David was nervous as he awaited his in-law's arrival, he had spent the day writing a proposal to the Earth Gov senate about the restructure of the first contact protocols, he knew that time was running out and he wanted there to be no doubt about the importance of such procedures not being in the hands of the military, he had added three "hypothetical" situations, including one that had involved a situation like the Minbari war, he knew that they more than likely would not listen but he had to have some hope that there was an intelligent man or woman somewhere in the senate.
It had been his third or fourth rewrite that he had decided to get ready, he had a full uniform laid out reminiscent of the Imperial Russian Preobrazhensky Regiment but in his own Black and purple colours, of course, Louis spent the whole week before the arrival smiling like a Cheshire cat, and David had to physically restrain himself from shooting the Frenchman in the ass with a crossbow no less than three times.
He also had a review of his fledgeling military forces and a full expansion of his fleet to plan out, though he had to build his navy in secret as the Earth Force would never accept a competitive navy, not outside of their jurisdiction, though they didn't really care about any armies that the colonies built up, as any ground forces could be handled with space superiority and then any mop up handled by the GROPOs after extensive orbital bombardment, and Earth Force had vastly more ships than any save the Centauri or possibly the Narn, since the end of the war Earth was attempting run the old British Empire policy of the two power standard and as such was still in a period of fleet wide expansion and modernisation, and because of such arrogance David and his company had more than enough money to fund his own military a thousand times over.
Davids medical research facility and pharmaceutical corporations were also experiencing a boom period as well, cures and better medical treatments were being rolled out as soon as they passed their inspections, and the destroyer pricing that they had been running against competitors had forced several to go into receivership allowing David to snap them up, a few had started legal proceedings against him for what they saw as unfair practices and antitrust violations but his small army of lawyers had dealt with the majority of those cases, and his press office had made him out to be another Da Vinci or Einstein, and the fact that his medicines and cures were affordable to almost the entire population of the Alliance, needless to say, the people were very fond of him very fond, it was not just him money making ventures or his medical break throughs, it was his charity works as well, he had poured millions into public works, hospitals and out reach programs that helped the under privileged and the destitute, making him all but unassailable in the court of public opinion.
David sighed and rubbed his eyes, his decision to head straight to Chronos would not have endeared him to his grandmother in law, and he doubted that his father in law liked that his youngest daughter was married to a man he had never met, in a Las Vegas chapel by a priest dressed as Elvis no less, he could only hope that he could make a good impression on them when they arrived, Anastasia's stories of her Grandmother likened her to a tyrannosaurus-rex one he was not looking forward to wrestling.