Chapter 147

Chapter 147 GENERAL HARRISON Twenty-three minutes until Operation Guardian Angel launch, and I was staring at tactical reports that described the complete strategic failure of eighteen months of military planning. Enhanced individuals had transformed from potential security threats into indispensable humanitarian assets in less than two hours. Every satellite feed, every intelligence report, every communication intercept confirmed the same impossible reality: they were actively preventing human suffering on a scale that conventional military capability could never match. "Director Walsh requesting immediate secure conference," Communications Officer Davis announced. "Guardian Command leadership emergency session." I activated the encrypted channel, knowing that the conversation would determine whether we proceeded with military suppression that had become strategically catastrophic or acknowledged that enhanced individuals had outmaneuvered us through superior service to human survival