Colossus By Design: Entry 0055 - Gumshoe

[November 15, 2145]
[Antarctica]
[Global Union of Divisions Headquarters]

[All nation leaders and escorting representatives are present]


(Chancellor Dmitri Kalashnikov): Nigel, you've called us all here today. Is there a specific reason for this?

(President Nigel Mandela): Yes. I have been in talks with my nation's top researchers and military officials, and we believe we've narrowed down a few key points. Specifically, of the recent attack on the Warmonger Reserves by that swarm of P.E.M.F.s.


[All other nation leaders' interests are piqued at this]


(Minister Diana McAllister): You've figured out some of the specifics of that anomalous attack?

(President Mandela): Well, it's just a theory we have right now.

(Minister Diana McAllister): Do tell, then.

(President Mandela): According to my staff, the recent mass gathering of P.E.M.F.s is very atypical of their normal behaviour, as was their pattern of movement and emergence.

(King Eugene Roy): Yes, we're all clear on that. So what could've caused this change?

(President Mandela): The fleet admiral of my nation's navy told me that such behaviour was reminiscent of being given orders from a higher power.

(Denouncer Daiyu Chen): Orders?

(President Mandela): Yes. My researchers have informed me that the communication between the P.E.M.F.s was too well coordinated to have been done by themselves, as far as we know. This means that something is creating communication between them, something that we have not yet found.

(King Eugene Roy): An entirely new method of communication?

(President Mandela): Indeed. However, if this is the case, we have no leads on the source of these communications.

(Chancellor Kalashnikov): Maybe we do.....


[Everyone turns their attention to Chancellor Kalashnikov]


(Minister McAllister): Dmitri.... what exactly do you know?

(Chancellor Kalashnikov): I've been sending reports of all of our P.E.M.F. encounters so far to the moon base, and haven't gotten back a thing. And just last night, I got several repeat messages simply saying that 'Everything is under control', and 'Indeed. Under control'.

(All): What?

(Chancellor Kalashnikov): And you all remember the initial reports of the anomalous asteroid they spotted. We've heard nothing from them since then, given that we've been occupied with this little P.E.M.F. problem.

(Denouncer Chen): Dear god..... do you think.....

(Prime Minister Shinji Kazuma): I don't know. But it's worth investigating.

(Minister McAllister): All in favour of an investigation of the moonbase?


[All nation leaders raise their hands in agreement]

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[November 15, 2145]
[Moon's surface]
[Global Union of Divisions Extra-Solar Observatory Base]

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(Minister McAllister): *narration* Then it's agreed. We will launch an investigation into the moon's observatory base tomorrow.


After this line is said, communications are shut off. In the lower levels of the complex, specifically the room containing the anomalous pulsating asteroid, the two heads of the facility are in conversation.


(Head 1): It appears that we've been found out.

(Head 2): Indeed. We must make haste then if the plan is to remain in motion.


The asteroid pulsates in unison with the voices of the two facility heads.


(Head 1): Soon, everything will be under control.

(Head 2): Indeed. Under control.

(Both): For the Children of Monsters.