No, it's definitely an idea worth at least exploring. It may be some time before we have something together that will do the job, but...

[Up pauses, glancing over the papers, and sighs.]

What happened in the last Fissure was a surprise. We'd explored it with drones a bit, but the magic of it reacted to consciousness, which of course the drones don't have. If we'd known what the effects would be, we would have at least issued a warning.

That would be no help for the newcomers, of course, but it would have been better than what we had.