[ WP ] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth . Over all electronic devices the message is heard , `` Earth , we come in peace . In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have . We need your help . ''

The Council slowly came to order. 3 species from different worlds, all of them peaceful and advanced, with a 500 year history of being the closest of allies. 
 
 And yet, this discussion might just break them apart. 
 
 Council Member Grak, tall and slender beneath the iridescent scales of his race, stood from among his delegation. `` Good morning to you all. We come together today to discuss the progress of the fighting in NR-347 and NR-...'' 
 
 Council Member Helios stood and interrupted Grak. `` We all are aware of the fighting, even with it coming 50 years early!'' Helios was hot tempered, and more prone to outbursts than the rest of his race. His 4 eyes glared balefully from his broad brown snout. `` The Enemy is pushing us and our forces are barely holding. If we had not gone along with your mad scheme to arm those... *primatives* then we would have another full fleet to put on the line!'' 
 
 Grak exhaled through his secondary membrane. Helios led a faction in the Council that favored simply blockading the Border Worlds and letting the Frontier fall to the enemy. When Grak had convinced the Council to give the Humans a full fleet of ships to prepare for the invasion, the rest of the 100 member assembly had assumed that they would actually be put to use. It had been the ethical thing to do, since their world was in the path of the Enemy and Humans were the only species in the area to be even close to a useful buffer. However, since the delivery of ships the only word from them was an acknowledgement of the news that fighting had started. 
 
 The Humans were... strange. All of the other Council races had been at peace with themselves for their whole histories. Descended from 2 herd races and a hive mind, fighting was simply outside their nature. Even attempting genetic manipulation to create their own soldiers had been a disaster. Hiring the Humans as mercenaries had seemed a perfect solution. There were enough of them, and they bred quickly enough, that there should have been a wall of them across the Frontier already. 
 
 Even as Grak tried to think of a counter to the arguments still issuing from his counterpart, one of the Xin stood from their delegation and the translator hummed to life. < < Queen. Alarm. Approach. Foes. Danger. Danger. > > 
 
 Grak was surprised. The Xin, looking like crabs with fingers instead of claws almost never showed any signs of concern. For them to show that now.... 
 
 A guard came into the 4th chamber of the Council Hall looking as if wildfire burned behind him. `` My Honors, there is a... a representative here. He demands audience!'' 
 
 The Hall burst into shouts and sounds of panic. The Enemy *here*? Even as the doors opened the panic only subsided when a two legged shape came in past the lights. A black uniform and rows of colorful markings across the chest meant that this was a member of the Human military from what Grak recalled. Within ten steps, the only sound was the clicking of the Human's shoes on the stone floor as he mounted the steps to the guest podium. 
 
 `` I am Fleet Commodore Da Gang. I have been sent to you to take Earth's first place on this Council.'' 
 
 Outrage thundered from Helios' corner of the room. Grak was not far from joining him. To demand this...! 
 
 Helios quieted his fellows and spoke. `` Human, it has been 10 years and you have been silent. Now you come demanding honor as equals?! This is beyond madness! While you have been cowering, our forces have bled and died holding back the Enemy!'' 
 
 Grak tuned out the tirade and watched the Human. His face changed not at all, without a twitch against the force of Helios' anger. It was worrying. Grak had not risen as far as he had without knowing when he saw a trap. 
 
 Da Gang stood with his hands behind his back, silently waiting for Helios to run out of steam. When he had the attention of the Council again, he began. 
 
 `` Honors, I have been sent not just with our claim to join this Council, but also to show what we have done for a war that is, I remind you, YOUR war.'' 
 
 Waving an attendant forward, Da Gang began a presentation on an unfamiliar holo-emitter. `` You presented us with a fleet of ships and asked us to use them to fight your Enemy. We found quickly that your ships were.... inadequate... for the task.'' 
 
 The visions of most of the fleet being blotted out among the stars filled the room. No one dared speak. Helios had all of his eyes fixed on the violence. His concession to allowing the Humans to have the ships was that they would be aging hulks. Grak imagined that there was some regret of that now. 
 
 Da Gang continued. `` Luckily for us, however, we took some of the ships and took them apart. We learned how to make the technology you gifted us. And then we improved it.'' 
 
 The images changed to a moon being disassembled for materials. The shipyards above what Grak recognized as the 5th planet of their home system filled 2 entire Lagrange points. To have done all this.... to have done all this in a mere *10* *years* was unthinkable. 
 
 `` Our weapons are now 50 % more powerful than what the Enemy uses. As you can see,'' the stars making up the Human's spiral arm now dominated the room, `` we have pushed back this Invasion approximately 7 % since our new ships have come into use.'' 
 
 Flickering red dots showed the sites of battles, scattered like drops of the Humans' red blood. Several of the Enemy's colony worlds were marked. A frown crossed Grak's face. `` Fleet Commodore, what are the black spots with the yellow rings?'' Dread made his voice faint, but Da Gang heard him. 
 
 `` After the early defeats, we needed a weapon that the enemy could not fight off. We had many of your star-drives ready, so we used them.'' 
 
 The images changed again. Dreadnaught engines strapped to... asteroids? But why would.... No. No, not even a race that fought itself could be so deranged. 
 
 `` As you can see, these black spots are Enemy holdings that have been... neutralized.'' 
 
 Helios wept as the Council watched worlds burn. `` How could you have done this? What have you done?'' 
 
 Da Gang's expression finally changed. To surprise. 
 
 `` We did as you asked.'' 
 
 `` We brought you victory.'' 
 
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