While Null and his party were cleaning up the leftover on the planet an important meeting was taking place.
"So it is true? we have confirmation of more 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 new 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.
It had taken the Earth some time to recover from the disaster that was colloquially known as Judgement day. The day angels descended on the human race and wiped out a sizeable portion of the martian military. This same day also led to the death of the strongest powerbrokers.
New powerbroker arose, the riots and unrest were suppressed. The human race was now beginning to get back on track.
"I wish we could have replicated that creature slash 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, whatever technology he was using was too advanced" 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 judgement day shows we aren't ready to face a more technological advanced opponent." The incident with Null had left a mental scar on the new 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?"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 Angel of Wrath. Ah, that was such a glorious display."
The representatives were stunned, this stranger was claiming to be another Angel but they didn't know what they had done to draw its attention.
"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 who will make contact soon but I will keep that a secret for now"
"Are you one of those unseen allies?" asked the Earth representative.
Phosphoros started to laugh "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.
After he left the members of the meeting started to regain their senses. While Phosphorus had been in the room it had seemed to them that he was the most trustworthy person they had met. He had seemed charming, more charming than he should have been.
"9 years, what can we accomplish in that time?" asked one of the representatives.
Before they could discuss anymore a new device just appear within the home. The representatives started to try to find cover thinking it was a bomb. Were surprised when a hologram appear above the device displaying a short but shout humanoid.
"Greeting, I am Bolat Valkson representative for the Dwarven kingdom" Bolat then went on to explain to the group that he was the liaison between Earth and the council and that his race had been granted guardianship rights over the humans.
"Sorry, Master Bolat but before we continue, do you know of an Angel called Phosphoros" asked Lunar representative.
"Where did you hear that name?" asked Bolat
"He was just here"
"No, so he made a move already. I can't say anything right now as this isn't secure. Just know that he can't be trusted" replied Bolat before disappearing and teleporting the device back to himself.