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Absolutely not.

And the odds of that happening are there.

The psychologist who is the consultant has clearly suggested several possibilities that would prompt that decision maker to take a desperate risk, and several of them do sound very much like what that Patrick would do.

All the Earth's joint orbital observatory could do was give him, and the other Earth leaders, a few seconds of reaction time to press the button used as a counter-attack before the ray passed through space and atmosphere at the speed of light and hit the ground. That was not even enough time to perform the standard secondary confirmation and identity verification to either press that button or die.

The ground for the counterattack had already been prepared, from Florida to the Great Plains, to the Rockies, the Northern Territory and the tundra of Alaska, the vast Siberia through the Bering Strait, Mongolia, the Tibetan Plateau, the Great Plains of Central Europe, and the countless nuclear silos that had originally pointed at each other to make sure they were going to destroy each other had set their targets in the same direction beyond Earth, and the long-lost nuclear warheads were once again Merged with their carriers to ensure that no matter what angle the Earth rotated to, there were always a sufficient number of nuclear warheads pointed there, and the huge multi-stage propulsion design along the lines of ICBMs ensured that nuclear warheads traveling in a drag-free universe could be accelerated to the point where they would be difficult to intercept.

Parallel to that, there were new, deeper silos loaded with a more advanced, and more reliable, means of striking, the electromagnetic railgun aimed at the sky. The three powers coincidentally began secretly building these huge anti-satellite weapon emplacements just after the initial airborne strikes they suffered early in the war. Their initial purpose was to destroy satellites in orbit with metal projectiles, and modifying the target to a constellation of satellites at L5 didn't take much trouble; a student of Newtonian mechanics and relativity would suffice for such simple ballistic calculations, after all, both the friction of the atmosphere and the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Moon could be applied to the results in ready-made formulas, while at the same time, at a length longer than the electromagnetic cannon used for tanks Dozens of times the acceleration orbit and at higher voltages, the tungsten alloy projectile was also enough to bring a massive amount of kinetic energy to knock through the outer wall of the hourglass satellite and then destroy everything in its path, neither PS armor nor phantom particles nor the immature ion shield field could stop such a brutal kinetic strike of sheer stacked mass and velocity reach.

And then they, the heads of the three mega-states, or rather the heads of the non-existent entity known as Earth United, had just a few hours earlier assigned targets to ensure that every second Earth had a sufficient number of launchers with the range of fire on the PLANT satellite swarm, and then they also discussed how to assign those limited numbers of nuclear warheads and EMP shells, whether or not there would be enough to hit each satellite, whether or not there would be when that door When the ray gun showed up leave it with backup ammunition, whether it would ensure destruction.

He was well aware that there were a lot of people on those satellites, and he knew that as a decision maker he had to be clear about that, and he touched the cross on the table

---May God bless us.

---May God forgive us.

======Good-End-The Worst Didn't Happen ============

"It's not peace, it's a 20-year truce - at the end of World War I, Marshal Foch of France made his prediction that way, and his prediction did come true."

"Essentially, that old saying has considerable relevance in the present situation as well," said Roy . Gale gestured to the projection on the wall in the discussion room of the Intelligence Convergence, "that Siegel . The peace agreement that Klein presided over, with concessions, had similar limits to what could be done."

"He knew full well that when the then PLANT pseudo-government had to impose forced marriage laws, their independence movement and insurgency had failed, and that a regime that couldn't sustain its population couldn't continue. And after that, the Adjuster Independents, whose population would only decrease, not increase, would cease to be a threat."

"While the war really ended in the control room of that gamma ray gun, we don't yet know what happened, except that it was Patrick ... who was carried out. Sara's bullet-riddled body, he may have committed suicide or been stabbed, but that's politically that doesn't matter, what his death offers is a solution to that war."

"And that's what peace is now."

"We're all well aware that the Adjuster community is shrinking due to its own declining fertility, not by Aslan. Sara and Lax. Klein represents what the new PLANT's Adjuster leadership team can stop."

"The percentage of naturals in the open-door PLANT satellite cluster is already growing, and it is predicted that they will occupy more and more key positions of concern to the entire satellite cluster over time. For the foreseeable future, the strategic deterrent weapons being repaired in the PLANT satellite constellation will no longer have anything to do with the conflict between the adjusters and the naturals. Parallel to this will be the redevelopment of L3 and other Lagrange points, which will have five to ten times the present population of the universe's inhabitants within the foreseeable time."

"And on Earth, as we have seen, the conflict between nations continues, and they do not realize that the entire universe population will become a new unified entity."

"While the Atlantic Federation and the Eurasian Union still give us the task of searching for the threat from the Adjuster racist terrorists, we are all well aware that it is but the last vestige of light. What they need to rise again is a breakthrough in genetic technology, which will be an invisible taboo for the foreseeable future."

"One thing we can note from the last war is that a mixture of Adjusters and Naturals waste merchants are collectively active in the Terran Circle and less affected by the war. In the next great cosmic development, it will be difficult to contain the growth of such an organization, and Earth, will be faced with a new threat and challenge, that which may arise in the future, a community of cosmic inhabitants."

There was a routine applause from the listeners, for whom this was just part of a series of presentations on the future possibilities of the intelligence community.

In the corner of the discussion room, the man with the Cosmic Army MS unit logo sighed long and hard, looking over his shoulder at the rows of young men, a large portion of whom might be able to see the next war for themselves.

BE. ashes to ashes, dirt to dirt.

It is a possibility, a possibility that we cannot avoid, but that is real.

=====BadEnd:Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

Cheyenne Mountain, NORAD, Underground Bunker

500 meters of granite overhead with 30 mm slabs of alloy steel doesn't make Fred. Young feel the slightest bit safer. The giant base that had been enough to defend against a nuclear strike had become increasingly vulnerable with the changing times. He wasn't going to calculate whether the defenses here could withstand the gamma rays from the L4 satellite cluster, through the atmosphere, and then shining on the hill above him, because whether it turned out to be yes or no didn't make much difference. The 1,500 people here who survive or don't survive is a fraction of the number of people across the North American continent who don't have access to nuclear warfare shelters.

The main United Cosmic Force is fighting on the front lines of L5, a lot of people are dying and a lot of ships are being destroyed, but that's nothing compared to the greater threat.

He could only stay seated in front of his battle station, facing the screen he was in charge of, and then wait for the last boot to drop.

The first red light came on, and that was the first moment

From the Space Warning Observatory in high orbit, behind flashes of battle fire and heat sources, their high-powered optical telescope confirmed a huge object out of cloaking in the L4 space domain.

Some communications were relayed to Washington, and he saw the North American continent on the screen, with some green dots turning yellow.

That was the counterattack position correcting its trajectory, adjusting its target from one of PLANT's satellites to that newly emerging giant object.

The red light continued to flash and the alarm sounded

The president of Washington, D.C., had raised the readiness level to maximum alert - a level of readiness that meant nothing to most units in a country already at war, except for the strategic weapons that had yet to be used in this war.

This meant that the gun representing the ultimate weapon was loaded and pointed at the target, and the finger began to apply pressure to the trigger.

He could see on the screen that the cosmic fleet showing the posture of the encircling PLANT satellite cluster was evacuating its formation.

A new message from the Space Early Warning Observatory, the massive object was correcting the gun's position.

Urgent reports were sent from the Intelligence Convergence agents on the moon's surface, the Krahnites of PLANT and the 'Terminal' group were warning of bad news on all channels, their last, attempt to change the situation had failed.

More information was soon revealed that Sigel . Klein was confirmed to have voluntarily appeared on the streets of April to try to persuade his old friend, and then was unidentified

Shoot to kill.

---Now was obviously not the time to research who that was, either.

Some new green dots appeared on the screen, he wasn't high enough up to know about those, but he could guess that one of those was the Vice President's command plane taking off, and while the President himself remained in the shelter to continue his command, it would fly towards the other side of the planet to make sure that at least one of them wasn't on the side of the planet that was hit by the radiation - if the plane didn't get hit by the radiation The word. The rest probably had some women and children from government departments and the masses in retreat, and perhaps panicked private jet owners or corporate business jets.

Air traffic control was quickly becoming overloaded, and most people were trying to escape, using any means they could think of.

Since it was no longer time to worry about causing a public panic, all television and radio stations were broadcasting emergency evacuation notices and nuclear war warnings on all channels.

If you don't count the people on the internet who are screaming that these are all government conspiracies.

One could imagine that the doorway to the shelter was probably already in chaos, and someone could probably be trampled to death, but that was really all the same, the difference between entering or not entering the shelter wouldn't make much difference, he knew that very well.

There would probably still be an accident with the owner of a private jet taking over the runway or the route, in fact, if you counted the time, you'd know that even the fastest jet business jets wouldn't be enough to get to the other side of the planet in a short time. Many of the attempts didn't make sense.

He didn't know how long it took.

It's probably just a short moment, or maybe not.

The first high-energy warning signal was sent to Earth, boots on the ground.

Then came the second high-energy warning.

The screen at the monitoring station closest to PLANT went off.

Next, the time remaining for life on the entire side of the planet facing the PLANT would be counted in seconds.

He was suddenly a little glad that the button for that final counterattack wasn't in his hand, and he didn't want to know at all if the President, also somewhere underground, had ultimately made that decision.

But that didn't really make much of a difference, the frontline fleet that had lost its home planet would be throwing its firepower at L5's satellite cluster with final orders and the deepest anger, at which point there would no longer be a distinction called civilian or non-combat target.

The Adjuster will become, in the true sense of the word, a monster in the sky.

--May God bless the rest of humanity.

Even though he was an atheist himself, at times like this, it was clear to him that all he could do was pray.