Good and Bad Progress
Much had changed in the months since Ves first presided over a session of the Interim Leadership Council.
He revealed his ambitions to become a major player of human civilization and managed to cobble together a Coalition of Faiths.
The Red Two, the Terrans and the Rubarthans had cautiously begun to roll out their newly authorized kinship networks.
So far, the feedback had been universally positive. No one who connected to the new networks had regrets about it. In fact, the early adopters had become the most ardent supporters of accelerating the rollout of the kinship networks!
It was a pity that the powers that be still stuck to their caution and insisted on a months-long observation period to see whether the people connected to kinship networks would slowly go crazy or become brainwashed over time.