Chapter Thirteen
Neo Southern California Metroplex, Police Enforcement Zone 122 Station, Office of Detectives Jia Lin and Erik Blackwell
Erik glanced between two screens.
One displayed a public report on average message transmission speeds by Hermes Corporation and the other concerned terrorist activity on different colonies. He was supposed to be finishing his report on the Shadow Zone chase, but a faint hope that he might find a pattern which suggested Hermes was indirectly involved in Mu Arae had set him on a different path.
Humanity’s continued ability to exist across dozens of light-years and scores of planets and moons impressed Erik as he sat in his office examining data windows.
Billions of peoples and millions of companies had moved from one planet to fill a whole section of
