Rubicon

Historically, the river Rubicon represented a border between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the north and Italy proper to the south. Governors of Cisalpine Gaul were also generals able to command troops through the legal right of imperium but were forbidden to exercise imperium within Italy proper; to cross south over the Rubicon with troops would make them outlaws.  In 49BC, Julius Caesar broke the law by crossing the Rubicon with one legion, the Legio XIII Gemina, on his way to Rome, thus igniting a civil war that ultimately led to the end of the Republic.  After crossing the Rubicon, Julius Caesar is reported to have said, "The die is cast!" -- meaning, he knew he had passed a point of no return the moment he broke the law.

The idiom Crossing the Rubicon has come to mean a deliberate crossing of a point of no return.  In 5GW theory, the term Rubicon has come to represent the point after which the fate of a target of 5GW is set or unalterable.  In the sense that the target has been influenced to cross that point, his crossing can be considered deliberate; however, this does not mean that he knew at the time of crossing that it would be a point of no return.  Once a target of 5GW has crossed the Rubicon, the discovery that he has been a dupe or pawn or target of 5GW will make no difference to the outcome.