This was a welcome change from the 3 or 4 story formats that the majority of these HFY story have

Out maned and out gunned just the way we like it LOL

The council initially met to address "a new threat along the Andromedon border" (a border with another galaxy?). Whatever happened with that?

Repeats, repeats, repeats

Anyone know where he got the thumbnail

this story had so much repeated words and ideas every 3 minutes, it make me believe that either you did it to keep us listening to this story or you had not even done a proof read of the script. i would down vote this but i dont do that the first time i hear a story. but i will the next time.

This is a very poor AI story. It keeps skipping around and repeating it's self.