Chapter 125: Preparations & Observations Part 7

“Why? Pilcher demanded pounding his fist into his desk. “You went to all this trouble getting me to organize a rescue op…and… and all this time you had already sent a sister F35 and it’s heading right now to Heliostronus!…Why in God’s name!”

“A matter of running out of time.” Calham said quietly. “Everyone under S.U.E.P is expendable Paul, me included. Our job is to protect the Earth and its inhabitants against all enemies, at all costs.”

Paul jumped up, pacing angrily back and forth. "And part of that mandate is to find systems capable of sustaining human life, you seem hell bent to destroy that too! How do we at Divisions achieve our goals when your agenda in the S.U.E.P is way different from mine?”