My shift's first images appear on the monitor, overlays shimmering to life atop the decommissioned data center, outlining stacks of disassembled routers and cooling vents. The progress bar on the ops room's jumbotron starts to fill. All green so far. The threat graph is bottomed-out today; the Finns have tightened up border security following several incursions by FSB and Spetssvyaz looters. But everything that was there yesterday is still there today. I take a moment to examine the traffic: dumper trucks heading towards Russia and the M10, the usual overnight flights nosing down from North America, the expected chatter in the ionosphere. Nothing to see here. The overview moves toward the Baltic States before swinging back up again, towards Sweden and the old Facebook plant.

It takes the dawn terminator 130 minutes to sweep across the European continent, tracing the lines of highways and power cables as day slowly returns. The sensors aboard BLIX and RITTER follow behind, reading the shapes and heat signatures of every registered storage facility in the monitoring database. We can see immediately if anything in the open has been moved or disturbed, but the covered mills, where ground crews haven't yet been able to reach, are slightly trickier. BLIX scans parking lots and fences, counting cars and gateways, examining the ground moisture for signs of tunneling and trenching. There have been reports on the less official diplomatic forums that some authorities have been slow to register facilities, but that's a matter for the liaison teams. I can only see what I've been told to look for.