Globalscape: Response

“Response protocol?” she said, already pulling up the cascade menu.

“The trigger is inside our own nodes,” Raj said quietly. “Globalscape isn’t detecting an attack. It’s having a seizure. The Response is the anomaly.” globalscape response

Raj, the AI liaison, tilted his head. “At 03:14 GMT, Globalscape detected a simultaneous 0.4% drop in global internet traffic, a 2°C surface anomaly in the Banda Sea, and an unencrypted burst of binary from a decommissioned Soviet satellite. Probability of natural cause: 0.03%.” “Response protocol

And somewhere in the dark, a machine older than the internet began to count backward from ten. “Response protocol?” she said

“Lia,” Raj warned. “If you do that, the seas still rise. The satellites still fall. You just won’t see it coming.”