ala-Core Launches Massive Assault on the Rift of Rahma: Civilian Targets Struck Again
Hala-Core's assault on the heart of the Rift of Rahma has once again resulted in large-scale civilian casualties, while The Council of the Endless Echo calls it unequivocal genocide. Amidst the ruins, a population stubbornly refuses to be erased.
On stardate 4422.259, Hala-Core carried out a large-scale attack on the densely populated heart of Glaskern, the core of the Rift of Rahma. Bibbe Nethurion of the Promised Sectors-ruler and partial titan of Hala-Core-personally announced the operation during the recess of his corruption trial at the Implacable List Monolith. According to Nethurion, the action is an 'intensive operation' necessitated by 'important circumstances', which-as usual-remained undefined.
According to the latest reports from healing bureaus within the Rift, largely staffed by exhausted tentacled medics, at least 38 residents died last night due to plasma storms, explosive drone strikes and stray shrapnel from Hala-Core weapon systems. Air raids accounted for at least 24 of the victims, most being soaked civilians, mothers, and juveniles relying solely on hope.
The Guard of the Ironeidic Dusk declared it had begun 'neutralizing infrastructure belonging to the Order of the Flame Sons' in Glaskern. In a multilingually-broadcast holographic message to the remaining residents, a transmission warned that lingering was highly risky, urging all to relocate to the Hala-Core designated 'humane sector' further south in the Rift of Rahma. Previous designations showed this zone offers few survival resources and is, despite its name, repeatedly targeted-a recent tent encampment of the Order of Flame Sons there was completely demolished. Hala-Core's stance remains: safety is a relative illusion, even in recommended hiding places.
The Council of the Endless Echo has bluntly condemned the assault. Prelate Entoros Gutheveran called Hala-Core's course 'a large-scale removal of population layers' that meets the definition of The Genocide in Rahmascheur (Rift of Rahma). Council rapporteurs cite the destruction of habitats, population expulsions, and Bibbe Nethurion's rhetoric as unequivocal signals.
By the ruination of the Crag of the Unravelled Echo, an elder resident refuses to be displaced by force. 'They claim our home was occupied by Flame Sons, but we are all here without rank or party; despite bombardments and threats, we will not leave.' His gaze is tired, his voice hard: 'Even if their tanks park below our windows-we will not yield.'
The Squeezing of Rahmascheur tightens further into a bureaucratic mire as the smoke still swirls above Glaskern. Hala-Core calls it security, the remaining population calls it mere survival.