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Prologue: Operation Zerkalo
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Prologue: Operation Zerkalo
This is based off of actual capabilities, confirmed attacks, and intricate Cyber warfare used at that point and later. I consolidated a ten year campaign of Cyber Warfare attributed to the Russian State down into one operation. But this is the same apparatus that attacked the Brexit Campaign, the US Elections, and disrupted SWIFT finance for a decade exacerbating the Financial Crisis that affects us all. This same strategy was employed against Georgia during the short War where Russia crushed Georgian Resistance. -
Chapter 1: The Mandate
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Prologue: Operation Zerkalo
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The corridors of the Grand Kremlin Palace were not designed for the comfort of men. They were designed, with deliberate and overwhelming architectural malice, to remind those who walked them of their own profound insignificance. The towering ceilings, gilded with centuries-old stucco, arched high above walls paneled in dark, unforgiving malachite and polished oak. The floors, expanses of immaculate, echoing marble, seemed to absorb the warmth of human life, leaving only the biting, pervasive chi
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The election is a massacre. The Liberal Party is in ruins. And Julian Dufresne—a sociopathic academic backed by dark money—is poised to seize the ashes. Shadow Minister Will Carter survived the bloodbath, but surviving isn't enough. As his husband Andrew races to disarm a Russian cyber-weapon in the shadows of Hong Kong, Will must play the longest game of his career—surviving Dufresne's rise, holding his party together, and protecting the family he's built. From the campaign trail to the backrooms of Hong Kong, the Carters are about to discover that the real war is only beginning.
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The ambient temperature inside the master bedroom of 308 Manor Avenue was aggressively, unapologetically freezing. Outside the thick, double-paned frosted windows of the Tudor Revival home, the Ottawa night was locked in the bitter, creeping chill of early September. The leaves on the ancient oaks lining the affluent streets of Rockcliffe Park were only just beginning to turn, but the wind howling off the Ottawa River carried the distinct, biting promise of a brutal winter to come. Inside,
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Chapter 20: The Morning After the Night Before
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Chapter 10: The Observer Effect
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This is the cold truth of their lie. They believe, in their moral superiority, that they are helping the sick. It is insidious, dismissing it as a pathology. Something that can be medicated away. The torture has evolved. I have read of the horrific experimentation going on in Asylums across the western world. As the war faded into memory and the needs of the war dwindled, the old prejudices slunk back in, sharper and cloaked in morality. -
Chapter 10: The Observer Effect
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The Heat is a Lie There is truth in the Cold. -
XLIX. The new regime didn't arrive with a shout or a blow. It arrived with a clipboard, a soft American accent, and a gaze that felt like being slowly dissected under a clinical light. Dr. Victor Cameron was thirty, wore rimless spectacles that made his pale eyes look like specimens preserved in glass, and moved with the silent, unnerving patience of a biologist studying an ant colony. He stood beside Vane on the parade ground beneath a sky the colour of tarnished pewter. Vane was a
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Chapter 20: The Morning After the Night Before
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Peter's priorities are intact, if you've ever had a Tim Hortons coffee, you'd get it. -
Chapter 20: The Morning After the Night Before
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The insurgents won't know what to do... The Twinkiest paratroopers in the world descending with bedazzled assault rifles. Peter has a fine disdain for beige. -
Chapter 20: The Morning After the Night Before
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Well they got there in the end. At least Will has some time to figure out baby logistics... and Peter has time to figure out how he's going to go all Zero Dark Thirty and extract his Wesley from Iraq... Tactical Flamingos! -
The morning of Tuesday, November 29, 2005, broke over the city of Toronto with a brittle, unforgiving cold. Outside the frosted windows of the Church-Wellesley Village townhouse, the sky was a pale, bruised shade of indigo, the weak winter sun struggling to penetrate the thick canopy of grey clouds rolling off Lake Ontario. Inside the master bedroom, the atmosphere was entirely insulated from the freezing temperatures. It was warm, quiet, and profoundly, beautifully still. Andrew Carte
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There's a little Goblin inside us all. This story was closely inspired by the 13th Warrior and Bone Tommahawk
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Chapter Five: The Warm Thing Kamyk sat in the shadows, Shem's bar mace across his knees. The weight was wrong—too heavy, too big, made for a taller man's hands. The X-shaped head caught the firelight from the central pit, glinting green and red and gold. But it was Shemmy's. J’ck had given it to him. His clan had trusted him. The green handprints on his chest itched. They were dry now, flaking, but he could still feel J'ck's palm pressing down. Marking him. Claiming him. The
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Chapter 19: The Wedding
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We all know he loves Will and Andrew, but come on, he looked awesome! -
Chapter 9: The Sound of the Cage
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Falcon Banner GNN news anchor. I might have a problem of recycling names And you, sir, have the sharpest memory -
Chapter 9: The Sound of the Cage
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Finch is not the fool Vane takes him for. -
Chapter 9: The Sound of the Cage
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Vane is going to feel this. -
XLII The phone box stood a quarter-mile from the village of Blackwater, a solitary red blister on the bleached coast road. To reach it, Carter had walked three miles in a cutting wind that spoke of nothing but the coming winter. His macintosh was no defence; the cold had already settled deep in his bones, a permanent tenant years before the first snows. Inside, the air was stale, smelling of damp wool and the ghosts of a thousand rushed, desperate conversations. Carter fumbled h
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Chapter 19: The Wedding
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The Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto stood as a quiet, defiant beacon on Simpson Avenue. On this freezing November morning, the sky above the city was a brilliant, blinding, impossible shade of winter blue, the kind of piercing light that made the snowbanks glare and the cold feel sharp enough to cut glass. Inside the sanctuary, the atmosphere was a profound, vibrating tapestry of warmth, history, and incredibly high-stakes political tension. Andrew Carter stood near the altar,
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Chapter 8: The Frequency of Truth
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Not for the ring leaders, no. There are some that caused changes, but the prisoners involved always got punished -
Chapter 8: The Frequency of Truth
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 8: The Frequency of Truth
Elias had to name himself. By putting a name to what is happening, like he did with Miller, he is humanizing the fight. Names and faces. Lord Miller's son an Aristocrat, and Elias a London lad of the lower classes. It shows it's not one class, or one group... Like in the war, which was the great equalizer, in Blackwater there are no class divides.
