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;Part One
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. He could do nothing for the woman right now, not until he reached [[Evensong]] - an orbital platform hanging between Saturn and Uranus, and the frontier of humanities conquest in space.
As the shuttle begins to dock with the Evensong, his support operative, [[Lanna Write|Lanna]], enters Jason's cabin informing him that his colleagues have been sent on assignment elsewhere and she is the one that will be accompanying him. Lanna has booked Jason in to a hotel under a peculiar alias, suggesting that Jason is actually an agent.
As they prepare to depart, Jason notices his control disk being tapped. Sending Lanna a coded request in the form of a question Lanna responds in kind. Someone had managed to tap Jason's control disk. While Lanna could easily install a tap block, Jason doesn't order it. Strolling off the shuttle he steps to one side and apparently searches for his ID while watching the other passengers walk by, knowing the one that tapped his control disk should be there. The report of a murder on the news feed sets Jason into a hurry.
== Characters ==
;[[Jason Write]]: Considered to be the top operative of the Phone Company he is a powerful psionic looking for a missing scientist on the Evensong orbital platform.
:His philosophy is that space and their relation with the alien species is some sort of paradise that humanity is working towards. He believes the Varvax have found Elysian by becoming a space-faring race and can't imagine them as anything but peaceful.
;[[Lanna Write]]: Jason's support operative in the field. She handles all of Jason's intel and is revealed later on in the story to be Jason's wife. A stern woman Jason describes her as being one who few would dare cross. Though in her communications with Jason she is often teasing him or displays affection.
;[[Coln Abrams]]: Works for the United Intelligence Bureau tasked with tracking Jason Write as he enters Evensong. He is interested in Jason for personal reasons, having performed case studies on the PC operative back in his academic years. His main desire is to uncover the truth that the PC possess faster-than-light (FTL) technology.
;[[Denise Carlson]]: She is the scientist that Jason has been searching for. However, when they do find her at a local hospital she is amnesiac. Later, they discover this is due to her being a Varvax imposter - a dissenter trying to escape her own people. Jason takes her to the PC headquarters on Earth at the end of the story.
;[[Edmund]]: He is a Cytonic like Jason who kidnaps him in order to discover whether Jason really does possess mindblades.
== Organizations ==
;[[Phone Company]]: The PC were the first to make contact with an alien specie and had negotiated humanity out of a disaster following the Tenasi incident. The PC had brought FTL communications to humankind.
:They are completely autonomous to the constraints and laws of humanity following the Tenasi incident that only they were capable of mollifying. As such they deem humanity not ready for the perils of space and have been secretly withholding FTL travel technology from them.
;[[United Intelligence Bureau]]: The UIB is humankind's (supposedly) largest intelligence agency in the entire solar system. They mistrust the Phone Company because of their apparent shadowy motives.
== Technology ==
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;FTL: Faster-than-light travel has been acquired by all species except humankind. The Phone Company possesses this technology but has withheld it from them for so long. The technology is not powered by standard electronics as would be expected, but by cognition. The technology developed from Cytonics.
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