What do Blake's crew do with communication centres in Federation space? Why, sneak on board and blow them to bits, of course! With the MediaSphere, Cally has a more innovative solution; stick a communication tap into the outgoing news feeds and listen in to everything that's going on in Federation space. After all, it's the one source of the Federation's news now that all of those other communication links have been blown up. After sending Dayna onboard as a plant, the crew of the Liberator found out that they really had no idea of who was manipulating whom aboard the vast and interlocked organism that is MediaSphere and it's secretive Network that oversaw all it did.

I loved this for the sheer sense of fun that Orman and Blum wrote into the plot and dialogue whilst still keeping a sense of threat and tension running through a story where you know the major characters have to come out OK at the end ( )