[CT] Re: I don't think he did

[Daniel Moran]

The lights inside glared at them, paint turned high. After the dimness of 
the emergency lighting elsewhere it was like being bathed by floodlamps.

Cyborg eyes adjusted almost instantly. Trent stood inside, at the far end 
of the long oval conference table, watching the doors open.

Mohammed Vance took a step into the room. He was peripherally aware of the 
other PKF, the Elite and Melissa, following him. His deep voice was tinged 
with weariness. "You are trapped, Trent. Please do not resist." Trent took 
a step back, stopped a few centimeters from the wall. Melissa moved off to 
Vance's right, maser coming up and centering on Trent's abdomen. The Elite 
with the autoshot had leveled it at Trent, and the laser in Vance's fist 
lit without conscious thought on Vance's part. "I would prefer to take you 
alive," Vance continued, "but if it is not possible..."

The young man stood looking at them, with his back to the wall, simply 
looking at the Peaceforcers with a lack of fear so profound that Vance felt 
a twinge of unease.

What made it all seem very strange for Mohammed Vance, thinking about that 
scene in the years to follow, was how quiet it had been, how Trent the 
Uncatchable had looked away from the other Peaceforcers and stared straight 
at Vance without saying a word, and then nodded once, smiled, and turned 
away from Vance, turned his back on the Peaceforcers and their weapons and 
walked into the wall.

And through it.

~~~~~

The only person in that room who's _not_ an Elite is Melissa.... :-)

At 03:43 PM 6/5/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>What about the fact that all of the eyes in the room....Elite eyes....
>are digital and could have been spoofed through resonance
>signals?
>
>If Trent had proved His Divinity beyond doubt, there would be
>no need for faith.
>
>At 08:41 PM 6/3/2002 -0500,Scot Wilcoxon sagely observed:
> >>"If the lights are low enough that the image looks solid, the image glows.
> >>If the lights are bright enough that the image doesn't glow, you can see
> >>through it."
> >>"Yeah. That's a tough one," said Trent sympathetically.
> >
> >And if the lights and the entire room are actually holoprojections...
> >with all the real objects in the room having projections of themselves
> >wrapped around them?
> >
> >If the lights and their brightness is actually simulated and projected
> >at the viewers, the rest of the room can be as dark as necessary.  And
> >if there is some glow, would it be visible against the same glow on the
> >projected walls?
> >
> >Or would it be easier to just project miniature images around the heads
> >of all the viewers?  Including images of each other and the parts of
> >their own bodies which are visible.  They'd all look as if they had
> >opaque balls on each eye -- if there is someone else in the room, such
> >as Trent who walks out while everyone else is chatting with his image.
>
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