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The news comes as a devastating shock to the colonists. The Detroit Lions are little more than two miles away and closing fast. If they catch up with you they could easily wipe you out and leave no trace. Then, if they could reach Pine Valley at zero hour, they would breach the checkpoint defences and open the door for a clan invasion of southern California.
‘The situation is desperate,’ says Cutter to the hastily gathered group of colony elders. ‘And it calls for desperate action!’