I welcomed everyone.
“Gentlemen, we are here to decide onour next course of action, which may be very dangerous. I can, ofcourse, override the suggestion of this council. But if the vote islopsided I probably won’t.
“We still don’t have a great dealof information about our adversary. Based on what little we doknow,it appears that the Destroyers are preparing for a full-scaleinvasion of our galaxy. Their only goal is to exterminate mankind.Why they want to kill all humans is still unknown. But that is theonly prime directive in their programming. Although there are manyother races in the galaxy, from what we can tell, Destroyers havenotbeen told to carry out a genocidal war against any other race. Theyare targeting humans and only humans, although if any of ournon-human allies interfere,
