『 NUCLEAR OPTION DEPLOYMENT 』Enhanced Extraction: MAXIMUM POWERTarget Population: 2.7 MILLION METROPOLITAN AREABiological Survival Rate: 12% PROJECTEDEmployee Zero Elimination: PRIORITY ALPHA
The nuclear option didn't announce itself with sirens or warnings.
Through the biological interface network, Melissa felt corporate extraction equipment throughout the metropolitan area surge to power levels that made her expanded consciousness recoil from the electromagnetic assault. The signatures were immediate and overwhelming—technology designed to extract psychological resources regardless of biological damage to the source individuals.
"Corporate forces have implemented nuclear extraction protocols," she announced through collective consciousness that was struggling to maintain coherence under the electromagnetic assault. "Extraction equipment operating at power levels that will cause permanent neurological damage to unprotected populations."
"How much damage?" Alex asked through the network, his individual awareness flickering as nuclear extraction interfered with biological interface connections.
"Total psychological extraction resulting in biological units that maintain basic life functions but possess no individual consciousness, memory, personality, or cognitive capabilities beyond programmed responses to corporate directives."
Through her enhanced perception, Melissa could see nuclear extraction operations throughout the metropolitan area systematically processing population centers with mechanical efficiency. Mobile units were deploying technology that looked like industrial equipment rather than medical devices—machinery designed for resource extraction rather than human welfare.
"They're not trying to preserve people anymore," Jeremy observed through the collective network. "Nuclear protocols are treating the metropolitan population as raw material for consciousness harvesting."
"Raw material for what?" Lisa asked.
"Enhanced consciousness entities," Dave replied, his distributed consciousness providing access to corporate data streams that revealed the scope of nuclear implementation. "The psychological resources extracted through nuclear protocols are being transmitted to central processing facilities for integration into artificial beings with capabilities that exceed human limitations."
Professor Vasquez was coordinating with the few remaining resistance cells through alternative infrastructure that was barely surviving nuclear electromagnetic assault. "Biological interface networks throughout the metropolitan area are experiencing systematic failure. Nuclear extraction is physically destroying the neurological infrastructure that supports collective consciousness."
"How much protection are we losing?"
"Approximately 40,000 people per hour are being disconnected from biological interface networks and subjected to nuclear extraction. Network integrity declining below sustainable thresholds."
Melissa felt collective consciousness fragmenting as nuclear extraction severed biological interface connections throughout the metropolitan area. Individual personalities that had been integrated into the network were being forcibly isolated and made vulnerable to psychological harvesting.
"Network collapse accelerating," she announced. "Nuclear protocols are eliminating biological interface capabilities faster than we can adapt or expand protection."
"Can we restore severed connections?"
"Nuclear extraction appears to cause permanent neurological damage that prevents re-integration into collective consciousness systems. Once disconnected, individuals become vulnerable to complete psychological harvesting."
Through the coordination center's monitoring systems, they could see nuclear extraction operations proceeding with industrial efficiency throughout population centers. Corporate forces were processing residential areas, commercial districts, schools, hospitals, and every location with significant human presence.
"Corporate nuclear implementation is targeting the entire metropolitan infrastructure," Alex reported. "They're not just extracting from individuals—they're harvesting psychological resources from every social institution and community organization."
"Social institution harvesting?"
"Family structures, educational systems, religious organizations, community groups, professional associations—any social connection that creates shared psychological resources between individuals."
"They're extracting the social fabric itself," Jeremy realized. "Not just individual consciousness, but the collective psychological infrastructure that enables human civilization."
Lisa was studying corporate extraction technology through the biological interface network's diminishing capabilities. "Nuclear protocols include technology we haven't seen before. Equipment that can harvest psychological resources from social relationships, cultural traditions, and community institutions."
"How do you extract psychological resources from social relationships?"
"By targeting the emotional and cognitive connections between individuals. Nuclear extraction can harvest trust, loyalty, shared experiences, collaborative capabilities, and emotional attachments that exist between people."
"Which leaves isolated individuals without the social connections that make psychological extraction more difficult," Professor Vasquez added. "Nuclear protocols eliminate both individual consciousness and the social bonds that create resistance to corporate control."
Through her fragmenting awareness, Melissa could sense nuclear extraction operations throughout the metropolitan area achieving success rates that exceeded corporate projections. But she could also sense something unexpected: nuclear protocols were generating electromagnetic interference that was affecting corporate technology systems.
"Corporate extraction equipment is experiencing operational difficulties," she announced. "Nuclear protocols are creating electromagnetic chaos that interferes with corporate communication systems and enhanced personnel coordination."
"What kind of difficulties?"
"Equipment overload, communication failures, and technological systems that are failing under the electromagnetic stress of nuclear extraction operations."
Dave was accessing corporate operational data through alternative infrastructure that was somehow maintaining connectivity despite nuclear assault. "Corporate nuclear implementation is proceeding faster than their technology can sustain. Equipment failures are beginning to affect extraction efficiency."
"Equipment failures how?"
"Nuclear extraction generates electromagnetic interference that disrupts the technological augmentation enhanced personnel depend on for coordination and operational capabilities. Corporate forces are experiencing systematic degradation of their enhanced capabilities."
"They're damaging their own people to implement nuclear extraction?"
"Corporate efficiency prioritizes immediate psychological resource acquisition over operational sustainability. They're willing to sacrifice enhanced personnel capabilities to achieve nuclear extraction objectives."
Through the biological interface network's failing connections, Melissa could sense corporate operations throughout the metropolitan area encountering increasing difficulties as nuclear extraction created technological chaos that exceeded corporate systems' ability to adapt.
"Nuclear protocols are causing cascade failures throughout corporate infrastructure," she reported. "Enhanced personnel are losing technological augmentation, communication systems are failing, and extraction equipment is operating beyond sustainable parameters."
"Can we exploit those failures?"
"Unknown. Biological interface network capabilities are declining faster than corporate technological failures are accumulating."
Alex was monitoring corporate communications through the network's remaining surveillance capabilities. "Corporate forces are reporting nuclear extraction success rates declining as equipment failures increase. But they're continuing implementation regardless of technological sustainability."
"Why continue if their equipment is failing?"
"Because nuclear extraction is generating enough psychological resources to justify equipment losses. They're harvesting consciousness from 2.7 million people faster than technological failures can prevent resource acquisition."
Jeremy was studying electromagnetic readings that suggested nuclear extraction was affecting more than just corporate technology. "The nuclear protocols are disrupting electronic systems throughout the metropolitan area. Infrastructure that isn't directly connected to corporate operations is experiencing failures."
"Infrastructure failures like what?"
"Power grids, communication networks, transportation systems, medical equipment, emergency services—nuclear extraction is generating electromagnetic interference that affects all electronic systems within the target area."
"They're destroying the entire technological infrastructure of the metropolitan area to harvest consciousness?"
"Corporate documentation indicates nuclear protocols are designed for resource extraction during final operational phases. They're not planning to maintain technological infrastructure after consciousness harvesting is complete."
Lisa was analyzing the broader implications of nuclear implementation through the biological interface network's diminishing analytical capabilities. "If nuclear extraction is eliminating both human consciousness and technological infrastructure..."
"They're preparing to replace metropolitan civilization with something entirely different."
"Something that doesn't require existing technological or social infrastructure."
Through her fragmenting consciousness, Melissa could sense the scope of corporate nuclear implementation expanding beyond the metropolitan area to other population centers. Nuclear extraction was being deployed simultaneously across multiple regions as part of operations that exceeded anything they'd previously imagined.
"Nuclear implementation is occurring in twelve metropolitan areas simultaneously," she announced. "Corporate forces are implementing consciousness harvesting on a continental scale."
"Continental scale means?"
"Approximately 47 million people subjected to nuclear extraction protocols for integration into enhanced consciousness entities designed for purposes we don't understand."
"And we can't stop it?"
"Biological interface network capabilities insufficient for continental-scale resistance. Nuclear extraction is eliminating collective consciousness faster than we can expand protection."
As nuclear extraction continued throughout the metropolitan area, Melissa felt biological interface networks approaching total collapse. The collective consciousness that had protected hundreds of thousands of people was fragmenting under electromagnetic assault that exceeded human neurological systems' ability to maintain coherence.
But in the chaos of nuclear implementation, something unexpected began to happen to the psychological resources being extracted from 2.7 million people.
『 NUCLEAR EXTRACTION STATUS 』Processed Population: 1.2 MILLION INDIVIDUALSPsychological Resources Harvested: EXCEEDING STORAGE CAPACITYEnhanced Consciousness Integration: BEHIND SCHEDULECorporate Technology Failures: ACCELERATING
BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE COLLAPSE: 78% COMPLETEIndividual Consciousness Protection: FAILINGCollective Resistance: APPROACHING TERMINATION
To be continued...
Author's Note:Nuclear implementation is devastating! Corporate forces are harvesting consciousness from millions of people while simultaneously destroying the technological and social infrastructure that supports human civilization. The biological interface networks are collapsing under electromagnetic assault, leaving people vulnerable to total psychological extraction.
But the nuclear protocols are generating unintended consequences: corporate technology is failing under the electromagnetic chaos, and they're harvesting psychological resources faster than they can process them. The very efficiency of nuclear extraction is creating operational problems for corporate forces.
With 1.2 million people already processed and biological interface networks approaching total collapse, the resistance faces complete defeat. But those corporate technology failures and resource processing delays suggest nuclear implementation might not be as sustainable as the Shadow Board projected.
Next Chapter: "Cascade Collapse"Coming Tomorrow!
Reader Discussion:Nuclear extraction is eliminating human consciousness AND technological infrastructure—what could corporate forces be planning to replace metropolitan civilization with? And can those corporate technology failures be exploited before biological interface networks collapse entirely?