Did I truly believe we'd have peace forevermore? No, but I believed there would be peace while I was in office. One hundred years is a long time to go without killing each other.

-Former Co-Governor of the Coalition of Cooperative Planets Aleisha Zheng, May 2nd, 2175 CE

TWO PATROLS WERE already on the scene when Peter and Rosie arrived. They crouched several yards from a squat apartment building, where two Hunter Guards were braced on either side of the front ...