Dominion Siege Device

*"CALL ME MAD, WILL THEY?"*

- Dominion operator, activating the Peace Ray
## Tactical Analysis

* **War and Peace Rays**: One of the more notable (and newest) SPGs within the Combine's arsenal, the Dominion houses an enormous Peace Ray which, when locked on, transfers a pulse of conductive energy to the target at long ranges. It is equally effective against vehicles, defences, or buildings, though it lacks the ability to target infantry.

* **Warning: May contain mad science**: The Peace Ray uses a reflector dish and several smaller relays to transfer enough energy to the main rod before firing, meaning a lengthy pre-fire delay. Manually releasing the charge early can still create a burst of concentrated radiation at the target however, enough to kill infantry enclosed in vehicles or garrisons without actually damaging the vehicle or building.

* **Not the Self-Destruct button!**: Like most artillery, the Dominion is slow and with minimal armour in order to make room for the Peace Ray. Guards are suggested to protect them from enemy raiders, though watch out - destroyed Dominions have a tendency to explode violently.

* **Powered by a forsaken engine**: New generators are starting to be retrofitted on the Dominions, mainly for veteran crews. Which, unlike the previous generator, can maintain the Peace Ray indefinitely, ensuring that once it fires it will maintain a constant beam until its targets die, get out of range, or the Dominion switches target. Said generator also means that its flash pulse are even bigger.

## The New Patriot Volume 1 Issue 9

**46 DEAD in Technate Terror Ambush: Brutal New Weapon Unleashed on Unsuspecting Innocents!**

*By Samuel Ayers - Macondo, Colombia:* "The fanatical lunatics pretending to be 'for the people' are at it again. Only three days ago, jackbooted troops under the orders of the United Technate of the Americas staged a sudden and vicious attack on the local township of Macondo and a civilian supply train within the town just before dusk on June 19, 1969. Operating under the pretenses of being called in by local Syndicate peacekeeping forces, the bloodthirsty soldiers descended via ungainly helicopters and gas guzzling APCs to just outside the town limits at around 8:30 PM, surrounding the civilian convoy that was preparing to distribute food and water to nearby communities and shouting for them to surrender all non-existent guns, ammunition, and explosives to the Technocratic troops. As the drivers pleaded and begged that they had no weaponry of the sort and asked to be on their way, the Technocratic troops cruely opened fire. Bullets ripped apart armored cars, flipped over trucks, and punched ragged holes in the chests of innocents without mercy. With this level of ferocity present, the good citizens of Macondo tried to defend their homes and families by taking what family heirlooms they had and taking the fight back to their monstrous foe. But the Technate forces wouldn't listen, and soon the blood of good men stained the ground as Mother Earth wept for her lost children.

Despite their bravery and courage, the men and women of Macondo were no match for the ruthless forces of the so-called 'Civil Defense Force', who after an hour of bloodshed and death finally took control of the convoy and Macondo, seizing it as if it belonged to an enemy state! And in the aftermath, the devestation was clear – more than forty six innocent civilians were dead, and the Technate troops were openly red-handed. Trucks and cars that had sustained liveleyhoods were nothing more than bubbling piles of scrap covered in the Technate's toxic bacteria, or smashed by the guns of Oaxaca Tanks. Even the ancestral buildings of Maconda that had stood for generations for destroyed, razed by Technocratic hubris and rage. But the Technate, victorious and glorifiying in their slaughter, are even now attempting to pass this off as an “unfortunate incident.” Supervisor Maria Guerrero, who commanded the forces present at the massacre of Macondo, had this to say in an 'official' press release afterwards: “We are greatly saddened by the unfortunate incident that occurred yesterday at the township of Macondo. Our group was called to investigate the local area on the basis of findings by a multinational committee that indicated the known presence of an underground group covertly supplying arms and weaponry to a known terrorist organization spread throughout Latin and North America, and we had approached the township with both an open acknowledgement of our presence, official papers stating our reasons and purpose for being in the area, weapons undrawn, and an emphasis on a peaceful and quick search to ensure there was no smuggling or illicit activity going on. Members of the convoy refused to undergo inspection, and when further questioned drew a variety of small arms and military-grade rifles and indicated their willingness to use them. Negotiations were refused and we were forced to return fire in self-defense, leading to the convoy retreating and taking the civilians of the township effectively hostage by garrisoning and using the town as a firebase to drive us out. We mourn for those innocents lost as a result of their actions, and are freely offering up funds out of our platoons' pay to help those recovering from losses inflicted in the incident.”

Offering up funds? Helping those recover? Do they expect the people of Macondo to simply roll over and take bribery in exchange for silence? Tell that to Cristain Andres, who lost both of his brothers, his father, and his left leg in the brutal and horrific assault conducted by the Technocrats. He and his family were bravely defending their homes from the invaders, manning the Morning Star 8.8 cm gun that had been a fixture and center of the town since the 1950s. With every roar of the gun, they were able to blast apart the invading tanks and helicopters that were attacking unarmoured civilians and trying to run them down between their treads! But soon the devious Technate played their hidden card, and unleashed a new horrifying weapon on the unsuspecting populace.

In his own words, Cristain describes his experience with the terror weapon: “[My family and I] had taken the track off a tank and were reloading the gun when we first felt it. It was like a sensation, like a sensation on the back of your neck. Like when you know you're going to receive bad news before you're actually told. And then there just this...this ray of light, shooting from the trees. A bright ray of light, it was so fast it was like there were these rings, these rings around it in the air. It was that fast. And I was over there [pointing to near the edge of a black circle of glassed ground], and I just ran out of instinct. And when I looked back...the light just struck, and then the gun and my father and my brothers were just gone … a bit later I was trying to reach it to a nearby shelter where some of us had taken cover. It was hard because my leg was gone...and then before I reached it, there was a smaller ray of light from the same direction. But it wasn't like a ray, it was like a...like a pulse, like a fish swimming through water. Very sudden, not as bright as the first one but like a pulsing light. And then it hit the shelter, and there was nothing at first … and then there were these men stumbling out, they were vomiting blood and they were blind or they were getting blisters...I tried to help one, his skin just came off when I touched him but he didn't even notice...”

A ray of light from nowhere that kills what it touches and can make even those in buildings sicken and die in seconds?! This weapon is unbelievably horrific, and yet only yesterday the Technate released a report that announced they had developed a new 'civilized' weapon that 'promised to minimize collateral damage by precisely targeting entrenched insurgents, prevent unnessesary destruction to civilian property, and assist in saving the lives of more soldiers on the battlefield'. If this is what the Technocrats consider civilized, then why do the Allies not realize the depths of their barbarism? Is it because of their secret backroom dealings? The plot to let Technocrats bring parts of America into their expanding unholy empire in exchange for attacking ordered targets? The recovered papers outright stating they want to “subjugate and dominate the United States, to repay the violence they have inflicted on the world more than triple and bring their women and children and elderly to serve our own as servants”?

Citizens of a free world, stand up now against the Technocratic monsters! Remember Maconda, and don't fall prey to the Green Devil's lies!"