Three days later, the United Council announced a temporary halt of activities, and the Army system became independent, entering a stage of self-governance.
On that day, more than ninety national spokespersons died within the Federation's borders, enough to cause the most severe political turmoil to date.
The Federation launching missiles within its own territory was also considered a repeat of the Libitelli disaster from a dozen years prior.
Only this time, there was no Wei Tianyang to put up a protective umbrella to stop it.
The President was still unreachable, and the rest of the cabinet members in the White House Office had no idea where the President was, but the military did; in fact, they had dispatched the Army to the underground bunker to search for the President that very day.
