“All right Scott let's go over what we know and see what falls out. We know we are facing an powerful unknown enemy and at this point indestructible one. It has made one incursion into our space as far as we know with the given intelligence that we have. Unless you can think of anything else it is all we have," the president said sitting across from his chief of staff.
“That sums it up Walker. Outside of that, we have media concerns, and the usual prime ministers and their ambassadors clamoring at the top of their lungs for information. The Russian and Chinese delegates are as vocal as always wanting meetings now. I have been in communication with them all morning deflecting their questions and their request for meeting times. To top that off the leaders of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are waiting outside to talk to you with the Secretary of Defense stuck in the middle. We will also need to decide what we are going to tell the American people. “
“What we tell the American people we are going to tell the rest of the world and the outlying colonies. Those colonies could be in more danger of invasion than we are at this point. Heck Scott we cannot even say that for sure. We do not know their mode of space travel for their vessels. We use the man-made wormhole generators and make a series of jumps what do they do go wherever they want to?”
Scott looked at the president and did not know what to say. He did not have any answers to give him. The attack on the fleet attack and subsequent problems associated with it is more than both men could comprehend and deal with. They were going to need help solving this mystery but where is this help going to come he could not say.