Geneva Convention "Loophole" gives Ayup an Arms Advantage

In spite of the ever-growing outcry of public demand for a ceasefire, the conflict between Ayup and GeoStorm persists. As more and more of Ayup’s troops are killed in battle, they have found themselves fighting what expert combat analysts can only describe as an uphill battle of attrition. Pulling teeth in the jaws of war, President Danke tells interviewers he found himself at a threatening ultimatum: fight smarter or die trying.

“Morale is down, and there’s this deep survival instinct buried in us that tells us to fight dirty,” explained General James to ASJ reporters, “but we want to be proud of how we battled when we look back on it in the future. And, one day, President Danke whispered this idea in my ear, and I thought, ‘this is it, this is the path to a victory where our kids won’t inherit any of the guilt we carry.’”

“I hired some of the greatest geniuses of our time to build a weapon,” confessed President Danke, “and they just launched the first successful test deep in the deserts of New Lexico. It’s powerful, it’s humane, and it will render GeoStorm completely defenseless. We’ve reviewed the Geneva Convention a hundred times and it doesn’t violate a single standard.”

While all military personnel involved in the project were enthusiastic about the advantage it gave them over GeoStorm’s Special Forces, they told ASJ that revealing any details about the weapon to the general public and to potential GeoStorm spies would be subject to conviction for treason. “What’s the rush?” President Danke asked lead reporters in a chilling moment of the interview presumed to line next decade’s history books, “you’ll learn about it as soon as they do.”