Rodriguez authorized the operation within minutes of Solthai's request, the specific decisiveness that nine years of crisis leadership had cultivated allowing him to act without the extended deliberation more measured circumstances might have permitted.
"We're deploying," he said, his voice carrying across the reassembled council with unmistakable authority. "Coalition forces, entity resistance movement volunteers, and whatever Meridian can contribute given their own established relationship with dimensional threat response. I want Sohrn on this connection immediately."
