North nods solemnly. “So Epsilon knew stuff,” he says. “York and I had our suspicions that something was rotten, but then Tex showed him the evidence she had found. I found out about it second-hand, because he recruited me into the plan, but I believed it all.”

He sighs. “I would have wanted to do things differently than we did but there really was no better plan that we could think of.”

He looks over at Wash again. “So you managed to find the Alpha. That would have been interesting, to get to meet him. Theta always wanted to. Actually, he wants to ask questions about him now, but I told him to keep it low-key while in the transports.”