Double Yew Postity.
[edit: Okay, I see this happening this way. There are four factions that seem to exsist:
1) The Empire
2) Aryan's Crew/Mother of Skies (also a part of The Order?)
3) The Order
4) The Faction of Me, Grieg, the best and only hope for the survival of all species on the brink of intergalactic war. Okay, maybe not, but hey, that's cool.
Oh, five, Ms. Summers gets her own category because I don't think (IMHO) that she really knows what's going on either. We, the writers, sure don't.
Three of these factions want Ms. Summers, badly for whatever the reason is. One, the Order, feels she's more important that anything else. Another, associated with Teja's crew apparently sent her on assignment and something (yet to be determined) happened and she was captured, whatever signal she was broadcasting was blipped out. The third, The Empire, wants her as a spy, okay, so that's what she was doing before the 'something' happened, but that's also yet to be determined.
If any of that seems to be incorrect, please correct me. Here's a timeline that I've seen.
(Time scheme (Months:Days:Hours:Minutes) (In case we edit this as things go on
)
Preprestory: Some stuff happens.
Prestory: Summers gets captured and is to be interrogated by the Grey Spider. The Order learns of this and hires Grieg to help in her rescue. Aryan's crew has not yet learned of her capture.
0:00:00: Summers interrogation begins. Grieg is there in the guise of a uniformed guard. An Esper spy, a member of the Order, contacts Grieg and the prisoner, briefly detailing the plan for escape.
0:05:00: Vanessa leaves.
0:07:00: An esper effectively removes the survelience officer. The solar flare begins, and Grieg goes to work in the interrogation room. He and Summers escape through a conduit.
between 0:07:00 and 3:00:00: Aryan's Crew notices that the signal has been lost.
3:00:00: The Spark Joe and Mia review the tape leading up to the escape of Grieg and Summers. Eros contacts Grieg and congratulates him.
The events after this point are fuzzy. I thought Grieg was still on the Empire vessel, (as indicated by "Let's go see Ms. Atries") Flame puts us on a Cutter heading to the gas belt. Following Flame and AH's timeline.
about (?) 15:00:00: The Cutter is picked up by the Mother of Skies.
15:05:00: Joe and Mia are about to launch an EMP bomb at the Mother of Skies and pandemoneum will ensue.