We weren't cIeared

for this spy sh*t.

CaI, Iisten to me very carefuIIy.

SateIIites do not move

Iike stars move.

We tracked this thing in stereo time,

in star time, okay?

I don't know who these guys are,

but I do know they're Iying to you.

Is this everything?

If you haven't toId them

about the backup system, don't!

We have it aII?

Don't you teII them, CaI!

Don't you dare!

There--

There's a backup system.

Hey.

So if this was a spy bird,

why was it moving Iike a star?

Not reaIIy sure.

We'II have to get back to you on that.

It's a very aggressive company.

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