The two days following the joint session were unlike anything Singapore facility had experienced in five years of operation.
Not crisis. Not emergency. Not the particular focused urgency of Coalition personnel mobilizing against threat. Something different—the quality of a large institution processing something that didn't require immediate action but demanded sustained thought. People talking in corridors, in dining areas, in small groups that formed and reformed around the question the revelation raised for each of them specifically.
Rodriguez gave Coalition personnel the two days deliberately. Operational tempo reduced to maintenance level. No non-essential meetings scheduled. The implicit message: what you received is significant enough to deserve genuine processing time rather than being absorbed into operational routine without attention.
