2696 Destino Bombwave

The 2696 Destino Bombwave, also known as the Destino attacks, June 26th attacks, or, 6/26, was a series of large-scale bombings that occurred throughout the continent of Destino on the world of Hyperion - one of the most populated planets in the Coalition of Congressional Republics. Starting on the morning of June 26th, 2696, which was also considered Coalition Day in celebration of the founding of the Coalition itself, one hundred and one terrorists belonging to the Holy Army for the Salvation and Liberation of Humanity and associated criminal organizations utilized land and air-based vehicles to deliver autonomous payloads of non-nuclear improvised explosive devices to various designated locations. These locations included major megacorporate facilities, major industrial plants such as the Rostov Chemical Plant in Jensenfeld, and major government facilities such as police stations of the Hyperion Police Department. The goal of the attacks were to severely cripple government and corporate institutions on Destino as a show of force against the Coalition, its megacorporate beneficiaries, and the Hyperian government, in addition to being retaliation for the various arrests and executions of HASLH members and affiliates years before.
The bombers successfully destroyed or critically damaged up to ninety percent of their targets, with the best known example being the Rostov Chemical Plant. This specific attack, originally using a remotely driven aerocar packed with explosives, resulted in an approximately five-kiloton non-nuclear explosion that killed most site personnel immediately; this was a result of a large store of ethylene oxide undergoing agitation and subsequent detonation by the blast. The HASLH, after claiming responsibility, told the news that they had deliberately started their attacks after school had started on Destino to limit child casualties, and had also targeted these locations versus highly-populated centers to reduce civilian casualties.
The first target was the Security Intelligence Network's Destino office, a sub-branch of SIN's Hyperian planetary office, which occurred at 8:15 a.m.
After the end of the attacks on June 27th, the planetary government of Hyperion (in conjunction to and under orders of the Stellar Republic of Hathor) ordered a planetwide mandatory curfew, seeing the deployment of the Coalition Forces Authority to assist in security operations alongside the HYPD and Hathor Stellar Guard. The Coalition Department of Security launched Operation Snakeshead in the coming weeks, leading to the deaths and arrests of thousands of suspected accomplices and HASLH members . Snakeshead subsequently contributed to the public's deteriorating opinions on law enforcement as a result of mishandling the situation, ranging from gross violations of human rights to a mass-scale shootout that led to the deaths of dozens of civilians from government-contracted mercenaries detonating a "block-buster" weapon against a HASLH hideout.
The bombwave attacks ultimately resulted in the deaths of nearly seven thousand people and the injury of nearly forty nine thousand, with the chief culprit being environmental hazards from detonations (particularly in the attack on the Rostov Chemical Plant). It is the second deadliest terrorist attack in the history of Hyperion, only being surpassed by the 2474 orbital freefall of the Libertatem on Albion. It had also created up to a trillion notes in infrastructural damage and humanitarian need, and briefly led to large-scale civil reprisals against Christians on Hyperion due to religious associations.
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