**Outside LA**

At an old airbase stood a man in the current Unite States Army camo uniform. He wore three stars and stood before a group of the press.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen I am General Brian Claremont, I am running the operation in the city of Los Angeles to restore the order of law. At 21:00 hours last night elements of the United States Armed Forces entered Los Anglese. In accordance with the declaration of martial law on the city I have the following statement." The general cleared his throat. 
"First all persons caught outside after curfew will be detained. Second anyone committing criminal action will be shot. Any violent metahuman will be shot. Any attempt to commit an act of terror will be responded to appropriately. If those that commit said actions commit any actions against the US Armed Forces we will come down hard on said attackers. This is to be temporary and we wish to apologize to the people of Los Anglese for the inconvenience this brings upon them. Also all public schools will be closed for three days to prevent attacks against our children. 

Two of the general's aides prop up a picture the FBI bomber. "I am authorized to reveal that the government will offer 25 million dollars to any citizen that brings in this person, dead or alive. We will confirms if said person is the FBI bomber. That is all no questions.

General Claremont walked off the stage and ignored the press asking every question under the sun. Of course what the press didn't know and even few in government knew was of the last line of defense. the kinetic attack weapon codenamed Thor. Only a few companies knew of it (Taylor nor Stu were involved in it's development) It's deployment was quiet and the system relied on the fact that since it was not a weapon of mass destruction (Nuclear, biological, chemical) it was allowed under the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. But many people would object to such a system.

The DoD had a total of twenty Thor units now in orbit. Each unit contained twenty rods of tungsten and concrete shielded to enter the atmosphere and cause mass destruction. The brains at DoD figured that if there was a massive meta attack five rods would wipe out most the metas in an area. Claremont knew there would be lots of civilian casualties if it were used but this was a war and innocents died in war. The power of each Thor unit meant only one was needed over Los Anglese, compared to four of North Korea at all times.

At least Claremont knew that if the enemy attacked the government would be the winning side.


Of course the government announcement led to the headlines like:

**US GOV OFFERS 25 MIL FOR BOMBER CORPSE**

**MILITARY TO FIGHT VIOLENT METAS**

**MARTIAL IN LA BEGINS!**