The emergency session in Moscow had been convened with unusual speed, pulling ministers and military officials from their evening obligations with minimal explanation beyond "immediate national security concern."
The room was secure, windowless, and contained people who understood that what they discussed here would not leave these walls unless explicitly authorized.
The Defense Minister spoke first, his tablet displaying the Medical Nanites announcement in Russian translation. "This changes the strategic calculus entirely. We've been monitoring Nova Technologies since the Lucid device appeared. Our intelligence services have found nothing. No supply chains we can identify. No manufacturing facilities we can locate. No personnel we can track. And now they announce medical technology that makes our entire defense medical corps obsolete and claim to have a facility in space that we never detected."
