While many of the facts here are consistent with previous news releases, the evacuation had not been disclosed before.  What is even more puzzling is the release of final investigation results:

"We are convinced that this incident was nothing more than a Cromforge initiated attack against a competitors facilities. Given the animosity between Cromforge and OPL, and with 20/20 hindsight, the attack was not surprising. The terrible loss of 43 OPL souls aboard the station during what should have been a celebration, is unfortunate, however, at this time, this office sees no compelling reason to escalate this corporate conflict further with the active involvement of factional governments. Indeed, should the recommendations of this report be accepted, this office offers its services as mediator, with the objective to normalize relations.

o OPL publicly announces a celebration of Injustice production restoration, practically inviting attack.

o OPL Station is evacuated for several hours on the day before the celebration.  After an all clear is given, 42 people are taken back to the station on two shuttles (official reports say 43).

o The Governor of Great Pillars  recommends that hostilities cease and offers its services as mediator.

Cromforge responded to OPL's final report with a statement saying:

Warning System Helps
TRI Pilots Focus
on Conflux C&C . . .

The improved CLAWS warning system has allowed TRI pilots to identify the "command hive" for an impending sentient attack, and
then automatically communicate this information to TRI pilots, who can then formulate a plan of attack before a sent incursion is organized.

According to Dr, Calatorius of the Octavian Ministry of War, ". . .analysis indicates, that in the several hours prior to an attack - typically when the Defense Condition is raised to 2 - conflux communications chatter is focused around a single hive within Conflux space."

Initially, there was great success in using CLAWS early-warning to destroy command hives and ward-off attacks, but Conflux have begun to adapt sending false signals and using command hives as bait for swarm traps.

. . . While
Conflux Raids
Target Infrastructure

While TRI attacks on hives have become more effective, the Conflux, too, have turned up the heat with repeated, focused attacks on TRI factories, Custom Producers and Shipyards.

Recent Conflux attacks have damaged or destroyed facilities producing various Repair Beams, the AntiFlux ECM, the Sabre (nuclear) missile and the Chiropteran (Oct Medium Fighter) shipyard.

Worker Death on Sol Core
Spawns Strange Story

Solrain Security reported that the body of Kyn Nei was discovered by friends on the morning of 106.2.17.  The death was officially declared as "suspicious."

Mr. Nei, had recently signed up as a pilot with TRI and was scheduled for genetic modification. After Mr. Nei failed to show up for his appointment, friends went to look for him, and found his charred remains in his room. Security was called shortly afterwards.  Anonymous sources within the STCC suspect the work of the Octavian supremacy group Phoenix Rising.

A Solrain named Drayvn made the following puzzling statement:   "First the Quant zealots tried to down our cryo-pod on the way from Samsun laboratories to Soria. And now that we're revived again after 2 millennia, cured of our genetic diseases, and finally ready to quietly enter Soria society in peaceful anonymity, the Oct butchers killed Kyn because he just wanted to help the Reconstruction efforts. . . ."

The strange story was given some credibility when Solrain fluxing legend ZeroZ95, surfaced and made this statement:

"Though the tale is a long one, suffice it to say that a handful of citizens of the Planet Solrain, lost in the Great Collapse some two millennia ago, were found in a cryosleep chamber during the 2nd GVB War (85AT). Then, in the chaos that fell upon Hyperial at that war's end, they were lost again for another full generation. A hobbyist historian chanced upon a reference to them just before the last great aftershock of the Great Collapse (101AT). They were found and cured of a deadly genetic disease, the reason for their initial stasis in cryopods. Several were killed during transport from Hypsos to Soria in an attack led by Quantar extremists. After lengthy interviews and re-education in the language and ways of modern society, the Pre-Collapse Solrains were released from protective custody. They have total amnesia about all things concerning Pre-Collapse times, save a few personal details that were retrieved from data logs of the damaged cryosleep chamber.

I know all this because I was the historian and am now their friend. I return to space from retirement because the time has come for someone to do something about the unchecked aggression against these peaceful PC Sols by Quantar and Octavius."

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