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see the horror that is the Drakuls. Pray that you never do.”
    “I will need to go back to Washington and talk with some
people to see what we can do to support you,” said the president. “The first
thing that we will need is a point of contact at one of the bases nearby where
you can use a secure phone, because I do NOT want this information getting out
until we are ready for it.” He gave the group a look that included the Sommers,
as well as the military personnel. “I don’t know how long all of you have known
about our new friends, but you have already proven your discretion. To say that
this is a matter of national security would be the understatement of the
century. If what they say is true, it is a matter of global security. We
cannot allow this information to get out to the media or to any of the other
countries before we are ready. The panic and chaos it would cause would be
overwhelming!”
     
     
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Chapter Two
     
    Deep Underground Command Center, Washington, DC, September 5, 2018
    “All right,” said President Bill Jacobs, looking around the Deep
Underground Command Center’s (DUCC) new conference room, “What are our options
for assisting the Psiclopes?” Four years and nearly a billion dollars in the
making, the DUCC had become operational a couple of years earlier. Originally
envisioned in 1963, the command center was built to provide a facility for key decision
makers in times of crisis. It was constructed to survive any attack made on the
United States, while giving leaders access to the people and information they
needed to make critical decisions. As the president and his team needed to be
able to access the DUCC at a moment’s notice, it was built under the West Wing
of the White House. With over 100,000 square feet of space, it was built to
house a staff of over 300 people. It was still so new, though, that most of the
people who would inhabit it in an emergency hadn’t moved in yet, and the lack
of ‘personalization’ led to what the president thought was a very austere
working environment. Even the walls were blank and boring. It was, however, the
most secure facility on the planet, which made it the ideal place to hold this
meeting. Even the Psiclopes, he thought, wouldn’t be able to spy on them here.
    The president had asked all of the military service chiefs
to join him in the DUCC, as well as the Secretary of State and the heads of the
CIA, FBI, and Homeland Security. All of them had been read into ‘Olympos,’ a
new, special access clearance program that had been established for dealing
with the Psiclopes. If you weren’t in the program, you didn’t know about the
Psiclopes. Period.
    The meeting itself was a ‘ghost meeting,’ similar to the
meetings that were held in preparation for the mission to capture Osama Bin
Laden seven years previously. The meeting wasn’t on the attendees’ calendars.
No staff or aides were present, no agenda was written down, and no notes were
taken. In fact, the only paper in the room was a pile of folders in front of
the army’s chief of staff.
    The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Admiral James Wright,
spoke first. “The most difficult part of this is going to be finding a crew of
400 sailors to man their ship. You can’t just take that many people away and
not have it be noticed. The only thing worse than grabbing a crew of 400 from
one of our ships would be to try to take 400 people in small numbers from all
over the navy. People might not notice as quickly, but then it won’t be a
‘crew;’ no one will be used to working with anyone else and things won’t flow
as easily as if the group all came from the same unit. It would also make
trying to select who goes a nightmare. It’s far better to use a full ship’s
crew. We can’t have people trying to work things out in space ‘on the fly.’ 
    Most of the senior officers in the room nodded their heads,
with the exception of the air force’s chief of staff,