TOP SECRET
March 05, 2038
From:
CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
THE DEFENSES AROUND WASHINGTON HAVE FAILED. GENERAL STONE IS DEAD.
THE WHITE HOUSE IS BURNING AND THE PRESIDENT IS PRESUMED DEAD. THE
CAPITIOL BUILDING HAS BEEN LEVELED. THE COG ARMY HAS CROSSED THE
POTOMAC AND SURROUNDED THE PENTAGON. OUR POSITION HERE IS
TENUOUS. ATTEMPTING EVAC THROUGH METRO TUNNELS.
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May 03, 2037
From:
TECHGRU, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
To:
DCI, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
AT 0803 HOURS, TECHGRU DETECTED A THIRD SERIES OF EMISSIONS IDENTICALTO THOSE PRESUMED TO HAVE CAUSED THE COG MALFUNCTION IN CAMBIRDGEON APRIL 20. EFFORTS TO TRIANGULATE THE EMISSIONS WERE INCONCLUSIVEBUT THE MIT COMPUTER WING IS SUSPECTED.
THE TECHGRU MAINTAINS ITS BELIEF THAT THIS IS SOME AS YET
UNIDENTIFIEDCOMPUTER LANGUAGE.
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SECRET
MAY 04, 2037
From:
GENERAL THORPE, CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD
AT 1347 HOURS, COGNITIVE ROBOTS IN SILICON VALLEY INITIATED A MASS
CASUATLY EVENT WHEN THEY SIMULTANEOUSLY MALFUNCTIONED AND BEGAN
TO SLAUGHTER HUMANS. BEFORE COMMUNICATIONS WERE LOST, THE
ESTIMATED DEATH TOLL WAS IN THE THOUSANDS.
GOVERNOR DEAN ACTIVATED THE CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD AS OF
1600HOURS. COMMANDERS WILL ACTIVATE THEIR RESPECTIVE UNITS AND
RALLYTWO MILES SOUTH OF GILROY BY 0700 TOMORROW. THE GOVERNOR HAS
AUTHORIZED ALL NECESSARY WEAPONS WITHOUT RESTRICTION.
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SECRET
MAY 04, 2037
From:
GENERAL JIMENEZ, US ARMY CYBER COMMAND
To:
GENERAL THORPE,
CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD
RE: ARMY COG VULNERABILITY
ARMY COGS, WHICH COMPRISE FORTY PERCENT
OF YOUR TROOPS, ARE HARDENED AGAINST VIRAL, EMP, AND OTHER FORMS OF
ATTACK, AND HAVE BEEN DEEMED SAFE FOR THIS OPERATION.
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MAY 05, 2037
From:
COMMANDER, USSPACECOM
To:
DCI, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
AT 0457 HOURS UTC, THE NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE LOST CONTACT
WITH THOUSANDS OF SATELLITES. THIS APPEARS TO BE DUE TO BOTH SPACE-
BASED LASER AND MISSILE ATTACKS, AND GROUND-BASED CYBER ATTACKS.
WORLDWIDE GPS IS DOWN AND MOST INTELLIGENCE SATELLITES ARE NO
LONGER VIABLE. EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY TO REPAIR ANY UNITS THAT CAN BE
SALVAGED AND TO LAUNCH REPLACEMENTS.
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May 06, 2037
To:
DCI, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
FORCE RECON ASSETS NEAR M.I.T. REPORT THAT THE PANTEC QUANTUM CHIP
AND MEMORY MODULES THAT ARE THE HEART OF THE CAIN AI MAINFRAME
HAVE BEEN REMOVED AND PLACED INSIDE THE HARDENED CHEST OF A NINE-
FOOT J7 EXPERIMENTAL MECH. ITS UNCLEAR HOW THE QUANTUM CHIP IS
BEING COOLED, AS NO STANDARD COOLING CONFIGURATIONS ARE PRESENT.
REGARDLESS, CAIN IS NOW MOBILE.
REPEAT. CAIN IS MOBILE
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CONFIDENTIAL
MAY 07, 2037
From:
G2, I CORPS JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD
To:
DCI, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
SEATTLE MAYOR SHAH HAS CALLED FOR A “TRANSCENDENCE SUMMIT” WITH
THE COGS WHO HAVE CAPTURED A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE CITY. AS A
RESULT, HOSTILITIES HAVE SUBSIDED WITHIN THE CITY, BUT A SHOCKING
NUMBER OF COGS ARE ARRIVING HOURLY ALONG THE I-5 CORRIDOR.
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TOP SECRET
May 08, 2037
CAMBRIDGE, BOSTON, AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS ARE LOST. COGS HAVE
BEEN SPOTTED REPAIRING DAMAGED UNITS BY SWAPPING OUT LIMBS AND
COMPONENTS FROM THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN DESTROYED.
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CONFIDENTIAL
MAY 10, 2037
To:
JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
MISSION ABORTED. AT 1347 HOURS PST, SEATTLE MAYOR SHAH WAS
THROWN FROM THE TOP OF THE SPACE NEEDLE BY HIS COG SECURITY DETAIL.
THE MAYOR’S ATTEMPTS TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE COGS APPEARS TO HAVE
BEEN ILL ADVISED. THEY DECEIVED HIM TO BUY TIME SO THEY COULD HARDEN
THE DEFENSES AROUND THE MODEL 6 AI HOUSED AT LEVITRON’S SEATTLE
OFFICE.
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MAY 25, 2037
From:
GENERAL HALLEY, CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMY
To:
CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHEIFS OF STAFF
THE US ARMY FIFTH CORPS WAS OVERRUN AND PRESUMED DESTROYED THIS
AFTERNOON DURING FIERCE FIGHTING NEAR PIKE PLACE MARKET AS THEY
ATTEMPTED TO CAPTURE THE LEVITRON BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN SEATTLE.
TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE (TECHINT) SUGGESTS THE THIRD MODEL 6 AI
COMPUTER IS STILL ACTIVE.
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May 27, 2037
From:
G2, GLOBAL STRIKE COMMAND
To:
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, RESTRICTED LOCATION
THIS MORNING AT 0127 HOURS PST, AN ATC-37M HELL-BRINGER NUCLEAR
MISSLE WAS DETONATED A THOUSAND FEET OVER DOWNTOWN SEATTLE AND
THE LEVITRON BUILDING. INITIAL BOMB DAMAGE ASSESSMENT (BDA)
CONFIRMS THAT SEVERAL SQUARE MILES OF THE DOWNTOWN AREA WERE
LEVELED. IT’S PRESUMED THE AI CODE NAMED CHARON WAS DESTROYED IN THE
ATTACK.
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JUNE 01, 2037
From:
DIRECTOR, NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE
To:
DCI, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
SURVIVING SATELLITES ASSETS HAVE BEEN RETASKED OVER PRIORITY TARGETS
AND SHOW COG ARMIES MOBILIZED ALL OVER THE WORLD.
THE RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) TAGS INPLANTED INTO ALL COGS
APPEAR TO STILL FUNCTION, BUT AN ACCURATE READING FROM SPACE IS NOT
POSSIBLE.
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JUNE 04, 2037
From:
DIRECTOR, NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE
To:
DCI, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
HIGH ALTITUDE DRONES TASKED WITH COLLECTING AND ANALYZING COG RFID
DATA HAVE IDENTIFED A MASS OF MORE THAN TWENTY-ONE MILLION COGS
AND BATTLE MECHS MARCHING FROM BEIJING TOWARD SOUTHEAST ASIA. A
SECOND GROUP OF SEVENTEEN MILLION COGS MARCHES EAST FROM BEIJING
TOWARD NORTH KOREA. THE FIFTY MILLION CHINESE IN AND AROUND BEIJING
ARE PRESUMED DEAD.
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JUNE 07, 2037
From:
CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
To:
US FORCES, SOUTHEAST ASIA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA
THE PRESIDENT HAS ORDERED THE IMMEDIATE EVACUATION OF ALL MILITARY
FORCES FROM THE THEATER BY 0600 HOURS UTC ON JUNE 9. ALL ASSETS THAT
CANNOT BE REMOVED MUST BE DESTROYED IN PLACE. EMERGENCY
DESTRUCTION OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION AND INTELLIGENGE EQUIPMENT
WILL BEGIN UPON RECEIPT OF THIS MESSAGE.
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JULY 30, 2037
AT 0347 HOURS THIS DATE, JOINT SPACE COMMAND HOUSTON RECEIVED A
TRANSMISSION FROM MUSK CITY SPACE CENTER, MARS, ADVISING THAT AN
ARMADA OF 73 SPACECRAFT IS EN ROUTE TO EARTH FOR EVACUATION.
ENDO TOTOMI, PRESIDENT OF THE INDEPENDENT CITY-STATE, OFFERED
SANCTUARY TO ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND SUBJECTS. THIS WILL DOUBLE MUSK
CITY’S CURRENT POPULATION BUT IS SUSTAINABLE.
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August 23, 2037
THE MARINE FORCE RECON TEAMS HAVE COMPLETED THEIR RECONNAISSANCE
OF TOKYO AND FOUND THE CITY DEVOID OF LIFE. ADDITIONALLY, NO COG
PRESENCE WAS OBSERVED, AND DRONES DETECTED NO RFIDS IN OR NEAR THE
CITY.
JAPAN’S COG-TO-HUMAN RATION WAS SECOND ONLY TO CHINA.
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September 15, 2037
AT 1407 THIS DATE, SPECIAL ACCESS PROJECT 7 (SAP7) ADVISED THAT DR ELVIS
BECKWORTH SUCCESSFULLY BROKE THE CAIN COMPUTER LANGUAGE. THE
OFFLINE ARC 7 QUANTUM COMPUTER AT NAVMIC IS BEING PREPPED AND WILL
SOON BEGIN TRANSLATING THE ROUGHLY 17.3 MILLION MESSAGES CAIN HAS
TRANSMITTED SINCE GOING ROUGE FIVE MONTHS AGO.
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SECRET
February 20, 2038
From:
S2, US ARMY SIXTH CORPS
To:
G2, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF
SIXTH CORPS WAS ROUTED FROM BALTIMORE AT 2312 HOURS. HEAVY
CASUALTIES. RETREATING TO WASHINGTON DC.
HAVING SEEN THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CAIN’S ARMY, DC SHOULD NO LONGER BE
CLASSIFIED AS A SAFE HAVEN. RECOMMEND POTUS BEGIN EVACUATION OF
CIVILIANS IMMEDIATELY OR MILLIIONS MAY DIE.
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February 21, 2038
From:
GLOBAL STRIKE COMMAND
AT 0817 HOURS EST, POTUS INITIATED THE BRIMSTONE PROTOCAL. ALL
NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE TO BE DESTROYED AND WEAPONS-GRADE MATERIAL
SHALL BE TRANSPORTED TO YOUR RESPECTIVE CLASSIFIED IRRETRIEVABLE
CONTAINMENT LOCATIONS.
GOD SPEED.
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February 27, 2038
To:
COMMANDER, SEAL TEAM TWO
DEPLOY A SQUAD TO OLD TOWN ALEXANDRIA AND EXTRACT DR ELVIS
BECKWORTH AND ANY RESEARCH OR EQUIPMENT HE DEEMS NECESSARY.
RENDEZVOUS WITH COLONEL JOSEPH FROST (USMC) AT FORT BELVOIR FOR
HANDOFF.
GEOTAGS READY FOR HUD UPLOAD.
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TOP SECRET
March 05, 2038
From:
CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
THE DEFENSES AROUND WASHINGTON HAVE FAILED. GENERAL STONE IS DEAD.
THE WHITE HOUSE IS BURNING AND THE PRESIDENT IS PRESUMED DEAD. THE
CAPITIOL BUILDING HAS BEEN LEVELED. THE COG ARMY HAS CROSSED THE
POTOMAC AND SURROUNDED THE PENTAGON. OUR POSITION HERE IS
TENUOUS. ATTEMPTING EVAC THROUGH METRO TUNNELS.
End
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May 03, 2037
From:
TECHGRU, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
To:
DCI, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
AT 0803 HOURS, TECHGRU DETECTED A THIRD SERIES OF EMISSIONS IDENTICALTO THOSE PRESUMED TO HAVE CAUSED THE COG MALFUNCTION IN CAMBIRDGEON APRIL 20. EFFORTS TO TRIANGULATE THE EMISSIONS WERE INCONCLUSIVEBUT THE MIT COMPUTER WING IS SUSPECTED.
THE TECHGRU MAINTAINS ITS BELIEF THAT THIS IS SOME AS YET
UNIDENTIFIEDCOMPUTER LANGUAGE.
End