Trust (Part 2)

"Good gods, one mistake and we might blow up?" Her survival instinct took the wheel and her Forgemaster wand appeared in her hand.

"Maybe. I'm paranoid, but the Odi were crazy, so it's not so unlikely that..."

"You're not paranoid. I mean, not this time." Phloria cut him short.

"Once a safety protocol is breached, the defense readiness condition is raised. Unless the Commander promptly resets the system, two things are bound to happen. The first is the call for reinforcements, which probably failed, being that the Odi are dead.

"The second is triggering the failsafe mechanism to protect the base's secrets. It usually implies self-destruction to prevent state secrets from falling into the wrong hands and kill the intruders at the same time."

"Can you reset it?" Lith asked.

"Maybe. So far the Odi protocols are not so different from those of the Griffon Kingdom."