Funding. Money. Resources.
That’s what it always came down to. For almost two hundred years, John Bishop had fought as hard for the monetary means to keep his primary mission afloat as he did in staving off the looming threat of an alien invasion.
He silently cursed the hours spent in budgetary meetings, in secret finance committee meetings, in glad-handing politicians and kowtowing to whichever President sat in the oval office.
Bishop had lost count of how many tongue-lashings he had endured from people he considered his inferiors, merely because those men and women controlled the p