he Rift of the Spiraltrain: Fracture Blade Incident Spurs Panic between Vaporum Nodalis and Crownmesh
Panic on the inter-island rails: a relic cuts through reality-and the passengers. As Vaporum Nodalis's mists barely began to lift, a Rift swept through, its echoes still resounding in the Exchange Spire.
Stardate 4422.306 - Chaos erupted on the central inter-island line yesterday when The Rift of the Spiraltrain occurred between the mist-wreathed trade domes of Vaporum Nodalis and the crystal core of Crownmesh. In eleven compartments of a passenger train, an unidentified traveler activated the Fracture Blade of Vectraal, a notorious relic from railway legend, launching a string of uncontrolled slashes against both humanoid and non-humanoid occupants.
According to the Order Collective of the Unstoppable Wardens-who immediately sealed data tunnels and cordoned off the track with a ritualised mesh ribbon-a total of eleven were injured, nine of them initially in critical condition. Four have since returned to their residential cubes, while two remain in grave condition under floating medibot care in the Exchange Spire clinic.
The train, an ornate procession of transparent modules and streaming lights, came to a stop at River Drift Delta-9. There, armored Wardens and swarms of ID drones apprehended suspects and placed them into the Labyrinth of Deferred Remediation, all in under eight chronoseconds-a promptness as impressive as it is suspect.
The Panthechtonome, sovereign of Mobile Scales, announced early over the Celestial Weave Network: 'Current datapatterns indicate the Rift appears isolated. Blade motive and provenance remain unknown.' A formal investigation continues, though the Warden's protocol tomes traditionally remain silent on incidents involving mythic artifacts.