Capellan HPG Network “Effectively Inoperative”
[25 February 3071; ISAP] It’s not a good time to be a member of the Word of Blake’s hyperpulse generator administration branch in the Capellan Confederation right now.
Across the Confederation the Word’s complicity in the attacks on Sian against the person of the Chancellor have resulted in mass uprisings against the HPG compounds on almost every world. Although a number of these efforts have been led by military or Maskirovka forces, in cases where regular military forces are not present regular Capellan citizens have risen up and sacked the HPG. Thousands of Blakist technicians and administrators have been massacred in what many are calling “The Time of Vengeance” in the Confederation.
A report from the distant world of Repulse is a good representation of events across the realm. When the military forces didn’t move fast enough, a group of Capellans several thousand strong left a music performance when the musicians stopped the show to announce their hatred of the Word of Blake. The eighty-nine members of the HPG administration in the city of Active were unable to keep the rioters out, and in two short hours the entire complex was burned to the ground. When the local police responded in the morning they found burnt complex and the murdered, brutalized bodies of all 89 Blakists.
This is just one report, but hundreds more just like it are pouring into ISAP offices across the Confederation.