Superstorm Plan.
- The machine that will give you all the totalitarian joys is already assembled and ready to work - I'm not talking about Assembler, but about the new world order. - Landskricht continued, - We'll just drop a wrench into it and step away, and that's it. Everyone is free. Of course, it won't be painless. There will be confusion and minor skirmishes at the fronts, and in the rear too. But then everything will be better.
And not to do this then neither you nor anyone else, except for the big people, will be better off. They want to make a "Big Brother" out of you. You know what that is and who it is? I'm talking about the character as such, don't get the idea, no one is going to implant you into computer networks.
- Yes, I know perfectly well who Big Brother is. But in most cases, that's really how surveillance, surveillance systems and all that stuff is metaphorically called.
- No, in your case it is a symbol of revolution, like in that book. Your posters will be everywhere. So sickening. But it won't make you feel any better. Do you know how Ilyich-Lenin ended up? I won't say exactly what happened to him, but you will be worn out to the same state.
Just so that you don't fuss around, don't exert unpredictable influence on the political process. Although at first you would have shown off. You would have landed safe and sound and spoken. I think they kept silent about the part of the plan that provided for your further neutralization when they were courting you.
And in the new world there was all this nonsense with TV screens, like in that book. It's interesting how it all worked out, right? Once it looked so implausible, as if a man was doing exercises, and from the screen he, specifically him, was told to do exercises correctly. It would seem that there were tens of thousands of viewers, and he alone was so lucky. And now we have artificial intelligence and such tricks with an individual approach will not surprise anyone. Do you want all this? Although with a TV screen - it's a trifle. Now education is partly built on this and it helps out a lot. Technology is like that. It depends on whose hands. Yes, if you also had a moustache - you would be the spitting image of "Big Brother". Big gangasta braza.
Zavirdyaev did not answer and silently turned away, looking out the window.
- What kind of magnetic storm is this that will cut off the entire Internet? - he began. - I know that several centuries ago a magnetic storm disabled the power supply. But how will you arrange it? With your own black hole forces? Then please do not overdo it. I am not going to become an accomplice.
- This will be done using conventional technical means. We have eleven more warheads on board, each of which can be pumped up to five megatons. That will be enough. You remembered correctly what happened two and a half centuries ago.
Such magnetic storms happen with rather leisurely periodicity, so that during one people fight like knights, and during the next one it's already an industrial civilization. If something like this had happened at the end of the twentieth century, people would have remembered it for a long time.
Now, during the years of the War, everything has adapted to man-made electromagnetic impulses, and therefore to those storms, but even more serious ones happen - they happen once every few thousand years and happen regularly. It all depends on the activity of the sun. We will shake the magnetosphere and ionosphere, and everything will happen even without the influx of any excess energy from the sun. It will work with the daily, ordinary solar wind.
- So you're going to arrange this superstorm?
- Well, yes. It is harmless to all living things. In general, of course, birds and animals will be a little alarmed - they feel everything that is happening around them perfectly well, but that is normal. They will say: "if after this the rockets stop flying and exploding, then that is good", - she mimicked the simple manner of Russians to sum up, where someone or even something "says", which she herself had laughed at more than once.
- I did not know that bombs can cause a magnetic storm. An electromagnetic pulse - yes. Also, radiation belts in orbit - I have heard of that too. And a magnetic storm that disables all electronics. To be honest, I can't quite imagine what it is. The polar lights, it seems... I have heard of them, but I have not delved into the process.
- There is a layer of ionized gas in the atmosphere, current can flow through it. Of course, not like through a wire, but, relatively speaking, there is electrical conductivity there. This layer, or rather part of it, must be made to work as an electric generator that pumps itself with energy, taking it of course not from nowhere, but from the solar wind - these are charged particles. For this to work, it is necessary to interfere with the Earth's magnetic field in a certain way - slightly deform the lines of force.
- Bend them with bombs?
- Well, you said it... In fact, the explosion of bombs induces primary currents in the ionosphere, and they really will bend the lines of force. As a result, they will direct the energy of the solar wind in a different way than before, and this will hit the ionosphere back, forcing currents to run along its part, along its meridional rings, these will already be secondary currents. In general, you said something stupid, but it reflects the principle.