Day 2: Earth Unites
The truth, once a carefully guarded secret, had detonated across the globe. With the Krill fleet a mere 24 hours away, the old world order crumbled, replaced by a desperate, unprecedented unity forged in the fires of existential threat.
The digital globe in the center of the room, usually displaying national borders, now showed a single, unified blue sphere. General Mark Dempsey, his face gaunt but his eyes burning with a newfound purpose, addressed the assembled military and political leaders from across the planet. The room, once exclusive to the U.S. Joint Chiefs, now hosted a mosaic of uniforms and flags, all subsumed under a new, stark banner: the United Earth Defense Pact (UEDP). NATO, CSTO, and countless smaller military alliances had dissolved, their former rivalries rendered meaningless by the alien threat.
