With the Secretary of Defense stepping down, President Jones needed a friendly face there. The answer was Sharon Alexander. She had served him well as Secretary of the Air Force. And, she would bring along her general, Frank Shannon. Frank would become Chief of the Joint Chiefs, now, with four stars.
Frank’s recovery from his coma had been because of Beek. Beek had been a visiting general from the planet Zuppo. His earthly name had been Adam Green. With no family here on earth, he changed his name to Shannon and became Frank’s brother. Beek was set to go back to Zuppo when it was determined that he had stage 4 cancer and would not survive the trip.
His replacement, Julius, came with his own agenda. Julius wanted to set up his own empire. He had set his sites on Western Sahara as his starting point. From there, he would have moved on across the northern part of Africa. The problem was that he needed the aircraft Adam had signed over to Frank for his use as a vigilante.