Founding Era · Episode 2

Solar Command, Mars, 2719 UCSD. A hearing convened to ask whether the Military Space Command can still answer for the conditions it governs scheduled for three weeks, runs six months — and produces, alongside six years of unresolved findings, one honestly volunteered sentence that outruns all of them.

• S00E02C01 Unauthorised, ThereforeSolar Command, Mars — MSC Casualty Correspondence OfficeA year of letters has gotten Adaeze Okafor exactly one sentence: her sister's expedition was unauthorised, and therefore beyond MSC liability. She comes to Mars in person to find out whether a second sentence exists. Lieutenant Voss has to be the one who tells her it doesn't.
• S00E02C02 The Volunteered WordSolar Command, Mars — Outer Stations Consolidation Hearing ChamberA hearing scheduled for three weeks is well into its third month when General Krast gives the honest version of the MSC's defence. Three civilian observers are recording, and the word she volunteers will outlive every technical finding the hearing produces.