:20:13
Members of the council...
:20:15
...could you please explain why?
:20:17
Zeus was completed a month ago.
:20:20
If we attack the meteor, we will
eliminate the Phantoms at the source.
:20:24
General Hein, calm down.
:20:26
We voted 6 to 2...
:20:28
...to postpone using the Zeus cannon
to attack the Leonid Meteor.
:20:32
We have re-convened to vote again.
:20:35
I'd like to ask the director of
the Bio-Etheric Center to speak.
:20:40
-Dr. Sid, please.
-Thank you.
:20:43
The Phantoms' nest
is in the Leonid Meteor...
:20:46
...that landed here 34 years ago.
:20:49
What you see now are the records
of every assault on the meteor.
:20:54
Physical attacks have had
utterly no effect.
:20:57
This took place three months ago
during a full-scale bombardment.
:21:02
Please note the Phantoms outside
the meteor are destroyed.
:21:06
However, inside, many that
were dormant come to life...
:21:10
...and as you see, overall
Phantom density remains the same.
:21:14
The newly risen aliens respond
to the attack...
:21:17
...by burrowing deeper
into the Earth.
:21:20
This is very interesting to me...
:21:22
...because we see
the same thing during surgery...
:21:26
...when using bio-etheric lasers
on Phantom particles, do we not?
:21:30
Yes, indeed we do.
:21:32
The injured particles escape...
:21:34
...digging themselves deeper
into a patient's body.
:21:38
When we increase the laser power
to destroy these deeper particles...
:21:43
...we have had incidents of
further injury to a patient...
:21:47
...and in some cases...
:21:49
...death.
:21:50
What exactly does that mean?
:21:52
It means there's a very good chance...
:21:55
...the beam from the Zeus cannon
will burn the Phantoms.
:21:58
Exactly! Thank you.
:21:59
However, it also means that
the beam energy may be too strong...