[Earth, Crime] Marine Found Dead In London Ruins

Marine Found Dead In London Ruins
by Bridget West, Union Post

LONDON - SATAE officials have today confirmed that a body found by construction workers yesterday in Administrative District 02 is that of Second Lieutenant Carlos Suarez, a decorated Marine who received the Navy Cross during the Reaper War.

“He was an...inspiration to a lot of us, came up through the ranks, didn’t forget what it was like being a...grunt on the ground, never asked more of the men than he was willing to give himself.” Stated Gunnery Chief Al-Musawi in an interview with the Post. “He got us through the...War, he got us through London, and to just die here, like this after all that. It isn’t right. It isn’t right, he deserved better.”

As tensions rise between Alliance marine detachments based within the city and independence-minded groups such as the Citizens for a Free Earth and the Democratic Solidarity Party, the Prefect of London, Lieutenant Commander Lisa Bryner, held a press conference earlier this morning urging calm and restraint on both sides. “I ask that everyone allow the Investigative Service to conduct their investigation and bring Lieutenant Suarez the justice he deserves. The last thing London needs is more violence.”

Thus far representatives of the Systems Alliance have declined to comment on the condition or state of the body when found giving strength to rumors that the killing had been ritualistic in nature. When pressed for an official statement by the Post a spokesman for the Prefect’s office said that “the investigation was ongoing” and he did not have the authority to comment on the situation further.

Oooh, somebody's going to enjoy cracking skulls in the next couple of weeks.

Wow. That just sounds like a whole pile of bad news. My sympathies to the Lieutenant's unit.

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well fuck.

Ritualistic in nature... god damn, if that's true, that's just sick. I thought we'd be better than this, after all we'd been through. We'd better find the bastard responsible for this.

My translator must be messing up. What exactly is ritualistic supposed to mean?

Huh. Poor man.

Ritual murder, noun. (1) the act of killing living beings as an offering to a deity, or part of a religious ritual. (2) murder designed to resemble a sacrifice or other non-religious ritual, regardless of the perpetrator's religious affiliation or lack thereof. (3) the act of killing in a premeditated, precise method and motion, where 'ritual' is defined as a psychological need for repetitive and exacting actions to prevent anxiety.

...With events being as they are, I sincerely hope that the rumors remain the wild interpretations of conspiracy theorists, rather than fact. My condolences to the members of the Alliance on this board, for your loss.

Basically, three forms of Not Good. Yeesh...

It is difficult to find an adjective that would make the word "Murder" anything else.

My money's on Squid cultists.

Doesn't have to be. No assumptions should be made until all the evidence is examined. Also, a lot of serial killers use ritualistic-style kills... and even some regular killers use ritualism to disguise their motives for killing.

Of course, I'm not working the case, as I'm no longer with any police department, but my two cents.

Umm yeah...

The ritualistic part is really disturbing (more disturbing than regular ol' murder anyway) and I hope it's just the news trying to be sensationalist.

Are we reading this whole ritual shit so often lately?
Where are the times when people just got beaten to death by a krogan or just shot or reaved? Is that not bad enough anymore?

No, make a big psycho mess out of it.

There is more than enough 'regular' muderandwhatnot happening. This is just not what is needed to get the media's attention these days. No, it has to be the really creepy stuff - plus in this case Alliance personel.

Well that and the fact that the man was a decorated Alliance war vet, mustang, and popular with the enlisted grunts. So yeah, guy like that getting burned out in some bombed out district of London is kinda a Big Deal even if you don't go in for the sensational stuff.


Give me an ellipse and I will show you an NCO being censored.

Probably because he's swearing his ass off.

This one hopes it may offer illumination. In times of great upheaval, when the structures of ideology, nation and law have weakened or dissipated, many find themselves regrettably adrift, lacking familiar frames of reference onto which their impulses and feelings may be mapped. If you will excuse this one its appeal to the familiar, hanar have long insisted that courteous, well-structured discourse characterize even these ones' disagreements, avoiding the perils of chaos and disorientation when drifting collectively. With the coming of the Great Storm, the Many Voices are in turmoil, their familiar reference points distressingly rendered obsolete. This one has read many theses arguing that in such times, the desperate turn to substitute structures with great zeal, while acting on the instability that has come to define their mental environment. Hence, the proliferation of cults, ritualistic sects and individual deviances such as this. The Learned Hosyillar has written extensively on the subject, and cites many interesting case studies!

This one hopes such makes sense to the other.

Yeah, you do of course, I was just ranting.
It's a shame when people can't focus on constructive things now.

Well, kiddo, we'll stop focusing on the bad things when the media stops reporting them. In the meantime, how many reaper cultists does it take to flush a toilet?

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so wait

An alliance officer who's by all accounts a decent guy who did right by his men gets offed by somebody and may or may not have had his body desecrated and it's not

what

constructive to pay it any attention? Not important?

What?


Trick question, they've already clogged it up trying to drown themselves in it.

Have to agree, when it is an Alliance officer being murdered, this kind of news would be the type to garner attention.

I really do hope though that it was just some random senseless act, and had nothing to do with any political or ideological motivation.