Hardy's Steps

"I can't tell any one of you what to do. I'm not that wise. Walk your path. You'll know it."

File: Jacob Hardy, pilot, Ares One Centcom Boardroom 223B A/V Monitor Path to Ares: 517 Days To Launch 1843 hours Director Canterbury: Can someone get the lights? Hardy: Mr. Canterbury, I notice your wife was still giving a toast out there. DC: Yes, I know, thank you all for breaking away from the party. Evie: Now, if you'll all look at the screen. General Fiedler: Can we get some introductions? H: Hardy. Special Flight Services. I'm, like, never here, I don't know anybody. GF: And you are? E: Evie, sir, Evie Calumet. DC: Evie's one of our leading theoretical physicists. She has something important to show security services. H: OK. E: This. This shape you see. H: It was important to show me a moon? E: Not a moon. The weight's wrong and anyway, it shouldn't be there. H: Is that planet beside it— E: Jupiter. Does everybody get that? This thing just appeared in our solar system, and it's anyone's guess why. GF: What are its capabilities? DC: So far we don't know. Maybe it's just a roving satellite. Maybe it's something a lot scarier.