![]() ![]() The story opens with Jason Write in his private cabin aboard a shuttle, watching a video playback of a woman thrashing in a hospital bed. They are, however, capable of constructing orbital stations from nothing more than inert metal, using their Element-specific gravity generators. Thus far, humankind has expanded beyond the reach of Saturn but is kept back by the PC's refusal to share FTL travel technology they are suspected of possessing. Other alien races refused to communicate with humanity unless they went through the PC first. In exchange, the PC demanded they be above the laws of humanity and had since then worked autonomously. Humanity had worried this would throw them into a conflict, then the Phone Company stepped in and, using methods unknown to even humanity's intelligence agencies, brokered a peace with the Tenasi. ![]() The United Governments military had accidentally shot down a Tenasi diplomatic vessel during an embarrassing first contact. ![]()
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