W3N Transcript from The Frank Hour

"...we thought our space stations and Ion Cannons were the safest of our military assets. We put our most valuable military personnel, our most important command and control systems, and our most powerful weapons in space for this very reason. Little did we know that our space assets had a deadly vulnerability - a single point of failure located in a poorly defended installation ON THE GROUND. Nod exploited this vulnerability at the worst possible time, when our entire political and military leadership was on board the Philadelphia. This is a scandal of staggering magnitude.

"It gets worse. W3N investigative reporters dug into this story and discovered that the decision to locate our A-SAT control systems on the ground at Goddard Space Center was made because of cost. SpaceCom would have had to build an entire new orbital platform just for the computers and crew at a cost of tens of billions. This is an outrage. Security in space was an illusion all along - and GDI was almost wiped out because SpaceCom wanted to save some money..."

W3N文稿引用自富兰克小时

“…我们认为我们的空间站和离子炮是最安全的军事资产。正因为如此我们才会把我们最有价值的军事人员，我们最重要的指挥控制系统，还有我们最为威力强大的武器投放到太空。然而我们不知道我们的太空设施有个致命弱点——一处防御薄弱设施中的单点故障（a single point of failure，计算机术语，指系统中一点失效，就会让整个系统无法运作的部件，可以理解为关键部件）位于地面。Nod在最糟糕的时候利用了这个弱点，当时我们所有的政治和军事领导层都在费城空间站。这是一桩规模惊人的丑闻。

更糟的是，当W3N调查记者深究这个故事，他们发现将我们的A-SAT控制系统放在地面哥达德航空中心的决定是由于成本原因。太空司令部（SpaceCom，也是译者瞎翻的译名）不得不建造一个新的轨道平台，仅仅为了电脑和人员就要花费数百万美元。这还了得。太空安全自始至终都是错觉——GDI几乎被消灭，而这只是因为太空司令部想省点钱……”