05/05/2185
May 4th, 2010
The search for survivors in the rubble on Taetrus continues tonight. Only sixteen trapped people have been recovered alive, and experts say the chances of finding more survivors are slim. Bulldozers and heavy cranes are removing debris from the city’s four major highways. Only a handful of aerial ambulances have made it to the interior of the rubble. Firefighter Extan Relius says that there is little hope for those in the central crater: “The impact didn’t just knock buildings over; it picked them up and dropped them.” New calculations indicate that even this massive blow was relatively mild compared to what it could have been — the ship involved was only starting its acceleration to FTL speeds, and achieved a velocity under that of a mass accelerator bullet before contact.
Tags: Extan Relius, Taetrus, Vallum, Vallum Blast