Status Updates From Emprise (The Trigon Disunit...

I'm trying to get through this, but it feels so all over the place. The scale feels massive, but it feels like there's just nothing to show for it so far. Almost finished "Part 1" as its called.

Lots of scientists characters that all feel a bit same-y, and the first chapter being something different then hard turning somewhere else is fine, but not what I was hoping for.

Some things never change.

”When people want to believe, they require very little in the way of logic and nothing in the way of facts. When they don’t want to believe, no amount of proof will persuade them.”

“…Then, you don’t think what this American detected is a message?”

“The odds are rather fantastically against it.”

”Ah—but because it hasn’t happened yet, right?”—you can’t set any odds. What’s the probability of a non-event?”

I don’t want to play statistical games,” he said crossly. “Let’s just say I strongly doubt the message-from-space explanation.”