Sophie cleared her throat.
"Uhhh." She looked at the map. At the blue planet sitting in the display. At the sector around it with its fourteen uncharted civilizations marked in notations that weren't human. "Interesting."
Nobody said anything.
The map just sat there, the blue planet rotating slowly in the holographic display, completely unbothered by the weight of what it represented.
Lila leaned forward, her elbows on the table. "So what do we do?"
"We?" Marcus said, from his end of the table. He wasn't being aggressive about it. Just looking at the word from a different angle. "That's the interesting question actually. The real question is why. Why is it us asking that and not the EDF?"
Everyone looked at Aurelius.
Aurelius had been quiet since Mira finished speaking, which for Aurelius was its own kind of statement. He sat with both hands flat on the table, the flamboyance from the docking bay somewhere else entirely.
"The EDF knows," he said.
