Esther throws the laptop into the water just before it is destroyed by the defense satellite's laser beam.
This was a program to improve the database on nuclear hardening design techniques for defense satellites.
After turning on his computer, he suddenly acquires information that the strategic defense satellite "Colosseum" has picked up some nuclear weapons being fired.
A discovery in gamma-ray astronomy came in the late 1960s and early 1970s from a constellation of military defense satellites.
The defense satellites had not been approached closely enough by the invading ship to trigger their weaponry.
As they did, the defense satellites in high orbit lashed out at them with beams like Grand Fleet's, but smaller.
They saw the defense satellites taken down, and Grand Fleet Headquarters fall.
Only the larger ships could hope to take on the defense satellites and the ground-based missiles.
Most of their defense satellites still aren't equipped, and we detected no warships too dose to outrun.
The player must also make repairs to the defense satellites that become damaged during the battles.