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Dalton Summers listened as Chen Hao recounted his vision of the future again. The man beside him was incredibly charismatic, his voice echoing easily across the space and towards the cameras.
"-The third possible answer I have to the question of self-defense laws is that everyone will have the right to claim a personal shield. I am aware that some viewers trust in the idea of using firearms for personal protection; however, those pose a greater risk to the common population than defensive weapons.
However, less lethal weapons such as tasers and such would still be readily available. Now, we must also discuss the reality of our situation. Humanity is not alone in the Alliance. Nor are we alone on Earth. Tens of billions of Guulin make their homes on the shores of the Canadian Shield, and as the Antarctic glacier continues to melt, a whole new continent will be available to us in years.
My movement already has ties to figures such as Empress Izkrala, as well as President Blistanna. This is well-known, and some fear that I aim to rule in their interest. I do not. They fund outreach programs for the DMO, and have contact with me in that fashion to ensure the company does not grow beyond our control. They have no say or position in matters of current or future governance in my future Earth, which is quite unlike the situation in some particular countries I could name if I so wished.
I am not some foreign puppet, and have no plans on doing this for anyone but all of you. Humanity needs unity, yes, but not submission. We are not bending our knees, but standing together with the allies that have fought and bled for us. But this will also require some hard decisions.
I know many of you carry hatred for some nations that have attacked us in the past. Now, the Trikkec, Wisselen, and Sevvi suffer for it. The Trikkec and Wisselen are broken remnants of their might, and we have achieved complete victory over the Sevvi.
I will not tell you to cast aside your hatred, or that your suffering and struggle are invalid. Indeed, war is a terrible thing. Remember, those living in the Alliance are refugees. They are not the people who decided to attack you, and many were truly conscripted, with no choice except death. We must not let ourselves be swept away. Cast your judgment on their leaders and rulers, not on the common man, whose only sin was being born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
We aim to unify Humanity. That is our goal. There is no place in this movement for these lesser grudges and old hatreds. They do more to harm us and the other citizens of the Alliance than they do to help us. In this greater context, we must also remember that Humanity is many times stronger than it was a century ago. Psychic energy fortifies our bodies, our minds, and our souls. Through the hivemind, the murder rate among humans is measured at zero a year across all of Earth, an achievement of unprecedented grandeur.
By the nature of our new form of existence, we are already highly defended. For those individuals who feel that even this is not enough, though, personal shields will be made available. I do not expect the cost of this expenditure to weigh down our new unified planet, for that reason, and even if demand is higher than projected, Phoebe is supplying those devices nearly for free."
Dalton smiled politely, even while he thought of possible countermeasures. For one, Chen's plan to use psychic energy was quite reckless. It would require building even more vast arrays, which was impossible. And then, guarding those against sabotage would require extra manpower. Making sure stray Dreedeen didn't die from being near them was yet another wrinkle. They had to walk around with psychic shields on constantly to survive in the Sol system now.
And beyond all that, the funding couldn't just rely on Phoebe. That was too risky for him, and surely Chen Hao knew she might be an ally, but if she were to be incapacitated in some way, having the new nation of Earth being crippled as well would be a bad outcome.
"Ultimately," Dalton began, pulling in extra air so he could speak for a while.
"We will also need your help for what is to come. Many governments have expressed their desire to maintain the broken system of the UN, which has proven itself unable to be cohesive in times when Humanity needs to advocate with a collective voice, leaving those of Luna to speak for all of us. My plan will enable us to stand on an equal footing with the leaders of the other species of Humanity, so that we can work towards common economic prosperity for both of us.
While the great issues of healthcare, housing, and simple living expenses have been solved for the vast majority of our population, we also need to provide additional funding to secure the future. We need more teachers, nurses, and babysitters, those who take care of our next generation, which is already on pace to dwarf the current one by almost 2 times.
These children will grow up in a world that we have to build for them, and they will need to understand and value the sacrifices we have made to achieve it, and continue to place value in unity and understanding. In history, there have been too many times when the battle was won, and those who remembered what it took to win were lost, and so the battle had to be fought again.
Remember, after the wars of the 2040s, which gradually consumed more and more of our planet's resources, how far we came afterward, only to be plunged into World War Three. And now, with the Final Initiative bearing down on us, we must ensure that the future remains after we defeat them. We must plan for the future if we are to have a future, and my education initiative will be global.
Sourced from science and reason, the curriculum will be flexible for those who wish to specialise in specific fields, especially those relating to governmental or outward-facing roles. As automation from Phoebe continues to push our working population into the world of the mindscape, we need a new generation of thinkers and builders to help build the great citadels that will one day shelter the entire Alliance beneath the Source's bones. Already, the City of Humanity stretches vastly beneath the bones of the Source.
But we still need more defenses. We need more infrastructure, more ways to bend and break the laws of that reality that prevent us from bringing our technology to bear. This agenda, which I have also detailed in full on my website, will be on a large scale. The numbers are actively being changed to fit the new fortunes of Humanity, but currently, we will need 3 billion employees to see this through."
It was a massive number. Far more than the DMO employed, and more than all but the largest Acuarfar and Guulin corporations. Dalton's campaign had more ability to focus on building and growth, since it would already be partially constructed on the current UN apparatus. All that was needed now was for the battle to conclude. Once this discussion ended in a few hours, he and Chen Hao would get to work.
The hivemind ensured that wars couldn't happen conventionally. And what did that mean, exactly, for the governments the pair of them sought to replace?
Soon it would be time to find out.
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Grand Fleet Commander Valisada stood among his soldiers, hidden inside multiple different bodies and clones. A relatively short distance away, the Final Initiative's forces battled the Sennes Hive Union's fleet. The powerful weapons being unleashed between the two fleets were visible only as pinpricks from this distance, and that was with his highly enhanced eyes.
Valisada had equipped himself with state-of-the-art body modifications, from enhanced psychic energy circulators and thought accelerators, down to even the most basic claw inlays to prevent chipping. He was a picture of masculine authority now, with a head and shoulders properly sculpted to hold the weight of a Grand Fleet heading to war. Of a Grand Fleet that he would being to victory, as Utotalpha had ordered.
The Grand Fleet had arrived faster than he had planned, only because Utotalpha had unexpectedly appeared directly on the bridge of his ship, and hadn't left for several megapulses.
In front of him, clouds of swarming ships, mercenaries from Kashaunta, battled openly with the Final Initiative and its own mercenaries. Phoebe's ships were mixed in as well, delivering fire and fury on a scale vaster than he'd seen any non-Progenitor manage in his life.
The Alliance had employed a new strategy. From what he could deduce, it was simply to throw as many of Phoebe's bodies as possible at the ships in space, and to throw the hivemind's full force at those unlucky enough to be battling on the plains of the mindscape.
Valisada, now that he was forced to be here, was already fortifying his position in both areas. If he were forced to fight a protracted war, he would ensure he'd be out of the way of their superweapons. Mindscape combat was an old friend to the Sprilnav, but with the pulse Humanity had sent ou...
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