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<span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-s">”FUCK YOU! FIRE ALL WEAPONS! DEPLOY CANNISTERS!”</span></span>
With that, the Dark-Ship, a Crusier-Class vessel, begins to unleash a firestorm of plasma down on the city- blowing up buildings and scorching nearby fields and orchards with its hot plasma cannons. At the same time; dull metal canisters begin to fire out from the ship and launch themselves like missile payloads all over the planet. The AI scrambles to interrupt their flight paths to steer them away from civilian areas and towards the still-active static defense turrets on Andoen to hopefully shoot them down. Your own static defense weapons take a few potshots at the enemy ship- but its tough Azurium-enriched armor does very little.
Because of your actions of sounding the alarm, everyone had enough warning to get to shelter, including <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Jale Berax</span></span> and his squad of Death Commandos- who were training just outside the city before the alert went off.
Once it has finished destroying a decent amount of the city, and all of the big crusiers canisters have been launched, it quickly turns tail and runs. The Hegemony's vessels are supposed to be faster then the Esaal, so your nearby cruisers move to intercept- but once the ship slips away from the planet and reengages its stealth ability- the targeting computers and pilots quickly lose track of them. The Migrators are pushed to find the fleeing vessel, but cannot use Starsight quick enough to locate the fleeing ship- it gets away.
Worse yet are the payloads. All around Anoden, the canisters are shot down or break open on their own; unfortunately that does not stop what is within them. Each cannister was packed full of some kind of powdered metal substance. Later, the Hegemony's scientists figure out how it works. It's a metal that is very light and can be carried by the wind, but once it touches water it polarizes very strongly. This causes it turn into deadly microscopic spikes- the main danger being if it is breathed in or worse yet exposed to any open wounds or cuts. The metal reacts so strongly to water it can actually shatter or shoot off little splines that can pierce blood vessels- causing further internal damage. And once it dries out? It turns soft again, letting it travel and infect new people. It can even be carried by the bloodstream into the heart or other organs. Its a brutal and deadly contaminant to any large-bodied animal... including a Jaxtian.
