The edges of the Sagittarius Spiral Arm of the galaxy, the world was an anomaly among the Outwords in a number of ways. It had been a spearhead settlement at a time when the ancient nation state of "America" had still existed before Earth itself became just one more world in the Imperium. From there, the Americans and various affiliated nations had settled the Arcturian Colonies, then Langley had too fallen into Imperial hands, and in a final twist won a sort of defacto independence after the war when the Imperials abandoned it. In the thousands years since, with the rise of the refugee Outworlds, now it was important again but it's culture was entirely untamed. We were being hailed. Systems were responding to autoscans when holos of Security officers from their system police appeared. "Processing registrations" one of the holos said, with a sudden widening of the eyes when he realized it was a Royal Warship from Caldris. "Caldris Royal Envoy." Tokushima informed him. "Officer Tokushima on official business." "Yes, we see.
