— 7 days after Firefly-1 went missing, October 23rd.
The entire world was still in the throes of the unexpected conflict that had occurred seven days earlier, which had temporarily pushed space travel out of the mainstream spotlight.
Lightning Night had come quickly and gone even quicker, with the critical events lasting less than 10 hours, but the consequences couldn't be ignored.
The conflicting parties were still openly generating friction over interests, and others couldn't keep to themselves; the frequency of receptions in Manhattan even increased several notches.
The foreign media called this incident possibly the most important turning point of the 21st century, yet the most central figures in this world didn't care about it at all.
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"All of MRO's photographic records are here, there's nothing on the photos."
