They were good missiles, well designed, well-tested, and they had a target that was proving co-operative to the point of suicide. Well, if that was the case, the powers ‘up there’ didn’t know the human race very well.
Ever since then, The Message had been repeated at regular intervals, almost as if the concept of human defiance was so completely unexpected that the powers ‘up there’ couldn’t comprehend its existence. They’d been the first only by a matter of minutes as most of the other countries in the world has replied with similar messages. The British had enjoyed the joke, whatever it was, and collectively told Satan to perform some highly improbable obscenities on himself. His reply to The Message had been “Sod off, Baldrick,” followed by a reassuring message to the British people that he had a cunning plan to deal with the situation. The rest of the world’s population had followed the example set by Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Those whose religion had demanded blind submission to the ‘Will of God’ had accepted it without a struggle and more or less laid down and died. That didn’t surprise Wong, human reaction to The Message had split neatly down religious lines.
