280 Mama I'm Coming Home

The entire trip went the same way, going over and over details, looking for anything that they had missed. Max and Nico, working together, managed to get a few details of the shipments leaving the system, but they were so obviously false that not even an idiot would believe that they had originated from Kepler Terminus.

That wasn't really unexpected though, so once they got closer, Max started tuning into the local news stations, looking for new propaganda and other things that didn't add up with how he remembered things on Kepler Terminus. 

What was told to the general population was usually the most telling of indicators that something was wrong on a planet, from an outside perspective. It didn't matter if they were saying everything was perfect, a new leader was amazing, or that the economy was being rebuilt in record time with an eye toward the future.