Jack of Harts

It’s always easy for a cyber to tell the difference between a Western Alliance system and one that was settled by the Russians or the Chinese. A Western system will have cybernetic stations scattered throughout space all the way out to the system edge. The cybers will be talking openly for all to hear and they’re typically the first people to welcome an incoming starship. Cybers are everywhere and are part of the successful organization of a Western system. Russian and Chinese systems are far quieter affairs for those of us born in the West. There are no open and talkative cybernetic stations in those systems. No one to welcome visiting starships except whatever fleshling they stuck with the duty of watching the space lanes.