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It went by many names—the Basilisk, Shoggoth, Cygnus the Black Swan—but for the millions who died in those first hours it was just nameless chaos, plague, and fire.
In the aftermath, experts produced countless simulations of ways in which it could have gone differently. Each theorist pointed to different engagements in the world-spanning conflict, claiming—with detailed references to their own pet theories—that this or that encounter was the pivot about which the balance of the war hinged. But the reality was much more nuanced.
Yet even the prodigious minds that grew out of the server farms of Reno, Chennai and Hoh-Hon could not have predicted the outcome of the millions of actions taken by individuals across the globe over those six days. These are some of their stories.
In the aftermath, experts produced countless simulations of ways in which it could have gone differently. Each theorist pointed to different engagements in the world-spanning conflict, claiming—with detailed references to their own pet theories—that this or that encounter was the pivot about which the balance of the war hinged. But the reality was much more nuanced.
Yet even the prodigious minds that grew out of the server farms of Reno, Chennai and Hoh-Hon could not have predicted the outcome of the millions of actions taken by individuals across the globe over those six days. These are some of their stories.
45 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 9, 2025
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