05_force_of_arms

Robotech: Force of ArmsBook Five of the Robotech SeriesCopyright 1987 by Jack McKinneyarranged by dayuan [ robotech zone ]PART I: SHOWDOWNPROLOGUEIn the 1990s, a global civil war swept across the planet Earth; few wanted this war, but no one seemed to be able to avert it. It absorbed all the smaller disparate wars, rebellions, and terrorist struggles in the same way a huge storm vacuums up all the lesser weather systems around it.The War was fought with conventional weapons for the most part, but by 1999 it was clear that its escalation pointed directly to an all-out nuclear exchange-planetary obliteration. There seemed to be nothing any sane person could do about it. By then, the War had a