He gestured towards the main holographic display. The screen, previously showing grim casualty reports and maps of devastation, shimmered and transformed. What appeared next silenced the entire chamber. It was a dazzling array of advanced technologies, rendered in stunning detail.
"For too long," Richard announced, his voice resonating with a newfound gravitas, "humanity has been confined to a single world, a single system. This is our greatest vulnerability. It is time to spread. It is time to colonize other systems. It is time to claim our place among the stars. These technologies you see before you are not gifts from some benevolent alien power, nor are they the result of some secret, hidden agenda. They are the fruit of human ingenuity, born from the very necessity imposed upon us by the Krill's long control over our planet and our potential."
