Auxesian Newswire

[A/)- The Inner Phalanx]

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When the lights go out.

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Alalḗ!

On the 4th of August, 20:00 hours, Siran Mean Time, The pro-K'Hara independent Kusari Battlecruiser, ‘The Lightseeker’, was tracked down, ID’d, and destroyed completely by the ACV Eidolon Wraith and her task force operating within the Omicron Delta system. The traitor battlecruiser’s primary fusion reactor appears to have suffered a massive magnetic confinement failure after exposure to the surrounding space under sustained fighter assault. The resultant plasma emission breached the battlecruiser’s aft hydrogen compression tank, causing a large explosion in the engineering deck, disabling most of the ships systems and catalyzing a chain reaction of secondary detonations which immobilized the vessel, breached the ship’s CIC leading to the death of all of her bridge crew, and breached the vessel’s magazine. The vessel sustained a critical loss of structural integrity and disintegrated before a comprehensive evacuation of the vessel could be commenced by infected operatives. ELINT data reports that there were no non-infected or non-aligned nomad captives or personnel aboard the Lightseeker at the time of its destruction. The following feed was harvested directly from the Lightseeker’s flight data recorder. This is a considerable victory for the cause of pro-human solidarity.

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DESTRUCTION OF THE LIGHTSEEKER

Visual evidence

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To those who fight in humanity’s defense - we salute you, and implore you to recognize we are all elements of the same cause. We all fight under the same fife. Our methodology is different, our cultural idioms distinct, but our humanity is contiguous. The K’hara seek to disunify us - they fear our ability to operate together, to be individuals but with a common purpose. Only through dissent, by turning brother against brother, sister against sister, will they destroy us. They will not destroy us.

To the Kusari Naval Forces. We apologize that we were unable to retrieve the Lightseeker - Or Kongou as it was once known - from the K’hara intact - combat is heavily variable, and capture operations against compromised vessels are extremely dangerous for the boarding crew. Now that the vessel is destroyed, you can count on one less K’hara agent misappropriating your assets against you. Keep Kusari safe.

For those who dwell in shadow and misnomer the darkness as light, know that we are the wardens who hold the lamps. You may be Thalassa and we may swim in your sea, but we are Erebus and no light will reach your waters. You are surpassed. You are a machine operating long after your engineer abandoned you - idling through the generations with no will of your own, no rudder, working off an impulse to preserve this sector as a museum for a curator that will never come to praise your work. Your are nothing if not outmoded.

Know this, mindshare. If we have to restring every neuron in your head, we will come for you. We will correct you. You will know the price of doctoring the fate of the bioorganisms that build machines from a handful of dead matter and dirt. You’ve stepped on an ant colony - now the ants will drag you under. Those who call yourselves Oracles, you predict nothing. You have no vision of a covalent future. You have no future wherein you adapt us to your service. There is no happy union. You are no precognition of human evolution. You are afraid, disordered, and led astray, and those that we can help, who come to us for help, will find what they seek. Those who wish to die for an alien cause? We can achieve that, too.

Choose wisely.

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