The Science Council

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The Baxter Building appears to have become the seat of the World Government - the top several floors are reserved as living quarters, laboratories, and meeting space for the Science Council that governs, with the affirmed consent of the people.

SHIELD fliers bring the Exiles to the top of the building in the light of day - the city of New York shining and clean below. President Reed Richards waits on the roof to greet them, dressed in plain business attire, along with a labcoat.

"Ben! Peter! So glad you could make it. I'm very eager to meet our guests - this is the first time we've had a whole group of transdimensional visitors."

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[wwii-hero.livejournal.com]

"Mr. Richards," Patriot offers, extending his hand. "We've all been recruited from our own dimensions to help out in other worlds. We're here to help save your Earth."

[doc-richards.livejournal.com]

The grand council chamber is a massive room - decorated with all manner of constantly updated screens, centered around a large meeting table - the various chairs arrayed around it each have a computer screen placed in front of them, on the table, so council members can have constant access to instantly updated information.

"Welcome to the Council Chamber. I think I can allow my colleagues to introduce themselves - this isn't our complete roster, but we do have a quorum."

[rogue-starsr.livejournal.com]

Sarah, meanwhile, is hoping that for once, Spider's instincts are wrong, and this is still salvageable. She has a lot of faith in these people, after all. Particularly after growing up hearing about Ree'd brilliance, and his early success against Galactus. And, of course, she really hopes that she can still justify Ben Grimm's faith.

"Thank you for agreeing to meet with us. I wish it was under better circumstances. I don't know if you've been briefed, so I'll give a quick recap... our little group has been tasked with attempting to save various worlds from a variety of different threats. We're sent to realities with limited information, and sometimes varying amounts of time... in this case, we've been informed that Galactus is coming to your planet. "

She frowns, looking over those assembled. "We've been told your sensors have detected his ship, the Taa, approaching this world, which means there's very, very little time. I cannot overstate how dangerous Galactus is. He will arrive, assemble a machine which will break Earth down into raw energy, and then he will consume that energy to sustain himself. I've seen the remains of his machine on my homeworld. He is a cosmic entity of almost incalculable power... but he has been beaten in different realities, including three times in my own. The first time by our Reed Richards, with the help of three others... Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm... in my native reality, the super powered Fantastic Four. It can be done, and more importantly, must be done... he will not negotiate, he will not even acknowledge your presence unless you threaten his machine... in which case he will atomize whoever does so and go back to its assembly. We're here to help in any way we can, but you have to mobilize whatever you can to prepare to resist him."