Terrorists Kill Camalan Upper Grusto Leader

Terrorists Kill Camalan Upper Grusto Leader

Confederate Weekly News Network, Beele Karaanik

This last week, the Camalan city of Laveki was gripped with fear in the wake of a high-profile raid believed to have been launched by the terrorist organization identifying itself as the Bahak Brigade. The terrorists stormed the estate grounds of Camalan Grusto leader Karak Maxia at 16:01 local time, and launched an assault that ultimately ended in the death of the crime lord.

Local residents reported hearing automatic gunfire and explosions from the direction of Mr. Maxia’s estate grounds as early into the attack as 16:04 local time. Cameras inside the mansion have confirmed that many of the weapons used by the attackers were firearms commonly associated with Terminus-based mercenary companies, such as Vindicator battle rifles. At least one AT-12 Raider combat shotgun, a weapon commonly associated with the fallen Batarian Hegemony’s Special Intervention Unit, was used against the mansion’s guards in the shootout. An account from a mercenary guard who survived the shootout with the mansion’s attackers and wished to remain anonymous confirmed every intruder he fought was a batarian.

“I’ve seen these tactics before”, he said. “These guys were SIU. I recognized their actions as the same kind of moves I’d been pulling all throughout the firefight. Predictable, but different in some ways. They fought like wild animals, totally psychotic. Angry.”

None of the attackers were killed in the firefight, and twenty of Maxia’s guards were slain trying to repel them. Nine civilian employees of Mr. Maxia were caught in the crossfire and killed as well. Recovered camera feeds and eyewitness accounts have altogether given a rough estimate of a dozen attackers storming the estate.

Eight minutes into the attack, Mr. Maxia was confirmed to have been woken up by the shooting and trying to make an escape attempt via aircar, but his vehicle was shot down by a heavy weapon that was positively identified as a Systems Alliance-issue Cobra missile launcher, commonly issued to units assisting as part of N7 Special Ops during the Reaper conflict.

This event marks the single highest-profile attack by the Bahak Brigade to date since the organization’s establishment following the Reaper War. The raid was confirmed to have lasted no more than eighteen minutes, including the intruders’ fighting retreat and subsequent disappearance. It is believed the attackers had been making use of tactical cloaking technology installed in their hardsuits all throughout the raid.

Inquiries have been made to Confederate officials regarding any possible impact this attack may have on Confederate Council rulings in the future. Confederate officials have thus far refused to comment.


All Lower Grusto and Upper Grusto cartels have openly denied involvement with the attack, and a video claiming that the Bahak Brigade was responsible was posted on GalaxyTube within two days of the assault on Mr. Maxia’s compound, decrying the Camalan Grusto for their abandonment of the traditional batarian caste system in favor of profit, and declaring that attacks would continue until the re-establishment of the old Hegemony.

Representatives of the Maxia Cartel’s leadership could not be reached for comment.

"Put those slave collars back on, peons or we'll kill you all" eh?

Bahak the Bahak brigade, I'll say. No one won't be left missing them.

That's a fucking understatement.

Pillars and gods, this is a nightmare. This is practically one step down from a hit on the Confederate Council. The Upper Grusto is literally the official planetary government on an economically critical batarian world, and these guys just capped a fucking Upper Grusto cartel leader and then marched right the fuck out. I don't need to go into detail about the myriad ways this is an unmitigated clusterfuck of unprecedented proportions.

This is bad, people.

I'm not really much for following Batarian politics, but how would the 'good' guys in your government react to this?
You gonna finally crack down on the slaver bastards? I've done like, three PSA's about stamping out slaving rings.
Who gives a fuck if it's 'legal' by your definition? People aren't Property!

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How long do you think it will be before the entire thing collapses into outright civil war?

get into the habit


Probably by investigating any ties the Brigade may have to the pro-slavery camp in the Confederate government. Just like every other time the Brigade's hit something.


take it up with the pro-slaver camp in the confederate council, i'm sure they'll listen to a human


no shit skippy

on several worlds, slavery's been outlawed entirely because the anti-slavery camp's running the place


Man, don't even joke about that.

This hit was...big, but not huge. Certainly not Confederacy-shattering. Not enough to warrant a civil war.

The only thing that sets this apart from everything else the Brigade's done up until this point is the importance of the guy in question. Karak Maxia was a mid-ranking cartel leader in the Seiro'tah clan.

Translation: The dead dude was basically one of Lahkel Seiro'tah(top varren on Camala, and arguably the single most influential person in batarian politics today)'s lieutenants.

The Confederacy won't collapse overnight and reconstruction won't be set back for years from Maxia's death or anything, but he was just important enough to be a big deal while being unimportant enough to be replaceable by comparison to someone like the guy at the top. The Upper Grusto don't take shit like this lying down, especially not the Seiro'tah, so we might be seeing some definitive progress into investigating the Brigade's attacks. The attack is more interesting from the dead guy's affiliations than any importance on his own part (even though this has that in spades, too).

If the Brigade's fucking with the Seiro'tah clan it says one of three things. One, they're stupid. Two, they're confident they can evade or survive retaliation at the hands of the most powerful organization on Camala. Three, they're just insane. None of these are good options except the first, and everything the Brigade's pulled up until this point has cast sufficient doubt on that.

Maybe they'll draw enough heat to get smashed for good from this act of terrorism.

Unless the brigade turns out to have some big caliber backers willing to get their hands dirty, then it's going to suck.

Didn't mean it would just from this, just that I think it's headed that way in general.

Sucks, but there's not anything I can do about these things. Or much at all.

These guys have been able to get at targets most other nutjobs would find out of reach. Nothing especially high-profile like this up until now, but they've consistently hit targets most people would find daunting. The possibility of big-time backers has allegedly been investigated numerous times to no avail, but it's arguably one of the only explanations for how these guys have pulled this kind of shit off.

Hummm. You'd think there would be more persons discussing this. You'd also think that someone like that would have better guards.