By the stars, I thought as I entered my office. Thirty billion lives snuffed out in just days. I could only imagine the height of panic among the citizens of the Federation. When I lived on Earth, its population was just a little more than seven billion and Marranalis was telling me that more ...
“We’re also picking up broadcasts from ten and twenty years later on satellites that have penetrated much nearer; but these are much harder to filter, as the quantity and types of broadcasts from one decade to another seem to increase exponentially. Though your planet is way outside the Federati...