The base body and Quiet Brood stood side by side.
Both outlines were eighteen percent heavier than Jiang. Both carried the deeper breast, longer wake keel, stronger oilcoat, and thirty-six-centimeter minimum aperture. Neither could return through the old twenty-seven-centimeter comb.
The difference appeared when the chamber played a chick-distress call.
The base body turned its head in point eight seconds before the choice marker lit. Quiet Brood turned in point two.
[FULL-SCALE COMPARISON]
[Base involuntary orientation0.8s]
[Quiet Brood involuntary orientation0.2s]
[Base call legibility+40%]
[Quiet Brood call legibility+12%]
[Base submerged propulsion+14%]
[Quiet Brood submerged propulsion+10%]
[Other costs unchanged]
Jiang asked to see Compact Contour beside them.
