[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

To be fair we did have a few calm months in-between.

...Jesus Christ, it's getting worse. What do these people want?

Fucking right.

Depends on who they are.

If they are salarians it is either some sort of social change, or alternatively, it is a reactionary movement against change that has already happened.

If they are non-salarians it is probably revenge, genophage if they are krogan, and revenge for the perceived lack of sacrifices during the war if they are not.

Of course these are the obvious reasons, it could be a distraction for a crime, a false flag operation, some kind of kill switch to terminate an experiment gone wrong. There is really not enough information to say for sure, and we might never know.

Okay, they've finally given us updates. I had to go get some food, then I slept for two whole hours.

The Citadel has been buzzing all night, you know? Completely panicked. And people who know me kept coming up and asking if I know anything, and, no, I don't.

Mr. Lowell, have you heard anything through diplomatic channels? I know you probably can't tell us, but surely my people are telling your people something?

The Union has told the Alliance that we have not lost anyone important. Their words not ours. Obviously, they are under a lot of stress, and our respective liaisons are busy doing their liaizing, other than that I cannot tell you anything more.

Tell that to the families.

That is exactly what we said.

Dead frogs.

Most of our salarian staff are back on-site now. Everyone's still a bit rattled and no one has the guts to turn off this 28-hour news feed off for fear of missing something (I can't believe how insipid Westerlund's programming has become...)

We just had a really old krogan in (he's one of our regulars) and I must admit I was a little nervous, he ended up insisting on greeting and offering condolences (well... very war-like condolences... he's still a krogan...) to every salarian he came across, including three people in the lobby, and my assistant, who he never gets along with.

It was heartening to see.

Waste of energy, Spiza.

The following, however, isn't.

[upload.virus.meltingomnitool/targetUserMandatory] PICTURES OF PRETTY KITTENS

enjoy, fucker

>in before Mandatory makes death threats


Guess people got bored with the whole 'getting along and not committing mass-murder' thing.

No viruses on my board or I'll burn your avatar to cinders.

Didn't you install TerrorSoft on the site? That's kinda hypocritical, don'tcha think?

I didn't install it on my site. I installed the patches. Don't assume that just because my avatar is smiling that I won't ban you simply because I'm having a bad day, batarian.

WARNING 1

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Fiiiiine. Message received o glorious mod.

Well, now that the e-dick-waving is over... has a list of the dead or wounded been released? I've... got family there.

Nothing since the last update, I think. Sorry, man. Who do you know that might be there?

My brother, Davvin. He's a guard for TVS Security. Haven't heard from him since the news. That's two days without a word. Two days.

How about shutting down some of the Krogantroll macros?

Whenever a thread uses more than like, five Salarian related keywords these programs pop up to post a picture of dead frogs and pirint 'heh heh heh BITCHES".

They have a few randomly selected options but there's clearly no animating intelligence behind them.


..Either way, this sucks. I don't know enough about salarian politics to even guess, and with so many of the potential actors being so good at misdirection...it'll be a really long time before people start trusting again.

Well...shit. Best of luck on that one. Hate to sound like a dick or whatever, but, y'know. News like this comes out, and it's the most you can say without trying to offer hope that might turn out to have been completely false later. But I'm sincerely hoping this works out for someone who didn't deserve all this.

If STG tries to say 'we're not releasing any information on grounds of state security' or whatever, I expect there'll be a fucking riot. Or at least protests. Undernet and DarkNet are still quiet and I've been looking at a few salarian news sites. A lot of people are pissed and agitated over this. A few asari are freaking out over their bondmates there. Biggest C-Space-based terrorist action in a while, if I'm not mistaken.