The biggest problem that each of the civilizations of the true world faced, however, was that much of their space infrastructure on one side of the solar system had been utterly destroyed by the laminar integument. That meant that a lot of their space infrastructure and protocols for emergencies involving foreign threats were greatly damaged, if not entirely disabled.
They had also lost a lot of their radar and gravitational sensors in outer space, for the laminar integument leader had wiped out their observatories, space telescopes, and other sensory apparatuses that would have allowed them to get a clearer idea of exactly what was going on in outer space.
