Off to one side, Vic sat facing him with a cheerfully encouraging expression. Stark took a moment to glower her way, then tried to fix a more positive display on his face. You promised. That's what Campbell kept saying. You promised you'd talk to people if I asked you to. So here I am waiting to go on vid. I'll probably say something so stupid they'll show it in reruns 'til hell freezes over. They won't call 'em bloopers anymore. They call 'em Starks. Just watch.Vic gave him a thumbs up and received another glower. "You'll be fine, Ethan." Another display not far from Vic showed Colony Manager Campbell sitting with studied calm at his own desk, waiting patiently for the interview to begin. "Just think of it like you're talking to your troops.""Sure. Did you find out anything about how the commercial vid networks are planning to get this interview to the people back on Earth? The government will jam it for sure.""They'll try. The vid networks have a pretty impressive setup, Ethan. The interview will go out as a scattered, broadband, frequency-hopping transmission, each little piece of it tagged to be relayed by any receiver within line of sight.""That's a lot of receivers.
