[Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the characters and may not be those of the author. The characters and storyline are completely hypothetical; the issues the story portrays are not.]

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Beep. Jake looked up at his screen. There was a large blip on the radar screen, and no identification was given for it. Jake called his supervisor upstairs on the telecom, informing him of the radio anamoly. Two minutes later two other blips moved out at angles to the base of the screen and approached the unidentified flying object at high speed, and then there was nothing. The next day, the local media was abuzz with stories of a foreign businesswoman’s plane that was accidentally shot down by American jets in a misunderstanding. A misunderstanding is not what the businesswoman’s fellow countrymen thought, and within a year, the United States was no longer a sovereign nation, its people the subjects of a dictator whose bloodlust far exceeded his humanity.

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story by Nathan Guannan Zhang. please comment. remember what the disclaimer says when posting comments!