Under these brutal conditions, the battlefield telemetry network faithfully fulfilled its purpose, capturing a massive stream of combat data over the first thirty seconds. The sheer volume of raw data was staggering. In this narrow timeframe, only the quantum tactical mainframes could possibly analyze the flow and generate actionable conclusions.
There were a total of six thousand nuclear warheads concealed within a chaotic cloud of countless conventional missiles and decoys. However, the command center's attention was fixed squarely on the super-heavy main payloads.
The vast majority of the swarm consisted of rocket booster debris or bulky foam and aerogel blocks. Their sole purpose was to saturate and overwhelm the enemy's automated tracking systems.
Humanity had only twenty-seven super-heavy nuclear payloads in play: twenty-six helium-3 warheads, each boasting a one-gigaton yield, and the single, apocalyptic tetrahydrogen bomb.
