And, at that moment, nearly a thousand miles away...
something rose out of the Pacific Ocean.
Twenty miles off the coast of San Diego, this massive structure of metallic gadgetry rose from the water.
Four times the size of the oil rig right next to it.
It was a cannon was what it was.
A cannon operating without any human assistance whatsoever.
A cannon that rotated as it fully emerged from the watery depths where it had been hiding for years.
A cannon that, after it stopped rotating, aimed itself towards San Diego.
The largest cannon that existed or had ever existed on the planet Earth.
And then the cannon fired. White laser-light, it fired.
Within thirty seconds, over a million people were dead.