Xingcheng

While john is overseeing the interrogation of the grey commander, Eva takes a tour around Tiantang capital city Xingcheng, exploring and looking at the culture.

"Tiantang, established as an outpost in 2031 and declared a colony in 2035, formed as combined colony of china, japan, Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan named after the Chinese word for heaven, has current population of 50 million that out of them 3 million live in Xingcheng, most of the architecture of the capital city are based on eastern Asian architecture".

"thank you for the short explanation Victor, now I want to see some gardens, john said they have beautiful Japanese gardens in the city, I want to see them".

Victor orders for Eva a car That takes her to a garden that named the 'federation garden', she arrives to the garden and astound by it sheer beauty, she goes through the garden until group of people stops her.

"nice to meet you miss walk, it is an honor my name is Zhao and those my guards, I am the mayor of Xingcheng, what you think about the garden".

"it's beautiful, like the rest of the city, and to believe that once the groups that built this colony where hostile between each other".

"after the federation took over and all the propaganda disappeared, we understood we have more values in common then we though, also this is the symbolism of this garden, the unity between all of humanity for the greater good."

And Zhao asks "I know that john is busy right now, so can we invite you to eat with us?".

"yes, I will be happy to eat something".

"so, let's go, I know a good chinse restaurant not far from here".

And Eva leaves with the mayor and his guards the garden and go towards the restaurant".

Meanwhile 450 light years from Tiantang, inside grey territory a group of un-manned spaceship appears above a planet, the ships start a surprise attack and end it with the planet surface decimated and covered with lava.

Then a massage is broadcast to all the governments across the galaxy.

In the message john speaks "today we led a defensive attack against a grey base that was planned to launch a devastating attack against the federation and its citizens, they planned to make stars across federation space to go supernova, and we manage to discover it after we manage to deflect such attack on one of our systems, I present you the confession of the commander of the attack about the attack plan, I want to make it clear the federation doesn't seek fights, but if someone thinks he can plan to attack us without retaliation is wrong, we will not attack other grey planets , let this be a warning, next time we will attack more systems".