"Calabast. I haven't seen you for a while."
Her projection looked around to observe the ruined bridge. Though the cleaning bots had done their best to clean up the bodies and debris, the melted surfaces and the torn holes still told a vivid story.
"I'll keep this short, Ves." She said. "It took a lot of effort to establish this encrypted channel, and it is only effective for a couple of minutes."
Ves frowned. "How?"
"It's complicated. Suffice to say, you need a way to obtain an inside connection to the Comm Consortium."
Comm Consortium! Even with his muted emotions, Ves couldn't help but feel shocked!
This was an organization that governed every quantum communication node! It oversaw pretty much the entire galactic communication network with its vast web of instantaneous communication channels!
How Calabast managed to make an arrangement with someone inside the Comm Consortium was a mystery.
"Why go through this trouble?"
