When the Krolp came out, they came out shooting. “Better if we were,” the President muttered. At last! Contact with another intelligent race! Proof we weren’t alone in the universe! There were still videos-Harris Moffatt III had them on his computer-of human delegations greeting the aliens with bouquets and bands playing joyful music.
When the enormous ships were first detected, between Mars’ orbit and Earth’s, every nation radioed messages of welcome and greeting. That, of course, was before they realized how far out of their weight they were fighting. The two countries had amalgamated early on, the better to resist the invading aliens. Harris Moffatt III was also Prime Minister of Canada, or of that small and mountainous chunk of Canada the Krolp didn’t control. That the USA was still any kind of going concern came from his ever-so-narrow escape. His grandfather, President Harris Moffatt I, got out of Washington one jump ahead of the Krolp. Neither had his father, President Harris Moffatt II. Washington, D.C., remained the de jure capital of the United States.
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