Ford proceeds to sue GM and Chrysler for doing the same thing. BMW is producing its own electric design. United American Bio-Technologies is indicted for breaking the ban on macro genetic engineering. The federal government seizes all of UABT's assets in an unprecedented move against a corporate criminal. Rumors persist that the intelligence community wanted UABT's nationwide facilities for its own uses.
Mass desertions are rampant and whole divisions lay down their arms and surrender.
From the Afghan frontier, an entire company of moreau tigers from the Indian special forces seize control of a cargo plane and fly to the Untied States. It is called the Rajastahn airlift, for the strain of tiger involved. The airlift is a media event, the officers of the company become celebrities, especially Datia Rajastahn, the officer in charge of the airlift. NASA has an orbiting space station, a temporary lunar base, an orbiting radio telescope that may be picking up alien signals from the vicinity of Alpha Centauri. The peak is reached when appropriations for NASA's deep-probe project are approved.