Four months.
Rodriguez opened the assessment session with the number stated plainly, projected across Singapore facility's largest conference space where representatives from every relevant Coalition division had gathered — Dr. Chen's expanded analytical team, entity civilization liaison staff, Volkov present in her advisory capacity, and Timeline 48 seated together as they had been for every significant institutional reckoning across seven years.
"Four months since Reykjavik," he said. "I want everyone in this room to understand the full scope of what those four months have produced, because I don't think any of us, myself included, have stepped back far enough to see it clearly until now."
The accounting proceeded methodically, each civilization's status presented in turn.
