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How much longer, boys?

Things are smooth as butter, sir.

Radiation levels are in the green.

I say another ten minutes.

I'm dead.

Let's see, we check hydroponics after this.

A little stroll in the moonlight?

How romantic.

That late already?

Where does the time go?

Apparently out of your mind.

Hey!

Careful with that.

Sorry, sir.

I'm all right. Not worried about you, Edwards, but if you crack a seal on one

those triradium canisters, we'll all glow in the dark till the end of the

century. Think of the paperwork that'll cause me.

That's just plain inconsiderate.

Yes, sir.

Sorry, sir.

Remaining a teaspoon of that stuff can power a ship from here to the Earth and

back.

Or a vaporizer ship, if you make one little mistake.

A lot of things are dangerous and expensive.

Just have to know how to handle them.

I'm not going there.

No, you're not.

Major Bone, report to the command room immediately.

Yes, ma 'am. On my way.

So we didn't resolve that hydroponics issue.

We didn't? I thought we did.

No, we didn't.

Ah, strange how we have different interpretation of things.

Yeah, you'd almost think we were married.

I thought we were just getting warmed up.

Warmed up?

Dangerous. That's how you get burnt.

That sounds like you're speaking from experience.

Oh, yeah.

It's happened to me once or twice.

Oh, yeah?

Once by a tall, muscular, charming, dark -haired, slightly

roguish...

Only slightly funny.

Ow. Navy colonel in Shanghai.

Oh.

So is that a yes or a no?

It means only

the rain will know when the flower will bloom.

Ah. Well, I'm glad we're clear now.

Hey.

Colonel? Major?

We've got an urgent incoming from Commander -in -Chief for Allied Space

Yeah, he probably wants to borrow your place on Maui again.

After what his kids did to it, I don't think so. My husband would kill me.

Besides, I promised my niece here and her friends could have it as a

present for a week. Oh, that'll be good. That'll work out just fine.

Major Taylor, please return your orders. According to the guidelines agreed to

for liaison exchange, your liaison officer is privy to all incoming

our coalition base, and I am entitled to the same.

Very well.

Going out of line of sight in five minutes, 53 seconds. Next window, 12

18 minutes.

Colonel Elliott, the major developments have occurred on the international

scene. Twenty minutes ago, these talks between the Free Alliance and the

Coalition of Middle Eastern and Pacific States... They accused us of developing

a doomsday device, a triradium -based antimatter weapon, at which point the

Secretary accused the NPS of the same thing.

It ended in a shouting match.

Sam, every gram of triradium that has left Mars has been accounted for down

here. If the Coalition is working on a doomsday weapon, somebody's smuggling

triradium to them. And since the only place triradium exists is on Mars, we

you to find out if anybody ships them down here without authorization.

What happened? We're not in shadow for another five minutes. Get him back on

three.

Colonel, I'm getting serious electromagnetic wash. I've never seen

it.

Visual, anything.

Switching to main telescope array.

There is nothing wrong with your television.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling the transmission.

We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a

channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond.

We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive.

For the next hour, We will control all that you see and hear.

You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest

inner mind to the outer limits.

How far will mankind have to go before we realize that the only antidote to

-annihilation is trust?

Get me Captain Rosen on the lines. See what our liaison officers have to say.

Ma 'am, either the Trump base is not responding or there's too much radiation

interference at the moment to reach the other Mars base.

Keep trying. Okay, let's get to it. Three minutes ago, we lost all contact

Earth. As hard as it may be to do, we have to accept the fact Earth may be

destroyed and we're the last survivors. Maybe something else happened.

Maybe the reactor on one of the space stations blew.

That could cause a radiation cloud long enough to block out our view of the

Earth for a few hours.

Maybe, but either way, we won't know for sure until we can reestablish line -of

-sight communication.

That'll be another 12 hours and 15 minutes.

Sergeant Nichols, what's our status on the cloud? We have a year's worth of

and oxygen in storage.

As long as hydroponics and the converters keep working, we'll have

last us indefinitely.

So, worst -case scenario, the Coalition did launch a preemptive strike against

Earth using a triradium -dune theta -byte.

Which means nobody from Earth is going to be recopying us for a long, long

600 miles southwest of us is the Coalition base.

If the Coalition was smuggling triradium, it could mean that they're

launch an attack against us here as well. Excuse me, ma 'am, but wouldn't

coordinate that with their attack on Earth?

Maybe they needed to wait for an advantage.

Maybe they were waiting for the electromagnetic wash to play hell with

radar, which it has.

So if they have missiles, they can launch them right now.

And we'd never know. We don't have any indication they were smuggling or if

have any missiles.

Well, that's what we need to find out.

Where there is smoke, you can bet there is fire.

And up here, with these pressure walls, a first strike is a last strike.

So at the first sign of any hostile preparations by the coalition, I intend

make their future very short.

Any questions?

Ma 'am, none of the men have families on Earth.

So do I.

As soon as we can reestablish contact.

We'll do everything we can to find out and get in touch.

I know how important this is to all of us, believe me. How the hell can they

it out of here?

But what if the coalition didn't start this, ma 'am?

Triradium is too important. Don't start a war without warning your units first

to be prepared, especially your most valuable units.

And since we received no such warning, I conclude we did not start it.

Besides, it fits with the coalition pattern. Thirty years ago, they staged a

surprise attack against the moon base, and they did the same thing in Sagan 5.

Major?

Yes, ma 'am, I agree.

Therefore, in the absence of any communication to the contrary, my

orders are clear.

We are to initiate no hostilities, but we are to defend and maintain this base

at all costs.

Not just because of the triradium, but because we may be the last survivors of

the free alliance and the last chance mankind has to repopulate Earth.

Incoming call from the commander of the champ base, ma 'am.

Colonel Paz will be on in three seconds.

Colonel Elliot, have you had any contact with Earth?

No, Colonel, I have not. Have you?

No, I haven't. I'd like to speak to Captain Rosen, my liaison officer. Where

he? He's out on a mining inspection survey. He should be back in an hour. So

he's unable to verify the fact that you've had no communication.

They run those surveys every Tuesday. He should be out there.

What can we do for you, Colonel?

There is no question that a horrible disaster has occurred.

But neither one of us has received instructions that we are at war, so I

we are still at peace.

Until one of us can lay definite blame, I suggest we continue our policy of

cooperation.

I agree.

But it's possible someone did blow up Earth with triradium smuggled from Mars.

The same thought has occurred to us.

I suggest we search the spaceport and see if anyone is trying to smuggle out

triradium. And if we find any...

Then together we will find out who is behind it.

I have already prepared a team.

Two teams.

We'll both send a team, and I want my liaison officer to go with yours.

And our liaison officer, Major Taylor.

Where is she?

She's retired to her quarters.

I'd like to speak to her, and I'd like her to accompany your team on their

inspection. Agreed?

Agreed.

We can have a team up and running in 15 minutes.

I had to turn a path through to Major Taylor when he finished.

Better pray that things are not as bad as they seem.

Absolutely.

Edwards, I need you to run an immediate inventory on all the trirating we have

stored here on the base, and I mean down to the last milligram.

Sure.

We had any contact with the Earth yet? Not yet, but they're on it. We just have

to wait. How bad?

No one's sure.

Gotta know something. Look, all I know is that we can't get through to Earth,

all right? If I knew anything else, I would tell you.

Sarge, you've got family out there, right? Yeah. I've got three sisters and

cat that needs to be declawed.

Sister.

Well, are we going to war?

No one is talking war yet, all right? But the colonel is definitely lock

and ready to scream.

But they did it, right? We're sending a team to find out.

If they did do it?

Then we'll all just do what the colonel tells us to do.

Sarge, what do you think is going to happen?

If the coalition did do this, then some eggs are going to get broken.

I need that inventory ASAP.

Right away, sir.

Keep me informed.

Yes, sir, I will.

Enter.

How are you holding up?

I can't believe this.

I mean, millions of people have just died, and I feel like I should be crying

something, but I'm not.

That's because we're soldiers.

A human second?

No, no, we have the same emotions as everyone else.

We've just been trained not to show them.

Yeah, if we don't show them long enough, we'll lose them.

I think if anything, our emotions are stronger.

Because we know the value of life better than anyone.

Because we live on the edge of losing it at every moment.

Yes,

sir.

Yes,

sir. Good.

All right.

Settle up.

Major. Good. We need to talk.

Ma 'am?

Did you have a nice chat with Major Taylor?

She asked me what the current situation is. I told her.

She seemed upset.

Upset?

Look, we're all upset.

I don't know if my husband's alive, or my parents, or my husband's parents, or

any of a thousand other people I know. We're all in that boat, Major.

But right now, we don't have time for individual counseling.

Half those kids out there are so worried. They can barely do their jobs

properly. But they do, you know why? Because they're watching us.

And if we can do it, so can they.

We lead by example, but we don't have time for individuals.

Particularly if they're from the Coalition. I was just bringing her up to

Nothing more.

Don't get your back up.

I'm not sleeping with her.

She's the enemy, James.

We can't afford to trust anybody from the Coalition, no matter what our guts

tell us.

Remember, she's had enough free access to the space through us thoroughly.

I don't see it that way.

All right.

Maybe you're right. Maybe they don't have any plans.

The thing is, we don't know what they have. They're like good boy scouts.

We've got to be prepared.

Yes, ma 'am.

Remember, James, she's a soldier.

If the situation were reversed and I gave you an order to do something at

coalition base, you'd do it, wouldn't you?

Yes, ma 'am.

Ma 'am, you'd better come look at this.

It's a simulation.

We ran it three times, three different systems.

The results are always the same.

Results to what?

According to this.

If a large part of the Earth did explode, we're going to get waxed one

of a stock wave in seven minutes, 43 seconds.

It's a four -second margin of error.

That's a give or take.

What if a large part didn't get blown up?

Well, then the far side of Mars will absorb the impact and we won't feel

anything.

Get everybody down to the mess room now.

Here are your contacts, Major Taylor and Captain Rosen on the Coalition's team.

I don't think they're going to make it to the spaceport. Tell them to seek

whatever shelter they can.

Yes, ma 'am. And get word to the Coalition base. We don't want our

caught off guard.

You got everybody?

Yeah, that's a full count, ma 'am. Not a minute too soon.

Can you lock all the doors?

You okay, Charlie?

Sure, sir.

Yours can't be destroyed, can it?

I was just talking to my brother yesterday.

It's all just precaution. Precaution, right?

Precaution. Get under the table.

What's the repair bill?

Main systems are still online using the backups.

All our antennas are down for jury rigging replacements.

Lost contact with the coalition base and Major Taylor's away team.

We're on all stations, ma 'am.

This is Colonel Elliott.

How do I say this?

It seems the Earth has been either partially or completely destroyed.

Words are inadequate.

At this time, we face two enemies.

First, our own grief.

and suffering, and second, fear of the unknown.

We still don't know exactly how bad things are, but we're going to keep

to find out until we do know.

Until then, I expect and I know that every one of you will continue to do

duty.

Now more than ever, our future depends on each other.

We must count on each other as never before to see us through this, and we

get through this.

Elliot Al.

I think I've got it, sir.

Great. Put it up on screen.

This is the last recorded signal from Major Taylor's food camp.

It should give us an idea where they are.

Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Come on! We've got to do this!

Let's go! Let's go!

Looks like they made it to one of the fuel storage bunkers. They could have

survived. I'll get a rescue team organized.

Terry, you play back the first part of that transmission to me.

All right, fire up Hopper 2, and I want a three -man medical team standing by

and suited up in airlock A.

Yes, sir.

Stop. Punch it on that.

They found a Coalition fuel canister.

Damn it!

There shouldn't have been any canisters within miles of that place.

The Coalition was smuggling tri -radium.

Son of a bitch!

Give me Sergeant Lawton. No response, ma 'am. Try the rest of the team.

No one's answering.

We don't want to jump to conclusions, ma 'am. Then you tell me why no one's

responding. Because they could be unconscious or dead.

They all made it to the bunker. Someone should have survived.

We don't know that, ma 'am. It's a coalition canister. Talos could have

their suit cam and eliminated the team. That's still just speculation, ma 'am.

You're right, it is.

But we can't afford to be wrong about this.

Colonel, Major Talos just showed up in airlock D.

What about the rest of the team?

Just Talos, ma 'am. Nobody else.

Let's go.

What happened at the bunker?

We got caught in a shockwave.

We thought we were safe, and then it just collapsed.

I was still in airlock.

It was the only place that wasn't completely destroyed.

It smashed my comm link, and everybody else was crushed.

I did breathe.

It was horrible.

Where did Lawton find the canister?

Corporal Edwards can find Major Taylor to her quarters. Yes, ma 'am. You don't

believe me. Three of my men are dead and you're alive.

Harrier, any word from Coalition Bay? No, ma 'am. Keep trying.

If Taylor told them about the canister, I don't think they'll be responding.

Maybe their antennas are down.

Sergeant Nickel to Thumblet team. Check out Major Taylor's story.

Yes, ma 'am. Wait a minute, Colonel. We still need to talk to Paz. I know. We're

working on it.

Edward. Hey, what's going on?

We're going to check out Major Taylor's story.

What are they waiting for?

She could be telling the truth, you know.

Yeah, why didn't I think that?

So what do you want to do, Edward? Do you want to go kick ass on the only

people in the universe that could be alive?

Yeah, before they kick ours. It doesn't make sense.

Right? They have families on Earth, too.

Why would they blow it up? They'd just be killing themselves.

Because they're stupid.

They're in just as much trouble as we are. Yeah, except they started it. We

don't know that. If you want to do that, Sergeant, kiss butt until they blow

ours out of the landscape. Go to hell.

No, you go to hell. What did you say to me, Corporal?

The Coalition just killed my brother.

They've got to pay.

Look, Charlie, we're all a little scared, but killing them won't change

Yes, it will. They'll be dead and we'll be alive.

Elliot's sending a team to check on your story.

Good.

Lawton was carrying a coalition canister. I need to know why.

No one was smuggling triradium, right?

I'm sure of it.

You ever get tired of this cat and mouse game we play?

I don't mean just us. Our federations?

You know I do.

You know, when I woke up this morning, I wasn't thinking, how can I get the edge

on those coalition bastards?

I was thinking maybe I'd ask her out to dinner tonight.

That's what's important in life.

You know, if we'd been on Earth, I'd have taken you to Captain Frankie's

Chalet.

It's on the PCH north of L .A. You ever been there?

No, never been to L .A.

Some people would say that's a good thing.

It's all junk.

Anyway, once we were there, we'd have gone strictly high cholesterol.

Fried potatoes, spicy rice, some serious coleslaw, and my personal favorite,

black catfish.

All washed down with some really nice cold beer.

Cold beer.

That'd be nice.

And that's your idea of a first date?

Yeah, that'd be great.

If it's still there.

But you'd have to trust me.

Which is my whole point.

You have to trust first and then find out.

Daryl, what about Colonel Paz? Is he going to play this by the book?

There is no book.

It's fear that's running the show now.

Do you have any missiles?

Missiles? Missile systems are strictly prohibited under the Joint Colonization

Bible. What's your first strike policy?

Do you mean to tell me the alliance violated the bylaws?

What's your first strike policy?

We don't have one. All military operations have first strike policies.

have one. First strike policy. We don't have missiles.

Remember?

Just like you.

But if we did, I'd say our policy is to launch a warning of any hostile

activity.

Just like you.

Come on. What happened?

Something exploded in the left hole. Doctor, the solid peeled off. We're

to have to go outside and inspect the damage.

Go to DEFCON 1.

Switching missiles to standby mode.

Major? Colonel!

It may not have been an attack.

The oxygen conduit blew from the inside. You can tell by the way the metal's

curling outward.

Or a commando unit from just over that hill could have planted some explosives.

The shockwave could have damaged the pipe and made a pinch.

And what, the tear was caused by a pressure buildup? Doesn't fit. And if it

wasn't a commando unit, then somebody sabotaged us from the inside. It's pure

oxygen pouring through that pipe. It wouldn't take much to ignite it,

at that pressure.

How'd that thing hack down?

Go to DEFCON 2. Terminate missile pre -launch sequence.

Downgrade missiles from standby to inactive.

Want to know my theory?

All Talos had to do was roll a thermal charge on a timer down an access valve.

Bomb goes off, quick change in pressure expels it outside.

How am I sounding so far?

To be honest, paranoid.

Colonel, Sergeant Nichols' team has just returned from their recon of the fuel

bunker. They're decompressing in airlock A.

Put them on the main screen.

Yes, ma 'am.

Coming up onto the main screen now.

Sergeant Nichols.

It's a real mess out there, ma 'am. The air is still murky, so visibility is way

down. But from what we could tell, it's pretty much like Major Taleb said.

The airlock is still partially up, but the fuel storage bunkers are toast.

We did find this.

Definitely a chump fuel canister, ma 'am.

And it has no tracking chip.

Secure that fuel canister, Sergeant, but do not open it.

Last thing we need is a radioactive flood.

Yes, ma 'am.

So now we know.

The coalition was smuggling triradiant. All we know is that someone was using a

chump canister to smuggle triradiant.

Could be somebody from here.

You don't give up, do you?

We have incoming.

Repeat, we have incoming.

Go to DEFCON 1.

Time to impact.

24 minutes, 3 seconds.

That's too slow for a missile. What's the ID?

What the hell is POD? Still getting no response.

Prepare to initiate armor sequence.

Maybe their antennas are still down. Hell, they are.

It's a runaway. They've lost one of the four. And it's straight at us.

Target missiles one and two for Trump base. Missile three is for the drone.

Targeting missiles one and two on Trump base. Three is on the drone.

It's moving too slowly to be a missile.

It's just a drone.

It's a drone, all right, filled with high explosives.

You can bet your life.

Trying to trick us, James. That's why they're not responding.

They want to make us think it's chaos over there.

Communications down, drones running wild. All we're missing now is a

distress call.

This is crazy. If we launch, they'll retaliate. You know they have missiles?

Did she tell you that? What else are you holding back?

Nothing. She wouldn't confirm anything, but she implied that their launch policy

was the same as ours.

Now, if that's true, think of what you're doing. If you launch, they'll

with everything they've got.

We could wipe each other out, and then there'd be no one left alive.

No one.

So what? We let them kill us so at least someone survives?

If that means keeping the human race alive, yes.

Now all we have to do is knock down the drone. The drone is a test.

Or a solve.

But we don't have time to find out whether it's a runaway or a real threat.

Because by the time we do, they'll already have launched and it'll be too

for us.

Those people have killed everyone you loved.

Everyone I've loved. They are not the ones who deserve to continue.

A billion people are dead down there because of them. We're launching.

We don't have authorization to do that. Only people who can authorize us are

dead. Punch in your code, Major.

Give me the chump face.

Stay as you are. Incoming drone contact in 22 minutes.

Punch in your code, Major. You can't arm the warheads without my authorization

code, and I'm not giving them to you until we know what's going on. We have

talk to Colonel Paz. The only thing you have to do is punch in your code. It's

your duty and an order.

Now punch it in.

I can't do that, ma 'am. Sergeant Nichols or Ref Major Bowen?

and bring me the arming code from the safe minute quarters.

Sergeant Nichols, I'm placing Colonel Elliot under arrest. I'm in charge here,

Major, and I'm ordering you to move. Sergeant Nichols, I am now assuming

command. Place Colonel Elliot under arrest.

Ma 'am, I can bypass this code.

Sedetsky. Talk to me. Okay.

By toss a virus into the main processor, it'll find the initialization file.

Have a couple of minutes to bypass the system's firewalls before the backup

processor detects what's happening, eats the bug, and resets. How much time?

It's hard to get in the money, ma 'am. Ten minutes, maybe 15.

Well, I'll be the main course at a hot damn luau in 20.

You're making a mistake, Sam. I don't have a choice, Major. You won't give me

the option.

Incoming drone.

Contact in 21 minutes. Do it.

Sergeant, find Major Bowen to quarter.

Break a piece off of here using this crowbar and pry the door open.

You'll do that.

You can't shoot both of us at once.

Forget the crowbar.

Let's get this override panel open.

Even if we get out of here, we're not going to be able to prove that your base

wasn't flung on pyridium.

All the chips were recorded in your base as well as ours.

We just have to scan the chip on the canister and I'll show Elliot how the

records account for it. What chip?

The canister didn't have a chip that's hooked. Elliot was so sure your base was

smuggling tri -radium. No chip?

When we first started testing the ground, we used mob canisters.

Without any chips?

Exactly. We didn't need them because the canister doesn't contain any tri

-radium.

Edwards! Edwards!

I can prove the coalition wasn't smuggling tri -radium. Edwards, open up!

prove it!

Major?

Do you really think you can stop all this?

Not for men here.

Eight minutes and 42 seconds to impact.

How much time to launch?

Missiles will be armed and ready to launch in five, Colonel.

Any word from Paz?

No, ma 'am.

Launch as soon as they're out. Yes, ma 'am.

Incoming, John.

Contact in eight minutes.

You two don't need to be here.

I'm staying.

Me too.

Get the door.

Well,

there's no triradium contamination on the outside.

That's good, right?

There's only one way to find out.

Oh, man.

Here you go.

Drop your weapon!

He's trying to save us!

Drop your weapon! You hit the canister, you're going to contaminate the whole

base! Drop your weapon!

Major!

It's only seven minutes.

Ten.

It's only ten.

Elliot! Missiles are armed.

Elliot, there's only...

We've tried.

They're not responding.

Fire missiles.

Firing missiles.

Sergeant, arrest these men and Major Taleb. Confine them to airlock D and

them there.

Well, the door's shut if you have to. Yes, ma 'am. Listen to me. There is no

smuggling plot. The hull breach in the mess room, Taleb's team getting killed

was all just a coincidence caused by the shockwave.

We're not at war.

Ma 'am.

Ma 'am.

I'm getting an incoming transmission from the drone.

Put it on screen.

We can hear them, but they can't hear us. Why the hell aren't they answering

Please. This is Colonel Fass.

The shockwave has destroyed our base.

We have many injured and dying.

Please come in.

The destruct code for the missiles.

There isn't one.

What do you mean there isn't one? The processor destroyed it when it was

the virus.

There's no destruct code. We can't stop our missiles. We write a new one.

Coalition drone, please come in.

Let's get those codes happening. Coalition drone, come in, please.

Three lines one to coalition drone, please come in.

Three lines one to coalition drone, please come in.

It's not working.

Alliance missiles detected.

Coalition counter -strike initiated. Oasis detected the missiles and has

launched a counter -strike. Six coalition missiles incoming.

Alliance anti -missile systems active.

What the fuck are you doing?

Sedevsky. Stop. Sedevsky. Right now.

Yeah, I'm working on it. Elliot. We've established an audio contact.

You've got to tell Paz to abort those missiles.

No, Paz, this is Major Taylor. Abort the missiles. Abort the missiles.

Fire the anti -missile missiles.

Maybe some of us will survive. Firing anti -missile missiles.

Yes, thank you.

Let's see what else we have left. This is the Earth Calling Free Alliance Base.

Come in, please.

Colonel Elliott, I repeat, if you are receiving us, please respond.

It's us. We've had an incident.

Actually, Sam, it's a nightmare.

An Alliance base working on an antimatter weapon prototype was

reactor failure on the moon.

Hell itself has come alive.

The Alliance and the Coalition have called an emergency meeting and as of

hours ago have declared a permanent and immediate peace agreement so we can

concentrate on rebuilding all of our futures.

It was close, Sam.

become this close to complete annihilation.

Thank God you didn't have to do that.

You and us are an inspiration to everyone here on Earth.

Keep up the good work, Sam.

Commander -in -Chief of Space Forces.

If mankind is to survive, we must learn to trust one another.

And that trust begins in the human heart.