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@Rubbernuke and @Rebel Yell - where were you two on the morning in question?!?!?!

KUMO CREW CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR NANOMAM 1 EXPLOSION​

22 AUG 3310
An explosion outside the Federal Republican Party offices on Nanomam 1 has claimed the lives of three government workers.

The blast originated from a small shuttle waiting to collect Shadow President-elect Jerome Archer, who had spent the morning at the building on party business. Archer was reportedly approaching the vehicle at the time of the explosion but was unharmed.

While security services hunted for evidence among the wreckage, a public announcement from Archon Delaine quickly claimed responsibility:
“All the surveillance technology in the galaxy could not prevent the Kumo Crew from reaching Jerome Archer’s personal vehicle. Only by our generosity does he live to learn from this event. He wraps himself in the cloak of the police state, blind to the real danger to people like him: complacency.”

“As the Emperor recently discovered, all the wealth and titles humanity has to offer provide little protection when faced with reality. Their deaths would mean less than the message: even if the Thargoid war is won, there are dangers waiting for you all that have been ignored for too long.”

Media commentators have speculated that this statement also claims responsibility for the attempted ambush of Emperor Arissa’s convoy earlier this month. A short response from an Imperial Senate spokesperson has dismissed such talk, saying that Delaine was ‘nothing more than a self-aggrandising pirate eager for the spotlight.’

This latest incident highlights growing concerns that the core systems face a significant period of post-Thargoid invasion uncertainty. Pressing concerns include a cooled economic climate, widespread population movements and significant military spending by all superpowers.

 
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@Rubbernuke and @Rebel Yell - where were you two on the morning in question?!?!?!

More importantly where were they before their well publicised alibis when the thing was being rigged and set up.

Less importantly did Archer remember to get rid of his remote trigger for the device before security/media/the public turned up.
 
So to sum up, Felicia Winters' home planet has been devastated by "mysterious earthquakes and tidal waves", someone took a pop at the Emperor, Pranav Antal tripped over his own implant in a lemon of a CG, and now Kumo's gone full terrorist on Jerry Archer. All while everyone's fifth favourite T-1000 looky-likey is still running the show in Fedspace.

Makes normal everyday politics look fairly mundane by comparison.
 
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“As the Emperor recently discovered, all the wealth and titles humanity has to offer provide little protection when faced with reality. Their deaths would mean less than the message: even if the Thargoid war is won, there are dangers waiting for you all that have been ignored for too long.”
—Archon Delaine
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(EDIT: fixed teh garmaaticall errors as to not to get acquainted with the kitchen side of my local Kumo Burger)
 
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A long (long) time ago The King™ was up to mischief like this and got into the local station news (sadly now gone)

The Neighbour From Hell


Citizens across the Empire were in panic today as reports emerged of Kumo infiltration in the wealthy system of LTT 874, a place only 15ly from Achenar and Capitol.


The Kumo Crews advance into the system began violently aboard Parkinson Orbital when the body of a missing LTT 874 Empire Party official was dumped from a passing transport clutching a blood stained note:


“The Imperial Senate foolishly began the war with the Kumo. Now we return the favour, and bring the Pegasi War to the very doorstep of the Empire, to the gates of Achenar itself. There is no place left to hide, for we are everywhere. Surrender and live, oppose us and die.”


Despite pleas for calm and unity, wealthy families have been reported secretly moving finances away from the system as dread grips the heart of the Empire. Terrified citizens in LTT 874 have taken to the streets to plead for help, but so far the ruling LTT 874 Empire Party and other Imperial channels have remained silent.


Attention now falls on senior Imperial figures, and the difficult task of fighting their elusive foe in the one place that was once thought safe.


The Privateer | Interstellar Press
 
So to sum up, Felicia Winters' home planet has been devastated by "mysterious earthquakes and tidal waves", someone took a pop at the Emperor, Pranav Antal tripped over his own implant in a lemon of a CG, and now Kumo's gone full terrorist on Jerry Archer. All while everyone's fifth favourite T-1000 looky-likey is still running the show in Fedspace.

Makes normal everyday politics look fairly mundane by comparison.
And don’t forget the two giant alien motherships still prowling the outskirts of the Bubble. It would be a real shame if they decided to join in on the act and started to proper wreck some stuff before/throughout September…
 
@Rubbernuke and @Rebel Yell - where were you two on the morning in question?!?!?!

KUMO CREW CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR NANOMAM 1 EXPLOSION​

22 AUG 3310
An explosion outside the Federal Republican Party offices on Nanomam 1 has claimed the lives of three government workers.

The blast originated from a small shuttle waiting to collect Shadow President-elect Jerome Archer, who had spent the morning at the building on party business. Archer was reportedly approaching the vehicle at the time of the explosion but was unharmed.

While security services hunted for evidence among the wreckage, a public announcement from Archon Delaine quickly claimed responsibility:
“All the surveillance technology in the galaxy could not prevent the Kumo Crew from reaching Jerome Archer’s personal vehicle. Only by our generosity does he live to learn from this event. He wraps himself in the cloak of the police state, blind to the real danger to people like him: complacency.”

“As the Emperor recently discovered, all the wealth and titles humanity has to offer provide little protection when faced with reality. Their deaths would mean less than the message: even if the Thargoid war is won, there are dangers waiting for you all that have been ignored for too long.”

Media commentators have speculated that this statement also claims responsibility for the attempted ambush of Emperor Arissa’s convoy earlier this month. A short response from an Imperial Senate spokesperson has dismissed such talk, saying that Delaine was ‘nothing more than a self-aggrandising pirate eager for the spotlight.’

This latest incident highlights growing concerns that the core systems face a significant period of post-Thargoid invasion uncertainty. Pressing concerns include a cooled economic climate, widespread population movements and significant military spending by all superpowers.


FOR THE ARCHON!!!
 
On a side note i would love PP2 to have more of this sort of narrative, at the moment you only get PP updates from the 'hourly' and tracking from your respective faction overview.
News items on day to day struggles would be a great addition and especially good reading out in the Black.
There could be scope for Fdev to concentrate or even spotlight system struggles to get folks involved.
Appreciate it would possibly mean this would be all one employee would be concentrating on (financially) but would make day to day life in the bubble seem more alive.

O7
 
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