Dawn broke across North City in a violent haze of crimson and amber emergency beacons flashing from every municipal broadcast spire.
Siren horns wailed continuously across the twelve districts, echoing through the concrete canyons as automated emergency loudspeakers broadcast Director Rook's hysterical decree.
"Attention, all citizens of North City!" the mechanized broadcast repeated every thirty seconds across the public frequencies.
"The rogue militant faction known as the First Citadel has committed high treason against the municipal government!"
"They sabotaged critical emergency infrastructure, stole municipal defense assets, and brought unclassified void contamination into our metropolitan territory!"
"By emergency decree of the Municipal Directorate, all Citadel accounts are frozen, trade is banned, and all members are classified as kill-on-sight terrorists!"
"Six mobile suppression units have been deployed across the central avenues to restore order!"
