Fire Brigade

Alistair Young

Sep 30, 2015 — 1 min read

INVOKE INVOKE INVOKE
CASE INFERNO ANTEDILUVIAN

UNCLASSIFIED

IMMEDIATE ACTION ORDER
PROCEED UNLESS CANCELED

SUMMARY:

There have been determined to exist within DANGER CLOSE range of Associated Worlds space two stellar bodies (full galactographic coordinates in file) profiled as existing in pre-supernova state within planning time horizon 12⁹, these bodies identified in catalog IGS 21492 and IGS 33126, henceforth coded INFERNO ANTEDILUVIAN BILIOUS and INFERNO ANTEDILUVIAN CAUSTIC.

This situation constitutes a civilization-scale x-threat, severity NIGHTFALL EXIGENT.

CASE INFERNO ANTEDILUVIAN invokes x-threat management authority to dispatch relativistic missions towards identified targets BILIOUS and CAUSTIC equipped with appropriate monitoring hardware and autoindustrial seeds suitable to initiate star lifting projects, capable of reducing the present mass of each body to levels beneath the supernova initiation threshold and taking such other measures as are necessary to prevent initiation while this is done.

ISE/EXT-PWG SIGNOFF
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