[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

Anyone using Efonex is a pitiful false flagger or too poor to actually invest in decent explosives. Last I heard you can get a kilo of Pentex 5 from Omega for 350 creds and that packs lot more power than some shit smuggled past CDEM. Besides how the hell would have your buddy managed to sniff chemicals at a cordoned off area? You're a hack full of it.

Methinks the krogan doth protest too much! Besides, the undernet's filled with more than just half-competent volus hackers. Some of the people who peruse it know exactly what they're talking about, and are fighting to report the news you'll never hear otherwise. Besides, what if it was designed to be a recognizably krogan explosive? What if this is as much a message as it is an act of terror?

Isn't that what an act of terror is? A message from a certain batch of psychopaths? Specifically, a message saying 'do what we want or we'll fucking blow you up?'

No, I mean, not like that. A "krogan" message.

"We used krogan explosives to do this because krogan best," or something. I dunno. Just spitballing, really. It's not like anyone else is coming up with any possible solutions or theories.

Man, you're just buying what THEY want you to believe! Of COURSE THEY would frame the krogan by using 'krogan' explosives to send a 'krogan superiority' message! It's all part of their PLAN, see?!

... And people say I'M paranoid. Who's "They" in this case, man?

I'm kinda followin' your lead on this one, Job, 'cus I figured you'd know

Seriously though, this could just be an accident

Or the SDU

Or the fallout of some secret N7 or Blackwatch operation

Or the result of some smuggling operation gone wrong

Or STG operation disguised as an SDU operation

Or an STG operation disguised as an SDU operation DISGUISED as an STG operation disguised as krogan terrorists

Really, take your pick, there's several dozen possibilities

N7's don't hit Civilian Targets, son.

Sure they don't, human.

Sorry blinky N7s are used for military hard targets if they are going out. Too high profile. Anything that needs some level of deniability is carried out by ... I'm going to stop now.

Riiiiight, of course, corsairs. The fictional Alliance military detachment intended for operations to be carried out with full deniability.

Don't make me laugh. Honestly, I doubt it's N7, but, y'know. Crazy galaxy. Could be a neo-Cerberus splinter group at work for all we know.

I'm kind of surprised our resident conspiracy theorist is going for "The explosives were made by krogan, it must be krogan". I mean, these are the salarians we're talking about. Do you really think they'd let a krogan on Sur'kesh without doing a full search of everything? Really, you'd think krogan explosives would point to, uh, basically any other faction trying to lay the blame on the krogan.

Exactly my point, but Job here thinks it's not enough media sexy for his blog-thing. That or he just dislikes krogan and produces "evidence" to justify his angle.

That was kind of what I was trying to get across here
y'know with the faux-paranoid ranting

Seriously, though, we're talking like his information is accurate when we're getting NOTHING from any other source. Credible sources on Undernet and DarkNet are saying 'nothing concrete, please stand by' like it's a fucking mantra.

Oh please. If we were going to terrorize the planet of Sur'Kesh it would be in a far more grandiose way. A nice chemical weapon perhaps, not some piss poor explosives.

***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.

holy fuck

WHAT

OK, I take back everything I said about it possibly being an accident.

Holy shit.

Oh.

Well.

I suppose we have heard little about the Weyrlocs.