Orion is acting Governor while James W. Nye is back East in Washington D.C. Orion and Clement Rice travel to San Francisco at the end of the California Legislative session to try and settle the border dispute over the strike in Aurora. “Sagebrush War”. When he escaped to SF he borrowed $200 from Orion and was barely scraping by. He was drinking a lot and lonely wandering with the homeless for 3 weeks before he got a hard reporting job doing the crime and court beat at the San Francisco Call. His claims of “butterfly idleness” was a lie.