Here is the second part to the story I started a few weeks ago. Hope you enjoy, please comment and rate, but now it's 6 o'clock and time for the news.

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GNN (Galactic News Network) Broadcast, 18:00, 21st June, 2508 (Alliance Standard Calendar)

“OPERATION: UNITY CONTINUES ON THE OUTER RIM, WITH SEVERAL DEEP PUSHES INTO INDEPENDENT TERRITORY BEING MADE BY ALLIANCE FORCES. HOWEVER, RESISTENCE IS GROWING AND SEVERAL WORLDS HAVE TAKEN UP ARMS AGAINST THE ALLAINCE MILITARY.

“THESE PEOPLE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE ONLY PEACEFUL MOTIVES AND THAT WE ONLY WANT TO SPREAD EQUALTIY TO ALL PEOPLES OF THE GALAXY. BY THEM TAKING UP ARMS AGAINST OUR FORCES, THEY CAN BRING ONLY DESTRUCTION ON THEIR OWN HOMES.” THE PRIME MINISTER SAID IN PARLIAMENT TODAY.

“HOWEVER, SOME MEMBERS ARE VOCALISING THEIR OPPOSITION TO FORCED UNIFICATION. THE MEMBER OF SYDNEY STATED, “WE CAN NOT FORCE OURSELVES ONTO THESE PEOPLE. IF WE HAVE PEACEFUL MOTIVES THEN WHY SEND SOLDIERS TO DO A DIPLOMAT’S JOB. YOU CAN NOT FORCE SOMEONE TO JOIN AN ALLIANCE OF DEMOCRACIES!”

“IN OTHER NEWS, A RECENT ALLIANCE PUSH INTO THE OUTER PLANETS OF THE SYSTEM BY BATTLEGROUP: COMBINE, LEAD TO THE DESRUCTION OF THE FARM WORLD, SHADOW. THE BATTLEGROUP’S COMMANDER SAID THAT THEY CAME UNDER ATTACK AFTER ENTERING ORBIT ABOVE THE PLANET. WHEN THE COMMANDER ISSUED A CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER, IT WAS IGNORED BY THE INDEPENDENT FIGHTERS AND SO THE BATTLEGROUP OPENED FIRE ON THE PLANET. “WHILE I REGRET THE LOSE OF SO MANY INNOCENT LIVES, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE COMMANDER HAD LITTLE CHOICE. WHILE THE MILITARY AS ORDERS TO SPREAD UNITY THROUGH PEACEFUL MEANS, I MUST ALLOW THEM TO DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM THESE VIOLENT REBELS.”

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Mal was sitting at an empty table in the dining room of the training camp when Julian and a large Amazonian woman walked up to the table and sat down.

“You’re here,” Jule stated.

“That’s generally how the ‘verse works,” Mal said.

“Why?”

“Y