“Response protocol?” she said, already pulling up the cascade menu.
The screen flickered. The red dot split into three—Geneva, Singapore, Denver. globalscape response
Raj, the AI liaison, tilted his head. “At 03:14 GMT, Globalscape detected a simultaneous 0.4% drop in global internet traffic, a 2°C surface anomaly in the Banda Sea, and an unencrypted burst of binary from a decommissioned Soviet satellite. Probability of natural cause: 0.03%.” “Response protocol
She looked at the words still glowing on the screen: . Raj, the AI liaison, tilted his head
“Isolate, Verify, Neutralize,” Raj replied. “But there’s a problem. The source isn’t external.”
“Globalscape Response,” said the screen. “Phase One.”
The alert tone was a single, soft chime—the kind designed not to panic, but to move . Lia Chen looked up from her coffee. On the wall screen of the Situation Room, a red dot pulsed over the South China Sea.