Mankind is caught between extraterrestrial nations locked in a cold war; the first being the Telshean Union and the other is the Republic Combine. Since the nineteen forties Combine treaties have been given allowing mankind to reverse engineer technology with human contractors. Shadow governments have operated since the beginning and are allowed to fight over technology acquisition in the race to produce the first advanced tech patent. The nation to produce that patent will lead the formation of Earth's first representative government to bring mankind into the expanding universe. Our emerging hero's in the contractor guild are caught in the torrent of changes as Daniel Young; Earth's first contractor fulfills the American treaty. The shadow governments end the secret operations while the Republic Combine and surprisingly Telshean Union come to Earth. Political dialog takes place after the cold war heats up and Daniel secures the Combine's support to defend Earth from the Telshean Symbiote hybridizing protocol. Using advanced technologies Daniel crushes the defenses of a Combine world lost in the cold war that had undergone the Symbiote protocol. In starting the reversion of hybridized Symbiote aliens with Combine forces he returns to see the war surrounds Earth. Earth's emerging Terran Council is born as Union and Combine forces are destroying each other in the system. Althea Jefferson, an African American is tasked with the defense of Earth as its first Chancellor. Althea must keep the Terran council alive with a Telshean prophet and politician to end the protocol war.