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Medicine. Technology. Suma was the seat of those advances within the Alliance, which touched most sectors of the known universe. The labs employed thousands of staff, hundreds of them scientists and researchers on the very edge of innovation. They were compensated extremely well for their efforts. Charlotte received reports of their developments, and a committee, for which she was the deciding vote, reviewed all progress made in and out of the labs. And with all that Suma had produced, there still was no effective way to communicate over long distances, or when the recipient’s location changed due to the movement of their starship. To participate in communications between planets and galaxies, one must rely on semi-stationary satellites to relay the message frequency from sender to rec
