The blaring of the emergency alarm the next morning woke Max from a deep slumber. Something had been detected on long-range scanners by the Alliance, and it had panicked them enough that they were calling every single Commander and military leader into a mass conference call.
They were so concerned about something that they hadn't even sent details directly to the communicators. This level of security was usually reserved for the most important of military announcements, but they shouldn't be sent on such a wide scale that Max could tell that thousands of dignitaries aboard Absolution had received them.
The meeting began only a single minute after the message was sent, a testament to the urgency that that Alliance leaders felt when they were communicating it.
