Thread:DavidReidHowe/@comment-26296200-20150919015846/@comment-26084195-20150928071855

The Antarcticans have a highly advanced missile defense system. The nuclear missiles are all targeted by counter-missiles and destroyed.

Speaking of such...

The survivor of a company of Scandinavian soldiers returns to the ship-base to report what had happened. According to him, a giant metal worm with a drill mouth had swallowed most of his company whole, and blasted the remaining with some kind of concussive maw cannon.