But this time, as it sailed away, it was struck by a disintegrator shell and ripped wide open. The pod itself was split open violently, and most of the passengers inside were blasted apart. The one passenger who survived the shell instead tumbled out of the sky and plummeted towards the ground far
Later that cycle, the screens of every citizen in the Imperium was filled with the reports from the deadly attack. In fact, every omnicast covered the events of the attack as best they could. Some did so in great detail, others only with mere mentions. Regardless, no matter who it was, they talked
Numerous defensive channels had been wrenched open, which exposed numerous security forces inside. Their bodies had also been ripped apart by all manner of weapons fire, equally as vicious and violent as what befell the Sanguine Fundamentalists. Their body parts littered the channels while their bl
The screen flicked over to the drones that were high above the tower itself. They showed a wide view of the very top of the towers. Particularly, they centered on the tallest tower, where its topmost floor had been blasted open. Whatever smoke and fire had long since been extinguished, and the onl
Five Years Later Towering flames engulfed nearly a quarter of the city. Its once-beautiful skyline had become jagged and uneven and blackened with soot. Many of its tallest buildings had been turned into its largest piles of rubble instead. More critically, many of the city’s blocks had been utter
“Wait!” said a panicked civilian. “If you dig too fast, you’re gonna make it all fall down on top of us! Think about what you’re doing!” “Yeah? Well all the more reason to dig faster!” screamed one of the others. “Are you insane? Are you all gonna kill yourselves just for one or two people?” Ange
They too wore the same uniform, and had the same tools. They worked together and quickly dug out anyone else who had been trapped under tons of debris. And they did so with absolute ease. As they cut apart the rubble with highly precise plasma cutters, antigrav drones would immediately lift out and
Gaea, Sol System, Core Sector, Sol Federation It was the same in almost every city across Gaea, whether it was Tokyo or Shanghai or Istanbul or Paris or New York. Billions of people all over the planet took to the streets and skyways of their home cities, and angrily protested at the galaxy at larg