For twenty-four hours, the question had hung over the globe, dominating broadcast networks, legislative debates, and millions of active threads across LucidNet.
The world's media and political apparatus had finally found a wedge—a single, controversial employment clause they believed exposed the cold, draconian underbelly of Nova Technologies' utopian orbital project.
Then, after a full day of silence, Nova answered. And the response came as a form of a statement from Lucy.
"You have asked why the station will not accommodate a pregnancy carried to term, or the primary care of a young dependent child. It is a fair, necessary question. I have read the primary concerns, and I have read the ones underneath them too—the sharper, more cynical ones, the ones that assume an economic excuse is being dressed up as a medical reason. I would rather answer those accusations directly than pretend they weren't asked.
