Grandma Carter and her strike team volunteered to join the fleet that went out to face the Chinese over their expansion towards Australia. They stood with other Americans, Australians, and a menagerie of various refugees from across South East Asia, and met the Chinese over and around Indonesia. They drew a line across those islands and she’s often told me that she was real certain there was going to be war. She and her strike team performed more than one act of war during that standoff, and her counterparts on the other side did as well. Everyone knew it was coming. China was never going to stop if the Western powers didn’t MAKE them stop. History would turn out to be rather different than anyone expected.