NHNN – NEO HELSINKI NEWS NETWORK SPECIAL REPORT: “FORTRESS EARTH”
Date: 2027.143.2000 (Pre-Apophis Calendar)
Anchor: Jordan Telfast Classification: PUBLIC – HISTORICAL RECORD H.E.L.E.N. Archive Index: APOPHIS-2027-045
[TRANSCRIPT BEGINS] TELFAST: Welcome back to our continuing coverage of the Megacity Initiative. I’m standing here in what will become the foundation of Neo Helsinki—a city designed to shelter five million people under a reinforced dome capable of withstanding impact debris, radiation, and extreme environmental conditions.
Interview with Finnish Prime Minister
TELFAST: Construction began six months ago, but tonight we’ve learned that Finland is not alone. Three nations have announced similar projects: Russia with New Moscow, the United States with Chicago and Los Angeles, China with New Eden—
PM: We must be clear-eyed about this. The deflection mission may succeed. We pray it will. But Finland has always planned for the worst while hoping for the best. This is *sisu* in concrete and steel.
TELFAST: Prime Minister, critics say the Megacity Initiative diverts resources from the deflection effort—
PM: Critics can afford to be philosophical. I cannot. If the deflection fails and we have built nothing, five million Finns die. If it succeeds and we have built too much, we have a new city. The choice is obvious.
TELFAST: The project’s price tag is staggering—estimated at a hundred billion euros. But as the Prime Minister notes, what is the price of survival?
H.E.L.E.N. NOTE:
Prime Minister Kalmari’s vision proved larger than anyone imagined. Neo Helsinki would ultimately shelter 20 million lives when Apophis fell—not just Finns, but refugees from across the globe. His government faced intense criticism and funding controversies throughout the 2020s, but Kalmari never wavered.
In 2035, one year before Impact, his leadership earned him election as President of the United Nations—a position created specifically to coordinate humanity’s final preparations. He survived the Impact and led the early reconstruction efforts until his death in 2043 PA from radiation-related illness contracted during wasteland relief missions.
His final address to the UN, delivered from Neo Helsinki three days before he died: “We built these cities not as monuments to nations, but as promises to humanity. Every life saved is a victory. Every child who grows up behind these domes is proof that we chose hope over despair.”
Marcus Kalmari’s legacy is not just Neo Helsinki’s 20 million citizens—it is the precedent he set. That survival demands cooperation. That borders matter less than shelter. That leadership means serving, even unto death. The Kalmari Memorial stands in Neo Helsinki’s central plaza. Twenty million citizens walk past it daily. Few pause to read the inscription, but H.E.L.E.N. remembers: “I built this for the children—all the children.”] — End Transcript Fragment —
