ANN News Desk
From Alliance News Desk on the Citadel
June 6, 2196
Raid on Lorek
by Amita Quita
PRESIDIUM, CITADEL- Images from a recent Torkugan' battle group raid on a batarian terrorist facility on the outskirts of Lorek's capital purport to show a vast bomb factory. Documents attached to the video showed plans for all manner of explosive devices, from small chemical explosives that can be carried on a vest or backpack to massive shuttle bombs designed to level entire city blocks. One particular device was labeled a "Element Zero Enhanced Fussion Bomb." We asked Alliance Marine Col. Michelle Andrade (ret.) if such a weapons was feasible.
"When humanity discovered the existence of element zero, some governments tried to enhance their legacy nuclear stockpiles by using the energy released in a fission or fusion reaction to power a massive mass effect field. Theoretically such a device could easily exceed the one hundred megaton upper limit in modern fusion devices, but as far as I know no human government succeeded, nor did the Alliance or any government in Citadel, so this weapon remains in its conceptual stage. Even then, such weapons are banned by the Citadel Accords on Weapons of Mass Destruction and the building or deploying of such a weapon would be considered a war crime and a crime against all sentient species."A second video surfaced a few hours later showing an engagement between the krogan battlegroup and Jalnor's military police. As seen in the video, the krogan ambushed the incoming forces then led a strong counterattack that dispersed the rest. When interviewed by a ANN information partner about the raid Clan Chief Turtman said, "We remember Wrill. We keep our promises."
