"Admiral we are receiving a transmission, it's him sir" the ships V.I said to Michael
"From now on just call him The idiot, because that's exactly what he is," Michael Shepard said to the V.I
"Updating, " the v.i immediately said as it followed his orders, Michaels ignored his crew's laughter and waited until they were done to answer the idiots call.
"Why did you change up?' the idiot asked Michael
"You looked like if you needed some alone time" Michael answered the man
"...ow? how did they do this in so little time?"
"Michael, I gave the Sistem Alliance the information about the planets a few weeks ago, so how did they manage to get both the colonist and the fleet?"
"Hell just look at the refueling stations they are building," the idiot said as he poured himself another drink and immediately begin to drink straight from the bottle
"No one ever told you did the?" Michael asked the idiot
"Tell me what?"
"Whenever a world is found there is a waiting list for people to move on it, in Council controlled space that waiting list is even longer because of all of the aliens"
"You gave twenty worlds to Humanity, twenty planet worths of people that were never going to be able to be approved suddenly found themselves being offered a chance to move"
Michael pointed out the obvious to the idiot.
"Now, let's think, and would you stop drinking already," Michael said to the man
"Fuck you" the idiot immediately answered him
"Let's look at all of the stunts you have been pulling"
"Four massive ships that by all logic shouldn't work but do. You claim that they can only use accelerated light, but anyone that's been paying attention knows that your lying"
"You are in an isolated part of space that is by that logic completely separated from...Hey, pay attention!" Michael said to the man as he noticed that the idiot was starting to look drunk
"This part of space is so underdeveloped that there are no slavers or prates here, making it one of the safest places to live"
"Then we look into the companies that tried and failed to set up shop, didn't you think that they would want to reclaim their loses?" Michael said to the idiot that hadn't stopped drinking, during his entire explanation
"It's too fast Michael I thought I would have more time," the idiot said with an exhausted voice
"We aren't done, we have repeatedly reminded you to keep your projects under control, but you didn't"
"Both the Earth and the Alliance realized that because this is so space is so far away from the Councils eyes they are free to create new technology without being exposed easily"
Michael took a deep breath
"You should have seen the refueling stations coming because you created a market for the Element Zero needed for all of the ships that the Alliance sent over here"
Michael looked at the idiot in front of him and somehow he knew that he looked just as exhausted as the idiot did.
"There are so many untapped resourced that its a new gold rush and I don't know what your hiding on those seven worlds but I hope to god it's worth raising so much hell"
"Show him" Michael heard his wife say to the idiot
"What?" the idiot said to Samantha
"The planets belong to you and you are already mining, so there isn't a problem" Samantha answered the idiot
Michael watched as the man typed on a keyboard and the image of a rock appeared on screen, it took Michael a moment but he soon recognized what he was looking at.
Michael had to sit down even as he realized that his entire crew had gone silent.
"All seven planets?" Michael asked the two
"Yeah" the idiot answered
"I have to report this if the council. No, when the council finds out about this they could declare war" Michael said as he felt himself begin to panic
"Sam put the Kill all Man Battle and the Hulk on standby and order the Tanker to come back," the Idiot said to his A.I
Michael felt his heart rase and his eyes widen as both massive ships placed themselves on the edge of separatist and alliance space.
"Admiral the Tanker is coming into view' one of his crew members announced as he kept an eye on the Tanker's signal.
"Sam do it," the idiot said as both the Hulk and Kill all men battle released dozens of smaller ships
Michael watched s the tanker began to release its own load of attack craft until both the separatist fleet and his own were looking at one another.
Michael watched as his wife placed a gun to the idiot's head.
"Stand down" Samantha ordered the Idiot
"This is my offer, I'm willing to give you one planet, no more"
"Tell that to your higher-ups," the Idiot said to Michael
Michael closed his eyes and sent the transmission to Earth, this was a bad situation, but it wasn't the worst-case scenario, at least not yet.
The Illusive man smiled and sent both the images and the videos of the Separatist ships coming out of the massive ships to the Extranet, he was not going to allow this chance to pass him by.
It would be a while before any aliens would see what he just released, but it didn't matter the results would be the same, the council would place heavy sanctions on humanity as a whole.
Earth's leaders, as well as the leaders of humanity as a whole, called an emergency meeting.
"Seven worlds, seven bloody worlds ripe for the taking, and we left them there for that man to get," one of them said
"He's not handing them over, but he is willing to give us one planet just to get us to calm down," a woman said as she finished watching the video she had been sent.
"What are our chances of getting past that fleet? I mean they are armed with outdated weaponry" another man asked
"Knowing what you know about that man do you seriously think that's all they are armed with?' the woman asked the man
'I have an idea, but all of you will have to trust me" the eldest of the group said, and because no one said anything she sent a simple message to the admiral
Michael Shepard opened the message and read its contents.
"We agree to your terms, but we are interested in purchasing the metal from you in its raw state"
"The only thing we ask for is that you pull back your fleet. Your drunk and that's the excuse both the alliance and separatist will stick to"
"What!" everyone in the meeting protested before they realized that the didn't need the planets, they just needed the raw materials in them
The eldest of the group smiled and said.
"This discovery is so important that we cant keep it hidden from the public, after all, who knows what else is out there in that part of space"
The woman mocking tone made everyone in the group smile and they all pressed a button in front of them releasing both the video and the information about not just the one planet they were given, but all seven of them
Michael paled as Sam informed him that everything had been released to bot both Separist Space and Alliance space, he knew that it was over he had completely lost control
Malia felt as if her head was about to explode, the representatives of the Migrant Fleet and the representatives of the Separatists hadn't stopped arguing.
She had wished that they could agree on a few things and end-all of the arguing, and now she just wanted everyone to go back to arguing because everyone in the room had gone silent.