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[color=f26522][center][h1]Chapter 2: Acts of aggression[/h1][/center][/color]
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[b]Adene [/b]
Io City
9:20 Imperial Yorvan Time

"This is 3-1, there are more survivors here. We need emdical assistance." The radio crackled and the faces inside the ambulance frowned in simphony. Nothing had warned them of the events that ensued, and as men who swore an oath to save lives the couldn't bear to hear the news. Dozens of human and yorvan casualties and a historic architecture demolished into fine dust. The truck bumped on something and the light flickered for a second. Then the movement stopped and 2 soldiers opened the doors on the back. The paramedics grabbed their first aid kits, and jumped out the back as quick as they could. A few soldiers stood nearby, and each of them accompanied a medic to guide them around. 

It was a narly sight. Civilians, most of them humans, formed a circles around the rubble that once used to be the cathedral, and a handful of soldiers tried to keep them back. Body parts could be seen hanging out from the rubble, and blood covered most of the square. A few heavely deformed Yorvan bodies laid on the stone tiles, the marks of the high speed bullets that shred them apart still visible. The moaning of the survivors accompanied the bustling of the crowd, and the Militia soldiers worked harder than ever to remove the bricks from the tortured souls caught under them.

But not the Yorvan survivors. The first gunshot was heard shortly after the medics arrived. The first offical Yorvan civilian to give their life for the rebellion. A paramedic clinged onto the hand of another soldier who was trying to shoot another Yorvan, begging to spare it's life. She was pushed away, and another casualty was recorded into the combat logs. The other medics stopped trying to help the xenos, but every time they heard a gunshot, their bodies shhok in agony. They were furios about the attack, but they were healers, not fighters. The rest of the avacuation went silently, apart from a few Yorvans in the crowd who had to be tazed for "unappropriate social behaviour".

[b]2 hours later[/b], Yorvan Imperial Embassy

The massive crowd of angry Yorvans was an overwhelming site. Even thought they only had stones and sticks, the damage they caused to the Embassy was already larger than the entire monthly paycheck of the building's staff. The guards in front of the place already jumped into their [url=http://i.imgur.com/OO09VnT.jpg]riot gear[/url], and were sustaining the heavy blows of the rocks. A loudspeaker on a pole above them blared an automated message behind them. "By illegally protesting here, you are committing crime against the governement of the Emporioum of Man. Refrain from your current actions, or suffer the full consquences of your actions." It couldn't keep going on for much longer, as a rock hit in the side and it fell to the ground, breaking into many smoking pieces.

"Finally, that shit was starting to annoy me." Jill sighed in her suit as she saw the devide hit the floor. They are already taking a beating from the crowd, and they didn't need another annoyance to top of their day. Another rock hit her shield, and the screen on it cracked loudly, and the message displayed got distorted into something unreadable. "Son of a bitch!". She cocked her tazer gun, and shot a few shock bolts into the crowd. As the projectiles hit, Yorvans fell to the ground, violently shaking from the few million volts delivered to their bodies. As a response, more people appeared with rocks and other throwables and bombarded their lines. 

It wasn't easy to notice in the masive array of sounds, but with the hearing assist of her helmet, Jill noticed something coming from the crowd. It sounded like repeated clicks from all directions, and they were eeriely familiar to a gun turning it's safety off, and readying the bolt to fire. "Watch out, we may have armed Tangos inside the crowd. Eyes on the faces, don't let those suckers shoot you. If you think they have a gun, shoot a couple of tazers into them until they turn into fried meat." And indeed, one of her temmates pulled up his pistol, and shot a few tazers bullet into a Yorvan standing nearby.

The response came in the form of a simphony of gunfire, as old gunpowder based weapons fired at the guards. Most of the bullets bounced off, but a much deeper sound occasionally accompanied the other guns, and a large caliber shell was fired into the defensive perimeter. It was enough to bend the shields, and crack the screens below them, and it allowed the other guns to put more pressure on the police. Jill and his squad members slowly started to retreat, their arms shaking in the gunfire that pelleted their shields. "We need support! We are under heavy fire!"

A few more steps back, and they reached an inner gate of the compund. Jill pressed a few buttons on the holopad next to the gate, and a finely woven metal net sprung up from the ground. The shells hitting them travelled for about another meter, stretching the net, but ultimately losing their momentum. But the large caliber shell didn't stop, and took one of the guards off guard as it pierced the net, and hit them on the helmet. He didn't die according to the display on Jill's holo, but he was knocked unconcious. "Where is that goddamn help?"

As if you only had to wish for it, a continous sound of gunfire erupted from behind them. In one of the windows of the embassy, a massive machinegu was set up, and it was now firing into the crowd at an insane rate of fire. Those who could flee did. But most of them couldn't. The Yorvan bodies dropped like flies, and the gunfire from the other side stopped in almost an instant. The machinegun fired a few more short bursts into the pile of bodies, and then the operators reloaded it foor god measures. Jill looked back at them, but could not say a word at the sight.

In front of the embassy, a few hundred Yorvan bodies lied, torn to shreds by bullets and bloodied by their fellow Yorvans. If this wasn't going to make the Yorvans rebel, then nothing would. It was a show of deterrance by the Yorvans, and they got their answer in the form of raw force, and a few thousand bullets. 

In many other cities, protests have already broken out, similar to these, and all the EOM soldiers were instructed to use any force they deem necessary to end these revolts. The number of casualties rose with every second, and the planet headed towards a straight out war. The ships in orbit started to load their guns up, and fuel the dropships and fighters. The battleship above the capital fired a couple of bursts from it's autocannon into a Yorvan monument, near where a crowd of civilians were protesting. A show of force from the Empire, to deter all who would oppose them. Only time would tell how the Yorvans react to it.