Thread:AenMaps/@comment-30574470-20161001115420/@comment-15419758-20161020154753

The engineers tasked with cutting the cable run out of time as the nuke rapidly approaches. They flee, leaving only a 0.1 mile gap in the cable. The nuke easily jumps this, and then reaches the KPC. Due to large amounts of blitzium in the KPC, as well as the various particle acceleration devices, an extreme chain reaction sets off a catastrophic blast 10 times as powerful as Tsar Bomba, destroying the Krekition collective. The 7.3 magnitude earthquake that results from the blast causes eruptions of both Krekitiu and Thylos, destroying the power plants. Kharzonus reacts with shock to the destruction of one of its collectives, but luckily, almost everyone was evacuated to Diiur and Gaehr before the disaster. The Kharzonusian government then mocks the Pallos Empire's Astalian Trading Company for marching their troops straight into a nuclear apocalypse.

Meanwhile, Ronald Grump is freed from jail (where he was put after the global cyclone neutralizer sabotage), and he immediately joins one far-right party (formerly a house of the ancien regime) and runs for president. He claims that Pallos caused the Krekition nuclear apocalypse (despite it being an obvious error on Kharzonus's own part), and says that the military's nuclear technology is outdated, prefering brand new blitzium and particle accelerator based nukes. Despite the odds against him, he wins the party's nomination and gets a large amount of support in Kharzonus (despite the HBC absolutely hating him).