W3N Transcript from The Frank Hour

"...we thought our space stations and Ion Cannons were the safest of our military assets. We put our most valuable military personnel, our most important command and control systems, and our most powerful weapons in space for this very reason. Little did we know that our space assets had a deadly vulnerability - a single point of failure located in a poorly defended installation ON THE GROUND. Nod exploited this vulnerability at the worst possible time, when our entire political and military leadership was on board the Philadelphia. This is a scandal of staggering magnitude.

"It gets worse. W3N investigative reporters dug into this story and discovered that the decision to locate our A-SAT control systems on the ground at Goddard Space Center was made because of cost. SpaceCom would have had to build an entire new orbital platform just for the computers and crew at a cost of tens of billions. This is an outrage. Security in space was an illusion all along - and GDI was almost wiped out because SpaceCom wanted to save some money..."

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W3N文稿引用自富蘭克小時

“…我們認為我們的空間站和離子炮是最安全的軍事資產(chǎn)。正因為如此我們才會把我們最有價值的軍事人員，我們最重要的指揮控制系統(tǒng)，還有我們最為威力強大的武器投放到太空。然而我們不知道我們的太空設施有個致命弱點——一處防御薄弱設施中的單點故障（a single point of failure，計算機術語，指系統(tǒng)中一點失效，就會讓整個系統(tǒng)無法運作的部件，可以理解為關鍵部件）位于地面。Nod在最糟糕的時候利用了這個弱點，當時我們所有的政治和軍事領導層都在費城空間站。這是一樁規(guī)模驚人的丑聞。

更糟的是，當W3N調(diào)查記者深究這個故事，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)將我們的A-SAT控制系統(tǒng)放在地面哥達德航空中心的決定是由于成本原因。太空司令部（SpaceCom，也是譯者瞎翻的譯名）不得不建造一個新的軌道平臺，僅僅為了電腦和人員就要花費數(shù)百萬美元。這還了得。太空安全自始至終都是錯覺——GDI幾乎被消滅，而這只是因為太空司令部想省點錢……”