This was a disaster of unprecedented magnitude for humanity, and there was absolutely no hiding it. After various nations initiated their contingency plans, the news still got out.
Such news instantly caused immense panic among humans, as there was an extraterrestrial civilization with unknown intentions approaching Earth!
Humans had made countless movies about aliens, and although in those movies humanity always emerged victorious in the end, the power and mystery of extraterrestrial civilizations had long cast a shadow in their minds.
At that time, the Americas officially announced that they had assembled a fleet of 200 warships. They would represent humankind in making contact with the civilization at that location!
To prove the strength of this fleet, during a live global broadcast, they maneuvered a spaceship into the asteroid belt and used the onboard beam cannon to instantly shatter an asteroid over five kilometers in diameter!
