crystallised wasteland, the charred half-corpses of an army lingering at its edges. And he saw that the Global Army, the mammoth united worldwide conglomeration of the soldiers and weapons of all nations formed to combat the Nex and Durell had been utterly—totally—destroyed.
Carter vomited onto the smooth stone floor as the building around him shook with thunder and below him millions of people died in the raging fireball.
There came a fizz.
The force field surrounding Carter disintegrated and Durell motioned to two Nex warriors carrying Austrian Steyr TMP 9mm sub-machine guns. They moved forward on well-balanced heels, clad in simple body-hugging grey uniforms, their faces pale and white, eyes copper and burning. They approached Carter. One reached down with a gloved hand and Carter’s face snapped up, lips covered with spittle and vomit. The long black knife in his fist slammed into the Nex’s eye. The dark steel thrust hard and deep into the brain beyond. Blood spattered against Carter, pumping out over his fist, and he had the Steyr TMP in his grasp even as the Nex began to fall, the sub-machine gun’s strap caught across its shoulder. Carter squeezed the trigger and a swarm of bullets ate into the second Nex, drilling a slick, bloody groove up its chest and caving in its throat. It flipped to the ground, fingers clawing at the metal in its flesh. It screamed long and shrill.
Carter rose to his feet, face covered in speckles of blood, eyes wide and wild and filled not just with anger and hatred but also with a terrible emptiness.
What good? What good now?
You are just too late my friend ....
Durell turned, mouth opening to show deformed teeth within the circular void of his black mouth. His tongue was like a tiny fish. And he was smiling in victory.
Carter wanted to speak.
But he did not. Could not.
There were simply no words.
Outside, the conflagration caused by the thermonuclear explosion continued to roar.
Carter closed his eyes, and pulled the trigger.
SIU Transcript
CLASSIFIED NK54/nuke277/SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
ECube transmission excerpt
Date: November 2XXX
On 5 November 2 XXX two hundred nuclear warheads with varying yields struck strategic military and civilian targets within the space of 35 minutes. Targets included heavily militarised cities such as London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, plus a variety of vast armies and stockpiles of military hardware.
The destruction was on a vast scale. The loss of human life runs into billions.
During the emergency, World Agencies were crippled. They were unable to do anything about these targeted strikes; all fail-safes failed, anti-nuke satellites swam blindly in near-space orbits, ground silos refused to operate: all were under the seemingly omniscient control of the QIV cubic processor. This fully sentient machine finally delivered its threatened promises.
Shortly after the staggered nuclear strikes, a further wave of long-range missile warheads was delivered; this time they did not contain bombs but advanced chemical agents named Half-life Accelerators. These chemicals were scattered over strike zones, and over the following months quickly reduced dangerous radiation levels to a moderate and effectively survivable level.
The self-proclaimed perpetrator of these nuclear attacks was the former Spiral agent named Durell.
World governments have been assimilated and are run with pro-Nex staffing; centres of control, trade and finance [CTF] have been shifted to the many Sentinel Corporation towers which adorn most major world cities. From these Sentinel towers Durell now rules his empire.
More to follow»
SIU Transcript
CLASSIFIED SG54/nuke976/SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
ECube transmission excerpt
Date: December 2XXX
SpiralGRID/GRID network update:
All major Spiral installations have been destroyed.
All Spiral HQs have been destroyed.
Personnel numbers have been reduced by 75% and Spiral are operating on a skeleton structure.
All Spiral core
Carter vomited onto the smooth stone floor as the building around him shook with thunder and below him millions of people died in the raging fireball.
There came a fizz.
The force field surrounding Carter disintegrated and Durell motioned to two Nex warriors carrying Austrian Steyr TMP 9mm sub-machine guns. They moved forward on well-balanced heels, clad in simple body-hugging grey uniforms, their faces pale and white, eyes copper and burning. They approached Carter. One reached down with a gloved hand and Carter’s face snapped up, lips covered with spittle and vomit. The long black knife in his fist slammed into the Nex’s eye. The dark steel thrust hard and deep into the brain beyond. Blood spattered against Carter, pumping out over his fist, and he had the Steyr TMP in his grasp even as the Nex began to fall, the sub-machine gun’s strap caught across its shoulder. Carter squeezed the trigger and a swarm of bullets ate into the second Nex, drilling a slick, bloody groove up its chest and caving in its throat. It flipped to the ground, fingers clawing at the metal in its flesh. It screamed long and shrill.
Carter rose to his feet, face covered in speckles of blood, eyes wide and wild and filled not just with anger and hatred but also with a terrible emptiness.
What good? What good now?
You are just too late my friend ....
Durell turned, mouth opening to show deformed teeth within the circular void of his black mouth. His tongue was like a tiny fish. And he was smiling in victory.
Carter wanted to speak.
But he did not. Could not.
There were simply no words.
Outside, the conflagration caused by the thermonuclear explosion continued to roar.
Carter closed his eyes, and pulled the trigger.
SIU Transcript
CLASSIFIED NK54/nuke277/SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
ECube transmission excerpt
Date: November 2XXX
On 5 November 2 XXX two hundred nuclear warheads with varying yields struck strategic military and civilian targets within the space of 35 minutes. Targets included heavily militarised cities such as London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, plus a variety of vast armies and stockpiles of military hardware.
The destruction was on a vast scale. The loss of human life runs into billions.
During the emergency, World Agencies were crippled. They were unable to do anything about these targeted strikes; all fail-safes failed, anti-nuke satellites swam blindly in near-space orbits, ground silos refused to operate: all were under the seemingly omniscient control of the QIV cubic processor. This fully sentient machine finally delivered its threatened promises.
Shortly after the staggered nuclear strikes, a further wave of long-range missile warheads was delivered; this time they did not contain bombs but advanced chemical agents named Half-life Accelerators. These chemicals were scattered over strike zones, and over the following months quickly reduced dangerous radiation levels to a moderate and effectively survivable level.
The self-proclaimed perpetrator of these nuclear attacks was the former Spiral agent named Durell.
World governments have been assimilated and are run with pro-Nex staffing; centres of control, trade and finance [CTF] have been shifted to the many Sentinel Corporation towers which adorn most major world cities. From these Sentinel towers Durell now rules his empire.
More to follow»
SIU Transcript
CLASSIFIED SG54/nuke976/SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
ECube transmission excerpt
Date: December 2XXX
SpiralGRID/GRID network update:
All major Spiral installations have been destroyed.
All Spiral HQs have been destroyed.
Personnel numbers have been reduced by 75% and Spiral are operating on a skeleton structure.
All Spiral core
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