When robot craft attack Envoy, Ruszek and Brent, the two crew members with military experience, go EVA to defend their ship:
"The jetpacks on their backs were like the wings of the warrior angel Michael." (p. 110)
- a Biblical reference. See here. There is battle in heaven.
Meanwhile, Sundaram attempts communication on every wavelength:
flashes for numbers from 1 to 100;
digital symbols for operators identified by conducted operations;
sinsusoidal, parabolic and exponential variations of amplitude;
a succession of prime numbers.
This is First Contact in this timeline. I am not a mathematician so I do not understand all of Sundaram's experiments in communication but they are intended to show that Envoy is inhabited by conscious minds, not by automata.
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