AP Sinks

Ves grew a lot more enthused about the Universal Gate Network than before.

Although there were many reasons to malign it, Ves valued this upgrade path for offering the most direct and straightforward possibility to reopen the greater beyonder gate.

Of course, it wouldn't be easy. Ves believed that he not only had to persuade red humanity to construct an entirely new gate, but also convince original humanity to change the settings of its old greater beyonder gate and open it up for business again.

This would probably require Veronica and Cynthia to make contact with the Big Two. There was no guarantee that the mechers and the fleeters from the old galaxy would be willing to play along, especially if they found out about the huge threat posed by the powerful alien civilizations of Messier 87.

A more serious issue that Ves was worried about was the bad blood that built up between the two branches of humanity.