And in case it wasn't made clear in the story, the future-stuff was REAL. The battle with Strikeforce 4 was REAL. It wasn't a simulation like the Star Trek holodecks, even though Euro's writing made it seem like that. It wasn't intended to be anything but real. But the Strikeforcers who the team fought were either from a different timeline or from the near-future, so that Jia is still alive, for instance.
