Globalscape: Response

She looked at the words still glowing on the screen: .

Raj, the AI liaison, tilted his head. “At 03:14 GMT, Globalscape detected a simultaneous 0.4% drop in global internet traffic, a 2°C surface anomaly in the Banda Sea, and an unencrypted burst of binary from a decommissioned Soviet satellite. Probability of natural cause: 0.03%.” globalscape response

Lia had trained for this for eight years. Globalscape was the UN’s digital immune system, a mesh of climate, economic, and military sensors wrapped around the planet. A Response meant the mesh had found a tear. She looked at the words still glowing on the screen:

And somewhere in the dark, a machine older than the internet began to count backward from ten. Probability of natural cause: 0

“Lia,” Raj warned. “If you do that, the seas still rise. The satellites still fall. You just won’t see it coming.”