20 March 2359- RAS
"Your Highness, we have been directly hit by their suicide attack, Ray of Light is destroyed with no survivors, our shields have suffered damage it'll take some time before we will be able to move," said vice caption Hanz while kneeling with respect.
"Again these suicide attacks, do they have no dignity. Tell the technicians to fix the shields within an hour or they are dead," said her Highness with an annoyed voice.
USS - Headquarters
"Sir, sorry for the sudden intrusion but we have got a report that The Royal Alexio Ship has started to move, the reporting Ray of Light has got a direct hit but it will not it immobilize for long," said a soldier in urgency to the Leaders of USS.
Hearing this everyone started to worry about the plan, thinking even if they succeed how many would they have to lose before the fight ends.
"How many Ray of Light have been destroyed?" asked one of the leaders with a serious tone.
"8, Sir" answered the soldier with a sorrowful voice.
Everyone feeling sorrowful and guilty, regretting why they didn't just give up, why did they keep fighting, why did they not surrendered, with the burden of responsibility for having 8% of their galaxy being destroyed, they wanted to keep on fighting since they already had their conscience full of regret and guilt.
"How long will it take for them to take down Alena, do they know that every second is worth thousands of lives," said one of the leaders with an annoyed and furious voice.
"Sir, we have not been able to contact them since the Royal Alexio Ship got hit by Ray of Light," said the soldier.
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Everyone started to get nervous and were now discussing a new plan of action for the possibility of their plan failing, the most common idea was to simply surrender and ask them to spare the lives of their family.
19 March 2031 - Earth
Two days since the announcement, the world is still in an uproar, everyone trying to find even a bit of information, through Alena's social media history, Location history, and purchase history, but nothing could be found, only Speculations and rumors for how could the machine work were left online, the most common question everyone was asking was the price of this 'New Life' some speculating in hundreds of thousands some in millions of dollars. Then a link was shared by Alena through all of her social media accounts, which led to a video names 'New Life' in which Alena said with a calm voice
"New Life, a machine that uses neuro signals sent by the human brain to work essentially the same as signals sent by computers, by stopping the signals from being sent to the body and directly using those signals to perform the same function in the Virtual World, since only the human body is slow and the human mind can keep up with the increased speed, we can practically make the time feel like it is passing by slower or in this case using a Virtual World we can convert Real Life Hours into Virtual World Days. It comes in different sizes according to average human size by age, with its high-speed network connection of around 1gbps, Prices vary from 120K - 300K USD. Till now no side effects are found, authorities have permitted it to be sold openly to the public through its website at NewLife.com pre-order can be made and more information can be found, the 'New life' will also have 2 games available for its virtual world, 1 Virtual Racing and 2 Virtual Wars, they will come with the 250k + package included but other packages would have to buy them separately they will essentially be normal Car Racing and FPS games respectively, but with the twist of Virtual Reality, they will feel the same as real life, with the recoil of guns and Gravity pushing the body into the seat of the car everything will feel, look even smell the same, sense of pain will be minimal and can be turned off. The trailer is also available on New Life.com"
At the end of the video, everyone became more excited about, now not only getting the attention of mainstream media, now influencers mainly gamers started to do the free promotion about the New Life, but millions of people were also criticizing the prices, the website started to crash because of the number of viewers.
The world has now taken a step into a new era.