It was 11:47 PM on December 15th. The launch of Project Chimera , a satellite collision-avoidance system, was scheduled for January 7th. According to her legacy Gantt chart, they were 18 days behind.
"Warning: Critical Path unstable," the system whispered in English, though Maya had set her dashboard to Japanese for the Tokyo hardware team. "Three dependencies rely on manual data entry from Berlin."
Derrick squinted at the dashboard. "This says we're ahead by 36 hours. How?"
By 3:00 AM, the red cell turned .