In short, the sheer volume of information was so overwhelming that it took Yu Lian a full half minute to get his thoughts back on track.
Gongsun Qing was certainly a familiar name—more than familiar, in fact. After leaving the Alliance last year, the girl had gone straight through the transportation hubs in the Fimo Nebula and made her way into Imperial territory. Yu Lian already knew that much.
After arriving in the Empire, she had apparently done who knew what, because she had somehow made it all the way to the Talai Sector and even fought alongside the rebel group here, the People's Integration Movement. She had even caused a sensation on Cold Harbor, a planet perilously close to the Gate of Glory, and landed herself on the Inquisition's wanted list.
Yu Lian knew that, of course.
As for all the hardships and dangers she had faced between infiltrating the Empire and reaching Talai, those were things Yu Lian couldn't have known.
But as it turned out, Gongsun Qing hadn't been traveling alone. She had a partner.
Nair was a name he hadn't heard in a long time. Still, with Yu Lian's memory, it didn't take long for him to dredge up information that wasn't all that old from some crevice in his mind.
Since she was connected to the Engineers' Guild, it was natural to think of the organization's current chairman, Elder Trende. His granddaughter was named Nair. She was young, but well-traveled and gifted in engineering, and she had awakened her psionic abilities, too.
By all appearances, this could only be that Nair.
I knew it. That natural airhead never seemed like the type who could make it all the way from Myriad Kings Pass on the Fimo frontier to the Gate of Glory under an assumed