The second day of the invasion saw new horrors…

The Bane marched forward again towards the city centre, this time they had captured civilians in front of them, using them as shields.  The forward fortifications failed to fire, and were overwhelmed quickly, the 79th watched in horror from above as the military under orders used flame units against the approaching army.  When the last of the captured prisoners were dead the Bane seemed to panic, and stopped approaching, that is when we struck, hard.  We launched our missiles deep into their ranks, causing massive explosions and death.  After we’d depleted our missiles we turned to our guns, and made sweeping passes, mowing down the Bane in their hundreds.  The Flame units pushed the remaining Bane back, causing them to bottle-neck and then we made them pay for what they did.  The air was thick with smog from the weapon fire and burnings corpses, never had I seen such a thing before…

When dusk fell that night, the 79th Scythes took to the skies again, with intel about the nearest Bane landing/staging base.  We approached silently hidden by the fading sunlight, and came upon the base.  Dozens of dropships and Stalkers all packed together, with countless hundreds of Bane soldiers moving around, all lit by eerie yellow and red lights.  My remaining squad launched our Solarus Missiles, weapons designed to feed on the oxygen around them to create a chemical fire as hot as the surface of the Sun.  The flash of pure white light was blinding, and the sound of a thousand cracks of thunder echoed out, smashing windows in buildings and shaking the foundations of the city.  When the smoke cleared, nothing remained, we returned to base believing victory was in our grasp.

<Continued in #A-000X3>

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