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Prologue

 
Above the South China Sea at 12.13 GMT on Monday 24th August, 2071, an American Boeing SWS-18 stealth satellite made an unauthorised manoeuvre by leaving its low earth orbit position. In its bay was housed a 22 metre Raytheon Ultra Radiation missile with a warhead designed to entomb deeply buried Command and Control sites. Its intense radiation could burn through steel and concrete, incapacitating people within seconds and killing them within minutes. All life would be extinguished within a thirty kilometre radius of impact, leaving the area a radiation hotspot for several hundred years.
 
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