Chapter Two: A Whole Old World

[Akirapryde]

Alice listened to the conversation and nodded. She spoke softly, "listen, secret missions aside. There is something more troubling going on. Has anyone noticed that there are some things that are um just wrong?"

She paused a moment, "listen the Draconis Combine did get involved in Lyran Alliance affairs and even deployed peacekeepers to a number of Lyran worlds but that within the region of space known as the Lyons Thumb. New Earth wasn't part of that region of space. So why is this ship here. Its like things just aren't right."

"Also, Adrian you mentioned LAMs? What about them?"

She turned and looked to Eric, "I know that my own understanding of Lyran history might be off. Maybe you could shed some light on the matter."

She also turned to Jake and spoke, "listen, I think if we are to survive this, we can't be silent. If you have something to add. Please speak."

She smiled and added with a bit of laughter in her voice, "that is unless you want our only voices to be our resident paranoid programmer and a blind teenager."