Liara stood in a small room, in front of a bank of monitors. The technology was far and away beyond anything in the kingdom, but every last monitor was empty, blank. She simply stood, watching them, trying to find a pattern out of nothing.

"Glyph, pull up everything we know about thorns." A ball of light appears, hovering behind her. It speaks in a heavily mechanical voice.

"I am sorry, Dr. T'Soni, but I have no information on that subject."

"Damn it." She thinks for a moment. "Let's start with Species 37, then. And all information pulled from studies done on the subjects of Zhu's Hope before the invasion." A few screens light up, this time, but everything on them is fuzzy. Still, she seems happy.