“What’s worrying you, Vaygay?” He took a long time before answering, and began with a slight but uncharacteristic hesitation. “Perhaps not worries. Maybe only concerns. . . . What if the Message really is the design drawings of a machine? Do we build the machine? Who builds it? Everybody together? The Consortium? The United Nations? A few nations in competition? What if it’s enormously expensive to build? Who pays? Why should they want to? What if it doesn’t work? Could building the machine injure some nations economically? Could it injure them in some other way?”
