Tell them we're calling in every favor they owe our group.
So you need to go to Foundry, bring in those idiots who run the Syndicate. We're assembling our forces now, Navy and others, to fight the good fight, but we need Jump Drives. Beating them is likely to bring the Drak, and we can't win that fight, so we've got to strike it down before we find ourselves overwhelmed," I admit, and Darien nods, before holding out what looks like a data drive to me. "The Pug are just the servants of a bigger threat. Turning to face the speaker, I find Darien, Raven, and a few others wearing Navy Intelligence uniforms, all standing in a spot I was positive was empty a few seconds ago. "Not a bad speech, and it shows you're thinking ahead," says a very, very infuriating voice as I enter a hall outside the Parliament Chamber. Prepare yourselves for that, and know, we, as humanity, must stand together," I say simply, and then quickly rise up, leaving through an exit. Regaining our space will likely result in our coming to the attention of forces far greater than any we have known. I will do all that is within my power to end this current crisis. Let it not be said my heart is weak in the face of such events. Once before, we have saved this species from extinction, and now again we are called upon. My line is that of Elizabeth Sage, hero of the Alpha Wars. "People of Earth and human space, I am a Sage. Still, I take the chair from Alondo, and address them. This is so far from where I'd pictured my leaving New Boston would take me, that I'm almost totally floored by it. They all join in that cry, and I stand there, doing my best to look stoic, as I consider my words carefully. The second thing is that they're desperate, as one begs me, just myself, for help. They refuse to abandon the Earth, and in fact, have ordered the Navy to aid in preliminary evacuation of civilians instead of themselves. They, for all the derision I would heap upon them, are not cowardly. Mind, Alondo is the one to actually sit in it, as he begins to describe what I'd seen, while I stand beside him, trying my best to not look bored.Īfter almost an hour of back and forth with the Parliament, two things become clear. The space is an open one, with rows upon rows of seats, all assembled in a bowl facing towards the center, where the throne like seat is for the Prime Minister, a man who yields the floor to Alondo and myself, allowing us to take the ultimate seat of power from him. Once landed, Alondo proceeds into the chamber, inviting me in as well, giving me my first live view of it. I ignore them, and instead ask for a berth by the Parliament building, one that is granted by a very grateful sounding flight control. What's worse, we're assaulted by hundreds of requests, some ordering us to take them out of system, others begging for the same through sobs, and many more offering everything they have, up to and including their bodies. After all those times of entering Sol system and finding hulls of so many varieties and masses, to find almost nothing save a few standard Navy ones is disturbing.
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