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BRIAN STORM AND THE REST of the DARPA team sat around the table in the conference room that they had been using as their base of operations for months now.
The phone rang and Brian reached for it without taking his eyes from the monitors.
“Director Greenfield, hello, good to hear from you,” Brian said.
“I was calling to update you and the team that the main objective you've all been working so hard on has been completed successfully.”
“We're watching it live right now, Director.”
There were three live monitors around the conference room, each showing a newsfeed from a different station. They all showed similar imagery captured in large part by people’s cell phones, swarms of the latest micro bots falling to the ground.
More than 30,000 Americans had died over the last three week
