The briefing room's lights winked out, and as the walls faded away, we found ourselves in high orbit of Deneb Kaitos. Through holographic technology, the room had been replaced by a sweeping star pattern that enveloped the room in a 360-degree projection. Below the table - the only object remaining visible from the room's true environment, the blue-green world rolled past, illuminated by a baseball-sized representation of the system&

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"Major, the attack on our system was - unexpected - to say the least. We didn't exactly anticipate the sudden appearence of a WMD in lunar orbit."

Major Maxwell nodded.