While Null and his party were planning for the next mission another planning meeting was taking place.
"So it is true? we have confirmation of real Aliens?" asked one of the cloaked figures.
"The reading from Arkship Zero suggests there is industrial activity on Planet A21, it does look like alien activity to me" answered another cloaked figure.
With the invention of the FCAD(Fusion constant acceleration drive) and QEC (quantum entanglement communication), there was a group of mega-wealthy patrons that had designs on starting their own private planet.
This led to the Arkship project. Each Arkship had enough material to start a colony manned by 50 young colonists along with a collection of frozen human eggs and sperm. This way if a colony was successful they could have a wide variety of genetic material.
It would take the Arkships around 20 years to reach their destination. The destinations were the most likely candidates to be Earth mark II. The Arkships would spend years slowly accelerating while their crews rested in merge pods. This slow acceleration would allow them to achieve a speed that was a high percentage of the speed of light. This would allow them to traverse the incredible distances of space.
The telemetry from one of these Arkships had identified signs of alien life on the planet they were heading towards. It was too late for the Arkship to change course. It was heading towards a first contact situation.
This was the reason for today meeting between all the power brokers of the solar systems. Due to the importance of the meeting they were having it in person on one of the most secure space stations in Earths orbit.
"I wish we could have replicated that young boys technology, then I wouldn't have needed to spend the last month travelling. Any leads on where he is?" asked one of the representatives.
"No, the stealth and interference technology was too advanced, we couldn't gather any leads" answered the Martian representative.
"Today meeting is not about that failure, but about our future. There is not much we can do about the first contact. It will go how it goes." The Earth representative started the official meeting.
"So what do we have to discuss, if not how to manage the first contact?" asked another representative.
"Our defensive strategy, it is only a matter of time before they find our homeworld. The debacle of the hybrid child shows we aren't ready to face a more technological advanced opponent." The incident with Null and Infy had left a mental scar on the more powerful members. It showed that they were not as untouchable or invincible as they appeared.
The representatives had discussed and argued for a couple of hours before coming up with a tentative plan to share knowledge and to start funnelling cash into high-tech planetary defence measures.
They also developed several contingency plans for the survival of the human race including moving a populated space station out into the void and setting up seed vaults for all life on earth.
They lacked information, and that made their planning near impossible. The meeting was coming to a close when an unknown figure entered the meeting hall.
"It won't be enough. You do not realise how out-matched you are" the voice of the new stranger was so relaxing and disarming, that most of the representatives didn't even react to having an unknown stranger infiltrate their highly classified meeting.
"Who are you, and what do you know that we don't?" The Earth representative wasn't sure who this stranger was, but he felt that the stranger meant no harm. He had been charmed by this individual.
"You may call me Phosphoros. I believe you have met one of my kind before. He called himself Infinity. As for what I know that you don't? he he, we don't have the time to go down that list."
The representatives were stunned, this stranger was claiming to be an energy being, maybe even an Angel.
"Say we do believe you are an Angel, what is it that you want?" asked a random representative.
"Oh that easy, I want excitement. I consider myself to be quite an honourable person so I will give you two pieces of advice for free. First, your Arkship is already imprisoned, your first contact with the elves did not go well. Secondly, You are currently being protected but that protection will run out in 9 years and your lives as you know it, will be forfeit. You do have some unseen allies but I will keep that a secret for now"
"Are you one of those unseen allies?" asked the Earth representative.
"he ho he, no no no. I am not an Ally. I'm the one who is going to destroy humanity " Phosphoros left just as quickly as he arrived.
The meeting was in shambles, no one knew what to believe. Was it real? was it a prank? or is someone trying to sow disunity between the factions?
"9 years, what can we accomplish in that time?" asked one of the representatives.