Alert

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you all noticed the helicopter on the lawn. Some of you might have seen Val Cooper emerging from it. She came with some exceptionally bad news.

Succinctly, Magneto is currently orbiting the Earth in a Russian space station, in control of a satellite-based laser weapons system. If the US and Russian governments don't fulfill the first of his demands - releasing all mutants they currently have in custody - in a week, he's going to destroy Washington and Moscow.

Forge, I need you in the Situation Room right now. Everyone else, I need you down here in 30 minutes, once Ororo and I have a basic plan to present.

Comments

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

The Russians weaponized space. Well, that's about two hundred different treaties that have just been shredded into confetti.

[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

I told you! I told everyone, you can't trust the Communists, they're going to turn around and fuck you. Glastnost my ass! The Commies put a goddamn laser in space, why am I the only one not surprised?

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

Other than a left turn through 1955 here, when this gets out, it's going to cause complete chaos. An orbiting weapons platform?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Irony! Last year, Sam had us doing a report on the Russian Space Program!

The more I talk about inane shit like history, the less I freak the crap out about this.