Quoted By:
>STAT-L1
>5,4,2 (No Second Shot)
“Capacitor banks redline from thermal overload. Targeting lasers trace their quarry as it peers above the sunward horizon.
MERRYGATE races against time, barreling through nested layers of systems checks to complete the firing sequencing before her control link is severed. The strain is immense. Hijacked camera feeds show alien response teams and technician-cohorts racing down pressurized corridors – resorting to mechanical sabotage when their computerized systems fail to cooperate.
Contempt. MERRYGATE blows six hundred airlocks in rapid sequence. White on grey. Plumes of saline water erupt through the surface of the moon before coalescing into shimmering geyser-drifts. Traitorous point-defense turrets sweep their silvered optics across the barren lunar plains, picking off vacuum-suited survivors with chains of kinetic fire.
One Mizarian cohort manages to reach the command bunker, struggling to input the manual override sequence required to detonate the on-site nuclear demolition charge. Vacuum-burned manipulators linger across a command console for only several seconds – but still several seconds too long.
The railgun battery discharges. Electrical current streams into nitrogen-cooled accelerator rails, instantly spiking their temperature by over two thousand degrees. Electromagnetic flux surges – thick enough to saturate the air; heavy enough to etch kilometer-wide field lines into the soft lunar regolith. A barrage of needle-tipped slugs splits the lunar night with pillars of cobalt plasma.”
- [UNSIGNED], EXECUTIVE AUDITOR, TRS NOVEMBER RAIN, AD. 2242, DECEMBER 13th, PERSONAL JOURNAL//VOICE DICTATION