Well, someone must have brought us here with a purpose. Surely this kind of effort would have to have a rather prominent force behind it.

[If he had not felt him die, he would almost believe it to be Shaw. If not him, then who? Who would have the knowledge and the desire to do this? He still wasn't sure he could trust anything the other man was saying, to begin with.]

Has anyone tried to contact either side?

[There were always sides.