Admiral Atticus Noble looked over to the vast land, the city and the people, and especially, the White House, standing on the end — the capital of America, one of the countries on Earth. He wasn’t used to planets being so divided amongst themselves, but he thought that if he needed to exert the Motherworld’s control over this place, he ought to start with the most powerful country.

As he came down from his ship, The King’s Gaze, he caught the eye of a girl in the crowd, but walked on.