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Somewhere in the Sequoyan Wasteland
The foreman of the construction crew frantically sends pre-arranged signal on the emergency satellite phone. This signal is received at the Foreign Affairs Department in Gardena. He and his men willingly surrender. The two escorts surrender their arms and go quietly with the rangers.

Presidential Residence, Gardena; And other related places
President Fulkerson is apprised of the situation by one of the lucky few staffers that hadn't been fired. They don't know exactly what happened, only that they received the signal indicating the railroad crew had been betrayed and seized by elements of the Sequoyan government. President Fulkerson turned to the Defense Secretary McReardon, "Okay Larry, go ahead." Within three hours a task force of sixteen ships centered around the battleship FPS Dobhar-chú and the carrier FPS Leviathan departed from the port of Chicajun and began steaming on the long voyage southeast towards New Gandor where they would stage in the event intervention was needed.

In a more immediate measure, a squadron of fighter planes and three squadrons of support planes were dispatched to the Gandoran air base at Iornbarron on the east coast. They arrived by the late morning of the 21st. The primary flight crews immediately went to get rest after the long flight down the east coast of the continent. Ground crews began to refuel the planes and perform vital maintenance. Reserve pilots were chosen for an immediate mission. Two planes and crews were picked to lead the first mission. The pair of fighters were fitted with the maximum number of external fuel tanks possible and given schedules and coordinates for multiple rendezvouses with air to air refueling tankers on the trips to Sequoyah and back. The fighters took off at 1100 Gardena time.