This story, originally conceived a few years after the ‘first’ Gulf War, was inspired by the technological sophistication of the weaponry and surveillance systems used by the United States and its allies in that conflict.
George W. Bush, ‘9/11’ and the so-called ‘War on Terror’ weren’t on the scene then; but the same arsenal, two decades on, remains a core component of the US military and geopolitical strategy, which seems to have as its objective nothing less than the subjugation of anything that resists it. The story was written as a serialized story in five parts.