Chapter seven
Everyone knows where they where on the night that the Paige Wordely army base blew up, taking out the 800 workers there and flattening anything within a mile of it. Its like John F. Kennedy or the world trade centre. For a month the ground burned and black fumes from the chemicals kept in the labs hung heavy in the sky, almost solid with it's density.
(Date: Friday 13 June, after colony 224
Time: 09:15:23 p.m.
Sites destroyed: Paige Wordely army base, Paige Wordely junior school. Paige Wordely middle school, Paige Wordely high school, Paige Wordely road, Nineteenth avenue, Lecrance estate, upper east crescent, school road, Norvatis estate, Mathers institute.)
For some they were at home, getting ready to sit down with their kids and help with homework.
(Total death toll: 13549. under 18 years: 2864. under 16 years: 897 Total cost in damages: 3250 billion US dollars.)
For others they were still at work and saw the huge mushroom of light through the windows of their skyscrapers.
(Cause: unknown.)
For some, they were in the Paige Wordely school, watching their kids perform in the school play. The school was not 700 metres away from the base. Everyone in it burned.
(Perps. Caught: none. Perps. Tried: none. Perps. Convicted: none.)
Anyone within ten thousand miles saw the light in the sky and some assumed it was just something like a reverse eclipse. Others viewed it as a sign of the apocalypse and there was a rush at grocery stores for provisions. Thousands gathered outside buildings and houses and on the streets to watch the sky light up for ten minutes. For others it was twenty, and within 50 miles of the base the sky stayed lit up for a day and a half.
Half an hour after the explosion, the shrapnel started to rain down. Houses where destroyed as chunks of twisted metal as big as cars rained down onto the streets. Car owners stuck in night traffic fled, screaming hysterically as the hail of fire and burning debris smashed through windows and crushed people where they stood. There was panic and mayhem throughout the country, and the incident was seen as one of the major disasters of history. Millions gathered and kept silence for the dead in the months to come. Money flowed in from all corners. World leaders debated between announcing war or declaring peace. Peace won out in the end. No one wanted to risk the chance of another Paige Wordely.
Everyone knows where they where on the night that the Paige Wordely army base blew up, taking out the 800 workers there and flattening anything within a mile of it. Its like John F. Kennedy or the world trade centre. For a month the ground burned and black fumes from the chemicals kept in the labs hung heavy in the sky, almost solid with it's density.
(Date: Friday 13 June, after colony 224
Time: 09:15:23 p.m.
Sites destroyed: Paige Wordely army base, Paige Wordely junior school. Paige Wordely middle school, Paige Wordely high school, Paige Wordely road, Nineteenth avenue, Lecrance estate, upper east crescent, school road, Norvatis estate, Mathers institute.)
For some they were at home, getting ready to sit down with their kids and help with homework.
(Total death toll: 13549. under 18 years: 2864. under 16 years: 897 Total cost in damages: 3250 billion US dollars.)
For others they were still at work and saw the huge mushroom of light through the windows of their skyscrapers.
(Cause: unknown.)
For some, they were in the Paige Wordely school, watching their kids perform in the school play. The school was not 700 metres away from the base. Everyone in it burned.
(Perps. Caught: none. Perps. Tried: none. Perps. Convicted: none.)
Anyone within ten thousand miles saw the light in the sky and some assumed it was just something like a reverse eclipse. Others viewed it as a sign of the apocalypse and there was a rush at grocery stores for provisions. Thousands gathered outside buildings and houses and on the streets to watch the sky light up for ten minutes. For others it was twenty, and within 50 miles of the base the sky stayed lit up for a day and a half.
Half an hour after the explosion, the shrapnel started to rain down. Houses where destroyed as chunks of twisted metal as big as cars rained down onto the streets. Car owners stuck in night traffic fled, screaming hysterically as the hail of fire and burning debris smashed through windows and crushed people where they stood. There was panic and mayhem throughout the country, and the incident was seen as one of the major disasters of history. Millions gathered and kept silence for the dead in the months to come. Money flowed in from all corners. World leaders debated between announcing war or declaring peace. Peace won out in the end. No one wanted to risk the chance of another Paige Wordely.