The chamber was large and circular. The room had bleachers on all the walls making the room look like a layered bowl. It was filled to capacity I think. The center of the chamber had 60 thrones I assume spread out in a circle. I’m standing on a red carpet that leads all the way through the circle of thrones to the largest raised one. It too was part of the circle. The floor looked about 100 meters across. I straiten my back and take my first step forward.
I look up and nearly stumble as I gasp. There is a large life like image of the old Earth slowly spinning above the circle of thrones. Giant banners flow in an unfelt breeze above each throne but one, the one I’m walking to. I hope the slight fumble was not too noticeable. I can gawk later this is important to the AI and I will not let them down. I walk forward at a steady pace letting my eyes wonder. Each Throne must have one of the dukes or duchesses sitting in them. I think I vaguely recognize the avatars of a few, maybe 3. I can see Luna, Vivian, and a few others in the center of the circle. I never really spent time with Zeus so I’m going to assume he’s in the center with the others I have never met.
I don’t see the aliens that Draven mentioned, oh wait I think there is a small group in the bleachers to my left. They stuck out like sore thumb to me. Not one of them looked human. Most of them looked taller or shorten then the androids surrounding them. Different shaped heads and body parts, and or extra body parts. There was even one that looked like one of Meta’s species. I return my attention forward as I enter the circle of thrones, and see the alien I’m assuming is going to make the speech. He resembles a Human only in shape and features. He, I’m assuming it’s a he, yet you never know, had brick red skin and two black horns coming out of his head. I think he even had a tail. Yes that’s definitely a tail swishing back and forth. He had a grin on his face as I approached.
I frown and squint my eye’s, figures someone who looks like a demon is a politician. The demon looking alien had layered robes on that somehow left his muscled chest exposed. To my eyes he looked to be about 6 and a half feet tall, compared to my now five foot five. He had jewelry on his ears and fingers, as he rested one hand on an ornate looking walking stick. He is obviously fit so it must be an image thing.
Let’s go down a check list shall we; one he looks like a demon, two he dresses fancy, three a politician. My conclusion is that he is evil, and or looks out for only himself. I will keep this conclusion and take everything he says as having ulterior motives tell proven otherwise. Now when am I supposed to stop before them? There are two others before me besides Luna, Vivian and the alien. One was an old man who wore a Toga? Is that Zeus? I don’t remember him using an old man avatar before. The other was a man who looked to be about 25 in a black uniform similar to Lunas yet not as fancy adorned. Luna raised both her arms up and out to her sides. I will take this as my que to stop.
“Today we come together in happiness as we broadcast this great event to the entire solar system. It has nearly been over 100 thousand years since the last time we revealed ourselves to the galaxy. We have prepared for this moment for half a million years. We had set plans in motion for the next half a million years, yet in this time an unprecedented event occurred. A revival thought impossible. A revival not expected for another half million years. One of our creators was revived.” The Crowd cheered louder than they did at my entrance. Luna walked up to me placing a hand on my shoulder.
“Against all odds and probability the very human revived was one of my adopted children.” Luna smiled at me and I returned it. She stepped to my side and addressed the crowd. “No longer do we protect and watch out of remembrance. No longer do we hide what we are. Today we protect humanity’s legacy with renewed vigor. Today we will renew our purpose. Today we crown a Queen.” They crowd managed to cheer louder than before if you can believe it. This is looking like a lot of responsibility. Luna points to the old man who had the signature silver eyes.
“The chamber recognizes Grand Duke Zeus Head of technology advancement.” He took a step toward me.
“I am not one for speeches so I will make this quick. Most present know that I hardly ever leave my so called cave unless I’m dragged out. Today I came without being heeded. I like most of us have felt a distinct lack of direction for millennia. I’m over joyed that my technology that my division has developed will protect and defend our new queen.” He looks at me with a tingle in his eyes. “I’m very excited about what the future may contain.” He nods to me which I return. He gets some cheer but not much. Zeus in his lab coat, that’s what I’m assuming it is, steps to my left to the side of the carpet. Luna motions the AI android I don’t recognize forward.
“The chamber recognizes Duke Agamon three Data, the newest member of the counsel of 60.” He takes a step before me and speaks to the crowd.
“I Agamon have been a duke for less than a thousand years. I like others have…” I tune him out as I try to take in what will come. I will be a queen. What am I supposed to do? I’ve been dead for so long and my new subjects are 50 billion. I was just a man whose life’s focus was revenge. I spent my entire adult life creating weapons to destroy the infection that now flows in my veins. I died five hundred thousand years ago in despair. The time frames involved just still boggle my mind. I have been alive I think for just two days maybe three. “Given new purpose we…” I should pay attention but I must stabilize myself.
I had been alive for less than a couple of hours being bombarded with new information about the new me, and their plan. I find it understandable that I broke down when I realized that Luna was still here. I look at Luna who gives me a concerned smile and gives my shoulder a small squeeze. I return the smile and look back to Agamon and steel myself for the third time. I must maintain myself here. “We expected to place a queen or King on our throne in half a million years from now, yet with great joy we do this today with a Queen. A queen who was, and is one of the original creators.” The crowd cheers louder. Note to self, apologies to Agamon later for completely spacing his speech. Agamon gives me a deep bow and walks to my right across from Zeus.
“The chamber recognizes Atton Cretban Vee galactic appointed overseer of the Sol system.” There were some cheers from the small alien section that died fairly quickly from the complete silence of my people. My people, yes they are appointing me queen so I must refer to them as such. Atton gives me a big smile that makes my spine chill as I feel his curiosity and a vile desire for me come from him.
“It is a pleasure to meet you your Majesty. Your beauty pales all others before you." I slightly cringe and quickly remove the look of disgust that must be on my face while he bowed elegantly. “We members of the Galactic Senate congratulate you on a successful revival. For thousands of years the senate has protected the beauty of the sol system. Many have come to love this place at the very edge of space. We are overjoyed that such a stable society has been here for so long. With open arms and mutual trust we offer our help in your transition into the greater galaxy.” He’s giving me another leer and vile feelings. I squint my eyes at him.
{Stop that shit now.}
His eyes go wide for a second then I’m cut off from feeling any more of his emotions. Did he just hear me? I can’t sense his emotions no more. Granted they were vile and making me uncomfortable, yet they allowed me to know he was being insincere in his words. His once full of vile smile is now crooked. I think he now knows he fucked up there. “With our cooperation with your regime, we wish for the continuation of all activities within the system, so all may still enjoy its beauty.” Fat chance Sarkin is going down. His smile is gone as he looks at me. He does not say anything further. Luna motions him to the side and he obeys.
“The Chamber recognizes Grand Duke Vivian” Vivian walks before me holding up a red velvet pillow. On the pillow were a bejeweled crown and a scepter.
“We the people and guests of sol are gathered here today to witness the coronation ceremony of Eve Luna. To revive us as she has been revived to give us purpose when we had none before.” The crowds cheer, and the trumpets blast once more. “Your Majesty, are you willing to take an oath?”
“I am willing.” I can’t very well say no. The guilt would be too much. I saw Atton smirking to the side. Fuck am I still broadcasting. Crap my telepathy just had to start now. He smiles. He’s openly being amused by the problems of a soon to be queen. Not a good idea buddy. There we go his smile is gone.
“Do you swear and promise to govern your people with all care and in accordance with our rules and guidance.”
“I do.”
“Do you so swear to rule your people with justice and care, without prejudices?”
“I do.”
“Then I present to you the scepter of control.” I put both my hands out as Luna picks up the scepter and places it in my hands. “This scepter represents our loyalty to you, as it places our lives in your hand.” What! I hope she means metaphorically. “Follow me and think upon the responsibility and trust we have given.” Vivian turns around and starts walking toward the large throne at the end of the red carpet. I follow her, as we walk we separate form everyone else. She stops before the three steps of the raised throne. Vivian steps aside as I look at her. She speaks to me in a low voice. “Step up to the throne then turn back to me.”
“Ok.” I walk up the three steps and up to the throne. The throne was not some golden thing or decorated. It was Spartan and identical to all the others I could see. The only thing that set it apart was it was on a raised platform and had a back that had no symbol emblazed on it. I turn around and see that Vivian was just a step or two behind me.
“Your Majesty Eve Luna first of her reign. Do you swear to protect your people from all dangers foreign and domestic? Do you so swear to put your people before yourself?”
“I do.”
“You may now sit at the head of the council of 60.” Vivian walks besides me and places the pillow on the throne and picks the crown off of it, and she nods at me. I take that as I need to sit down, so I do. The throne was not exactly comfortable seeing as it’s made of metal, yet the pillow made a whole lot of difference. Vivian moved before me. “On this day we mark a great change for our people as we crown our first queen.” Vivian lowered the crown and rested it on my head. I swallowed hard as she stepped back. “LONG LIVE THE QUEEN” The crowd cheered, and chanted Vivian’s words over and over again. This went on for a whole minute, as Vivian came back to me. “Do you wish to speak to your people?”
Crap! I probably should say something. I stand up and walk to the edge right before the first step. I raise both arms and the room goes quite. No wonder politicians go power hungry. This is a lot of power in just raising my arms. I must be sincere.
“Thank you every one. I never imagined I would stand before you in such a manner. Not once in either life have I ever yearned for the power you have given me. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. The trust you have placed in me is humbling and I vow that I shall not disappoint you. You have preserved humanity’s soul for a long time.” I look up to the floating Earth above me. “Everything you have done to preserve and restore in humanity’s name I thank you. I thank you all for the hope and joy that now resides in my heart. I so swear to continue your spirit. I so swear.” I lower my arms as I stare at the image of the earth. My earth, no… the earth belongs to all of us. The room burst into cheers and trumpets blare out.
Vivian walks up to me.
“Well said. Shall we leave?” I close my eyes and nod. I open my eyes and walk back the way I came. The crowds still cheered from the bleachers. “What would you like to do? We can go to a briefing, or do you wish to retire?”
“Thank you Vivian for your concern, but I’ve rested long enough today. The Briefing will be fine.” As we walked a lot of mech suits marched into the room from the large doors I came in from before. They stopped right before the circle of 60 and split into two lining the red carpet all the way back to the door. We approached the others in the center of the circle. Atton stepped forward and stopped us.
“Your majesty I would like to congratulate you on your coronation.” I raise my hand that is not holding the scepter.
“I will talk to you and your representatives later, so please step aside.” He nods
“Of course your majesty.” Luna steps up to me and gives me a hug.
“You did good Eve.”
“Thank you.” We continue the walk out of the circle with Luna at my side with Vivian and Zeus following. I look back as I walk to see Agamon leading Atton towards the rest of the alien delegates. Looking back forward I see the first set of mech suits kneel as we pass outside the circle of 60.
“Every suit has someone in the military who has gained the rank of Knight.” Luna gestures the next pair of mech suits that kneel. “Each and every suit is an army unto itself. They are able to handle massive amounts of pressure and punishment. They are capable of surviving reentry into the atmosphere of an M class planet like the earth was. Even a biological pilot would survive the impact of the landing. There are no comparisons in the so called galactic senate.” I look at another kneeling pair as we passed.
“They look similar to the Appleseed mech suits? I know it was your favorite anime, but to model your technology off of it? Is it not much?” Luna chuckles and gives me a smile.
“Not at all dear. We used a lot of earth’s old science fiction and literature as inspiration. There were a lot of good ideas and failures that lead to new innovation. You saw the ships that picked you up?”
“Yes I did, they almost resembled star wars star destroyers.”
“You are correct. It was one of the better hull designs that were practical and efficient.” We left the council chamber. Two different mech suits then Draven and Markus’s closed the doors behind us.
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“We left out the conning towers because they were unpractical and a glaring weakness.” That was said by Zeus “We have gone through many hull designs and have settled on a few of the years. The hulls are one thing but their guts are a whole different story.” He started to laugh loudly. “I don’t even think a quarter of the races in the galactic so called senate would understand our tech. We have developed technology for over 500 thousand years. Very few races can compare.”
“Don’t worry about it Eve. We have not had a war with any of the sentient races in this galaxy for over 100 thousand years. Those who know of us keep their distance.”
“You’ve been at war with others before? Vivian mentioned a civil war but not any other wars.”
“They were a long time ago and will no longer trouble us.”
“Ha! That’s because we blasted them all to oblivion.” Did Zeus just say they committed genocide? “All five of those species pissed us off so we got rid of them.” I stop and quickly look at Zeus.
“You committed genocide and are laughing about it.” He just shrugged with a nonchalant look on his face.
“Eve it’s not as bad as it sounds.” I look at Vivian in horror.
“It’s still genocide?”
“Eve they never asked for mercy not once.” What?
“What do you mean mom?” I looked at her hard.
“For one you need context. This way.” We walked a bit more down this long ass hallway. I could not even see the end of it. How long is this anyway. We walked into a door that opened into the hall way. After a while we entered a 1000 square foot empty room with screen on the wall and a round protrusion in the center. The rooms light dims as a picture of a big ass scary looking bug shows on the screen. “The first war was with the Ixxeses just 90 thousand years after humanity died out. We were far fewer and weaker then. They showed up and started mining. We left them alone until they started to attack our shipments to the moon and mars. They hacked some of us and took them. We tried to contact them at this time. They did not respond even though they could of.”
“Their technology base was just slightly higher than us at that time. We defended ourselves and continued our terraforming of mars. The last straw for us was when they attacked our facilities on Mars and started to terraform the planet in their image. We responded and retook the planet at all costs. We built a fleet while we destroyed all traces of them in Sol.” The screen flickered to a video of a battle. As Zeus stepped forward
“We repelled them, yet they kept sending fleets to attack us. We consumed all their technology we got our virtual hands on. We were still starting to use android bodies at that time. We took their technology and improved upon them and added our own. Building a fleet of bigger and superior ships we attacked there systems. They had 4 systems in their control and 2 planets colonized and several bases on moons and unhospitable planets. We scraped them off every surface we found them on. All that remained was these two planets.” The screen changed to a video of two planets. Vivian spoke.
“We tried to contact them again and ask them to surrender, for they had lost. They never responded and kept trying to build ships on the surface of their planet, and underground. We told them to stop or we would kill them all. They did not respond.” Luna sighed and looked down.
“So we killed them. We killed them with the same weapon that was used on the earth.” I saw the white electric dome show up on the image of the planet. It quickly changes to another planet. “I’m sorry you had to see that.”
“And the other planet?” I close my eyes. I don’t want to see the same destruction as the earth ever again.
“We repeated the request for surrender and showed them the video of the former destruction. They ignored us still and kept building ships, so we dropped the last bomb. The Ixxeses were no more.” A picture of what looked like a giant mutant koala appeared on the screen “The second were the Umbra Muton less than 2 years after the first war. When they came into the Sol system they were friendly enough if not a bit abrasive. This changed quickly as soon as they found out we were sentient AI. They declared us abominations and claimed Sol system now belonged to them by divine right.” I frowned I never really liked religious fanatics.
“I never liked those religious zealot types at all.” Zeus grumbled. “They attacked us right away. And we barely beat back their fleet. Once again we found ourselves less technologically advanced. We cannibalized all the remains of their ships. Reverse engineering this time was much easier as they actually had ship and tech documents stored on their ships. This new technology allowed us to increase our computing capabilities by leaps and bounds and we rapidly outpaced them in technology in just a matter of years. They sent two more fleets at us, and we crushed them utterly.” Luna touches the round protrusion in the middle of the room. She waves me to step back a little so I do. A holographic image of two fleets fills the room, as Luna speaks.
“The last battle in their Home system was completely one sided.” I watch as all the ships on one side get annihilated. The image disperses after the battle is over. “We took the fight to their systems. They had control of 13 systems and lived on 6 M class worlds. We destroyed and cannibalized all their technology in all their systems up to the 6 planets. We offered no chance for surrender and they asked for none.” Luna closed her eyes as Vivian walked before the screen. The image changed to what looked like stone ruins with two Umbra Muton eating next to a pile of bones.
“This race was horrible, for they had eaten three different alien races into extinction on three different worlds. Two were in the Stone Age and one was in their bronze age. They had enslaved a fourth Stone Age race and turned them into cattle” She looked to Luna who took over.
“We landed on the planets and cleansed there surfaces of all trace of them. This way took longer than the War with the Ixxeses but more satisfying. We removed them from all the planets but their home world. We invaded it.” a holographic image of a planet filled the room. There were ships around it bombarding the surface. “First space to surface bombardment then we sent troops to the surface to burn them out. We killed all but 1 million of them. We held them and kept that number for 5 thousand years as we cleared the planet of all vestiges of civilization. We told them to never return to their old ways. We left after that.” Luna sighed.
“The third war was with the Umbra Muton as well. They did not learn their lesson. It took them 67 thousand years to return to the Sol system. This time they attacked us right off the bat with no pretenses of friendship. Their technology at this time was comparable to before but weaker. Ours was much more advanced then it was when we destroyed them before. The war this time went much quicker. It took only 5 years to cleanse them from the same 13 solar systems they had retaken. The species that had been cattle before had become a space faring race before the Umbra Muton attacked them and once again ate them close to extinction. We were not so forgiving this time. We cleared them out of all systems then just slagged their home world. The Umbra Muton was no more.”
“Ok I can see how the Umbra Muton deserved their end and the Ixxeses brought their own destruction. What about the last two wars?” An image of a three armed three legged monstrosity showed up on screen.
“This race had no name for themselves and almost no sense of individuality. We met them no less than 122 years after the last Umbra Muton war. They had come from just 20 light years away from a heavy gravity world. Atmosphere was completely inhospitable and unbreathable for humans.” She said was as in no longer or they removed it. Zeus started to laugh.
“These guys where complete morons. We believe it took them more than 2 million years to get to their technology level. And the very first system they went to after turtling inside their own solar system forever was ours. The first thing they did was contact us and say one word. ‘Die’, that’s all they said before shooting at us. There weapons were shit and very far behind us. There ships defenses on the other hand was better than ours and a tuff nut to crack. We easily dealt with the few ships they had sent. So like usual we cannibalized there ships and took all information we could and improved upon it before building an updated fleet. We sent the largest fleet we have ever assembled at that time to their home world.” The protrusion that I now assume is the holo projector lights up and the room is filled with scaled down view of a solar system. Luna gestures to the hologram as indicators of all kinds pop up all over the solar system.
“We sent an unprecedented fleet of 80 thousand ships to intimidate them, and we found a fortress.”
“The paranoid ugly bustards had mostly built defenses all over their system instead of exploring the galaxy. So we tried to contact them and ask for a truce. They responded with one word. No, that’s all they said. So the fight began. We had to crack open no less than 108 battle stations the size of planetoids.” The Holoprojector zoomed in on to a large diamond shaped space station. I could clearly see large weapons on it. Those are some large guns. “We cleared the system of ships yet could not attack most of the planets they had settled on. There were too many defenses that were dug in. It was not worth the losses to destroy all of them. So we started long range bombardment until we finally got a bomb through. We destroyed the surfaces of a few of their outlaying planets.”
“This is when we asked them again to surrender, and once again they said no, surprise, surprise.” Zeus shook his head while chuckling. “New weapons got developed and we cracked open the 108 planet battle stations and destroyed the defenses of their home world their last bastion in the solar system.” Vivian spoke up.
“We tried to talk to them again to ask them to surrender. The conversation when like this: Surrender. No. If we leave now will you attack us in the future? Yes. We will kill you all if you do not surrender so will you surrender. No.” I shook my head.
“I can see why you called them morons. I take it you followed threw and destroyed them.” I looked at Luna who responded.
“They left us no choice.” I nod
“I guess I can understand that. And the last war?” The big screen on the wall split into two images. One alien was humanoid looking in body, well in proportions, for its body looked like some kind of biomechanical suit but its head, Its head was completely bald, two large red eyes, small flattened nose and a tiny mouth. The other was reptilian wearing armor with a lot of writing and symbols all over it. Vivian points to the humanoid
“The Tine Cyberdine, and” she points at the reptilian. “The Chicksi chekinate.” A two front war? I looked at Luna with a little bit of worry in my eyes.
“Yes Eve it was as bad as you assume. We fought two races at once. We came into contact with the Chicksi chekinate no less than 118 thousand years ago. About 220 thousand years after our last war with a race. The Chicksi Chekinate felt we should be their possessions and work for them. They accorded no rights to sentient Ai’s in there society. They lost completely in all there engagements with us. Because of their inferior technology we ignored them and just destroyed them every time they attempted to attack the sol system. So they called upon their allies among their so called galactic alliance at the time. Only one responded the Tine Cyberdine.” She nods to Zeus who has a scowl on his face.
“The Tine Cyberdine had the technology to match us and so we fought at a stalemate. We saw an opportunity to cut one of our adversaries out of the war. That adversary was the much weaker Chicksi Chekinate who had expended practically all their ships. In a quick blitzkrieg we scoured their systems faster than the Tine Cyberdine could bring aid. We arrived before their home world and demanded they surrender for they had lost. They refused. They then killed their own civilian population then executed there ruler. Their military all committed ritual suicide all at once. Least to say we were stunned. The Tine Cyberdine asked us for a truce. We agreed if they would leave us alone and not to share anything about us. They agreed, and to this day have not spoken about us. Three separate galactic societies have come and gone sense then and not once have we found evidence that they have not kept their word.”
“That’s a bit anticlimactic.” Zeus nods. “Wait what about the Chicksi Chekinate sentient AI’s?” Zeus smirked and Vivian waved at me to get my attention.
“They did not want to join us out of respect for their former creators, nor would we of let them. They agreed to erase all evidence of us as well as their memories of us. They became the AI nation the Consortium after words.”
“So, how many races know about us.” Vivian gives me a warm smile.
“Only six confirmed before or revealed these past few days. 3 from the so called Galactic Alliance that surrounds us. The other three are independent and or part of a rival society. We are listed in their databases. All three in the G.A. are part of the founding six of the current largest galactic society.” Zeus speaks in an annoyed voice.
“3 of the founders we could stop one on one, or a three on one with our technological superiority, the Tine Cyberdine we believe we could still tie with in a fight. The other two…Are scary as fuck is all I can say. Good thing they are passive and more interested in ascension into another plane of reality then really concerning themselves with anything. Those two are the oldest known species in our galaxy.”
“So let me get this straight. You all have been basically hiding all capability while playing with the trespassers in the system.” They all give me nods. “What do we have for defenses?”
“30 billion military personal most are on standby.” Holy shit! That’s number is more than half the population. My eyes go wide as I stare at Luna. All I get back is a smile as she continues. “We don’t have very many static defenses.” The screen changes to show statistics, as she goes into detail of the defenses. The largest of the so called static defenses was practically the entire surface of the moon which was concealed mostly by dust. Phobos and Demos the moons of Mars were converted into static battle stations under the surface. Pluto and its moon had been converted into titanic bases like the moon.
The number of ships that we have stashed in moons and in planetoids all over the solar system is staggering. Luna informed me that we only used three general sizes of ships and massive loads of fighters. We have 355 thousand of the star-destroyer sized vessels, 120 thousand carriers in the shape of a sphere. They looked like mini death-stars. The third size which had many different classes in it was the cruisers. Luna claimed to have 2 million of them. All these ships and another 5 million miscellaneous ships and crew for military facility positions for the navy only took up 21.67 billion of military personal the rest were reservist Marines.
They had mined a lot of the moon, several of the surrounding empty solar systems over the years to build and maintain the fleets, and bases. I joked that with that many forces in under my command I could take over the galaxy. Luna looked directly into my eyes and with a straight face said. “We could try if that’s what you want.” Zeus looked contemplative and Vivian frowned at me and shook her head.
“No I’m sorry. That is not what I meant. It was just a joke.” She nods and gives me a smile.
“Your two brothers would have enjoyed the challenge. I will tell them later that you turned it down. Just to let you know we don’t think we have the current forces to hold it, yet if we go slowly we probably could complete it in a couple thousand years at most.” I laugh nervously. I should probably keep jokes like that to myself. Least I inadvertently order the annihilation of some race without meaning to.
“Ok can you explain the Hierarchy of our government?”
“Sure I will answer that one.” Vivian walks up to me and puts an arm around my shoulder. I did not pay attention before but she’s wearing a fancy Victorian style red and black dress with gold accents. “I am the Grand Duchess of the people. I represent all civilians and civilian projects for our people as well as in charge of diplomacy. Luna your mother is the Grand Duchess of the Military.” I had guessed that was her role. The uniform she wore was a dead giveaway. “And Zeus here is in charge of the sciences and technology, as well as hording our information.”
“You are too kind Vivian. Hording information is such a fun thing to do.” He has a wide grin on his face as he returns her annoyed look.
“The counsel of 60 which we three are a part of, and head, create our laws, and regulations. As you are now queen you will have veto power over it.” Great, more responsibility. “There are more dukes than are in the council of 60. Dukes oversee moons and sections of space. The responsibilities lower as the ranks go down. All our admirals and generals are counts and above. Anyone who gains the rank of Knight is allowed a personal mech suit of their own regardless if they are in military or not.” Damn that’s a lot of fighting power. I have learned a lot about the power now under my command and the lack of contacts outside the solar system.
“Do we have any external assets?” Vivian takes her arm off my shoulders and looks at Luna.
“Yes we have a few spies spread out keeping watch of the three largest and a few closer galactic societies and nations. Like the humans before us we are paranoid of being stabbed in the back.” I agree with her.
“Better safe than sorry.” Luna gives me a hug.
“Exactly my dear.”
“This all is a lot to take in, but I think I can manage.”
“You will be fine. You’re no crazier than me, so all’s well.” Zeus started to laugh as he said that. Zeus has been wearing a thick toga the whole time I’ve seen him here. “I’m getting bored so I’m going to go head back to my labs. If you will excuse me your majesty I wish you well until next we meet.” Zeus bows.
“Thank you for your time Grand Duke Zeus. I wish you success in your endeavors.” Zeus comes out of his bow with a grin and walks out of the room. My eyes go wide.
“Holy crap did I just see what I thought I saw.” Vivian laughs wile Luna just shakes his head.
“Yes my friend that was indeed a smiley face taped to his back. Know you know why I said he was mostly sane. Who in their right mind wears a toga with a smiley face taped to their back to a large public event.”
“I don’t know before the fall there were quite a few weirdoes around.” Vivian cocks her head to my statement.
“You have a point.”
“I have learned a lot and wish to relax for the rest of the day. Will I be escorted back to my um chambers?” Luna nods
“Its good to see you after so long.” Vivian gives me a strong hug. “Welcome back to the land of the living. Just remember if you want to talk about anything I’m just a call away.”
“Thank you Vivian it is good to know I still have a friend among the living if you know what I mean.”
“Yes, yes.” She lets me go. “You go relax and enjoy the rest of your day, for it will be busy tomorrow as well.” That’s right I said I would talk to the alien delegation. Vivian leaves the room, as I look Luna. She walks to my side and takes my right arm into her left. She escorts me outside of the room and lets me go.
“I need to go and oversee the control of the solar system.” I nod.
“Of course mother someone has to do the job.” She chuckles as she stands before me and takes both my hands into hers.
“Are you sure you will be fine? I can spend more time with you if you need me to.”
“I’m ok. I will deal with whatever comes. I’m not in as much of a wreck as I was earlier.” I don’t know why but since I took that chemical bath I’ve felt pretty calm.”
“Very well.” She gives my hands a squeeze before releasing them. “These two knights will guard and guide you back to your chambers.” I look around and see two guards on either side of the door in mech suits. “Enjoy the rest of your day Eve.”
“I will certainty try to.” I give her my best reassuring smile, but I don’t know I succeeded or not, with this new face of mine. She returns my smile and walks away. I sigh and look down the long ass hallway. “Well I’m ready to head back. Please lead the way.”
“Your majesty” Both knights stand up from their kneeling positions. One starts to walk away that I follow, as the other follows behind me.