Chapter Twenty-Four
In the extra folder, Tina found a personal message from Vasily to her.
Dear Tina,
By the time you read this I will probably be dead. I don’t have much time to record this, because the pirate fleet is following us and the Federacy forces are refusing to help. It’s a long story, and I hope you’ll hear it one day. I have time to tell you one story today, and that story isn’t it.
I’ve included the recording of your talk in case you can use it to prove that you were concerned about the rift at an early stage. It proves that you are one of the few people who saw this coming and were prepared to speak up about it.
Because there is another side to the story, as I discovered.
It starts a number of years before you joined. Some people were aware of the material you so aptly
