"United Planets kinda made decisiveness among humanity a moot point when there were plenty of other aliens out there to be wary of, I guess," Bart said. "I don't know, Maybe my mother's side of the family managed something the way Lex Luthor managed to become president. I only spent a few weeks there when I wasn't in the VR chamber."

Pushing a pawn to pin the knight, he opened a fresh line of attack for his white-square bishop, his king right in the path. "Check."