Ves almost couldn't believe what he heard.
The Terrans and the Rubarthans actually plotted to declare independence!
The unified civilization of red humanity was hardly perfect, but Ves did not think it was bad either.
The mechers and fleeters in the Red Ocean had mellowed out a lot more. The founding of the Red Collective should have eased the contradictions between the different human groups and provided a stronger bridge for cooperation.
The creation of Human High Command served as another bridge for cooperation. The brightest military strategists and planners put down all of their factional squabbles and came together in order to formulate a single orderly strategy to defend their race against the threat of alien aggression.
