Protocol of the fifth crisis meeting of the coordination commitee

redacted version – coded names in use

Classification: Secret

For use at the ministerial and staff level as supplemental material for new members to be briefed

Federal government: Anton, Berta

Military: Hannibal, Scipio

Network: Merlin, Samson

Emergency operations: Florian

Special attendees: Stahl (council of industrial companies), Rail (federal railways)

Berta: For the special attendees please summarize the plan and update us on new developments

Scipio: The country has been divided in three zones. Zone A where we get the monitoring level so high, that we are confident that we get all incursions. Zone B gets monitored regularly, but we expect slipups and zone C is monitored only when we have spare capacity.

Merlin: We are shifting everybody competent into monitoring so we get zone A up to 54% of the country in one contiguous area. That is the good news. That bad news is that we will have to eventually patrol the border regions of the C zones. If the grid stays down for too long, sheer exhaustion of the forces will force us to consolidate.

Anton: I have good news on that front. The government has finalized the deal with the Americans. You will get the drones and the other stuff we discussed last time.

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Samson: At what cost?

Anton: At a cost worth paying. Foreign policy is not a subject fit for this body.

Florian: Let’s be calm. On that note the evacuation of the C zones is proceeding well, with some exceptions in . The estimated numbers for the municipalities in question is found in your daily report folders.

Hannibal: We cannot spare the forces we’d need to clean this up if we are to maintain the reserves for rapid evacuations in zone B.

Anton: That is unfortunate, but I will report that and recommend that those areas be left the consequences of their refusals.

Samson: Do you want to make an example out of them?

Anton: This government does not make examples out of citizens.

Berta: Gentlemen, please, this leads us nowhere we want to be.

Merlin: Yes, thank you. On a lighter note I got notice that the simplified version of the detection protocols has been approved and is being deployed.

Scipio: Good. How will you switch over?

Merlin: We intend to use it in zone A beginning with the least densely settled parts of zone A

Stahl: zone A – why do you use a simplified version in our core areas?

Merlin: the new protocol is optimized for simplicity. We have based our numbers for zone A on the assumption that we can mobilize everybody halfway competent for detection. We need to calculate in some false negatives. In zone A checks are frequent enough to compensate for that in time.

Stahl: So you are pushing more resources into B zones? We have a list of economically important single points in them.

Anton: the government has decided to incorporate your suggestions at a later time

Stahl:

Berta: Gentlemen, please. you get at least some of what you want in our new list. We cannot give up that many small cities. We cannot resettle that many people. I have made sure you’ll get the minor highways you want monitored covered by the new forces and our other … associates

Samson: good luck with those of the . They’ll stab us in the back when we can least afford it.

Florian: Gentlemen! Please!

Anton: This meeting is no longer productive. We’ve discussed what needed to be covered immediately. Adjourned till tomorrow.