Topaz houses statistical analysis teams alongside senior officers responsible for their work. Their task is to predict future events using numbers derived from current information. Despite their intellectual reputation, they failed to predict an enemy attack and must reconsider their models. The viewpoint character does not know what warning they provided about the possible destruction of another planet. He prefers frontline service to bearing responsibility for such predictions.
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Failed attack predictions force Topaz's analysts to rethink their models
The station's analytical staff must revise their models after failing to predict an enemy attack.