We have crude records to work from, but they have not been updated for over seventy standard years when Sector 17 was first included in The Expansion. It would be logical that if the Klin had a larger base of operations, they would have placed it beyond The Barrier, but close enough to The Fringe to maintain contact with the operations of The Expansion.”

He paused briefly as he swept a hand toward the left side of the table. “Lord Giodol, Senior Counselor Arolus and his assistants here will assume most of the day-to-day responsibilities of governing the Sector to free you up to pursue my bidding. You will be assigned two new Senior Counselors.” He looked down the table at Giodol’s current Counselors. “This is no reflection on your competency,” he said to them. There was no reaction on their faces. “You will be placed under the command of Counselor Arolus for reassignment of duties. Your experience with the functioning of the Sector will be of great value to them.”

Yan’wal then addressed the right side of the table. “Under direction of Specialist Eannwen, his team will be responsible for the investigating and correlation of all information regarding the Klin and their rumored presence in the Sector. He will coordinate with Lord Giodol for any information that can be gleaned from former Overlord’s records, including his private notes, transmissions and the like.

“As it turns out, Lord Oplim and Counselor Deslor had been obsessed with the Klin myth for a very long time. Their suspicions appear now to have been correct. We must not take anything they may have said or done throughout their careers as wild ravings. If we do succeed in discovering the Klin, and eradicating their threat from The Expansion, their names will go down in Juirean history as heroes of our race.

“As usual, most of our operations off-planet will be performed by trusted agents. Lord Giodol and his staff will in invaluable in providing our teams with the names of these individuals.”