ONN BREAKING NEWS: Aid For Cocoon Station On Its Way
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Originally Published on October 31st, 2493
Orbital News Network/Grant Jones Reporting
The disaster on Cocoon Station continues, radiation, a neurotoxin, and the collapse of the former Armitech Tower have affected countless lives and caused millions in damages. The reports of gang activity increasing almost overnight, as well as several reports of murders, assaults, and arson, have also increased. But amid all the chaos, a light shines from the most unlikely of places.
Luna Governor Wayne Thomas Russell, supported by Matsumoto Zaibatsu has authorized five freighters packed with food, medicine, and cybernetics. The Council of Five Clans from Mars has also deployed assistance in the form of Water and Food from both the Water Merchant Guild, and Mars Farms. And New Geneva has been persuaded by both Armitech, and Advanced Research and Experimental Systems to send aid and support in this trying time.
“It’s not about taking sides here” says Governor Russell “Lives are at stake, and we are in a position to help, and we will help”.
“A terrorist attack like this is an attack on all of us, Cocoon Station has suffered this same fate many times over, enough is enough” says Michael Nikolaidis, Elder Councilor to New Geneva “After Armitech and ARES made their cases, we have decided to deploy our help to the people caught in the middle of this madness”.
The first freighters with aid are scheduled to arrive in the coming hours, ARES and Matsumoto personnel have been deployed to ensure that the freed criminals won’t try to take the shipments for themselves. The distribution of aid to the people of Cocoon Station will be done by Genetectic at their Medcenter and other locations around affected areas.
The deployed personnel have a secondary objective: Stranded Armitech personnel who are simply looking to leave Cocoon Station will be picked up and transported out of the station as their supply depots were destroyed and they have been actively hunted down by out-of-control criminal activity.
Grant Jones reporting.