Chapter 6

The next day late in the morning we were summoned into the communication room. Which was designated as our meeting room for the present by Ana. There was a message from Hurials race stating we call them as soon as possible.

That was not the real reason for the summons. The reason was that the Liquirions had captured a corvette which was trying to enter our space. They ordered them that we had to accept their commands and surrender to their demands. But when the marines tried to board their ship. The officials were involved immediately.

The president was speaking through their corvette. Upon our request the channel was directed towards us. We were informed by the president that we had no rights to capture their corvette. But he was willing to let it be by giving us a warning.

We were pissed but we controlled our anger. Later on, he had the guts to even command us to hand over every ship and technology we had. The time line was seven days for handing over everything.

Except the corvette which he needed it right now.

We had no objections of releasing the corvette. Let him have his small victory. Anyway, we needed those seven days for creating some type of defence. As soon as we released them, we called an urgent meeting of the alliance.

OH, I forgot to mention the structure of the Merinians. They are like us with only a little difference. They had a tail; a devils tail at that. First, we met with the Merinians. We inquired about their health and chatted with them for a bit. After speaking with them for a few minutes we asked them if we could speak with Rudresh.

We explained to him about what we have done in the name of Merinians. He chatted with a few of fellow person for a bit. He turned towards us and accepted every action we had taken in their stead.

Later, Sarah said, as now they are here, she can’t take any more action. So, they had to choose a new leader. No one accepted that and countered with a new proposal. The proposal was that Skippy should become the new King of the Merinians and Rudresh will be the Liaison.

At that moment Abdiel came behind us and gave his input and agreed with the Merinians. Skippy groaned but still tried to argue. They spoke for a long time; you can say that we argued most of the time. In the end Skippy succumbed to their orders.

But Skippy promised them that he will get back to them for this. As we were leaving their home towards our meeting room. While going towards there an idea struck in my brain. Actually, not an idea but the rule we rote yesterday.

So instead of going to the meeting room I requested others to head over there without me. Because I had to go and meet with Debu. Debu was the spokesperson of our tribe.

“Debu, how many people do we have in our society?”

“Skippy, there are two thousand and seventy-eight people. Including children below fourteen years of age.”

“Okey, can you ask them and see if they can create a family?”

“Already done. You gave them hope and food, and even a future. You know, Skippy, once they saw that you are creating a future for them, they started bonding. Once they had food on their plate that too three times a day, they started living together and created a family. Now instead of numbers we have families, one thousand to be exact, though some are single.”

“That’s a great news Debu, Now listen you have six days to shift. We are being noticed by others. They are monitoring our every move. Get the help of replicators or anything you can see.

We need to shift now. Choose any floor or rooms you think you may like. Start creating communities within that ship. Tell the Merinians to do the same. I will inform the Liquirions.

I want everything to be shifted inside the ship. So that we can protect everyone if needed.”

“Next, meet with the marines and start training. Start making the land to air/land defence system, we are going to have a meeting with that pompous of a president.

Send a runner to the settlements who haven’t joined us yet with a proof of what we spoke earlier. And give them a last chance to join us. But tell them that they have to stay with the other aliens now.”

They both exchanged a few ideas for a few seconds and before leaving, while at the door, Skippy stopped and spoke.

“One last thing, choose thirty-six rooms right in the centre of the ship and create a conference room. And a specific meeting room. Get the help of Rudra to create this room. Make a U-shaped table in the room place chairs with enough space for a man to stand.

There should be a holo-projector in the centre. Three seats are occupied as you know. There should be a screen behind every chair to display the symbols. These symbols will represent the person sitting in the chair. There should be three symbols. One of Ours, second Merinians and third the Liquirions.

These are the requirements for the specific room. And for conference room”

“What should be our Symbol?”

“I trust you for that, Debu. You can come up with something.”

With that said I left to join the others. As soon as I entered the room, I was surprised to see that they were in a frenzy of preparing a defensive plan. Upon looking towards me and seeing my expression, Geeta spoke.