“Of course,” the projection of Arthur answered, his voice sounding as if he were there in person. “I would also like to welcome Ms. Wells and everyone else back, and I hope you have had a fruitful journey. Regarding Earth, let us start with—”
What followed reminded Jake way too much of those overly long meetings Jacob had sometimes dragged him to before the system. That was, in some ways, lucky, as that meant Jake was trained to not zone out too much and actually listen in case he would be asked to reference anything said in a later report.
Arthur started out by going over a lot of stats. Not the cool kind of stats, like Perception, but boring stats, like housing developments, employment rates, material gathering, birth rates, and a whole bunch of other things. He even had graphs and st
