The Bio-metal nuke exploded pre-maturely as the Cerberi blew it away. The ensueing wave of destruction swept across the base incinerating everyone and then the other nukes miles away.

Because the nukes never had a chance to go off as planned, the one wasn't enough to hold the Cerberi at bay. Earth was granted one extra month before they came for them.

President Hardin instituted the same plan as the original Seventh Fleet and it worked. Turning earth in to a burning hell, the Cerberi were stopped at the cost of the human race, but Hardin had hoped that this one world would be enough to buy the freedom and lives of every other sentient in the galaxy.

