- SWORD OF DAMOCLES
Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness.
-John F. Kennedy, Address before the General Assembly before the United Nations (25 September 1961).
[Agent Mercy]:
Some Events require quicker and more accurate judgment, and by quicker and more accurate I mean a reliable weapon and defense systems that can withstand the first surprise hit. Luckily they end up being the majority, I still remember that raid, where we had to split our forces between the two opposing alien sides because there was no winning option that was useful to us. In the end we had to opt to release an electromagnetic viral storm from another alien mission, sentencing our own troops to death. I was there and I made that decision. The First War never happened, but vengeance lurks behind every Gate.