The joint session convened Singapore facility's largest conference space—Coalition council sixty members on one side, entity civilization leadership and resistance movement representatives on the other, Timeline 48 and the investigation team at the front. Rodriguez had arranged the seating deliberately: two populations facing the same direction rather than facing each other. Receiving information together rather than debating it.
Two hundred people. Sixty entity representatives manifesting physical presence through the cooperation paradigm's established protocols. Timeline Arbiter at the room's center, more fully present than most Coalition personnel had ever witnessed.
Rodriguez opened briefly. "The investigation team has spent six weeks examining void network anomalies. What they found requires both civilizations hearing together. Timeline Arbiter will address us directly."
He sat down.
Arbiter spoke.
