Eclipse Causes Chinese Power Grid Blackout

The Chinese government converted their entire power grid to run off of solar power, generated in the Gobi Desert, to reduce pollution following the fall of South Africa, so that they might not suffer a similar fate. Earlier this week, a solar eclipse in the Gobi Desert caused the entire British-Chinese grid to go off line for the good part of a day and into the subsequent night. Naturally, this caused a full blackout in communications and satellite feeds for the Chinese armed forces. By the time the power grid was back on line, the forces China thought it had in Lanzhou and Guangzhou had been replaced with those of India and Australia, respectively, and their own forces pushed back to the northeast.

When asked to comment on his findings on the intent of British-China's “Operation Eclipse”, Spymaster General Sir Francis Walsingham stated that, “Eclipse was hardly a code name, more of the truth really. The governing staff of Australia left their state offices to go turn the power on and prevent any military or territorial losses due to the blackout. We deem 'Operation Eclipse' a failure.”