A good poker player never reveals his cards.
Are you saying I lost it at some point?
Not much, just everyone dying.
I have a feeling they weren't anywhere near as successful as the Earth forces were in dealing with that shit.
Not that they were all that successful either.
(I'm more worried about what happened to the core of all this mess. It's still out there, it was just shoved off onto someone else's plate. I smell another alternate reality entry.

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AND WHAT OF THOSE THAT HAVE EMBRACED THE WORLD WITHOUT WIRES?