1:21:00
we hauled down here
isn't going to cut it?
1:21:01
No. This core material
is too thin.
1:21:05
- What?
- The energy waves from
1:21:06
the explosion
won't spread far enough.
1:21:07
They'll just bleed
away into nothing.
1:21:14
That's it.
1:21:15
We go home.
We go home.
1:21:18
- Home?
- What?
1:21:20
Our Commander is dead.
1:21:21
Our weapons specialist is dead.
1:21:23
Our weapons control systems
are gone.
1:21:25
We don't know whether
we can arm the nuclear devices,
1:21:27
and our plan to fix the core
no longer works. So...
1:21:30
we have failed.
1:21:31
We have not failed.
1:21:32
We have failed, and we go home,
1:21:34
and we go to the alternative.
1:21:37
What alternative?
1:21:37
What are you talking about?
1:21:39
General,
this is Dr. Conrad Zimsky.
1:21:41
Destiny is a go.
1:21:42
Repeat.
1:21:43
Destiny is a go.
1:21:45
Damn.
1:21:50
I need to know everything
to do my job.
1:21:53
You don't have to know this.
1:21:55
General, it is my job
1:21:57
to ensure the safety
of this mission.
1:22:00
Anything that affects
it is my business.
1:22:02
Now what the hell is Destiny?
1:22:04
It's a device.
1:22:06
Deep Earth Seismic Trigger
Initiative, DEST-INI. Destiny.
1:22:11
We had reason to believe
1:22:13
that our enemies were
building a weapon
1:22:15
that could generate
targeted seismic events.
1:22:19
They would be able
to create massive earthquakes
1:22:21
under our territory.
1:22:22
No way of telling who did it.
1:22:23
So?
1:22:24
So... we built one, too.
1:22:27
M.A.D.
1:22:28
Mutually Assured Destruction.
1:22:30
A perfect acronym
if ever there was one.
1:22:32
Beautiful.
1:22:33
They built it first.
1:22:34
I built it better.
1:22:35
I beamed high-powered
1:22:37
electromagnetic
energy waves down Deep Earth
1:22:38
fault lines, and, you know.
1:22:40
Zimsky, what makes you think
1:22:42
that Destiny
would even touch the core?
1:22:44
'Cause it already did.
1:22:47
This isn't a fluke.
1:22:50
We killed the planet.
1:22:51
You keep saying
that the core is too big
1:22:53
to be affected by anything
short of nukes.
1:22:55
- So...
- The core is an engine.
1:22:56
Throw a small wrench
into a big engine,
1:22:57
you can still stall it.