Memory of Attack Still Vivid
Добавлено: 26 сен 2008, 20:05Memory of Attack Still Vivid
[24 August 3071; DBC] Forty-two years ago today pirates struck Gibbs in the District of Donegal, raiding the cities New Davies and Bainbridge and killing more than two thousand civilians in one of the worst atrocities of the Fourth Succession War era.
The pirates, later identified as a band known only as Nickel’s Boys, struck first in New Davies, using their two ‘Mechs to distract the city police and militia while the rest of the band looted every bank and repository in the city. On the way out of the city the ‘Mechs walked through three hospitals and one school. One of the pirates, captured years later on another world, admitted to piloting one of the ‘Mechs. “We figured it would keep the police from following,” he said. “And it was a war.”
In Bainbridge the Boys tried a new tactic. Instead of cowing the police and militia with their ‘Mechs, they detoured around the city and destroyed the electrical junctions at the fusion plants that supply Bainbridge with electrical power. They then proceeded directly to the food storage facilities and set them ablaze, which drew most of the emergency responders away from the city itself. They were able to loot with impunity.
The Boys were finally brought to justice in 3038 by a detachment of the Eighth Lyran Regulars, and all of them were executed after being convicted by tribunal for crimes against humanity.
[24 August 3071; DBC] Forty-two years ago today pirates struck Gibbs in the District of Donegal, raiding the cities New Davies and Bainbridge and killing more than two thousand civilians in one of the worst atrocities of the Fourth Succession War era.
The pirates, later identified as a band known only as Nickel’s Boys, struck first in New Davies, using their two ‘Mechs to distract the city police and militia while the rest of the band looted every bank and repository in the city. On the way out of the city the ‘Mechs walked through three hospitals and one school. One of the pirates, captured years later on another world, admitted to piloting one of the ‘Mechs. “We figured it would keep the police from following,” he said. “And it was a war.”
In Bainbridge the Boys tried a new tactic. Instead of cowing the police and militia with their ‘Mechs, they detoured around the city and destroyed the electrical junctions at the fusion plants that supply Bainbridge with electrical power. They then proceeded directly to the food storage facilities and set them ablaze, which drew most of the emergency responders away from the city itself. They were able to loot with impunity.
The Boys were finally brought to justice in 3038 by a detachment of the Eighth Lyran Regulars, and all of them were executed after being convicted by tribunal for crimes against humanity.