Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
In the headquarters' first conference room, James Wright, the overall person in charge, was seated in an office with dozens of department heads and team leaders.
This was a meeting.
Though the value of meetings is self-evident, it was the first time in almost three years of travel that senior management was gathered in person rather than on the Quantum Network.
Ordinary meetings could be resolved online with the support of the internal, no-delay Quantum Network.
Everyone could stay at their posts, achieving both the purpose of the meeting and saving time.
But this meeting was of great importance, involving the mission's primary objective and another reason: the embryos' biological activity had come to a complete halt.
Put simply, the embryos were dead.
The mission had failed, and everyone had some downtime; there wasn't much that needed to be done in the short term.
