（外文电子版资料）Charles Stross - SEAQ And Destroy.pdf

SEAQ and Destroy Charles Stross Historical note: this story was originally written in 1987. It was sold to There wont be War in early 1988. However, it took rather a long time for that anthology to be published ... it finally came out the week after the Moscow Putsch that toppled Mikhail Gorbachev and led to the breakup of the USSR. If that kind of thing annoys you, just pretend its an alternate history story ... Day 1 NewsBurst:11:43 G.M.T. The Third World War began this morning with a Russian dawn raid on the City of London. Bombs exploded all over the Docklands Enterprise Zone, disrupting the white-hot core of European industrial asset-stripping; the follow-up raids involved extensive use of lethal virus weapons and tactical assault units. Casualties included Larry Steinberg, a systems analyst for BSF: Video intercut: Steinberg: It was terrible. They must have infiltrated those time bombs weeks ago, but there was no sign of them. They began going off at nine-thirteen this morning, bringing down whole systems. One entire block just crumbled ... it was terrible, I tell you. We lost SEAQ for starters and then it all went to hell. There were casualties everywhere ... I saw this young dealer, she was crying and pulling her hair out over her colleague, hed copped it but bad, flat on the floor ... Voice-over:Barclays de Stoat Fader is just one of the large financial houses to suffer at the hands of the spetznaz assault this morning. Other large institutions affected include Country NatWest and the European desks of Drexel Burnham. Casualty figures are high, possibly running into tens of thousands of city workers and billions of ECUs of damage. Further video updates will follow. Viral attack was largely confined to peripheral dealer desks where data throughput was limited to those personnel who had time to play a p