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yearly basis and selected from the Inner Council members. The first year was in the hands of the United States President and Lord Southgate and the second yearwould be in the hands of the new United Kingdom Prime Minister, Charles Hamilton, and Lord Fathom.
    At the first meeting of The Council it was unanimously agreed that all focus would be on refitting the powerful and enormous Elanda battleship and building two smaller destroyers to act as convoy protection. The Tyther clan, now released from the tyrannical Zylar, applied their ancestors’ knowledge stored in the archives to build the two destroyers. The manufacture of the impressive ships was also supported by the full array of raw materials and skilled tradesmen on Earth. Knowledge and skills were shared to create a formidable team.
    The principal objective of the refitting of the Elanda and the building of the two destroyers was to free Zein. On Earth “Free Zein” badges were all the rage and people started to wear the different clan coloured tunics. The Blackstone clan blue tunics were, of course, the most favoured due to their place in the stories now circling the world. The tunics of the Fathom clan were not far behind with the Battle for the Core entering folklore for its ferocity and ingenuity. For your children you could even buy plastic seckles to pretend you were a Zein warrior; a favourite at Christmas time for both girls and boys – dolls and swords fading into the past.
    Initially the inclusion of the Zeinonians into Earth’s population was welcome, though there remained voices against relaxing immigration rules too far, especially around business and social benefits. It was now common for the strangely attired Zeinonians to be seen walking the streets of the Earth’s tourist sites. They had built up a solid fan base around social media sites and Zeinonian themed parties were all the rage. In return the Zein Inner Council opened up their quadrants to the humans and people flocked to their villages and environmental coded countryside.
    Approaching the launch of the Expeditionary Force in full pomp and ceremony, the initial euphoria felt, began to fade on both sides, with the humans the worst. Envy of the aliens’ greater technology and the resulting fear of hidden agendas, created an uneasy alliance.
    In relation to the quadrants, you could still look into the sky and see no alien world, as they still kept the Outer Perimeter Walls active, as not to do so would cause issues for the airline businesses and also act as a block to the sun.
    The Council passed laws enabling greater mining of zinithium and new mines were opened in Europe and in the Antarctic. The Core settlement was expanded and now was covering nearly double the area for mining that it had before.
    In political circles, Victoria Kirk was the surprise winner as she was appointed Head of Zeinonian Support, or as she was quirkily dubbed “Kirk HaZs arrived”. Victoria was the principal contact with the clans, overseeing their integration into the Earth population. She had her work cut out. Charles Hamilton, the British Prime Minister, knew that her family’s long military history including the adversity they had faced in the World Wars and before gave her the natural organising and never-say-die attitude needed. It was an easy appointment, one which Victoria accepted with much humility. She was everywhere, attending memorials for the fallen in the Battle for the Core or the Southern Palace triumph, handing out blankets to the survivors of the New York nuclear blast, meeting and greeting Zeinonians in the different quadrants. She had her own issues to deal with though, the murder of Michael Dunstable; the last British Prime Minister at the hands of Zylar, still haunted her. The Zeinonians took to her forthright and easy manner and she was instrumental in supporting them in the increase in mining substantial amounts of zinithium.
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