Talk:United Aerospace Command/@comment-11135771-20141206051936

At Ceres, there was yet another wave of attacks from Prometheus. Although the Prometheus Corporation was avoiding using the same tactics in their raids against the UAC so as to remain difficult to predict, some of their attacks had been successful enough to warrant a revisit.

As such, another squadron of Corsair-class heavy battlecruisers, eight of them this time, opened fire on the UAC's orbital infrastructure from a distance of several light-seconds away. Each attacked with all twelve of its wing-mounted heavy lasers, capable of inflicting major damage to capital ships. After firing, they charged their warp drives to leave.

A group of twenty Phantoms and six Banshees dropped out of warp above Ceres just beyond the range of the warp disruptors. The bombers made a beeline for the underground colony, while the Banshees offered cover against fighters. The entire group was quickly destroyed, but not before the bombers had done their job (albeit not as well as planned).

Several salvos of torpedoes impacted the civilian portion of the colony on Ceres, despite many being shot down before hitting. The first salvo was composed of torpedoes armed with shaped charges, designed to dig through the layers of rock and metal protecting the colony from outside attack. The second volley were specially modified weapons, replacing their warheads with mind control units. The first volley of torpedoes had not been quite sufficient to break all the way through to the colony, so the mind control devices never quite made it as far as intended. The hole created by the shaped charges had, however, been sufficiently deep that the very edge of the devices' ranges touched the upper levels of the colony.

Inside the Ceres colony, there were a series of muffled explosions heard above, followed by a set of dull thuds. A group of colonists immediately fell into a strange, lethargic state, slowing down their pace of walking and some even sitting or lying down where they were. Several seconds later, all affected fell down as if dead, only to wake again within moments in a frenzied, berserk state in which they attacked all in sight. Several of the other colonists were killed before security forces were able to take down the mind control victims, with the attack resulting in a total of 58 civilian casualties including both the mind controlled and those they had attacked. The actual damage was relatively low, but this had been intended primarily as a terror attack.