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The Deterrent
The US threatens military action. Alejandra authorizes the volcano as a weapon. She crosses a line she can't uncross.
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Ground Truth
Sal flies to Silicon Valley to fund Reality Capture. The VCs want to sell truth. He walks out and builds it for free.
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The High Ground
Everything south was draining away — the engineers, the dollar, the hemisphere. But not the sky. The one thing a collapsing empire kept was the high ground: the launch pads, the constellation, the eye that never blinked. Then, one night over Minneapolis, they turned the eye around. The orbital analyst who watched it happen started leaking the next morning.
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