“Admiral, report!”
“Primus, good. I see you brought your granddaughter too. Here is what we know. Shortly after your speech the frontier forts all came to life visibly. Small ships were seen leaving them and heading toward Earth. Our long distance scopes have detected an extremely large ship on course for Mars. If I didn’t see it on the scope moving toward us, I would have mistaken it for a station of some sort. It must be the largest ship other than a colony ship ever built.”
“Admiral, our intel showed that the Cabal was a front for the UN. I broadcast my speech using the old interstellar communicator. It seems that we were right. There is no such thing as a coincidence here. They heard us. Where do we stand with our Navy?”
The Admiral smiled. “Our patrol craft are inbound along with f
