Perimeter Defense
22-09-2007, 03:39
January 30, 2042
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At 1341 EST yesterday, the Grand Unified Federation of Perimeter Defense suffered a major accident at its new Antimatter Energy Research Facility (AERF). A massive explosion, equivalent to approximately 1.2 gigatons of TNT, occurred at the AERF site, generating a shock and heat wave that expanded towards the city of New Gallante. Fatal burns were suffered by everyone within 70 kilometers of the explosion, third-degree burns within 130 kilometers, and several billion dollars' worth of property damage was sustained. As of now, the death toll has been marked at 97,000.
Established just April of last year, the AERF was an experimental 3.2 gigawatt power plant constructed as a prototype for full-production antimatter power plants of the future.
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z157/Flatterland/AERFboom.jpg
Image of the explosion from IDS satellite 46
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z157/Flatterland/AERFruined.jpg
Image, post-explosion, of an area which received comparatively less damage.
The AERF was located some 50 kilometers from New Gallante, that power transmission loss would be minimized, while the same would occur for danger should an accident occur. However, the nature of the accident negated this precaution. From the subterranean black boxes, it was determined that a faulty magnetic hose's malperformance was aggravated by an earthquake, approximately 7.2 on the Richter scale, that had occurred two months before. A leak occurred within the storage chambers, that damaged the electromagnets which held the antimatter, causing a chain reaction that eventually reached the primary storage system. All the antimatter detonated at once, causing the fatal explosion.
UPDATE: Death toll is 160,000.
Associated Press Interlink 2042:415b:a3df:f413:::0000
At 1341 EST yesterday, the Grand Unified Federation of Perimeter Defense suffered a major accident at its new Antimatter Energy Research Facility (AERF). A massive explosion, equivalent to approximately 1.2 gigatons of TNT, occurred at the AERF site, generating a shock and heat wave that expanded towards the city of New Gallante. Fatal burns were suffered by everyone within 70 kilometers of the explosion, third-degree burns within 130 kilometers, and several billion dollars' worth of property damage was sustained. As of now, the death toll has been marked at 97,000.
Established just April of last year, the AERF was an experimental 3.2 gigawatt power plant constructed as a prototype for full-production antimatter power plants of the future.
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z157/Flatterland/AERFboom.jpg
Image of the explosion from IDS satellite 46
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z157/Flatterland/AERFruined.jpg
Image, post-explosion, of an area which received comparatively less damage.
The AERF was located some 50 kilometers from New Gallante, that power transmission loss would be minimized, while the same would occur for danger should an accident occur. However, the nature of the accident negated this precaution. From the subterranean black boxes, it was determined that a faulty magnetic hose's malperformance was aggravated by an earthquake, approximately 7.2 on the Richter scale, that had occurred two months before. A leak occurred within the storage chambers, that damaged the electromagnets which held the antimatter, causing a chain reaction that eventually reached the primary storage system. All the antimatter detonated at once, causing the fatal explosion.
UPDATE: Death toll is 160,000.