mainframes have been destroyed.
Sub-system mainframes remain operational.
Secondary controllers remain operational.
SpiralGRID has been activated and is now live; it is fully on-line.
With the SpiralGRID active, covert operations are being allowed on an accelerating and growing scale. This is being closely monitored. It is suspected that Spiral contains several spies who have leaked critical data, thus allowing such an incredible and devastating attack.
[Note: SpiralGRID is PlanZ. The last line in defence. The final safeguard that nobody ever dreamed would have to be used: a vast network of underground tunnels controlled by the sub-system mainframes; this is what keeps Spiral operational. This is Spiral’s hiding place. This is Spiral’s last resort and its final hope. Let us pray it does not become its tomb.]
Durell and the Nex are aware of the GRID’S existence. They seek to wipe out Spiral once and for all.
We must hope the enemy never discovers its secrets. That is why the rooting out of traitors is KEY PRIORITY.
The current media propaganda for HATE is intensifying; Durell’s empire is seeking to rewrite history, offering the people of the world a fictionalised past. Durell proposes—via FactAds—that HATE was a US-military-created biological weapon—unleashed in the wake of the nuclear dominance, which he claims were nothing more than acts of gross incompetence by world governments.
It has been rumoured than an ‘antidote’, an anti-HATE agent known provisionally as EDEN is being designed alongside HATE and could be used to free humanity from their current thrall. This is an unsubstantiated rumour, but nevertheless contains a high probability factor—when analysing the manner in which Durell first nuked cities, and then used Half-life Accelerators to reduce radiation levels in order to achieve his desired longterm effects.
Priority codes:
8732 6786509863 487 64873 648
8976358796438976897643 534
879689634897 6543789658734
8907098769876532232343223
a] GRID protection
b] Spy termination
c] EDEN confirmation More to follow»
[FIVE YEARS PASS]
ADVERTISING FEATURE
The TV-ProjU sparkled into life with a digital buzz of humming phosphorescence. Images spun and leapt, dissolving and then reanimating into the mercury logo of HIVE Media Productions ...
Scene slowly pans [ground-level shot]: a wide-shot pan of crumbling, devastated cities, buildings half-collapsed and swaying eerily in a bleak holocaust wind; the roads lie cratered, strewn with blocks of concrete and twisted, rusting steel wires.
Scene morphs: into the city perimeter, where huge coils of raze-wire protect a wilderness of green, lush, verdant grasslands beyond. Trees stand swaying in the breeze and grass rolls down to salmon-rich streams. Guards stand to attention, monitoring the checkpoints, the black-masked Nex and gas-mask-protected JT8s inscrutable behind their individualised protection—and nodding knowingly. These are the Guardians of HATE—and the final barrier between a habitable urban landscape and the biological wilderness of No Man’s Land beyond ...
[sombre deep male voice]
— Do you remember a time when you could walk hand in hand with your children through the long grass, the swaying shrubs, the sighing trees?
— Do you remember a time when you could breathe the purity of nature?
—But then came the incompetent military devastation of HATE — a biological weapon spawned from the loins of an incompetent military bureaucracy, ejaculated from the army science labs like alien semen to poison billions of square miles of organic landscape— Trapping YOU— in towns and cities—unable to commute, unable to enjoy the God-given countryside, unable to sample your FREEDOM.
Scene slowly dissolves [into]: a sterile laboratory environment filled with serious-looking men and Nex scientists, working together like brothers, wiggling test tubes, poring over charts, nodding in grim satisfaction at yet another wonderful and