Under the guidance of President Toqueville, as advised by a panel of psychohistorians and sociopsychologists, the Security Council elected to enact its most severe contingency: the invasion of Sol. This contingency was hotly debated but ultimately selected for several reasons:

It would bring Sol into the GTVA and secure its tremendous industrial base for the preservation and re-establishment of the colonies.

It would shatter Sol's obsolete militaries while largely preserving its manpower and industries to use in defense against the Shivans.

It would unseat the Ubuntu regime and return legitimate GTVA authority to the system. Many members of the Sol population had been alive during earlier GTA rule and would, it was judged, welcome the return of their original state. Moreover, probes suggested there were dissident elements in the Kuiper fringe who might be receptive to assistance.

It would create a hostile outgroup for the GTVA's Terran population to unify against.

There were hints of a major project underway in Sol space which might serve as a weapon against the GTVA.

The ethical implications of this plan were considerable, but the Security Council believed that the alternative was the disintegration of the GTVA, its replacement by a non-militaristic Ubuntu government, and the massive centralization of the human population in Sol, leaving the fringe worlds vulnerable to the inevitable third incursion.

Vasudan elements of the Security Council were never consulted, but it is believed Khonsu II became aware of the plan shortly before its execution.