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To Ronan.

To the system.

To the moment everything changes.

“Start Phase One.”

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Ronan

Location: Mobile Command / Global Network

Time: Same

There’s a moment—

right before everything breaks—

where the world feels perfectly still.

This is that moment.

My finger hovers over the key.

Not hesitation.

Confirmation.

Because once this goes—

there’s no pulling it back.

No containing it.

No rewriting it.

I press ENTER.

And the world shifts.

Not with noise.

Not with spectacle.

With inevitability.

A flood.

Encrypted packets detonating across networks simultaneously.

Journalists—real ones.

The kind that don’t play along.

Courts with jurisdiction overlap.

Banks with compliance triggers they can’t ignore.