The trip between Coruscant and Terra, on the modified shuttle Gaia, is four days, three hours, and five minutes, assuming standard cruising hyperspeed. The Major's personal items consist of one small travel bag with three full changes of clothes and toletries, and the bag he keeps on his back, which contains his more significant items: Books, Digital Video Discs, and similar means of keeping oneself entertained. I took the liberty of examining his choices, which include Roger Zelazny's Amber series, Orson Scott Card's Red Prophet, and Dumas's Three Musketeers, and approve wholeheartedly.
The trip involves several stops for refueling. The primary course programmed into the Gaia's navicomp includes a stop at the Jedi Child Spaceport, where most of Terra Group's pilots would disembark for a few hours to catch a meal and talk with the inhabitants. However, the Major is not taking that route. Although he would likely never admit it to anybody, particularly himself, the most likely explanation is that he never completely put the death of Lieutenant Alison Sky, a Terran and the only person under his command to lose her life during the course of Project Boussh, behind him, and he does not want to be put in such close proximity to a community that he feels he has deprived of its focal point. I, of course, did not broach the subject.
At our first reversion point, a subspace message came in from Lieutenant Nicholas Coghlan, Terra Six. Lieutenant Coghlan is not taking an active role in the current Operation Arrakis. He is, instead, dealing with other matters, to which the Major has not cared to enlighten me beyond saying they are "business matters." The full text of the message, bar encryption codes, message headers, salutations, and signatures, is as follows:
"1) Package delivered.
2) Visitors on deck.
3) Request permission to bring Kristy in."
The Major looked over it, and asked me to prepare and send a response, to say the following, also sans encryption codes, message headers, salutations, and signatures:
"1) Great.
2) Fine. Be careful.
3) Granted--but I suspect you already did."
Although I could speculate on the nature of the proceedings, such would be a waste of processor and memory.
I have noticed that the Major is being very secretive on the subject of Field Agents Lorrdain and Lorrdain. Today, he asked me for any information in the computer systems on the Force and premonitory dreams. This may be due to the recent dreams of Agent Sylvana Lorrdain, which can be viewed as a figurative interpretation of the recent developments in the search for Agent Blade. After reading the available material, he had a closed subspace conversation, and message encryption and orientation suggests that the person he was talking to resides on Coruscant.
In an attempt to expand my knowledge on the matter of the Lorrdains, I attempted to slice the files he has on them. The Major, however, had several layers of ICE, Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics, in the jargon of author William Gibson, protecting the files, and there was no way for me to perfectly slice the files as to leave no trace of my presence. I can only speculate that the Major has information and speculation on the Lorrdains that he has not told anybody--including the Lorrdains themselves. Again, further speculation would be a waste of resources.
However, while I could be uninformed about special data regarding team members, it is interesting that the Major would not share any such data with the members in question. There are many cases in Terran literature--including cases from the "Star Wars" stories that are the cover for New Republic affairs on Terra--where personal information kept hidden is revealed at a critical moment, and used to distract the person in question. However, the Major is allowed to keep his own counsel on these matters.