Death Toll Rises in Alliance Shooting

Lee Hunter - Exodus Sentinel

SCOTT - The death toll from the shootout that shocked Terra Nova Tuesday afternoon has risen by two, as siblings Ken and Dena Ayumi both died in surgery late last night. Ken, 16, had been walking 11 year old Dena to her football club when the shooting occurred on the crowded city street in Scott’s central market around 1600 local time, during a peaceful demonstration against Alliance martial law. Neither Ken nor Dena had any connection to the protests.

Their deaths mark three underage victims that Serviceman Niota claimed in her devastating attack, including Thomas West, 2, who was declared dead at the scene.

“The Ayumi kids had strong ties to the community here,” says Staff Lieutenant Adrian Morse, the district Adjutant for Campbell’s Market, where the shooting took place. “Their classmates are absolutely devastated, their neighbors are in shock...they thought they were safe after the war, and then this happens. It’s a horrible tragedy, after so many horrible tragedies in recent times.”

Sovereign Nation, an interracial cult that has been marked as having ‘terrorist goals’ since the Victory Day celebrations on Earth, whom the Alliance is blaming as being behind the attacks, claims that Niota, a naval engineer, was not a follower of theirs, and that such acts against the ‘innocent, ignorant minds of children’ are not within their doctrine. Alliance marines are currently asking colonials to stay on their guard, and to report suspicious activity or persons to their nearest base.

Serviceman Eileen Niota is currently being held at Bakula Prison, the only remaining detainment center left in the city after the Reaper Invasion last year. There have already been outcries from several groups to transfer the engineer to a more secure prison, as Bakula, they claim, doesn’t have the security for such violent criminals.

In the meantime, citizens have left memorials for the six victims, and vigils for the remaining seven people in critical condition at Scott Memorial are scheduled for later tonight and tomorrow afternoon, as the shaken families of Campbell’s Market attempt to figure out who to trust.

The families of the dead have requested their privacy be respected during this difficult time.

To take a moment from the issue at hand


Sirta is a human company.

Modern medi-gel is a human invention.

You are an idiot.

You are also incredibly, incredibly , sad for attempting to use an article about deceased children as an opportunity to discuss your personal politics regarding bio-modification.

This is not the time, nor the place. If it matters so much to you, take the extra thirty seconds to make your own fucking thread.

The loss of innocent children is something that should never happen so violently.

I am glad this 'Sovereign Nation' has no holds on Khar'Shan, and that the People chose to follow the Tar'isi, upon seeing a land saved from destruction, instead of seeing the destruction wrought around them and following the Demons who created it.

Likely whether or not he had time to make a pot of coffee, first.

Medi-gel being a human invention is exactly why I was using it as an example, It's a Bioengineering slime that saves lives and, if it weren't so damn useful, it would be banned under the bioengineering restrictions. It's a proof of concept.

Step One: Go to Terminus

Step Two: Do it anyways

Step Three: Stop being a bitch in news threads about dead children you dumb fuck.

Step Four: Bitch about alliance not screening for reaper cultist psychopaths successfully, assuming you're a sepper type, which is honestly a much bigger issue.

Using the absolute best example and single exception to the rules in place doesn't exactly make your case. In fact, it's pretty much the opposite. Bioengineering will (not "can") devastate planets and people. This is like complaining about the rules against AI, and then ignoring every single rogue AI that's shown up (no offence meant to any Geth reading this), except on the scale of entire planets and species.

Indeed, the best example for rampant bioengineering in the modern galaxy is the Theocracy and their warbeasts, and they became a genocidal, planet burning empire who expanded the Nemean considerably with their death.

Twice, actually, since they fell in with the reapers.

Perhaps not the example people wish to use when advocating bioengineering.

Biocrap aside, this is why, whenever you want someone dead, you hire a professional. Hell, even I never killed a kid, not even on accident.