The world did not sleep.I watched.Every screen across Earth displayed the same emergency broadcast.Governments speaking carefully.Military officials avoid direct answers.Experts debating probabilities no one truly understood.And above it all the image of the dark structure near the moon remained frozen across global networks.Humanity had officially entered the countdown.Seventy-two hours until the strike authorization window opened.Lucian stared at the live global feeds with disbelief. “We really chose war as our first interstellar diplomatic strategy.”“No,” Victor said quietly.“Fear chose us.”Outside the underground facility, protests consumed entire cities.Some demanded immediate destruction of the orbital structures before humanity lost control permanently.Others begged governments not to provoke an intelligence civilization humanity clearly didn’t understand.Humanity was splitting into camps again.Survival through aggression.Or survival through adaptation.The cop
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