Quote:For Jess, ... It is likely the most secure short-range com system in all of Fenspace.Oh, now there's something for The Fall of Boskone Prime, the final story in the "Fenspace for Great Justice!" arc....
Nearly a hundred of the most battleworthy ships from Operation Great Justice and the Space Patrol fly by a belter's asteroid. As they fly past, making a perfectly-coordinated maneuver to avoid the asteroid, the ether is eeriely silent... There's a quick series of cuts to a half-dozen of the ships' bridges showing that each has a Jess aboard, either directly at the helm or advising the ship's pilot or AI. Finally, we see one more Jess, and the camera pans back to reveal she and four more of her clones are busy updating a holodisplay at the end of a briefing table. Down one side of that table are seated Benjamin Rhodes, Haruhi Suzumiya, Catty Nebulart, Wire Geek, Alliance General Judi Knight, and Councilor for Cooperation Black; down the other are KJ, Kirk Russell, Noah Scott, Katz Schrödinger, Starfleet Admiral Somak, and Eternal Senshi Hayakawa. Blackstone, Bob Schroeck, Mr. Morden, and Jon Helscher watch from just inside the doorway and despair as Fenspace's "movers and shakers" continue their petty arguments, even at this late hour...
The story continues from there, of course.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012