Uvarov wheeled to face Louise, his scooters spurting puffs of reaction gas. “If it exists, will the string have any effect on the photino birds?”
“Possibly,” Mark said. “Strings are gravitational defects. Dark matter is influenced by gravity...”
Uvarov nodded. “So perhaps the string is here to do damage to the photino birds. Is that possible? Perhaps the string has been moved here deliberately.”
“I hadn’t thought of that, but I guess it’s possible.” Mark peered up into the dome, his eerie, disembodied head looking bizarre. “Yes. If someone is waging war on the photino birds, then maybe they are using lengths of cosmic string as weapons. Think of that. And more: who in this Universe is capable of such an act, but the Xeelee themselves?
“Lethe—fighting wars with bits of cosmic string. How have they the audacity to even imagine such weapons?
-Ring, Ch. 25