"This is more than I could have ever expected."
Prime Minister Edward's voice was heavy. His face crumpled with the psychological burden of the knowledge that had been thrust upon him by Rui's information dump.
Alien entity, deep biosphere, exploding planets, a cosmic virus to corrupt the universe, alien civilizations, and alien space monsters.
These were beyond him. Everything that he had learned in his life, everything that he had studied, and all of his experience was entirely useless. In fact, much to his own shame, he had needed to delegate the command over the space war to a younger general with more exposure to space war, because his military strategy was limited only to a planetary environment.
He didn't know the first thing about space warfare.
And he didn't know the first thing about alien civilizations, about the universe, and all these other high-minded topics.
It was a reckoning for him.
