[BREAKING] Possible Terrorist Attack on Sur’Kesh Megalopolis

POSSIBLE TERRORIST ATTACK ON SUR'KESH MEGALOPOLIS

By Selleso Idrik

Entish, ANNOS BASIN - Orbital arrays and planetary sensor nets have confirmed the mass deployment of military grade weaponry in the Tevishi Vael Spaceport at 1145 local time. Eyewitness accounts and station contacts indicate that the superstructure of the central terminal has been critically damaged and is in the processing of collapsing.

Evacuations of the rest of Tevishi Vael is ongoing, all liners have been grounded and special response units are being deployed on the scene. All flights have been redirected to nearby Rukyo and Spire Eighteen ports. Death toll is unknown. The number of wounded is also as of yet unknown but projected to be extensive given the event occurred at the height of the port’s rush hour traffic.

Union military detachments have been scrambled to the city and are expected to be arriving within the next several hours to assist in the establishment of a quarantine line around the port and reinforce civil defense units.

More on the situation as it develops.



***UPDATE***

Secondary detonations around Tevishi Vael at 1200 local time, believed to be some form of resonance based demolitions technology. Ewasi Grove, Little Disan, Heavenly Clutch, Osoli Osol, and Primary Southwest arcologies have sustained critical damage. Secondary collapses have inflicted severe damage to the structural integrity of neighboring buildings.

Quarantine line has been breached. First Union military units are disembarking. Stage Three Alert has been upgraded to a localized Stage Two, full scale evacuation of Southern Entish is now in effect.

Death toll is unknown. Number of wounded is unknown.



***UPDATE***

Individual believed to be responsible for the bombing of Tevishi Vael engaged elements at the quarantine line with an unknown device at 1210 local time. Device generated extreme heat, light, and lethally high levels of radiation during detonation. Civil defense units caught in blast zone around confirmed Killed In Action. Additional units are requiring medical evacuation and treatment for acute radiation poisoning and burns.

Bomber is believed to be traveling deeper into the city along the Faasi Expressway. Forward elements of Union military forces are moving to engage with air support.



***UPDATE***

Bomber created an Uvaso Class/Tier II nanotech event with secondary effects at 1220 local time when isolated and surrounded at K 32 of the Faasi Expressway. Heavy ordinance failed to breach defensive shell.

Military liaison has confirmed the destruction of two gunships and a Union infantry platoon but has refused to release unit designations. Debris created by the collapse of the Faasi Expressway has made kill confirmation impossible.



***UPDATE***

PRIORITY ONE ALERT

Second terrorist attack near the Jurim Sea. Agent believed to be operating in tandem with but separate from Tevishi Vael bomber.
Noltric Dynamics.headquarters has been destroyed by a Tier II self replicating Weapon of Mass Destruction. Localized Stage Two Alert has been upgraded to a Regional Stage Two/Localized Stage One. Full scale evacuation of Entish Megalopolis is in effect. Surrounding cities have been put on alert.

Weapon displays both rapid growth potential and secondary environmental effects, the most potent of with is an individually perpetuating incendiary reaction.



Noltric Dynamics headquarters has collapsed into the lower levels. Sinkhole is expanding across city block. Total death toll remains unknown.

Dalatrass Linron to address Union within the hour.



***UPDATE***

DALATRASS LINRON ADDRESSES UNION

.... no

What the

FUCK

Most of the Salarians I know are in Aeghor - on a colony world. Nearly all are fine, but nearly all of them know someone on Surkesh.

They're in a combination of panic and mourning, and the whole city's on a lockdown. And those few Salarians I do know on the homeworld? Not a word...and they're all in their late 30's - known them for years.

I've seen countless comrades die right in front of me, with me as their last hope...and I'm just as sick over this.

We can't get there fast enough to help. Perhaps the news knows more, but I hear we're picking up ships as we get closer.

This sick, allll over again. These fanatics had the chance to stand up and voice their opposition to their government during the Reaper War and actually do something worthwile for the galaxy to convince everyone. But noooo.... let's make this a total massacre.
They are betraying their own ideas, like all terrorists are.

really. fucking really.

surkesh the only homeworld not demolished by the reapers, and now its being torn apart by its own fucking people

oh well. shots shots shots.

who needs reapers?

This is just so horrible. I can't even begin to understand why anyone has ever thought that terrorism was a suitable way to go about anything at all.

My thoughts are with the people on Sur'Kesh and anyone with family and friends there.

There, I told you. Salarian civil war. I didn't want to say it, but that's what this is. It's a war and it's a coup. By madmen.

Does this seem in any way right to anyone? You're having a normal week and then suddenly there's open war on the homeworld? I thought the Reapers were crazy but this is just something else. This is completely insane. You all see that, right? They're mad, they're totally mad.

Mekan's right, this is salarian Cerberus. Only worse.

"We're killing you all so you can have a say in the political process, because we don't give a shrell about your life or your safety, but we think it's really essential that you get to have your opinions on things ticked off on a checklist and used to legitimate our policies". Daughter's Eyes, they can't really be that deluded. People must know that all they want is to legitimise themselves by controlling the people on the ground. They've got to see that, right? They couldn't control the powerful clans, so they're trying to get the people they can control some sort of political influence. This is just a coup attempt. With city-destroying weapons!

Look, we need the rest of the Council. And the krogan, actually. We need everyone to take these motherless crazies down. Why isn't anyone doing anything? Where's the statement from the Council?

This one has not been able to stop watching the footage! It is horrified.

It is fearful not only for the people of Sur'Kesh but for the galaxy. It reiterates the honourable Kirok's argument regarding the "big picture", and humbly suggests that such events are disastrous for these ones in their entirety, regardless of planetary origins. It urges the others to consider how worlds beyond Sur'Kesh will be diminished. The material resources and generous aid provided by the Union have been instrumental in aiding reconstruction across many of the civilized reefs. It argues that in such times as these, when all beings are interconnected and inter-reliant, that such a horrific act of destruction is an attack upon the unity of sapient beings.

This one's peers and learned betters have prepared a text that aims to offer spiritual comfort in this trying time. It is proud to have offered some contribution. It invites all members of the Citadel community to access the text [here].

This is devastating news, and for such petty reasons... They don't like Linron, well a lot of people didn't too, but now she's the face of the resistance to the worst salarian criminals since the league of one!
How many are there of those clowns? How is the STG unable to stop them?
And how many of those devices exist? How long before some misguided crusader "purge" Omega or the Citadel using one of those?
I am seriously losing sleep over that.

what if they have people in stg working for them?

They wouldn't do something like this to their own people.

Would they?

Holy mother fucking christ. I mean, we always said Salarian politics are complicated, and these guys sound like they have one or two okay ideas. But this is definitely not the fucking way to go about it.

This is... just fuckin' terrible man, you feel? I ain't got anything that'll be any comfort to you salarian dudes, but just know that if you need the Hierarchy to come and help you seriously ruin some murdering fuck's day, we'll be there. We will fuckin' be there!

Some of these demands aren't unreasonable. Gender should not be a bar to someone's ability to hold office.

But I don't think they understand the full ramifications of there will be blood. It's not just the general populace who bleeds. It's their children. And their adversary's children. And their grandchildren.

I like to think I've broken the cycle in the war I inherited. It's disheartening to watch it start somewhere else.

Why do we keep needing to re-learn the same old lessons over and over again?

Ugh, the tone of this announcement sent me into horrific solipsism. I've heard it before.

Congratulations, terrorist fuckers, you just made your rather justified cause into the demands of fuckers who'd set paperclip assemblers loose on their own planet. Nobody will ever be able to talk about them again without your stupid violence becoming your enemy's weapon. Assholes.

And I hate Linron, you know?

Hey! They're welcome to try! heh heh heh

Oh, FUCK no.

You can die by dirty-bomb and plant-thing if you want, but leave the rest of us out of it you fucking krogan psycho

Jesus Christ on a fucking cross how the hell does the STG miss something like this? Mean either they really have got to clean house or somebody dropped a big fucking ball.

No kiddie pools on Omega, shitlegs.

Shut your wheeldamned mouth, you mistake of a lizard.

I've got clutchmates in nearby cities. Has anyone heard anything about where they're gonna hit next? Hints, rumors, anything?