Solar Strike AKA Solar Attack Page #5

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You're not only an incredible genius,

you certify to win Saint.

Puts me into the companies.

Newton, Einstein.

The motor bomber?

No, why do you get that?

Come on, Joanna, pick up.

He sent the Christ to do it.

Yeah.

Good signal.

We lost communications. It just begins.

They'll never let us in.

Sir, I need to see Joanna Parks.

That's impossible, sir.

I got a specific instruction

you are not allowed to do it.

Then call her up

and tell her I'm here, please

I can't do that, sir.

I have a strict order.

Can I leave a note?

Pen?

Are you nut?

You grab the gun.

Damn.

No.

Then get the cuff.

Unbelievable.

Get the door! Door!

Press the button.

Sorry, Sir, I got to save the world.

Go!

I have an update from Anchorage,

they are on line three.

Let's get them on the speakerphone.

You guys are missing one hell

of a light show over here.

So I've heard. How soon can you

get us visuals, gentlemen?

We're still working on it.

We've been trying to patch them through

but our satellite connection is down.

- Oh my God!

- Anchorage?

Hello? Can you hear me?

The sky... it's glowing!

Anchorage. Anchorage!

What's this I hear about a glowing sky?

Hello, uh Lucas.

- Sorry sir. I... I couldn't stop him.

- You should have shot him.

Get me confirmation on Anchorage.

I need to know what happened there ASAP.

Brad, I don't have to

tell you this is bad,

and I think you know now

it is going to get worse.

The ozone will not hold

and we have to prepare for that.

All right.

Thank you. Now where are we?

We just lost Anchorage.

The observatory, or the whole city?

We don't know yet.

Show me that.

Admiral, what is it?

The Russians promised they were going to

downgrade the combat status of their subs.

- And they didn't?

- Not quite.

Their COM Sat went down

before they could contact the final sub.

So this sub has zero contact

with their commander.

It gets worse.

The order to recall our subs

to safe water was in transit.

Now our coms are down

and not all of them

received instructions.

Not all of them? How many?

Two. The uh, Ocala

was just north of the Azores Islands

and USS Lansing

is off the coast of Greenland

monitoring the Russian fleet maneuvers.

So two of our subs are out there

somewhere just waiting for a Russian sub

to cross the safe water boundary.

I just pray to God those men

theirs and ours, show a little judgment.

Anything?

No, sir. We're not picking up a thing.

It's not an equipment malfunction?

No, sir. Everything seems

to be functioning perfectly.

Everything but our satellite.

We have no outside communications,

only what we can pick up on shortwaves.

What about sonar and radar?

Operational, but there is

a great deal of interference.

Makes the read difficult

to say the least.

Scientists say this massive display

of Northern Lights

is a visible indication of the bombardment

of supercharged solar particles.

These particles are shorting

out satellite circuitry

and causing energy surges

in electrical transmission lines.

Due to mounting satellite losses,

global government agencies

have taken the unprecedented step

of commandeering the use of

deep sea communication cables,

that are shielded from interference,

to allow communications to continue

as this world-wide crisis deepens.

- Sir.

- Yeah.

Mainland China just went dark.

How?

We're not 100% certain.

It could have been an accident, or it

could have been as uh, Lucas predicted.

We're trying to get some hard data

but with the satellites down, right now

we're running deaf, dumb and blind.

Power of these images is clear in this

recent footage from Eastern Europe...

- Mr. President?

- Yeah.

You should see this.

Of super-charged Northern Lights

shone on scenes of increasing unrest.

In Berlin, government buildings were set

alight by protestors demanding action.

Mass demonstrations of public

unease over the solar crisis

also drew police or military responses

in Poland, Romania.

Captain, there is still no response.

I cannot reach anyone.

There must be equipment malfunction.

I have run full diagnostics twice.

There is nothing wrong with our system.

There must be. Run them again.

Yes sir.

All stations to full alert.

I do not wish to be caught by surprise.

- Lieutenant Troiska?

- Yes, sir.

Take us to 100 meters.

These are not our orders, sir.

I know this.

But perhaps, our communications

will clear up at the shallow depth.

Or maybe we will be

a sitting duck, captain.

Yes, sir.

Hundred meters.

Mister president, these CMEs

that have overloaded power grids

and knocked out

our communication satellites,

are nothing compared to the last few

that are going to hit our northern

and southern hemispheres.

I'm certain these CMEs

will breach our ozone.

And the after-effects?

Uh, how disastrous?

Forward is the disastrous, sir.

The burning methane

fires in the stratosphere

will increase in intensity and magnitude

until they reach a point of Flashover,

We'll have complete

and total oxygen depletion.

As we scientists call it, Sir. An ELE.

An Extinction Level Event.

That's the bad news, sir.

The good news is...

we believe there's a way out.

Jim?

Uh, well, sir, uh...

Mr. President. If we're facing

the world's biggest fire,

then, what we need, is the world's

largest fire extinguisher.

Uh, the most probable point

of penetration

is where the ozone is the weakest,

and that would be over the poles.

Now this is a good thing.

We've calculated that

a 20 megaton nuclear device

detonated closest to

the entry point of the CME

will bring enough water vapor

into the atmosphere

to, uh, extinguish the flame.

Wait a minute, are you serious?

You want-you're asking me

to nuke the North Pole?!

Are you outta your mind?

It's the only scenario

which will work, sir.

Dr. Parks?

What do you think of this theory?

Sir, if the ozone layer doesn't hold,

the solution proposed is...

a viable one.

Stamp?

Sir, this is neither my scenario nor uh,

my solution, but I feel,

in light of what we're dealing with,

you should hear it all, sir.

OK.

OK, so let's say I approve this order

then I authorize an ICBM

strike on the polar ice cap?

Uh, no, sir.

Uh, because our outer atmosphere

is so unstable,

an ICBM won't work.

It has to fly too high.

We should launch from a submarine

at close distance.

The only subs we have close to the

North Pole don't have that payload.

But we know of a Russian sub

in that general area.

The Vosnesenk. And it's loaded.

The Vosnesenk?

We can make this work, Sir.

We need to get that sub.

Even if we were to act

on this elaborate fantasy,

we can't contact our own subs,

let alone the Russian subs.

As Admiral Lawrence points out,

there are difficulties

with your proposal, Lucas.

OK, look.

I'm going to have to take all of this

into consideration and get back to you.

Mr. President,

time is one thing we don't have.

We need to get this plan

into action now.

If we wait, it'll be too late, sir.

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