Exploding Sun Page #8

Have you seen him?

I thought he was here with you.

He's not in his room? -No.

Freddie?

Twelve,

eleven,

ten,

nine,

eight,

seven,

six,

five,

four,

three,

two,

one.

It missed us.

It went latteral to earth

at eighty-two degrees.

Eighty-two degrees.

Dodged a bullet there huh?

Wait for it.

Ahh!

Oh my god.

Paul!

Do you ever get tired of being wrong?

Today marks the beginning of

a new era in civillian space flight.

As of today,

space belongs to the people.

When I first found out that

I was picked to go on this flight,

I was pretty shocked.

I know the Roebling Clipper inside out.

The hardest part I think is

leaving my wife in Afghanistan.

My husband and I have

absolute confidence that

this will be a safe

and exciting journey.

it must be a pretty busy day being

the President's Science advisor?

Yes Mr. President.

God speed. Crew and

passengers of the Roebling Clipper.

One...

Oh my god

What's happening?

It was a wave of cosmic rays.

From our sun.

The ships going so fast that it's going

to veer off into space towards the sun.

So they can fix it?

We don't know yet.

Shut it down!

I can't!

You got it?

Reggie, run the

emergency backup protocol.

I'm on it.

Cheryl, you okay?

I'm fine.

I thought Ivan said

the solar burst missed us.

It did, we just got sucker punched

by the solar radiation cone.

Dammit, trust me this

is going to be bad enough

How bad?

The suns' gone hyperactive,

coronal mass ejection solar flares.

The whole planet is going to get hit

by electromagnetic pulses,

electrical storms,

solar radiation bursts.

Maybe even some earthquakes,

caused by the distortion

in the magnetosphere.

Day or night its not

going to make a difference.

What's the end game?

Either the sun calms

down on its own or...

we can count the days earth

has left on one hand. Reggie?

What happened?

The generators blew out.

I don't know but whatever

it is our friends are back,

its killed their trucks.

Could be an EMP of some kind.

Might be something to do

with what happened to Alan.

What's an EMP?

Electromagnetic pulse.

Overloads all electronic circuits,

generators, auto ignitions.

I want you to find Nourhan

and take her back to my tent.

I don't want them finding her

when their coming down here.

Is there anything I can do for you?

Yeah. Can you be there when it

hits me that my husband is dead.

I just don't think

that I'm taking it in.

Have you heard from JJ?

No. Phone's dead. Internet's down.

I've never felt so cut off

What is that?

We need to find the Vice President

and get him to the bunker also the

Speaker and The Secretary of State.

And Laura.

Secret service is looking for her.

Your telling me nobody knows

where the hell my daughter is?

She was pretty scared. She's

somewhere in the White House.

We'll bring her here as soon

as we find her Mr. President.

Have we made any contact

with other heads of state?

France, England and Moscow before

communications went down.

It's a global situation.

We managed to get word out on

the Emergency Broadcasting System

to state and local bodies.

We're doing the best we can.

Stay on it.

I want in five minutes

what we doing with here.

What we can expect.

I communicate at home.

Mr. President.

Perhaps you would like some time to

process what's happened to your wife.

I'm grieving Roger,

not incapacitated.

There's a difference.

Don't forget that.

Rebecca!

We haven't got time!

Run!

Run!

Go, go!

No!

Come baby, come inside...

come Freddie, Freddie come!

No!

Freddie!

Let go of me.

Freddie!

Freddie!

What systems do

we still have on line here?

Roebling had many of

the systems EMP hardened.

Question is if it still works.

Mission control.

Dr. Bakus! We're getting

something from the Space Station.

Space Station to mission control.

I'm struggling to get systems back up.

Ivan, What's your situation?

Not good.

We've lost power and are

in a deteriorating orbit.

Ivan, this is Commander Wincroft.

Can you boost back to a better orbit?

No.

Well what about evacuation?

The blast damaged our Soyuz pods.

We're trying to repair them now, but..

Keep working on it buddy.

Yes, yes.

We're also collecting a ton of

information from our sensors.

I will download what I can, when I..

Ivan, what is it?

I'm, looking at Earth.

How does it look?

Like, like hell.

I need a status meeting.

Oh a meeting. I'll call for donuts.

I need to know what

resources we have available,

What our level of

disaster preparedness is.

We need all ears and eyes

up as quick as possible Don.

Can't afford to have

our people get off task.

I don't need you permission Craig

Like hell you don't

This is now a federal facility and

the President put Don in charge

ah, a lot of good that did.

It wasn't my ship where

the problem started pal.

Ya, but...

Do we have to play out our

whole sad relationship right here

alright, its all yours.

Listen up everyone.

I need you to stop what

you're doing just for a moment.

I need a status update.

What's working for us and what isn't?

Well, we have some pretty

crappy communications.

Define "crappy. "

Well, we still have contact

with the space station

and that's fine we can scan

some government frequencies,

but it's dead quiet out there.

I'm thinking most

people are still trying

to get their

communications back online.

What about cell phones or land lines?

No... nothing

Tracking systems? Telemetry?

Satellites? GPS?

We have some power to

one of our radio dishes,

but we can't turn it.

Looks like the motor is burned out.

Can it be fixed?

I don't know,

but.. I really need to leave.

I haven't heard from my husband

and I don't know if he and my little

girl are okay. I'm sorry, I gotta go.

Look, I don't think your

car is going to be working.

I'll walk. I don't live too far away.

Alright listen up everyone.

We are in the middle

of a global crisis.

Everyone here are the best

people to monitor the situation.

Everyone here is

also private contractor Don.

Your boss is now dead,

and the world is staring

down the barrel of a gun.

As far as I'm concerned

your contract is up.

Go home and see your husband..

We will continue to

monitor every channel,

collect and disseminate whatever

information we can to whomever we can.

Nobody here is under any responsibility

to listen to the people

that got you into this nightmare

in the first place. Go home.

Reggie, specifics.

Yeah,

Let's look at that motor.

Craig I'd like a minute.

Has my daughter been found?

Not yet, Mr. President.

Did you, or did you not

send someone to find her?

We're in the middle of

a global crisis, dammit!

Mr. President, you shouldn't

leave the operations center.

This is not Don's fault.

We could just as easily blame the guy

who designed the Roebling

Clipper for the mess we're all in.

Maybe we should.

No. We shouldn't.

This has always been your problem.

You think if something bad happens

and it's got to be someone fault.

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