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“Impact.
MIZARA-V-A shone turquoise no longer.
Each warhead had a nominal yield of three hundred megatons: five kilograms of antimatter suspended inside a bimetallic lithium-cobalt tamper. The light of detonation was easily visible from space. A dense pattern of fireballs bloomed across the surface of MIZAR-V-A as successive waves of warheads found their targets.
Infrastructure was wiped away. Overlapping impact zones flash-cavitated hundreds of cubic kilometers of brackish water, generating monstrous shock-fronts that bounced between narrow coastlines. The light filtering up from their underwater cities disappeared before long before the first wave of impacts receded.
Within minutes, the moon shone with radioactive emission. Above, the air became toxic as heat and hard gamma stripped the atmosphere into free ions. Below, vast quantities of isotopic cobalt began to disperse in plumes of superheated ocean water. It was enough to salt the life-bearing moon a hundred times over – to render it uninhabitable for a period far longer than humanity’s collective memory.
By the end of the hour, we were finished. There were less than a dozen warheads remaining. Most loitered in orbit, looking through a grainy haze of radiation and ionized steam to catch any hardened targets that had managed to escape the initial impact.”
- [UNSIGNED], EXECUTIVE AUDITOR, TRS NOVEMBER RAIN, AD. 2242, SEPTEMBER 28th, PERSONAL JOURNAL