Insurrection
Inside the tunnels that were designed to protect the leaders from anything from biological warfare to nuclear attack, the President put down the phone. He’d just called the military leaders that...
Year after year, day by day, there had been unrest and riots and insurrections and wars. Now, everyone was either fearful or else angry. No one spoke their thoughts aloud. Disagreements became shouting which turned into violence. It didn’t matter that none of those things yielded solutions.
The most powerful government on Earth no longer felt safe from its citizens. The starship Exodus was built with extreme speed at exorbitant expense. The leaders knew their time in power was limited, and that their removal would be permanent, in every sense of the word.