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Jess looked around the room, studying the fifty odd people who sat around the large table. It was actually pretty convincing at times, but at others the images of attendees flickered or froze for a few seconds.
The room wasn’t real. It was a virtual conference, linking in the leaders of the main groups in the fleet. Some of the Admiral’s techs had gone to great lengths to set it up, trying to make the environment feel as real as possible.
Of course most of the attendees were surrounded by screens to give that impression. Jess and Ali were able to experience actually being in the room, thanks to the Wanderer.
They’d deliberately left their arrival until just before the meeting was scheduled to start. Neither of them wanted to be drawn into conversations, or to be stared at by th
