Alliance Rising

That information flow affected the market .It affected plans.It was the routine pulse of trade and buisiness.

Alpha still maintened its unique sub-light trade with Earth,over a twenty-year round trip,a distance only pusher-ships could travel without a breack.

Cyteen decided it was smarted, politically and economically, to convert the pushers and let the families do what they've done for centuries

Pell had stripped down old Gaia of her steell and built one to match her : Finity's End

They'd come in fast and deep in the gravity well

They'd come in fast and deep in the gravity well.

With all their money, with all their ressources, Cyteen didn't go on to create a merchant fleet of their own, never even thought.