I have been involved with some other groups that are trying to design a coherent timeline.
One thought we had was that there were actually TWO projects running concurrently.
One was the Council for Tomorrow. Their task was planning for the worst and to take the info that BEM came back with and try and influence the present to PREVENT TEOTWAWKI.
The other being Morrow Project. This was supposed to be the "ace in the hole" IF C.F.T. failed.
Then, of course, the minions of Krell had to interfere. In one blab session, We came up with the idea that Krell and/or his operative was the one to feed the false attack tape into NORAD. With the background of the TV show Jericho, this started to make some sense. Try to destroy the USSR while, hopefully, only damaging the USA....well that worked well...
Then we followed that logic a little farther. IF Krell truly wanted to take over, then he HAD to take out TMP. Hense the attack on Prime as soon has he had a bead on just where Prime was located. Krell knew there had to be a C3I for TMP. He did? or did not? know that C3I was SO centrally located at Prime.
This then leads to the problem with the faulty program at Prime. Yes I understand that these people were dying as they tried to write "The Omega Program."
We have postulated several fixes to this problem.
1) Prime Alternate. Fully cryo-sleep staff, set to wake 5 years after seismic impacts of WWIII. Or a signal sent by Prime that the war was over. Remember Prime DID survive the war!
2) Regional Command Centers. Mentioned in TM 1-1. Iv'e never seen any scenario with these involved. Again, I can see a timed wake up based on some time factor from Prime, or seismic readings, or both.
3) More Information for commanders in the field. This goes along the line of what do we do IF Prime fails,blows up, whatever AND the regional command centers do not go online. Then SOMEONE has to have the keys to the kingdom.
4) A tie in with the Snake Eaters? This was sort of far fetched, but we postulated that IF the US DOD knew about Morrow, then Morrow knew about Snake Eaters. Any time I have been in a game with GB's, the GB's are there to help. In fact the GB's are better able to help on a local, day to day basis than TMP.
Another two cents from yours truly.
Mike