1996 AC

"…prepare for the future." The President spoke with a conviction that swayed his audience, making them nod and hum in agreement. They had survived the most destructive war in the history of mankind. Just hours before one of their fighter pilots had taken down the first alien ship and thereafter pilot after pilot had shouted a mighty roar and given their life to save countless others. All over the world mankind had united against a common enemy. There were no more feelings of hate because of ethnicity, religion, politics or culture. They were for the first time in human history together as one.

"To safeguard our planet we will have to take measures to prevent a future attack on the same scale." the President continued his speech. "We must unite all the nations into one and become a force to be reckoned with no matter the enemy.' He paused for a moment. 'The world is a malleable right now and we must take this opportunity to form it into a shape impregnable. Use the technology we scavenge from the aliens to build better warships, better weapons and stronger soldiers. One day we will be tested again and we shall not fail!" At this powerful proclamation he turned to look out of the window at the crashed spaceship. The final part he said with quiet knowledge in his voice "We cannot fail… for the sake of all…"

They discussed. They debated. They argued and they fought. Proposals were thrown out, plans remade and rectified, ideas mulled over, qualms weighed, and hearts steeled. For weeks the most influential leaders of the most influential nation in the world stayed in a small room and conferred. While the rest of the world recovered and felt an intense joy at being alive in the present they planned for the future. The men who stepped into that room didn't know it yet but they would set the path mankind would follow from then on until the eve of their doom. They would become a titan – a creature of war. For the sake of the future they would ruin lives and nations, take the power with blood and gunpowder, and keep the control with an iron fist.