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Massacre in Caluula City
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| Protector_Krenn | Date: Sunday, 29 Jan 2012, 8:48 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Rioting had been present on Caluula for some weeks, unsurprisingly it had been from the Ethic Cronese, bouyed by the Military expansion of the Cronese Mandate they had begun to riot against the policies of the Caluulan Government (specifically the lack of economic progress and living standards in the Cronese quarter, furthermore agitated by Agent Provocateurs unknown). These riots had been largely ignored for weeks as they just had been confined to the Cronese quarter.
However, despite the efforts of the civil police force, the riots had only spread and now had blocked the highway to the spaceport. The mood in the Caluulan Legislature had been mixed towards the riots, however, with the spread of violence to the capital's link with the outside galaxy, resolve began to spread that they must react firmly to this mess.
As such, Colonel Krenn, commander of the Planetary Defense Force had been summoned and given wide powers to deal with the insurrection, he was appointed "Protector of Caluula" for six months, being almost unanimously voted extraordinary powers to crush the riots at all costs.
Hearing of his appointment, the Protector was swift in his action. Mobilizing three companies of the Planetary Militia he ordered they advance into the Cronese Quarter, himself among them in a V-19 landspeeder. Reaching the blockage on the highway where the mass of young Cronese men massed, smashing many of the vehicles which had been stopped before the traffic flow was cut off.
The local police force had been rioted earlier at the edge of the Cronese quarter, and several police lay dead in the burned out ruins of their patrol speeders or sprawled across the gentle hill up the the highway. As such the three companies of infantry drew themselves up across the highway, three ranks deep. The first rank was equipped with riot shields and batons, borrowed from the local police, the rear two ranks with their DC-15a blaster rifles levelled across the shields of the crouching front rank, or on the shoulders of the second rank.
A constant rain of small projectiles, stones and bricks rained from the rioting mob. Taking a megaphone up, Protector Krenn spoke loudly and forcefully "Our Sovereign Assembly chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of the Empire, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. Providence save the Emperor!", this was the required statement to be read under the Caluulan "Riot Act".
The demand was greeted with hoots and shouts in the shrill Cronese dialect. The standoff continued for some minutes, the crowd of rioters advancing steadily towards the Caluulan soldiers. The crowd stood no sign of dispersing. Krenn was speaking through his communicator, seeking what would be the best action to take now via consultation with the civil peacekeeping force when a sequence of blaster rounds sung out from the rioters.
Several of the Caluulan soldiers in the front rank were downed instantly as their shields, while adequate for the rough and tumble of projectiles normally possessed by the mob, they were no match for the firepower of a blaster rifle at full power. The crowd had clearly cannibalized the blaster rifles from the squadspeeders they had surrounded and burned, now opening fire upon the Caluulans with the six or seven they seemed to possess.
There was no order given, but seconds after the fire came from the crowd, the Caluulan Militia spontaneously opened fire, two hundred DC-15A blaster rifles sung out on medium power, cutting down swathes of the crowd which began to fall back under the slaughter, some dragging friends and relatives.
Climbing from his vehicle, Krenn shouted out "Cease fire, Cease fire!", and the officers of the company echoed the order, however the soldiers failed to comply for over a minute, by which time over two hundred rioters lay dead, and twice that number injured. The order to summon ambulances was given, but Krenn also saw this as an opportunity to push forward and re-secure the road.
The soldiers were ordered to set their rifles to stun and make chase of the Rioters, ordered to establish a line along the highway's 4 foot high ferrocrete wall. Once this position was successfully taken, an uneasy standoff began between the two sides, the rioters making no effort to storm the highway once more, but showing no sign of abating their riots elsewhere.
Fortunately the likelihood of lethal attacks was somewhat reduced by the recapture of all the blaster rifles stolen, found among the dead. Krenn retired to the Militia Headquarters to discuss plans with his compatriots, attempting to keep the lid on this incident as the news spread to the Galactic Media. The consensus was that matters were likely to get worse before they got better.
Larkin Krenn
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| Major_N7 | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 1:40 AM | Message # 2 |
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| As the riots continued the events above the world of Caluula seemed to be ignored for the moment as a JS-77B interstellar shuttle dropped from hyperspace, the exterior of the vessel badly damaged as exposed wiring near the engine could be seen, along with scorch marks from obvious weapons fire. Without much effort the vessel seemed to pitch and turn into a downward angle at the planet of Caluula, the vessel starting to skim off of the upper atmosphere before it began to reenter, only then did the signal being broadcast from it seemed to be picked up, the communications array having taken a hit.
"This is Captain......... Attacked....... Pirates.......... Support...... Failing...... Engines....." Each word seemed to be cut off, preventing the full story from being told as it streaked across the sky in a brilliant ball of fire, pieces beginning to sheer off from its reentry before it culminated in a brilliant explosion. The crew though was lucky, knowing that there was nothing left they could do for their failing ship, they rushed to the cargo hold and into the Survival Capsules that were brought on board. The moment the hull of the cargo hold gave way, they were free, the large explosion forcing the capsules out and away from the burst as bits of debris began to fall from the sky, the capsules trailing a line of smoke as they fell to the ground below. The grouping of four seemed to strike the ground in the Cronese Quarter, the round capsules bouncing off of buildings and vehicles until they came to a rolling stop, warnings written in red on the capsules warned others to stand back. The four though seemed to land relatively close together as the capsules began to burst open. From within a hand pushed back one of the flaps that fell back in after it burst open, a soldier stepping out and looking around as his squad mates followed, quickly scanning the area as they others pulled equipment and packs from their capsules before they ran off to a nearby ally, their armor bearing the marks of the Cronese Mandate Strategic Recon Battalion.
The commander, a Lieutenant gathered his men, a Sergeant and two troopers. "Lets find out whose keeping these riots going and see what started them" The three others nodded as the Lieutenant moved them down the alley, wanting to get away from the crash site of the capsules.
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| Protector_Krenn | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 1:59 AM | Message # 3 |
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| Emergency services were dispatched to the scene of the crashed freighter, a fire engine attempting to extinguish the flames as it crashed into a hillside. They were rather too busy across the city to pay it a huge amount of heed although concern was raised that these men had coincidentally ditched into a neighbourhood outside of Government control.
Once landed, the men would find themselves in rather abandoned streets. The atmosphere was hot and likely uncomfortably humid for the Cronese special forces. Most of the locals (the hotheaded rioters aside) were indoors with their doors locked and barred. The streets of the city were paved with dirt, there had been two major waves of Cronese settlement to the planet over the years. The first had come over the hundreds of years, occupying the wealthier section of the Cronese Quarter to the south in apartment buildings and houses, build in the wide boulevard Caluulan style. Due to an increasing number of jobs on Caluula and concern about the Clone Wars there had been a second wave of Cronese around 20 years before. Having no land for themselves and being unwilling to be resettled to the smaller towns on Caluula, they had squatted in the old city park, building a collosal shanty town extending across the valley bottom and lower slopes.
The riots had been caused by the hotheaded words of certain "Ethnic" workers Unions which had emerged in the past year. The new generation, unhappy at the cuts made to the tax subsidies given to the poorest 10% of the Caluulan population (many of them Cronese) and generally opposing the sentiment in the Caluulan Assembly that held that the "tax and spend" policies of the last decades needed to change. Equally, the imposition of a flat 25% rate of tax referred to as a "Just Tax" had been massively unpopular with the unions. Initially the non-Cronese workers unions had supported the protests, however, support outside of the Cronese community had dwindled when this protest turned into violent protest.
Inside the Cronese Quarter there was no real "leadership" aside from a few rabble rousers with individual riots, yelling through megaphones. The movement had essentially become anarchist in nature with the groups of predominantly Cronese youths sallying out from barricades across the entrances to the areas they controlled to throw firebombs and rocks at the police. The area was "locked down" relatively tightly, with armed riot police controlling the surrounding area and using stun cannons and gas when needed to force back any violent sallies by protesters.
Larkin Krenn
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| Major_N7 | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 10:52 PM | Message # 4 |
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| The moment they found out what kind of filth the Ethnic Cronese were forced into, the SRB team was immediately infuriated. The leader looked to his men as he brought his hand up, holding his team in the alley as a patrol marched by, their weapons trained on the patrol. "Trooper, take video and images of the area the Ethnic Cronese are forced to live in." The trooper nodded as they moved along the alley, keeping their weapons up as they videoed their movement, looking at each of the buildings and noticing that the people had withdrawn into their homes to hide from the patrols. The team moved quickly as they approached a ladder, two men covering it as the Lieutenant quickly moved up, stopping on the roof as he looked around, securing the area before the rest of the team moved one by one up the ladder onto the roof, looking around as they slowly moved, keeping their eyes open and guard up.
The SRB team stopped at the far end of the roof, scanning the area below before they moved down to the next roof. "Lets keep looking, keep your eyes out for those patrols" The team nodded as continued their own investigation as dropped back down to the streets below, taking cover behind a burned out car before they quickly moved across the street, their weapons up and drawn, ready to fire, yet they had orders to only fire when fired upon. As they moved down the alley they kept their weapons at the ready, stopping at the far end before quickly clearing the corners and moving into the small courtyard between the small and crammed together houses.
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| Captain_Harrak | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 10:57 PM | Message # 5 |
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| It had taken a couple days to get everything together before the ship was sent to Caluula, the moment it dropped from hyperspace it began to transmit a signal to the world below. "Caluula, this is the Cronese Mandate vessel Valkyria, carrying medical personnel and aides to help the Ethnic Cronese injured in the massacre, and evacuate those Ethnic Cronese that wish to leave Caluula. We require no security as the Medical personnel have already hired their own" The Nebulon-B Frigate, a member of the Mandate's 101st Fleet entered into orbit around Caluula, waiting for a response as the medical personnel and aides gathered their equipment, getting ready to disembark on shuttles as their security personnel got their weapons ready and boarded the shuttles as well.
Sia Harrak
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| Protector_Krenn | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 11:13 PM | Message # 6 |
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| The Special Forces were left alone, several local Militia did scan the Cronese Quarter from the highway up the hill, aiming to see if they could find the people from the shuttle, as yet having no luck.
As the vessel arrived, a pair of Caluulan Z-95 headhunters would intercept it. "Caluulan military vessel, leave our space immediately or you will be engaged. Your personnel and shuttles are not authorized to land on Caluula in armed vessels or carrying weapons, over. Remove yourself to the system edge and send aid via unarmed shuttles if you wish to do so.", if the vessel did not leave they would power up their weapons and get set up for an attack run on them.
A half-dozen more Z-95s from Caluula entered the atmosphere, awaiting the Cronese shuttles. If the Cronese did attempt to send armed shuttles into the atmosphere, they would be targeted an engaged.
If unarmed shuttles were sent down, they would be conducted to the space port, and searched. If any armed security personnel were found aboard the entire shuttle and it's crew would be arrested and impounded.
Larkin Krenn
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Message edited by Protector_Krenn - Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 11:15 PM |
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| Captain_Harrak | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 11:20 PM | Message # 7 |
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| "This is the Valkyria carrying Medical Personnel and their Security Personnel. If you fire on our vessel, you will be firing on relief personnel. If you prevent our medics from helping the Ethnic Cronese that were injured, or arrest them or their security personnel, you will be taking hostages and making the situation worse. I repeat, we are carrying medical personnel that have their own security personnel accompanying them so they may help the injured without worry of Caluula military personnel interfering in their work." The captain stood by and waited, the crew already bringing up the shields in response to the threats to be fired upon as they readied for a fight to defend themselves should they be attacked.
Sia Harrak
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| Major_N7 | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 11:22 PM | Message # 8 |
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| The message was heard by the undercover team, one of the troopers who picked it up looked around, finding a speaker as they pulled the wires down before quickly hooking it to the radio receiver they carried with them, broadcasting the message that the Caluulan government would fire upon the vessel that arrived carrying the medical personnel, letting the message play out to the people in the shanty town.
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| Protector_Krenn | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 11:24 PM | Message # 9 |
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| The pilot would speak once again "Irrelevant of who you are carrying, you are a warship, remove your vessel to the system or you will be fired upon for invasion of our airspace." the two fighters came about, torpedo tubes armed. They designated targets on the weapons systems on the Nebulon-B, clicking open the missile fire button, just awaiting the answer before the two small ships fired.
Few enough Cronese in the community had hyperwave transceivers, but a few would then get a copy of the comms traffic between the Nebulon-B and Caluulan fighters, most just changed the channel with statements like "Goddamn interference". It was noticed that the an illegal and wide brand broadcast was coming from within the Ethnic Cronese community.. it's location was triangulated and confirmed. A sub-orbital police airspeeder hovvered towards it, carrying a half dozen Caluulan Police Department.
Larkin Krenn
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Message edited by Protector_Krenn - Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 11:29 PM |
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| Captain_Harrak | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 11:27 PM | Message # 10 |
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| "You are about to fire upon a Medical Vessel, carrying Medical Personnel and Relief resources to aid the injured Ethnic Cronese. If you fire on our vessel, you will be firing on a Medical vessel and in violation of the law" The Captain nodded to his men, their own weapons already targeting the enemy fighters coming in as a coded alert was sent across the ship, before also being transmitted back to the Cronese Mandate.
Sia Harrak
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| Protector_Krenn | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 11:32 PM | Message # 11 |
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| "If you are a medical vessel, remove it from harm, turn it around now and take it to the edge of the system out of harm's way. If you remain illegally in our airspace you are not a medical vessel." the pilot would say, waiting before firing. The pair of fighters rolling away from their initial attack run before lining up another one.
Larkin Krenn
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| Captain_Harrak | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 11:38 PM | Message # 12 |
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| "The medics on board are waiting to be landed to help the Ethnic Cronese that were injured by your troopers firing into the unarmed crowd. You are refusing to allow us to aid the injured Ethnic Cronese. We will be reporting your refusal to allow medics to do their job and aid the injured. We are not here illegally, and we will remain until our medics are allowed to aid the injured Cronese, and we are allowed to evacuate those Ethnic Cronese that want to leave Caluula. If you refuse, you will be holding hostages." The vessel remained in orbit, an action that was not illegal as its shields remained up, having already been threatened with force, while the vessel was acting in a peaceful manner and to provide relief and aid to the Ethnic Cronese.
Sia Harrak
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| Protector_Krenn | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 11:42 PM | Message # 13 |
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| "Caluula is regretful for that unfortunate accident. That said, the injured Ethnic Cronese have been hospitalized. The Caluula City central hospital has no need of your medics, it has 1500 beds and as such is more than able to absorb the number of injured. If you wish to dispatch unarmed medics in unarmed shuttles then you shall be allowed to do so. However, you will do this from the system edge or on your way there. Remaining on station over our world in a warship, carrying medics or not is illegal."
Larkin Krenn
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| Captain_Harrak | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 11:44 PM | Message # 14 |
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| The vessel powered up it's engines, the medics on board dismayed that the Caluula Government was preventing the Ethnic Cronese from being allowed to evacuate on the vessel, or allowing the medics to help the people as the ship jumped to hyperspace, a report already being filed and sent.
Sia Harrak
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| Protector_Krenn | Date: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 11:46 PM | Message # 15 |
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| "Yeeeeeehaaaawwwwww, Caluulan Control we've seen off the Cronese Invasion, we sure showed them Sir!" spoke the Pilot, turning his vessel around and guiding it down towards Caluula, another pair replacing them.
Larkin Krenn
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