After I had told Cai not to start waking the humans up, I spent several hours in a video call with Gul-fen. Well, it was an animated hologram that reacted and spoke in real time with everything that he was doing and saying so I guess it was a holo call? Anyway, the call was spent discussing what I needed to do before the other humans were woken up.

The first thing I decided needed to be done was barracks or sleeping quarters set aside for them all, regardless of what they decided to do in regards to joining the fight against the Scourge. All those people would need a bed to sleep in and they'd need other facilities to go along with it all; bathrooms, showers, kitchens, dining areas, and rec rooms. The first thing that needed to be done before they were woken up was those facilities needed to be constructed and then there needed to be facilities such as gyms, sparring rooms, classrooms, and libraries; places where they would learn to fight the Scourge and recognize what they were up against even if they had AI partners to tell them all that information. I had decided that after realizing that for as great as Cai was, he wasn't infallible. Even if he kept feeding me a word of the day whenever I was eating lunch.

While I was discussing all this with Gul-fen, I was also trying to work out details about transportation for everyone else who didn't want to fight. Those people needed to go home. They, like me, had families that would have been worried sick about their missing parents, spouses, children, siblings, and friends. A ship that was capable of taking them all back and then could act as taxi for anyone else that wanted to join the fight was critical at this point. The new Nephilim Army would have ships of its own eventually but until then we needed to rely on the Wardens and their generosity.

To help ease the process of having one million people who may not want to be here, I told Gul-fen that after we had built the neccessary facilities for them I would wake them all up myself in batches of one hundred. I didn't tell him I wanted it that way because it would mean that I could try to calm them all down after they woke up somewhere totally unknown with no idea who anyone was and where they were. Hopefully.

Gul-fen was very happy to work all these details out with me and begin construction of the Temporary Human Habitation Area that we would be placing all one milliion people into.

Once I was finished with my call to Gul-fen, I set out to see about getting Cai an upgrade. That was actually easier than I thought. All I needed to do was go to the medical staff and ask them about getting it and they were more than happy to help me out. After the upgrade, Cai was able to interface with things more easily, which let me take care of my end of all the planning I was tasked with. At this point, that was just making sure the geneticists and genetic engineers had fresh samples of my blood, skin, and hair. Eventually they would need samples from my bones, organs, and immune system, but for now they were working on mapping the entirety of humanity's DNA genome. That took them three weeks and then they were going planetside to take up residence in their new labs and to stay close to me, their source of human DNA. Coincidentally, that was when I started to wake people up. most of what was needed was built with a few things needing to be tweaked and taken care of that were minor enough to continue with the chosen timeline.

The place I had chosen to wake everyone up in was a theater-like room with tables arrayed around a stage that I would stand ons and, with Cai's help of course, I would also be telling them all about the enemy that was coming for everyone and everything. Even Rallypoint wasn't totally clear of Scourge and I went on patrols of my own to help out while I had nothing to do. I wasn't alone those times, so I saw some of what Cai had been telling me up to this point.

The tables in the theater were for everyone to be laid out on and made comfortable before they woke up. They'd hopefully wake slowly, and around the same time as everyone else. After they were awake I'd tell them everything and try to recruit them to become Nephilim. Hopefully I wouldn't screw that up and scare them all away.

The first group of people to be woken up was ready and I was ready for them too; just to see a different human face than my own staring back at me in the mirror every morning. All one hundred people were laid out on their tables and I spent almost thirty minutes waiting before they finally started waking up.

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Where am I? Who are you? What's going on? Those were the three big questions I heard repeated back at me from all of them; hearing them I was reminded of my own reaction when I woke up falling from space in the coffin with a voice in my head. I decided these people were probably better off with this waking than my own.

"Excuse me, right here, everybody I need your attention," I called out to them and pulled their eyes toward me.

"I know you're all confused and maybe a little scared, but I'm here to try and shed some light on what's happening," I told them as they all stared up at me. "The first thing you all need to know is that you were kidnapped by aliens."

That started murmurs and I know I saw at least one person make the crazy sign by twirling their finger beside their head. Oh well, I'm a big kid, and this is something I expected to happen. That's why I had brought something with me to act as proof.

"Sergeant Jul-ves," I called behind me where the shadows kept everything hidden, "please step up here with me and allow yourself to be seen."

As the seven-foot, blue-skinned, hoof-footed alien stepped forward, I heard all whispers and conversations behind me stop. Then I heard the first scream, followed by people demanding to know what "that thing" was and others asking what drugs I had given them. That took several minutes to quiet down and once I had all of their attention again, I continued.

"Like I said, aliens kidnapped you. Believe it or not, you guys were the lucky ones," I told them. "You were taken in case I didn't work out for them. Me and ninety-nine other people. We were taken to test our race's projected combat capability and you were taken if we all died or failed at our task."

I took a pause to stare at everyone that was now standing and had congregated into groups for safety from the good sergeant's appearance. After a moment I continued, confident that I had their attention.

"The aliens that took us have a problem, that problem has been kicking their asses for years, a whole lot of them. Everytime they find a planet, their problem shows up soon after them and kills everyone and everything before moving on, again following them. They needed a miracle and they were so desperate for one, that when they found all our stories that have been written on the Internet, they didn't think twice about it. If they had we wouldn't be here. They didn't though and now I have to convince you all to fight what's been hunting them across multiple galaxies."

Now I could see I had everyone's attention, even if they were just going to listen to hear what the guy they thought was crazy was going to say next. I continued with a prompt to Cai.

"This is their problem," I said as several different images of Scourge appeared. "They call them Scourge. Ugly, aren't they? They're also some of the most vicious things alive. They hunt life itself, and they follow their food. That brings me to the problem that the aliens have. They brought the Scourge to the Milky Way Galaxy. Not only that but they've told all their friends and allies about us and about what we're capable of."

My words made some people visibly angry and I could understand, if the aliens hadn't come here would the Scourge have reached here?

"The problem is," I said getting ready to drop the biggest problem with the Warden's plan on them, "we can't throw fireballs, cut mountains apart with swords, or freeze entire forests with a single attack. They thought we could because when they read our stories, they took them as history and gospel. Since then, since I woke up and survived on a hostile world and killed some of these Scourge, I've worked to correct their mistake. Now, I've got a plan that needs more people to help me set in motion. For that plan I need people willing to say goodbye to their home and families and travel the universe. Those people will be fighting Scourge and liberating planets from their grip before moving on."

Several people looked stunned or afraid, a few looked interested and more looked unhappy or angry at what I had just said.

"I know that not all of you will want to do this," I said beginning to wrap up my effort to recruit and update these people, "because of that, I want you all to know that you have a choice. Help me and fight the Scourge, or go home and tell your friends and family that you were kidnapped by aliens. Don't worry, they'll believe you, when we drop off those of you who want to go home, we'll be recruiting from Earth. It'll be very different from this but it'll be done. You don't need to decide now, but if you do choose to help just contact your drone device and it will lead you to me and we'll start the process. Thank you all, goodbye."

With a casual wave, I moved toward the back of the stage with Jul-ves following me as a group of drones descended from the ceiling and began herding the people out the doors and toward their homes while they stayed on Rallypoint.