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Warclone “Drill Teams” Penetrate Reinforced Infrastructure on Alparena III
128.05.04
Planetary officials on Alperena III are advising citizens to remain in their homes, avoid infrastructure hubs, and refrain from attempting to reload government service pages following multiple cascading outages across the Vel-Cérisier Metro Area.
At 13:07EVE, plantary defenses identified a flight of two combat battlecruisers decloaking in low orbit before unleashing a rapid barrage of missiles to overwhelm the local defense grid. Point defense cannons and missile interceptors were quick to destroy the vast majority of the incoming volley while larger hybrid artillery focused on bringing down the two battlecruisers. Initial reports were optimistic, with Federal reservists reporting only minor surface damage from a handful of “squirters” that penetrated local air defenses. Then the power went out.
Interspersed with the conventional kinetic warheads were small Breacher pods, designed to impact shielded warships and bore through reinforced battleship grade armor. The pods were able to make comparatively short work of burrowing through subterranean concrete fortifications to deliver teams of purpose-engineered warclones directly into planetary reactors, civic datacenters, and water control pumphouses. The assault was mercifully shortlived, with rogue warclones scrambling to loot the largely unguarded facilities and deliver the equipment to extraction beacons before their purpose-built clones expired.
Both combat battlecruisers were felled by planetary artillery. Emergency service teams report hundreds of civilian injuries and 7 fatalities despite attempts at managing the trajectory of the incoming debris field. Damage assessment is still being conducted on facilities struck by breaching teams with no clear estimate on restoration of critical infrastructure and government services.
In Other News:
• City officials warn of maintaining safe distance from Vel-Cérisier biomedical research facility following suspected debris strike.
• State Protectorate make aggressive gains as Federal Marine battalions prepare to resist occupation in the absence of CONCORD protocols.
• AEGIS planetary response teams “hands are tied” by ongoing stand down order to avoid potential conflict between State and Federal forces, according to anonymous source.
• BREAKING: Explosion rocks Federal Marines garrison in city of Avrille on Alparena III, established as part of former president Aguard’s Executive Order on the expansion of anti-warclone units.