A hologram appeared, depicting the solar system encircled by a bright green ring and each planet following an elliptical path around the sun. Lines began to extend from the third ellipse – the one that represented Earth's orbit – following a straight path all the way to the leftmost edge of the circle. Toward Leyrian Space. Though each one was a different colour, there were so many that they began to overlap so that it was impossible to distinguish the path of one ship from that of another. In reality, they'd be separated by millions of kilometers, but on this scale, they all seemed to be flying through the one small section of space. Every ship that had ever flown in and out of the Sol System in the last three years. He began to notice lines extending from Earth to the right side of the

