One: though fewer, we are (still) (too) many

Today would be a big one....
Bruce, the Secretary General of the United Nations of Earth, has spent centuries trying to protect, develop and unite humanity.
When a distinctly non-human arrival seems to offer a way to do this, once and for all, he will travel to the centre of the galaxy, die and be reborn (twice, actually) and sacrifice the career of a millennium to achieve it.
But what if the only path towards fulfilling his own destiny and that of his species lies in deceit?