Taygeta (8)

The chairman of the Martian Senate, Constantine, had one main hobby.

He would close his eyes, connect to cyberspace, leisurely swim through its torrent of information, take in what came his way, and reply to it.

The other 299 senators, rulers of the Federation’s autonomous territories, heads of major corporations, and so on

were among the tiny handful of the Federation’s upper crust who could access cyberspace.

Above all, neither the meddlesome Yamashita Luna nor Karyan could exert influence there.

Naturally, cyberspace became one of the Federation’s few “clean” places by Constantine’s standards.

That cyberspace,

the cyberspace where he reigned like a king,

was unusually tumultuous today.

Wondering what on earth was going on, he surveyed the situation...