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NHNN – NEO HELSINKI NEWS NETWORK
SPECIAL REPORT: DEFLECTION MISSION STATUS
Date: 2032.156.2100 (Pre-Apophis Calendar)
Anchor: Jordan Telfast
Classification: PUBLIC – HISTORICAL RECORD H.E.L.E.N.
Archive Index: APOPHIS-2032-067
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[TRANSCRIPT BEGINS] TELFAST: Good evening. This is Jordan Telfast with a Special Report on the Apophis Deflection Mission.
[Her appearance has changed – older, thinner, exhaustion visible]
TELFAST: Four years ago, humanity launched the largest coordinated space mission in history. Seventeen nuclear warheads, seven conventional kinetic impactors, and three experimental mass drivers—all designed to push Apophis off its collision course.
Today, the United Aerospace Division confirmed what many feared.
ELFAST: The mission has achieved partial success. We have fragmented portions of the comet. We have altered its trajectory… slightly. But the main body continues toward Earth. Impact will occur in approximately four years, three months.
TELFAST: The Secretary-General addressed the world this morning, calling for accelerated megacity construction and coordinated evacuation protocols. Priority shelter assignments have been expanded, but mathematically, the megacities can accommodate only eleven percent of Earth’s population..
CHEN: We did everything right. The calculations were perfect. The execution was flawless. But Apophis is simply too massive, and we discovered it too late. Physics doesn’t negotiate.
TELFAST: Dr. Chen, what do you say to the billions who won’t have shelter?
DR. CHEN: [Long silence] …I’m sorry. I am so, so sorry. [Back to studio – Telfast’s composure cracking]
TV ANCHOR: Civil unrest has erupted in forty-three nations. We have reports of looting, mass migrations toward megacity construction sites, and governments implementing martial law. The very fabric of civilization is—
TELFAST: We’re getting reports of riots in Madrid. And Berlin. And—[her voice breaks]—and here in Helsinki. Outside this very building. [Distant sounds of sirens, shouting]
TELFAST: I don’t know how to end this broadcast. I don’t know what to say that will make this better. Because nothing will make this better. We are… we are running out of time. [She looks directly at camera]
TELFAST: To my daughter, if you’re watching this in whatever future remains—I love you. To everyone out there—I love you too. We’re all in this together now. Until the very end.
[H.E.L.E.N. NOTE: This broadcast triggered global panic.
Viewership: 2.3 billion simultaneous. Jordan Telfast’s daughter, Emma Telfast, was eleven years old at this recording. She survived the Impact and currently works as a data journalist in Neo Helsinki, continuing her mother’s legacy. The “partial success” of the deflection mission actually saved hundreds of millions of lives by reducing Apophis’s effective impact mass. Without the mission, extinction would have been total. But humanity remembers only the failure, not the lives saved by the attempt. This is how hope dies: not with a bang, but with a press conference.]
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