Harrison Clark countered, "Or is it just that the crises we faced in the past were not big enough?"
"Perhaps. The cost of trial and error in this exploration is immense, too great to bear, but we must bear it."
...
With a dazzling explosion at its peak, Harrison's world returned to silence.
He floated quietly in a dark void, waiting for his soul to return, waiting to awaken once more.
Before that, his thoughts froze on the moment when Nora Camp's eyes widened and stared at the chess piece in her hand in astonishment.
Harrison Clark made a mistake, a mistake that all human commanders also made.
After completing pre-war mobilization, from 12:00 PM on October 26, 3020 AD, the entire space fleet and all ground forces entered a state of high alert, waiting for disaster to strike.
