Chapter Thirty
June 16, 2231, UTC Space Fleet Base Troy, Conference Room
Their return to the base hadn’t been as dramatic as Jia anticipated. They’d explained the basics of their history lesson to Anno over the comm before taking off and Jia had written up a report, which they’d chosen to send to everyone on their team. The government could make their own decisions about how much they wanted to release.
Now Jia and Erik awaited the vice-director in a conference room. He’d specifically instructed them to come alone and warned them that they’d be cut off from Emma during the meeting. They had an inkling about what he intended, but they weren’t going to shoot their way out of a conference room on a Fleet base. They might have their disagreements with the government, but right now, they wan
