Several minutes later, more of civilization's upper echelon gathered in the Captain's Room to discuss related issues.
Although humans were very fortunate to have intercepted the first batch of missiles, who knew if there would be a second or third batch to follow.
Plus, the incident had blown up so much that even the common people had some faint guesses. Many had seen the nuclear flash from the bombs, and the nuclear fusion engines had been urgently activated, with Earth Era time now in motion. These traces were impossible to cover up artificially.
The Mother Ship was slowly accelerating, no longer a fixed target as before, but the consequence was that it had temporarily lost contact with the underground bases on the planet. The long carbon nanowires had been retracted, so there was no way to continue material and personnel exchanges.
