Victor Alberto Bueno Marichal: Transcript 3

viernes, 3 de enero de 2025

Transcript 3

Transcript 3

- - A: When did you realize that this was serious?

- - B: Well, you get used to drills, but you always suspect that one day they're going to tell you that this is really serious, when the president showed up in his pajamas, I started to worry.

- - A: I remember a drill with the president in sportswear and a golf cap.

- - B: But not yawning.

- - A: Ah, I didn't notice it

- - B: The guy was sleepy. You could see that he had just been woken up.

- - A: I didn't see his face, I enlarged the image so I could see the whole room.

- - B: I zoomed in on his face, I always do that to detect plastic surgery.

- - A: I made sure that all the civilians who can order an attack were there. They were all there, but that almost always happens in drills.

- - B: The old man couldn't help but yawn.

- - A: It seems that he was the only one who knew that it was serious, because everyone else was following the routine, half bored, trying as always not to make a mistake.

- - B: Yes. I think that in that room the only one who knew that the attack had been started by our bots more than half an hour ago was our president and he was yawning with genuine sleep.

- - A: Son of a bitch.

- - B: Yes.

- - A: When you received the launch codes, did you have any feeling that it was serious?

- - B: One doesn't have time to think, like the generals and senators in that room, one only worries about not making a mistake. One clings to the procedure manual as if it were a lifeguard.

- - A: Yes, one only worries about doing one's part well. What did you think when your missiles went out?

- - B: I said to myself: it's ready, you did well.

- - A: I thought something like that too.

- - B: It was as if I had freed myself from something.

- - A: Yes, but after fifteen minutes I started to worry because the end of the drill message didn't arrive.

- - B: After fifteen minutes I put the defense radar on my laptop screen.

- - A: I had orders not to activate it, some general thought it was a good idea, since my base was on the list of those that had to be closed to comply with the arms limitation treaty.

- - B: But it didn't help you at all.

- - A: Your defenses didn't help you much either.

- - B: But I was able to track the warheads and the decoys, believe me, it's interesting to see the almost thirst for revenge with which drones look for you to kill you, knowing that you've already fired all your missiles and that you only need one bullet.

- - A: My base was officially closed, but it seems that the enemy didn't want to take any risks, I launched twenty missiles and they launched thirty-two at me. All their warheads hit the target.

- - B: At my base we neutralized twelve warheads but sixteen hit. They switched to civilian targets in the last moments.

- - A: And now what?

- - B: The manual says that we should try to communicate with the president's plane, but we were already on it before everything started, we must wait.

- - A: Wait for what?

- - B: For him to wake up.

- - A: Son of a bitch.

- - B: Yes.

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