"Neg. I understand your incredulity. I thought that too when I first arrived here. But noone here has heard of ComStar, or any of the Successor States. So unless they maintained a complete HPG blackout, manipulated public perception to make everyone believe that it is the mid 21st century and faster than light ships never existed and used their own...headquarters world-" He won't say 'homeworld' in regards to Terra for Comstar "-as a testing ground for billions of c-bills worth of exotic weaponry then we are very far from home."

Actually, thinking on that, she could be right. That's exactly the kindof thing pre-schism Comstar would do.