The New Alien Overlords

That was, of course, the way it happened, even though – at the time – there were those who pooh-poohed the whole idea. Many of them disbelieving something like that could happen nowadays without at least some activity on one or another of the now-ubiquitous social media.

However, a spokesbeing for the alien’s PR Company insisted that it was not so much an alien invasion, certainly not in the traditional sense, as more of an acquisition of a failing planet.

The alien’s PR company spokesbeing then went on to outline various schemes and ideas they’d come up with to get Earth, as they put it, ‘back on the road to civilisation’. Then going on to suggest that until humanity carried out significant improvements in the so-far woeful attempts at human civilisation then the Earth would continue its exclusion from the Galactic Federation. Thus forgoing all the benefits that entailed, up to and including some very tempting Special Offer vouchers redeemable in some of the finest HyperMegaMarkets in the known universe.

Of course, as soon as they realised the Earth was under possible threat from potential alien invaders, the Earth’s politicians leapt into action and demanded to know what was in it for them.

However, after a few of the less significant politicians (mostly MEPs as it turned out) were ‘accidentally’ caught in the beam of an alien disintegration ray, the remaining politicians suddenly became much less vocal. Especially so when the new alien overlords revealed the new Whole Earth Senate the aliens set up for the politicians on one of the smaller moons of Jupiter. The aliens also promised the politicians could take as many of their more nubile ‘research assistants’ with them to the new facility.

Then the alien overlords announced everyone on Earth could take the next week off work on full pay. Thus was their mastery of Earth and its inhabitants made complete.

 

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