GG chat with Barstow

> AB: What's with this blue print in my debrief over here?
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> GG: This is your command vessel. There are six automated supply carriers deployed as support. You can ping them once you board the bridge of the Black Atlantic.
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> AB: But the ship is clearly a Tannhäuser asset. I need intel on the Dispensers featured in the bow section. Counting sixteen of them, labeled under the same cascade as me.
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> GG: That's why we're freezing you at bunker location 34 in France. I don't want anyone to draw conclusions between you and the submarine. Once you've captured the ship, you'll have to override the crew's memetic conditioning.
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> AB: That doesn't answer my question! Where in the world did you get a Khishchnik-Class nuclear submarine from?
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> GG:  Viktor acquired it through his Russian connections for Project Tannhäuser, in anticipation of the worse. I gave Nikita permission to upgrade the vessel, however, while his brother wasn't paying attention. See the Polyhedron over here? It's a subsequent installation. No paper trails. The right password allows you to hijack the control panel and turn it into a meme-chamber, featuring the same functionality as the ones you witnessed at the Exalt facility.
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> AB: How do I track the ship? The memo has me unfreeze at 3k klicks distance.
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> GG: Free Spirit tech. We rebranded all the ships' noses. The Tannhäuser department has no lead on the symbol. They're out, scrambling to find suitable recruits.
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> AB: The Pentagon needs to get involved in this.
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> GG: The Pentagon? What are they gonna do? The US is the first to fall. Review the trajectories in your memo. Multiple tsunamis hitting the East Coast, the Yellowstone volcano eruption in the West, and a crack of the continental crust right down the middle that will fracture the entire landmass. Everyone in that corner of the Earth will be cooked alive or drowned at the same time. Europe and North Africa are the only safe spots, with only minor impacts from asteroid debris traveling in the swarm's tail end.
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> AB: This is madness. How did none of this leak?
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> GG: Remember what got you and your crew stuck in Abidjan?
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> AB: In '64? Of course! The Quarantine!
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> GG: Norman Thorn released it. HIVE was his project, and it clogged everyone's awareness. That should give you the faintest idea of what these people are capable of.
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> AB: Why did you let it come this far? Why didn't you stop them?
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> GG: This was all set all in in motion without me having insight. What was I supposed to do by the time I found out? Cancel their funding? Are you positive they wouldn't just bring the project to any corrupt government out there that's desperately trying to keep its elites safe? Besides, what's the point of discussing this now? We both know it's game over from this point forward. We have a cluster of rocks approaching at 20 kilometers per second-
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> AB: You're not disclosing everything to me-
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> GG: Admiral, I am giving you the facts!
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> AB: Altruism can hardly be your motive in all of this.
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> GG: You can't change the course of history. We both are aware of that. But you can change its outcome.
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> AB: Sabotaging Project Tannhäuser to free humanity of its yoke?
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> GG: Humanity always needs to have a choice.
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> AG: Understood.
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> GG: Final Questions?
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> AB: What do I use the nukes for?
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> GG: They are a product of your profession, Admiral, not mine.
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> AB: Password and date?
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> GG: GG
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> AB: Easy enough.
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> **Justitian: Moloch.** p. 287.