Half an hour ago, in the Central Observation Room of the Race Organizing Committee.
"The Correction Value has risen?"
Older Cousin sat in the chair behind the large screen, looking up intently at a pile of data that anyone other than a professional couldn't make heads or tails of, "Doesn't sound like good news."
"Although currently the change is minor, only around one percent, the issue is that this one percent has come about inexplicably, entirely outside our predictive range."
The data expert from Tomorrow's News was a middle-aged man with an expressionless face who spoke in an utterly flat tone, "There could be a variety of reasons. It might just be a simple butterfly effect, or it might not be that simple."
"Can't we just follow up with a modification in time?"
"We can, but it's quite troublesome."
