1254 Calm Before The Swarm

Max and Nico sat across from Generals Tennant and Yaakov in the library attached to Max's suites. It was somewhat ridiculous and luxurious to have a room full of actual paper books in this day and age, but Felicity had insisted on it, and each of the special tomes that she had created had a memory crystal in the cover with thousands of terabytes of data on it, related to the topic inside.

The crystals were stable and would last for an eternity if they weren't destroyed, so the room actually served as a knowledge repository, should their battles be lost and Absolution left derelict to float in the stars and be recovered by some future civilization the way that Creeping Darkness had been.

"This is quite the room you've got. I know that each Commander has a different taste for their sitting room, but somehow I didn't take you for one who would choose to fill it with books." General Tennant noted as he took his seat.