Valdis shrugged, carefully pulling the bit of cloth off there it had stuck, taking another deep breath.

"So someone knew exactly what they were doing," she reiterated, "It's an odd target, the control station."

She tried to think about who might gain from such deliberate sabotage. Gene was probably right about the Sabonile, much as she disliked any form of religion, those who followed them tended to stick with the values.

"We should take a sample of the blood."