Dr. Soren Vale did not waste time with pleasantries. He requested the private audience with Elara immediately after his team finished cross-referencing the pre-resonance data cores pulled from the relay station.
The cores had arrived two days earlier, heavily encrypted and fragmented, but his archivists had managed to pull usable sections.
Vale brought Mira Solen into the meeting through a secure holo-link and asked Lira to attend in person. He said her long-term psychological study on resonance effects provided necessary context.
They gathered in a small archival annex on Eden Prime. The room held no resonance fields, no decorative panels, and no ceremonial furniture.
Just four chairs around a metal table, stacks of physical data pads, and wall-mounted screens displaying raw core logs. The air smelled faintly of recycled paper and machine lubricant.
