Hello everyone, welcome to the Human Uplifts fic. I have been posting this on reddit but have decided to put it here as well :) I hope that you enjoy!
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Memory transcript: Harry Munslow, British prime minister
Standardised Human time: Day:11 of September/ Time: 1am/ Year: 2025
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I check my watch and sighed, it read 1 am, why does everything have to happen at the dead of night. I looked around the room, all of the aides looked just as tired as me. The cobra meeting had only just finished assembling and people were looking at me, waiting for me to start. I could feel their eyes on me.
I looked over to my head of MI6, Samuel Harrison he was a good man, dedicated and someone who I could trust. He had helped me and many others through many a crisis. He often helped to calm the room and never seemed concerned. I had a feeling we were going to need his personality more and more over the coming days if not weeks. He also had a large scar running down his pale cheek to his greying beard supposedly from a run in with a FSB agent in berlin.
“So, Sam what do we know so far?” I asked. Sam who had been deep in contemplation before now looked up realising he had been asked to speak.
Sam sighed and rubbed his eyes before replying “They were first picked up by an observatory in Chile”. “Over 50 bright flashes occurred in quick succession just on the outer edges of the solar system” he said. “At first we thought they were supernovas from stars that had died centuries ago.. that was until they didn’t go away”. “James’s web was quickly directed by our friends in the ESA to get a picture of the lights”. “We can now confirm that the lights are in fact ships of unknown origin”. “Ladies and gentlemen, we are not alone in the universe”.
WHAT. My brain drew up a blank, I tried to process what had just been said but I couldn’t. we aren’t alone, we aren’t alone. I should be happy that there were others out there. Surely a species that can travel solar systems can help up with so much. But what if they don’t have good intentions. I pushed that thought away. No, I won’t even go there.
The room erupted with questions as people tried to process this information. “What do they want” one said. “Do we need to take aggressive actions!” yelled another. The room was a mixing pot of emotions. Some were simply not there, either from the fatigue or the shock of what was just said. Others seemed happy. Others seemed terrified and a few were examining their coffee like it had just poisoned them.
“Hey …. HEY” I yelled, “Everyone calm down, let’s do this one step at a time, please Sam continue” I said. The room died down and people began to look back at Sam, eager for more information.
Sam nodded in thanks “The photo sitting before you is the picture taken by the James web telescope it clearly shows hundreds of space craft heading for earth”.
I looked down towards the photo sitting on my desk. It had 2 images, one was a picture of a spaceship, it drive cone illuminated the entire ship in an eerie blue glow, several turrets were clearly visible on the hull. The other photo showed 100 of these blue dots spread out in a large formation. Why do they have guns? My brain started going back to the idea of them being hostile but I quickly stopped it. Let’s not presume bad intentions now.
I looked up from the photo, “who knows?” I asked.
“So far the UN and G7 countries, I imagine they are reeling from this revelation just like we are” replied Sam.
“What is the UN doing?” I asked.
“From what I have heard they will be making a statement in the next few hours, apparently they can’t hold this info for long as it won’t take long for the public to notice” replied Sam again.
Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
“Better to set the narrative then allow the press and public to find out and run with it?” I queried.
Sam nodded “something like that”.
I quickly looked over to the government liaison for the police Samantha Korska. “Have the police call in extra officers and have riot police on standby”. “The last thing we need is riots in the capital whilst trying to deal with aliens” I said. Samantha nodded and quickly began to type away at her keyboard.
After ensuring she was indeed following my command. I then looked over to my head of the ministry of defence Sean Jackson his dark skin illuminated by his laptop. Sean was much like Samuel. He had seen many battles having served in the SBS and had a wealth of knowledge and experience that would be impossible to replace. Now in his 50s he had climbed the ranks to the top of the top showing time and time again that his gut feelings always seemed to be right.
“So” I asked, “how are the others in the G7 reacting?” I asked. Last thing we need is someone getting twitchy and nuking our new friends.
“So far not much has happened” replied Sean. “Although the car parks designated for top brass in the US, China and Russia are full, so I imagine they are having the same conversations as us”. His laptop lit up with a notification quickly glancing over “scratch that” said Sean quickly. “The Russian black sea fleet just left Sevastopol, China is moving its mobile ballistic launchers aaaaand the US just recalled its reserve forces”. I grimaced so everyone, is taking the dark path god, I hope that our first act as humanity is not to attack alien visitors.
“What do you suggest we do Sean?” I asked.
“Well sir I would suggest we put our QRA forces on high alert and raise our readiness level, the one thing we don’t want is to be caught with our pants down”. Many around the room nodded their heads in agreement.
I nodded “how about the nukes?”
“All of our nuclear subs are currently in both the pacific and Atlantic although HMS Vengeance is currently in Portsmouth re-fuelling” replied Sean.
At this notion I scratched my chin best get her out of port, if shit hits the fan, I want all of my cards on the table. “Tell the captain I want her sailing out of Portsmouth within the hour”. “And put our bases on high alert we need to be ready for any eventuality” I said. Sean nodded and quickly began to converse with his generals.
I looked back over to Sam “how long do we have before they get here?” I asked.
“They are saying a day if not less” he replied.
“Shit that’s fast” I mumbled. Who am I kidding we can’t fight them they would smite us in an instant we are just ants to them.
“I have been told it’s a high percentage of the speed of light” agreed Sean. I nodded before looking over to the next member of the meeting.
It had been almost 2 hours since the meeting had started had the room and grown louder as people began to converse and organise. Things were moving very fast with troop movements and world leaders moving around and into bunkers. I had also joined many calls of both NATO and the UN as well as close allies as we tried to figure out what the fuck was happening.
Glancing down at my watch I signalled for everyone to quieten down. “Everyone” I said “it is time” without a word everyone at the square table turned to the large screen at the front of the room. As if on que the stream for the UN announcement began.
This is it. The world is going to learn that we are not alone in the galaxy. I would be jumping for joy if it wasn’t for…. The picture of the weapons strapped to the hull flashed in my mind. No no lets just hope it was a diplomatic fleet sent to lift us to the stars with hundreds of new species waiting with open arms yes yes, that’s probably it. But deep deep down a thought tugged on the back of my mind since when did diplomatic fleets carry guns?
I was brought from my musings as the secretary general of the UN Victor Shloka began his speech. “Greetings my friends as many of you might have noticed there have been musings and rumours of some new threat, I am here to clear things up.” “At this time, I can confirm that several objects not from this solar system have arrived and are moving towards earth”. “We are not alone”. “Many of you may be shocked or amazed but please I beg of you this is no time to panic”. “Let us greet these new friends with sensibility and with open arms not a world with riots and looting”. The speech was drowned out by my thoughts and just like that the world imploded, this was going to be a long day.
However, I was rudely ripped from my thoughts once again when I heard several shocked gasps from the room. Looking up I saw that the UNs broadcast had been cut off and was now replaced by simple video link of a small furry mammal, and then it spoke. “Greetings humanity and welcome to the federation”.
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Chapter Index:
Memory Transcript: This is a brain scan of a character that has been converted into a video file for viewing. It is lore inside of the NOP universe, what your are viewing is a text version of this scan. If this doesn't make much sense just imagine that you are some nameless person in the NOP universe that is reading the text version of the transcript after it has been made available to the public. if you have any questions about this feel free to ask in the comments and I will do my best to answer.
QRA: stands for Quick Reaction Alert basically forces that can be deployed rapidly anywhere in the world to deal with anything that might be happening
SBS: Special Boat Service, like the SAS but operators specialise in naval warfare, comparable to the US Navy Seals