[Publius]

At least the "Scare Event" has been identified as a government buzzword. The "SC" stands for "Societal Chaos" in a situation where the military would take charge. I'm sure there are executive orders in place for such scenarios. While nuclear war is a possibility, the "Sky Event" needs a bit of study.

One thing I discovered on the final episode of last season's "NCIS" is that the government has a scenario called "Black Sky" where the electrical grid goes down.

The entire national grid could only be taken down by an EMP blast from a nuke. Such an act could only come from certain parties who would be removed from the face of earth if they tried it.

But individual areas could be taken down by terrorism, either kinetic action against electrical infrastructure or computer viruses deployed against information technology infrastructure. The "NCIS" plot featured a Russian oligarch using a computer virus to initiate "Black Sky" and take down the electrical infrastructure of the District of Columbia.

A "Black Sky" event in real life would be aimed at most or all of our top twenty cities. Imagine ten days of darkness without power in our worst run cities. Our military, repatriated from our various bases around the world, would be the only hope to keep some form of American civilization intact.

[Gulf War One]

It could also be caused naturally, as in the Carrington Event:

"The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking from 1 to 2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10. It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally and caused sparking and even fires in multiple telegraph stations. The geomagnetic storm was most likely the result of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun colliding with Earth's magnetosphere.

The geomagnetic storm was associated with a very bright solar flare on 1 September 1859. It was observed and recorded independently by British astronomers Richard Christopher Carrington and Richard Hodgson—the first records of a solar flare.

A geomagnetic storm of this magnitude occurring today would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts, and damage due to extended outages of the electrical power grid." - Wikipedia

[Melian]

And Flynn repeated “What a beautiful black sky” to his foes.

[redrhino47]

Our military, repatriated from our various bases around the world, would be the only hope to keep some form of American civilization intact.

With time to prepare for this, could they do it ?