Our Cousin Neighbour: the planet Nebulus

Episode 3

Back in the White House, president Jack Williamson jr. was at peace with the world, laying down comfortably on a sofa in his pyjamas with a glass of red wine in his hand at the Solarium Sun room in the third floor of the White House. Beside him, seated on a straight back upholstery chair, dressed in a pair of fitted jeans and a white T-shirt was his lithe, amiable gay partner, Alex Cooks 30,suntanned,blond haired, clean shaven with feline features and physique of a movie star. Little is known about Alex Cooks in public, except that he descended from an Italian immigrant grandmother and an Irish grandfather. Cooks was a professional chef by profession, with speciality in Italian continental dishes and cuisines. Rumours had it that, the president met his heart throb at a bowling event organised by a renowned l***q socialite in Las Vegas. Mr Cooks was good looking, quiet spoken, quick witted and intelligent.

Cooks suddenly looked up with raised eyebrows signifying inquisitiveness.

"what's on ya mind dude?",the president asked looking at him fixedly.

"hell,just thought of the sighting of that damn flying saucer s**t i read in the news yesterday", cooks answered matter of facts.

"c'mon, sweet heart, take such trash with a pinch of salt", the president remarked seemingly losing interest.

"oh s**t! I know you are privy to such so called top secrets your lousy, funny men in dark glasses called classified Intel or whatever trash", cooks replied. Standing up and moving to the open casement window for a breath of fresh air. His lips a thin, vicious line.

"i dont really care anyway", he added with an air of indifference.

The president laughed light heartedly for a while.

"look dude", he stated, half pitching on his elbow "we aren't querrelling over this are we? Bet me, there are stuffs even the president of the United States ain't allowed to know for his own good", he added following Cooks with an assured look.

"alright, alright, just forget about it. Its your prerogative uh? Or another shitty state secret, ha?", Cooks said with some level of finality, and laughing sarcastically. The president did as if to answer him, decided against it, sighed softly and relaxed back. After a while, Cooks looked at him, their eyes locked, then he relaxed his face and smiled ruefully.

"i really need me some little shut eye to ease out right now. See ya later" He kissed the president deftly on the right cheek, and a short passionate one on his lips before moving to an adjacent room.

President Jack W jr was 34.The youngest president to ever hold the exalted office of the president of the United States of America.The president had a lot of "firsts" attached to his resume. The first youngest, united States president ever, the first openly self admitted gay president, the first president to openly attend an l***q event in public, the first president to move into the White House with a gay partner, the first to be voted president as an independent candidate, the first to have a public acceptance pool of 94%,the first to signed a multilateral agreement that limited the number of nuclear weapons stockpiles to the lowest number of 250 for the leading, World nuclear powers respectively, the first to finally settled the Israeli /Palestinian war with the recognition of a peaceful, un armed Palestinian state,along side a strong, sovereign state of Israel, the first to break the hostile barrier between the West and the East, with a new world social order that designated global existential threat as the violent Islamic fundamentalism recently fuelled by the successes of the near total "intifada" that engulfed, and swept across the Middle East and brought the sudden collapse and overthrew of moderate Islamic governments, and the ascention to power of the brutal, young and charismatic Ayotollah Ruhullah Al Jihad as the supreme head of the new, unified Supreme Islamic Revolutionary Nation of Islam (SIRNI), comprising of formally Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates,a monster whose sole aim in life is the total destruction of modern civilization, the president was also the first to commission a female as the CIA director, and designated a transgender as White House chief of staff, the first to single handedly championed the support for a physically challenged African American man to be voted as the governor of Arkankas, and now, the Kepler stuff that will take the world with a storm.The list was endless.

President Jack W jr hailed from a middle class parents of German immigrants. He attended OHIO state University and graduated with 2nd class honours as a maritime lawyer . He briefly served with the US marine under special forces. Within his short stinch as a commodore, the president had seen combat in special

operations in Venezuela, Iran and Syria. He left the marines with an honorable discharge as a 2nd lieutenant in 2028, and spent a few years stinch as a maritime lawyer with a maritime haulage company "The Sea Monster Inc" as a minor partner before going solo in 2030.

He joined politics in 2031,and contested as an independent candidate for the governor of Arkankas, which he won effortlessly with a landslide victory. No wonder, his good looks, amiable nature, sassy behaviour, smart intellect and quick wits are some of his outstanding shinning points. His s****l orientation had brought a lot of dark sides to his relationship with others. However, most often than not, he weathered most of the storms by careful and rational explanation, rather than rash confrontational approach, or self denial. He was the only child of his parents, and from childhood, president Jack W jr was groomed for success.

He thought of cooks for a moment, and a mild, cynical smile spread across his handsome face.

" i will take ya out for an excellent spoiler Italian dinner of grilled lamb and chilli at Mc Donald's coming weekend, oh yes, in california to make up for the bad times" he thought happily, stretched out his long, thick legs, relaxed his well shaped head with a sigh on a pillow, and reached out for an official file with bold heading written at the top in crimson.

Top Secret :Highly Confidential

Subject :planet Kepler 5.0 (update)

04 09 2038

Signed :X 12 Horizon

17 09 2038

The 2030's AD had ushered in alot of unforseen sociopolitical upheavals and changes world wide which were unimaginable a decade ago. The formation of The Great Russian Federation (GRF), which now comprises of former independent Latvia, Belarus, creamea, poland and the Dombas Regions of Ukraine,after the great uprising of 2034 that witnessed a sudden rise in the waves of expansionist nationalism all over Europe, following the demise of NATO as a reliable, unified protective umbrella securing Europe and North America, and the formation of the new defense treaty, the European Security Union (ESU). The rise of the evil Ayatollah Rohollah Al Jihad in the Middle East,the United States annexation of Greenland and Cuba by military force, and coercion of Canada through trade war to join the union as the 51st state of the United States of America in 2035,China's occupation of Taiwan which led to a brief but highly sophisticated and costly war with the United States in 2030AD among others.

It was in the aftermath of this world wide upheavals, reformations and realignments of sociopolitical superstructures that the alien incident came to bear.