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Eschaton on I-Day: the Annular Fusion labs as the point-heaviest targets

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the especially point-heavy Annular Fusion research laboratories in North Syracuse NNY and Presque Isle ME, Chyonskrg Kurgistan and Pliscu Romania, and possibly elsewhere.

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The game's scoring smuggles the O.N.A.N. present into its Cold-War physics: the "especially point-heavy" targets are the "Annular Fusion research laboratories," the signature technology of the annular era — Presque Isle ME sits at the very edge of the Concavity. The most valuable things to destroy in a game about the sovereign past are the fusion plants of the interdependent present, an anachronism the children don't notice and the scoring rewards. (The Annular Fusion physics itself is annularity's; landed here is only the game-politics of the labs as top targets.)

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