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The two alien ships guide [[Spensa]] closer to the station, and she observes aesthetically beautiful buildings and parks on each block. [[M-Bot]] tells her that there is no radio chatter; the [[Superiority]] is as scared of the delvers as the humans are. Spensa pulls into the docking bay, and M-Bot tells her that the platform has breathable air for her and the correct pressure. He also tells her that the aliens will understand her English output because their pins will understand one of the main languages of the people who thrice tried to conquer the galaxy. Spensa pops the cockpit and gets an access ticket to the docking bay from one of the aliens. Spensa remains in the ship, and is approached by an alien who refers to themself as [[Cuna]]. Spensa tells [[Doomslug]] to stay in the ship, then gets out to meet Cuna. Cuna guides Spensa through [[Starsight (station)|Starsight]] to where she will stay, passing by markets and parks galore. Cuna tells Spensa that by agreeing to be in the Superiority's defense force, Alanik might gain secondary Superiority citizenship for her people. Cuna further tells Spensa the Superiority prefers races that are not too aggressive but also have primary intelligence. The [[UrDail]] have thus far been barred from Superiority citizenship due to their alliance with the humans in the [[Human wars|Third Human War]]. Cuna tells Spensa shethey isare a member of the [[Department of Species Integration]], and hashave personally been trying to integrate the UrDail into the Superiority. Cuna takes Spensa to her quarters, and tells her that as a [[cytonics|cytonic]], Spensa poses a threat to the Superiority, as it was people like her who first drew the [[delver]]s from their realm to attack the Superiority. This forced the Superiority to control the cytonics and limit radio communications, but they have since discovered cytonic hyperdrives that do not aggravate the delvers. Spensa realizes that the reason the Superiority never sent a massive attack to wipe out the humans was because they simply didn't have the numbers, and they instead control the galaxy by controlling access to cytonic hyperdrives. Cuna then tells Spensa the reason the Superiority has been gathering pilots like her is because they believe the delvers are watching the Superiority, and they have developed a superweapon to combat the delvers that they need large amounts of pilots to deploy. Cuna tells Spensa that the [[Department of Protective Services]] is overseeing the delver combat operation, but that shethey hashave significant say in it. Cuna tells Spensa she needs to pass their tryout the next day, and also warns her that her cytonic abilities will be muted by Starsight's cytoshield. Before they can leave, sirens go off around the building, a ship lands in front of the building, and a human woman steps out.

Following the human woman comes a [[varvax]], who [[Cuna]] introduces as [[Winzik]], the head of the Department of Protective Services. The group enters [[Spensa]]'s quarters and Winzik has the human, [[Brade]], test Spensa for [[cytonics|cytonic]] abilities, after which he warns Spensa not to use her cytonic abilities on others. As Cuna and Winzik continue to talk, Spensa realizes she is being used as a pawn in their greater political power struggle. Spensa agrees to follow the [[Superiority]]'s rules, and Winzik and Brade leave. Cuna tells Spensa she can arrange forhave supplies to be brought to Spensa'sher quarters, and then leaves. [[M-Bot]] contacts Spensa and asks her to move him away from the public docking bay so he can be more comfortable and connect to the station's public datanet to look for information.

[[Spensa]] gets in [[M-Bot]] and takes off the roof of the embassy, headed toward where the tryout will take place, half an hour of flying away. They receive a flight plan, and enter a stream of a couple dozen assorted ships headed to the same location. M-Bot tells Spensa he should send a message to [[Alanik]]'s people, giving them basic information the Superiority will overlook, encrypted with a message that she is not Alanik, that Alanik is injured and Spensa is performing her mission. M-Bot asks Spensa if he's truly alive, and Spensa points out he changed his own code, and then asks if he could change his own code to fly himself, after which M-Bot makes clicking sounds and restarts. This happens once more before they realize M-Bot can't even think about flying himself without his computer restarting him. M-Bot reaches the location of the tryout, a mining station surrounded by another atmosphere-simulating bubble. They land and Spensa disembarks, and approaches a crowd of aliens listening to [[Winzik]], standing on a raised dais, addressing them through a voice projection tool. Winzik informs them the [[Superiority]] must always be on high alert in looking for [[delver]]s, and someone in the crowd asks if it's true that a delver has entered the realm. Winzik confirms this, and quickly moves on to discussing the waivers they all need to sign. Spensa receives one, but doesn't know her travel identification number, so goes up to a [[varvax]] taking questions. A group of small fox like creatures are talking to the varvax, telling it how they are no longer a monarchy and should not have to prove their loyalty to the Superiority for the umpteenth time. Winzik approaches Spensa and tries to talk her out of trying out. [[Cuna]] approaches Spensa next, asking about Winzik's intentions. Cuna reveals that Alanik is the only pilot that accepted her offer, and that Cuna'sone realof reasontheir inreasons for asking species like Alanik's to try out for the force is to see their human-given [[Starfighter#Light-Lance|light-lances]], which generally require more confidence to use in combat, in action. Cuna leaves, and Spensa gets back in M-Bot and takes off towards the edge of the asteroid field.

[[Spensa]] awakes to [[M-Bot]] warning of intruders downstairs, so she grabs her handheld destructor pistol and heads downstairs. M-Bot tells her the locations of the two intruders, and Spensa ambushes one of them, who drops a plate. The intruder claims to be a housekeeper sent by [[Cuna]]. The door chimes ring, and Spensa opens the door to see Cuna herselfthemself. Cuna confirms the story, and identifies the housekeepers as Mrs. [[Chamwit]] and her assistant. Cuna enters the embassy and they head to a meeting room. Cuna asks Spensa what she knows of the [[human wars]] and the [[delver]]s, which leads Spensa to the conclusion that the human had tried to weaponize the delvers, only for them to backfire and consume the human planets, just as she'd seen on the video on [[Platform Prime]]. Cuna tells her that although shethey and Winzik disagree on many things, one thing they do agree on is that they need to have a way to combat the delvers should they ever return. Cuna also tells Spensa the humans aren't a real threat, and that rumors of their impending escapes are just stories drummed up by the Department of Protective Services every time they need a new funding bill passed. Cuna tells Spensa shethey wants her to act as a spy and report on whatever the Department of Protective Services has them do in their training. SheThey also tells Spensa the ship they will be traveling on has a [[cytonics|cytonic]] hyperdrive, so Spensa should pay attention when they jump if she wants to increase her powers. Spensa gathers up her things and tells Cuna not to touch M-Bot, then heads to the docking platform to board her transport ship.

[[Spensa]] realizes she can get home now, as the location of [[Detritus]] is burned into her mind, unfading. [[Brade]] informs Flight Command that the weapon was successful, and that she is confident that in the event of an actual [[delver]] attack, the weapon would divert the delver to the human refuge on [[Detritus]]. On their way back to the ''[[Weights and Measures]]'', Spensa and Brade argue about the ethics of loosing a delver on Detritus and Spensa tries to work up the courage to tell Brade that she's really a human and invite her to return with her to Detritus. Brade also tells Spensa she can teach her things about her powers that she never imagined, but Spensa is still skeptical about dealing with the delvers. [[Winzik]] informs Spensa and Brade that they are to report to him when they return to the ''Weights and Measures''. They return, and are escorted by a drone on a red carpet to a room containing a party. The room is filled with [[Superiority]] officials and higher ups in the Department of Protective Services all chatting and celebrating ridding the galaxy of the fear of delver attacks. Around the room are screens showing footage of the pilots dogfighting embers, and Winzik is making the rounds pitching the idea of the delver defense force to many government officials. [[Cuna]] and Winzik square off on opposite sides of Spensa, and Spensa asks Cuna if shethey knew about the plan to loose the delvers on human refuges. Cuna says yesthey had suspected as much, then the party stops as Brade throws her drink against the wall in outrage, so Spensa follows her, consoling her. They return to the jump room where their flight congratulates them on reaching the heart, and Spensa settles in to listen to Winzik's commands to the engine room. They switch out the hyperdrive again, and, after they make the return to [[Starsight (station)|Starsight]], Spensa's espionage drone informs her that it has tripped a sensor in the engine room and will likely be discovered. An alarm throughout the ship goes off, and Spensa tells the drone to detach the destructor pistol, turn off the safety, and start pulling the trigger.

[[Cuna]]'s shuttle reaches a safe distance away from the ''[[Weights and Measures]]'' when Cuna hands [[Spensa]] a paper detailing the [[UrDail]]'s personal communication with herthem. The papers go from not wanting to send more pilots to the [[Superiority]] to cutting off communications until [[Alanik]] is returned. Cuna comes to the conclusion that Spensa is simply an UrDail spy sent to steal hyperdrive technology, and that she never truly intended to gain Superiority citizenship. Cuna inspects Spensa's espionage drone, and [[Vapor]] tells herthem it looks like old [[figment]] technology. Spensa tells the drone to play back the video it took two minutes before hyperjump. The video shows the engineering room, and the subsequent conversation between the engineers and [[Winzik]], then it shows an engineer getting up to replace the hyperdrive. He walks over to a cage, opens it, and pulls out a [[taynix|yellow slug with blue spines]].

[[Spensa]] watches the rest of the video, and finally understands why Commander [[Spears]] instructed [[M-Bot]] to search for fungi: he needed a new hyperdrive and [[taynix]] are found around fungi. [[Vapor]] then reveals that she followed Spensa the day she went on a walk with [[Morriumur]] and saw [[Doomslug]] in the embassy window. [[Cuna]] tells Spensa shethey isare going to show her what the [[Superiority]] is, and leads her down the hall. Vapor tells Spensa she can trust Cuna, so Spensa asks if she can trust Vapor. Vapor tells Spensa she hasn't told anyone what Spensa really is, so Spensa decides she can trust Vapor. Spensa tells M-Bot that Doomslug is a hyperdrive, and tells him if she dies he is to fly back to [[Detritus]] and tell them. Cuna tells Spensa the Superiority has been on the brink of losing its stranglehold on [[cytonics|cytonic]] hyperdrives for some time, so some bureaucrats, like [[Winzik]], reached the conclusion that the [[delver]]s must be used to control the Superiority. This led him and Cuna to create the Delver Resistance Program, Winzik's motive being to scare people and Cuna's motive being to convince the Superiority that lesser species' aggression has value. A pair of doors open in the chamber and [[Gul'zah]] is led in, chained. Spensa tells Cuna she thought the protesters had reached an agreement, and Cuna tells her that the Department of Protective Services was brought in, and agreed to the protesters demands, in exchange for Gul'zah. Some people on Starsight fear the events onboard the ''Weights and Measures'' were arranged by revolutionaries led by Gul'zah, so the decision was made to exile him. The center of the room shimmers, and an orb of pure blackness emerges, an orb Spensa immediately recognizes as a portal to the [[nowhere]]. Gul'zah's face is pressed to it, and his body stretches, and then the rest of him is sucked into the orb. After everyone has left, realizing Cuna is sincere and that she has few choices left, Spensa takes a deep breath and deactivates her hologram.

[[Spensa]] sticks out her hand, telling [[Cuna]] this is the opportunity she'sthey asked for, and Cuna takes it. Spensa tells her about the advanced hologram technology she and her ship use, and Cuna is amazed. Cuna tells her shethey argued on behalf of the humans for hours in closed doors-door senate meetings to keep radicals like [[Winzik]] from exterminating the humans. Cuna also expresses hertheir amazement over the fact that humans have recovered from practically being sent back to the stone age to having hyperdrives again. Spensa then tells Cuna that Winzik has plans to use [[cytonics]] to control the [[delver]]s and hold them over the Superiority's head to keep people in line. Spensa convinces Cuna to allow her to take the sensor unit back, as [[M-Bot]] needs it. Cuna escorts Spensa outside of the building and offers to fly her back to the embassy to return her to Detritus, but [[Vapor]] flies up in a military shuttle, informing Spensa their flight is being mobilized, thinking a delver has been spotted.

[[Cuna]] stands sitting on a balcony with one of hertheir [[figment]]s, [[Zezin]], watching the [[delver]] approach and fling its embers. They realize that [[Winzik]] has lost control of the delver and Cuna tells Zezin to go, since his ability to travel through the air might enable him to reach a ship in time to hyperjump away; Zezin promises to resist Winzik and clean up his mess. As Cuna contemplates how little shethey can do, shethey observes a trio of [[starfighter]]s pop into existence just outside [[Starsight (station)|Starsight]]'s shield.

[[Spensa]] awakes in a [[Superiority]] hospital room, with [[Cuna]] watching over her. Cuna tells her that hertheir department, instead of [[Winzik]]'s, has been allowed to contact the humans on [[Detritus]], and that Admiral [[Cobb]] made a very rational first contact. SheThey also sayssay that Winzik tried to twist what happened by claiming that the humans summoned the [[delver]], and that [[Morriumur]] had saved the day. Spensa, however, feels like something is off, and checks outside the window. It's silent, with no one on the streets and civilians being ushered inside by people in brown-striped clothing. She immediately realizes what's going on and tells Cuna they need to get out of the hospital immediately.