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step as James hurried into the building. “The situation appears very bad, Commander. No one has any idea what’s going on. The anomaly doesn’t appear to make any sense. And the chief is furious with you for taking so long to get here,” she informed James, her eyes on his flight suit. It would be very difficult for James to explain himself.
    “It’s okay, Djanet. That’s a minor concern right now,” he said without even looking at her as he marched toward the door of the emergency strategy room. As soon as he entered, the eyes of all of the Council members who were present, as well as the dozens of assistants and advisors, fell on him.
    “Keats, just where in the hell were you?” Gibson thundered as he saw James’s flight suit. His eyes narrowed. “You better have one hell of an explanation, son.”
    “I’m not your son,” James replied. “I want to know everything that you know, and I want to know now.”
    Gibson was aghast at James’s insubordination and exhaled as though he had been punched. “You arrogant, impudent dog! Who the hell do you think you are, Keats? Flying around in space on some kind of adventure and then marching in here and giving orders? I should have you thrown out!”
    “But you can’t and you won’t and we both know it. You need me so stop wasting my time and tell me what’s going on.”
    “Wasting time? You have the nerve to...”
    “Will you shut up, please?” James said, putting his hand up to block Gibson’s face from his vision and stepping further into the room. “I want to know exactly what’s going on here—from the beginning.”
    Djanet spoke in response. “The new upgrades that you made to the A.I.’s long range sensors before you transferred your powers to the operating program detected something about two hours ago. At first, we thought it was the sensors malfunctioning because the size and speed of the anomaly didn’t make any sense. But the object has continued heading this way, directly towards Earth, and it doesn’t seem to be affected by gravitational pull or any of the natural forces that would alter a naturally occurring phenomenon’s trajectory.”
    James remained silent for a moment as he took in this information. It meshed perfectly with the analysis that he had made on the way back to Earth. It was time to share the horrifying truth with those assembled. “That’s because it isn’t a naturally occurring phenomenon. It has a purpose. ”

5
    The room remained in stunned silence for a moment until Chief Gibson finally scoffed, “Have you completely lost your mind, Keats? Something that big cannot have a purpose.”
    “Why not?” James challenged his superior.
    Gibson was at a loss for words at first as he tried to assemble an appropriate line of reasoning. “Because it’s impossible for something that big to be alive! Have you not seen its size? We’ve calculated it at...” Gibson paused for a moment as he tried to call up the correct figures in his mind’s eye. After a moment of flustered searching, he looked desperately for someone to help him—his eyes fell on Djanet. “Girl! You were the one who told me the size! Tell him!”
    Djanet tried to keep her composure but exhaled deeply before answering. “It is well over 1 million kilometers in diameter. It’s nearly ten times the size of Jupiter.”
    “Ho-ly,” Rich said under his breath.
    “You see?” Gibson shouted. “How can something that large be alive?”
    “It depends what your definition of alive is,” James replied.
    Gibson turned away in disgust and threw his hands into the air in frustration as he gestured toward the other six Council members who were there in person. “It’s always riddles with this man! Insufferable!”
    One of the other members of the Council, Jun Kim, tried to remain even keeled. “Commander Keats, can you explain what is happening so that the Council can understand and act appropriately?”
    “Certainly,” James replied before answering