“Orion was a threat to the entire world, but he wasn’t the last one. Usually, there’s a real risk of Armageddon once a decade or so. When those come, the Orion Protocol gets activated. Not every criminal gets the offer: those who revel in slaughter or death are kept rightly where they should be. But the ones who were just greedy, or dumb, or got in over their heads, they get a second chance. Die fighting or live as a civilian.
