62 The Various Reactions (1/2)
”What happened?” Everal, who was in a secure location on a different planet, asked with a gloomy expression when all the monitors he had were disconnected.
His personal secretary, a busty woman with black rimmed glasses and golden hair ties up in a bun looked was busy searching on a holographic tablet.
”I do not know, Sir. All communications with the planet have been cut off and I am unable to reconnect.”
”What did he do?” Everal asked himself with a pondering expression, not expecting anyone to answer.
After several hours of searching for information but to no avail, the very first news report appeared.
”Sir Argentear!” The secretary raised her brows and hurried transferred the broadcast to a large screen on the wall.
[Zenise here from InterGal Today, bringing the latest news of a tragedy. The planet known as Eridon II cut off all communications several hours ago, including all of our local contacts.]
[Not long ago, the internet began to be flooded with videos from the group claiming responsibility for what has been determined at the mass extinction of a planet.]
The host, Zenise, had puffy red eyes as she shed a tear, displaying her sorrow for the massive loss of life on the planet. How sincere those tears were and how much was for gaining empathy from the audience however was highly debatable though.
[The group known as the Celestials claimed that an individual who had spied on their group and redistributed confidential information was residing on this planet, planning to make hostile actions against them.]
[The following footage will be uncensored, so please change the channel if you don't wish to see… this… tragedy.]
Zenise's hair that was floating as if she was underwater began to sink down as she cried large water droplet tears.
The screen then changed to the viewpoint of the camera drone Ivan had planted before the attack. It displayed the Kraken emerge from subspace, suddenly appearing in the surface universe where nothing existed previously. Following that was the resultant attack and cataclysmic devastation to the planet.
The number one searched article on the galactic web became ”Celestials” the very next instant.
Everal looked at the footage wide-eyed and declared, ”This is simply a declaration of war! What is this madman thinking!? No, what the hell is that weapon!? Those old badgers in the Parliament must be in an uproar at the moment.
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”What do we do about this?” Speaker Ulton in the Andromeda Federation Parliamentary House spoke as if the extinction of a planet didn't affect them.
One of the younger politicians thumbed his brow as he stated, ”This came immediately after that information packet on the Celestials was sent to us, I have only just finished scanning through it.”
Several other politicians nodded their heads and stated, ”We must have this technology. They can't hoard it and should share it with the rest of the human race.”
While everyone in the room added on how they should contribute to the human race, these words were completely hypocritical as everyone wanted it for themselves. They even suspected who had already known about this information and were acting in the shadows.
”We can't just go and take it though. This action of theirs was a blatant threat toward us. He has weaponry we have every right to fear, and has showed us that he is willing to use it.”
”What are you idiots talking about, we have a HDS throughout all our important core solar systems.”
”The Eridon solar system had a HDS. Have you not read the information we all received? They are moving through subspace, not hyperspace.”
”What does it matter which kind of space it is-”