The energy from those charged particles is dispersed across the super-hot ionosphere, and then reassembled above its intended target. Logistical personnel explain that the HAARP array allows the particle cannon to superheat the ionosphere, causing it to reflect particles. Meanwhile, the other Joes on board the Flagg learn from Dial Tone that satellite communications are down due to the superheated ionosphere, and eventually trace Cobra's activity to the HAARP array, the satellites, and the Siberian particle cannon, which lies beneath the decommissioned Russian ballistic missile complex.
As a show of force, the cannon is fired at Moscow, Russia, destroying the city and killing approximately ten million people. Cobra Commander uses the projector to broadcast a message to the assembled UN representatives, in which he demands that all nations on earth turn control of their resources over to the Cobra organization within 24 hours, or face indiscriminate destruction of their major cities. The Cobra operative Firefly fires a special missile package through the wall of the United Nations building in Manhattan, NY, which deploys a small holographic projector. Finally, at a decommissioned nuclear missile silo in Siberia, a prototype particle beam weapon is unveiled. Following this, hundreds of rockets carrying solar powered stratellites are launched into low-earth-orbit, forming an entire network just below the ionosphere, allowing Cobra to maintain a covert worldwide communication network. The plan begins with the seizure of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program array (HAARP), which superheats the ionosphere. Snake Eyes, after reading the scroll's hidden note, departs to confront Storm Shadow and settle their rivalry once and for all.Īfter repeated attempts to seize power through brute force have failed, Cobra Commander comes up with a new plan to recover Cobra's financial investments, and seize control of world power at the same time. An autopsy uncovers a note hidden in Bazooka's mouth, which reveals the assassin to be Storm Shadow, a former friend of Snake Eyes from his time training as a ninja.
A Joe named Bazooka had been killed prior to the attack while on guard duty. Explosives rigged in vital areas destroy almost all on board weapons, ammunition, and vehicles, in addition to severely compromising the vessel's integrity. In the Pacific Ocean the USS Flagg, a modified aircraft carrier, falls prey to a saboteur. Major Bludd's (dead) body is found by police at the Lincoln Memorial, with a knife thru his heart. The show has a darker and more realistic tone compared to other installments in the franchise, and also uses elements from both the cartoons and the comics, and is described by Warren Ellis as a "fusion".
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It debuted on the web at Adult Swim Video on Apas a series of ten 5-minute episodes and a final 10-minute episode, with a content rating of TV-14-V, and later premiered as a movie on Canadian television network Teletoon on Apand on Adult Swim on April 25, 2009. It was written by Warren Ellis, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, and produced by Sam Register, creator of Cartoon Network's Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. Joe: Resolute is an American animated television series based on the G.I.