Ireland 2036: The Shadow War Chapter 1 – Sabotage at Dawn
Chapter 1 – Sabotage at Dawn Dublin Port – 04:27 The docks lay silent under the fading night sky, lit only by sodium lamps casting long orange shadows across stacked containers and silent cranes. A lone forklift beeped softly as it trundled down a deserted loading lane, its driver nodding with fatigue as he sipped lukewarm coffee from a steel flask. Fifty metres away, two men in high-vis jackets crouched behind a container stack. They moved with silent efficiency, clipping a black composite case to the steel supports of an electric grid substation. One checked his wrist tablet, the other unrolled a coil of carbon-filament det cord. “Timer set for 04:45,” whispered the first man in a thick Balkan accent. “Grid goes down, main port systems blackout. Chaos for extraction team.” The second man, darker-skinned with sharp hawkish eyes, glanced around the yard before replying in Urdu-inflected English: “Hurry up. Rahmani wants this done before dawn prayers.” ⚠️ Na Fianna Nu...