while the public was asking for an explanation, some people already had strong opinions, those were the various spies both of foreign civilizations and those of the powerful families of the federation who had listened in on Vincent's and Alexander's conversation
they did a simple addition, specter family new child + robot legend = one step towards the truth, unaware that they were being conned
after receiving the new information, most of the more powerful civilizations that tended toward cultivation lost interest, these robots were just some fancy toys in the eyes of these old monsters, good-looking but weak, they obviously kept their hears open but had better things to do
at the end of the day, for them this was something new but not big news, knowing the relationship between Vincent and Alexander wasn't good, most of them ended up attributing Vincent's exaggerated words to an attempt to lure him back, even if a few kept their doubts because of the sudden improvement in the specter castle dimension, they simply weren't idle enough and ended up leaving this job to the lower tier spies
on the other hand, some of the spies originating from weaker civilizations and organizations were very interested, primarily the technological ones, like the Seterian civilization, but most of all a particular terrorist organization Phoebe can't wait to put her hands on
after the S.L.B VR game fiasco in the Sun Federation, the Science Liberation Brigade was still hiding in the black-eyed galaxy that is part of empress chaos territory, it was their luck that they were too weak to even enter her eyes, but Gregosh on the other end kept an open eye in the Sun Federation through the few spies they had, trying to find out who Daniel really was
but nobody knew him yet, much less that he was actually Daniel specter, Gregosh had only some theories that he was a member of a powerful family
but all of this was about to change soon enough, as Daniel's identity will soon be revealed according to the plan
the following day at the specter castle, Daniel arrived in the kitchen ready to fix his breakfast, sadly finding his mother cooking some berry slob again "good morning mom"
Phoebe turned around and seeing his disappointed face said "good morning daniel, don't worry I prepared a bowl with just pineapple as you like it"
Daniel smiled and said "thanks" while sitting down at the table
soon later the others started to arrive despite the fact they were still busy, Sophia that still had to finish restoking, Vincent that would soon head to work, Joseph who still had to stabilize his cultivation, and even alexander
Vincent seeing alexander said "I thought you had already left"
Alexander took a seat and said "I wouldn't leave without visiting your sister, and in any case, I thought about it, in a couple of years there's the reunion, it's useless to go back and come here again in a while, so I left the others in charge and decided to take an extended vacation, I'll stay here for a while"
Daniel asked "what reunion?"
Alexander responded "once every 1000 years all the members of the specter family gather in the vault dimension, once upon a time there would be the official presentation of brides and husbands who married in the family, and many challenges between the young, to show themself off and get presents from those crusty old guys, but since you are the only one, it's just a reunion now, so that those who are always in seclusion can get to know what's new, now that I think about it, keep in mind to keep your ability for that day, they are going to want to see it"
Vincent grumbled in his mind "aren't you one of the crusty old guys?" and Alexander like he could read his mind just threw a glare at him
at this moment Daniel nodded and said "I understand, I'll keep it in mind" attracting the attention and pouring cold water on those sparks before they degenerated into a fight
soon later Almony arrived and saw all these people gathered, normally it wouldn't be a problem, but feeling their unfathomable auras she got scared and froze at the door
Daniel saw her and said "everyone this is almony, the woman in a jar that I found on the desert planet, Almony this are my family members . . ." continuing to introduce everybody to Almony
after the introduction, Almony relaxed a little, even if her little heart was still beating like a pneumatic hammer, and said "good morning seniors, I'm Almony Valmont of the Valmont skurian tribe"
Alexander said "skurian pirates, I visited Skuria once more than 5000 years ago, I heard what happened, my condolences"
Almony surprised said "it's ok, for me it's history I wasn't even born when Skuria was destroyed, if it isn't too much to ask, could I know if any of you seniors have news about my people, apparently I spent 500 or so years in suspended animation and I have no idea how to contact my mother or if she's even alive"
Vincent said "wait a minute I'll check" taking out his book-shaped personal device to search
in the meantime, Phoebe invited Almony to sit and gave her some breakfast
while Vincent was searching, the others started chatting, the family was especially careful to ask Daniel what he did, since he was without supervision, but he didn't do much yesterday and everyone could relax
soon vincent finished the search and said " 300 years ago the internal conflict of the 6 remaining tribes of skurians stopped, in the end, they divided into 2 groups one that continued on as pirates and another that established itself on a planet now named Skuria II previously named Thejin, in the next 50 years they made a peace and trading accord between them, the situation remains unmutated since then"
Almony said "what? so much happened, are there any details?"
Vincent said "no, they are too weak to be on the watch list, so we know what happened but only because a civilization nearby traded information about the shifts of power in that galaxy with us, we didn't bother to investigate any further, but I can tell you the coordinates of Skuria II are -9876.6789 +2313.4351 in a small galaxy denominated eye of the forest by the strongest force present there, basically they went from the Hive territory surpassed us and established themselves in a galaxy behind the Sun Federation"
that's when Daniel waved his hand and a holographic map of this section of the universe appeared with verulus as its center, to show the position of Skuria II
Vincent said "good stuff, exactly there, too bad a lot it's missing from this map, those 4 galaxies below the sun federation it's the garian absolute monarchy space, and those 3 above between the Hive and empress Chaos territories it's our allies the sacred protonian empire"
as Vincent continued to talk the map continued to change adding more details in real-time than he said "that's about it"
Sophia was looking at the map and noticed some sparkling blue dots, so she asked "what are those?"
Daniel said "the explorer's approximate position, triangulated based on the known positions of the others and the strength of the signal, so it's not 100% reliable and I left them as dots until further examination"
Sophia said "I see, they are really distant, some of them even further than what our exploration teams reached"
apart from the few itchy explorers they left returning from the Hive territory and the one on retak left by Daniel, the other itchy explorers were really distant from one another, there weren't 2 in the same galaxy and most were several galaxies apart
Daniel said "for the moment I ordered them to gather materials, but not to build anything, as soon as I finish the project satellite I'll work on the non-maru project and start the . . ."
that's when joseph coughed to attract the other's attention and signaled with his eyes that Almony was present bringing the discussion to an abrupt stop
but Almony wasn't even listening, she kept staring at the holographic representation of Skuria II, trying to think of any way she could use to contact them
maybe because he noticed the look in her eyes Joseph said "I'm sure we can contact the civilization that traded the information, and your people through them, it will just take a while" after all, she gave Daniel the information he wanted, so they could do this much to help her
Almony looked at joseph and said "thank you, senior, I really had no idea how to contact them, I just hope my mother is ok after all this time"
Joseph smiled and nodded at Almony
that's when Daniel finished his breakfast and said "anyway, I got what I wanted to know, so I'll leave her to you, in the near future, I'll be busy in the lab, let me know if you need anything bye bye" walking out intent on going to the memory palace where the cloudtrain continued to fly peacefully
Daniel was already thinking that he had a lot to check out, the liveboxes progress, continuing project satellite, and ideally work on the new battery, while he was making a list in his mind Alexander said "did you forget that we are supposed to hold a press conference to announce you to the Federation?"
Daniel said "you can let me know where and when, I'll be there"
Vincent replied "Daniel, it's not so simple, after they know about you, you will have to participate in some events, there will be people trying to curry favors, and you need to know how to behave to keep the family's good name, it's a hassle but it's necessary for you to learn some political lingo"
Daniel's disappointment could easily be read all over his face, just like a few minutes ago when he saw Phoebe cook the horrible berry slob and after a long sigh he said "when do you want to do it?"
Sophia replied "the public opinion is fermenting well, if everything goes as expected, a week later will be the perfect time to hold a press conference and make the announcement"
Daniel smirked and said "so I have an entire week to take a politically correct behavior class, just send me the information I can teach it to myself in half an hour, let me know the press conference date, bye"
this time Daniel went, leaving them behind in the kitchen, Almony who had no idea what they were talking about felt as if she had heard a lot of outrageous information, but smartly decided to look the other way and mind her own business
in the meantime, the Specter family members had not much of a reaction and while Vincent informed a person to open a communication channel with Skuria II the others were compiling the necessary information and sending them to Daniel via itchy, this included the unfazed Alexander that the more got to know Daniel, the more amused he was