Back on Earth, the emergency communication was received at the Nexus, in the round table room where Admiral Olgierd was sitting in wait.
Alarms blared, and chaos erupted as military personnel scrambled all around the Nexus, confusing the visitors and normal employees who didn't have access to the communication that had just been sent.
The Round table room was the only quiet place in the Nexus building at the moment, but that was just because Admiral Olgierd was waiting for the other eight to arrive, while Major General Lyndal was standing in the corner, too scared to say anything.
She had nothing good to say anyway.
She was just afraid, for both herself and the human race, as the last few words the soldier spoke before he was cut off were still ringing through her mind.
'Hundreds of millions of warships…'