on Thusday the Waters End Bar was the location of a frightening insect attack. Reports say that a at least 8ft tall spiked insect came though a vent and attacked the people inside the bar, wounding the constable, resulting in a chaos and injuries by misguided gun and laser fire. The attack occurred during the evening when lots of people where visiting the bar.
During the attack, USD personal was at the bar, among this personnel was Lt.Col.John Collins, the local Commander of the USD outpost on AL Raqis. He was unavailable to be interviewed about the event, we will try to get a full interview with him as soon as possible.
The Insect escaped the scene after attacking the Constable, being chased away by laser fire, its whereabouts are unknown.
All people wounded during the attack are already out of the hospital there are currently no follow up reports regarding the insect. Eyewitness reports speak of a 8ft spiked insect that resembles a Thrull Drone.
There had been an encounter with this insect several weeks ago, where Doctor Thomas Issac shoot those 2 images of the creature:
It is not certain what kind of species that insect belongs to, but the danger it represents seems to be clear. This is only one of many of Thrull or Arachnid related incidents that have been recorded in the USD sectors as well as outside of it. The big question that everyone is asking now: are those giant insects a danger for mankind?
Dr. Freeman, expert for exobiology: "Both Thrulls and Arachnids are no danger for us, we should just need to be aware that we share this galaxy with other species as well. That means that we have to be careful with our expansion so that we do not intrude in already colonized space"
Not everyone shares that view like in the case of Professor William Holden: "These insects are incredible well adapted to live even in the harshest of environments, they can very well spread over large areas of space and be a real threat for colonists. We are still not sure how the Arachnids do it, but we think they send out Spore balls that can reach far away planets. Just imaging if such a spore ball lands on a planet like Nauri Prime, it would be devastating!"
Indeed the numerical advantage these insects have is often one of the main concerns and fears of the USD Citizens throughout the outer arm.
Images of a so called "Warrior Bug":
How high would the chances of an attack on the core worlds? "The chances for that are very, very slim" says General Case, Commander of all Core Forces. "We have an array of satellites, monitoring stations and regular patrols as well as orbital defense systems that would make it hard for any kind of Spore Ball to reach any of the core planets. Even most planets of the border have defense installations that would prevent a sudden attack"
Indeed, the orbital defense systems where improved after the recent Kaefer war and would make it nearly impossible to mount a sudden attack, but what if the creatures are already on the planet, how would our combat troops preform?
Images of a Standard USD Soldier:
"We have dealt with giant insects before and we can handle them very well. Not only do we have regular light infantry, we also have power armor and tanks and we can even call in air-strikes and other heavy stuff" says Major James Grimmon, 5th Battalion, 6th Infantry.
"Its nothing we have not done before, we go in, find the Hive and either use gas or napalm to destroy it. Flamethrowers also work wonders. We learned a lot from fighting the Plasmides on Hope. Our Power Armor makes short process of any type of bug. I remember that on Echon 5 we encountered Arachnids, we where outnumbered 5:1 but that was not really a problem. We had Tanks, rocket launchers, flamethrowers, pulse rifles, lasers and importantly, Power Armor armed with miniguns. Together with the air support we had no problems taking them out. After a 2 hour firefight we had killed most of the bugs and we only had 2 casualties." says the Major.
Close up of the Infantry Power Armor
So, clearly, the fears of a sudden Thrull or Arachnid invasion are unfounded. There is no real threat coming for these giant insects and we should try to understand them and only in rare cases we should make use of our superior weapons technology. Mankind will not be extinct anytime soon.
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