Dark Friday

## Introduction

Dark Friday, also known as Red Friday, or Betrayal Day, was the event that happened 2 weeks before the arrival of the First Wave. This was, by account of modern historians, one of the most inhumane endeavours done by the Traitor Soldiers. Brother turned against brother, and only three soldiers of the 560 Royalists remained unharmed after the purge.

In total, the Royalists were completely eliminated, as the surrendered forces would be captured and Baptised against their will-to swell the ranks of the Traitor Soldiers.

## Synopsis

On August of 2937, at approximately 01:26 AM, a Joint Military Operation consisting of 10 (allegedly) Royalist Infantry regiments, 6 Royalist Paratrooper Regiments, and 3 (allegedly) Royalist Armour Divisions was called to put down Nomad insurgent fighters hidden near the border of the South, in the lakeside village of Neochori. Surprisingly, in the current day, no records of this village exists, and many historians that have attempted to enter the area has found it nothing but wreckage.

The combined force would enter the city next, with armoured divisions leading the way, easily clearing the warzone of any potential combatants before pushing upwards to the city centre. Hours of clearing the city later, no trace of said combatants were found, and the legion was put on hold within the city. Unbeknownst to the Loyalists, however, was the powerful Siege-Class Artillery Guns that had been placed over the ridge, to shell the city to bits. Without warning, a battery full of 300mm high-powered shells rained itself over Neochori, rendering entire lesser homes and houses into dust and instantly crippling six of the ten Abgrund-Class Main Battle Tanks. Twenty out of the 560 soldiers had also been wounded by the blast, with thirty instantly perishing upon initial blast.

After the blast, a mix of 21 Traitor battalions strong and 5 Traitor armoured regiments storm the city from six different directions, crushing what remained of the civilian populace with fast and lethal action. Thus began the Last Stand of the Royalists.

## Last Stand of the Royalists

What remained of the Royalists, roughly 560 out of the original 600, converged within the Town Hall, as they now realized their brethren had turned on them. With only support from 4 Tanks, 15 Machine Guns and 30 Sappers, they defiantly held the town hall against the Traitors for 3 days and 10 hours, only for no backup to arrive because the traitors had cut off all radio connection in the region with AHAC wave signals and blocked off roads in the city.

Soldiers used their brethren's corpses as sandbags as they fetched munitions from the same bodies. Machine guns had fired so much that their barrels had began to expand from molten heat. Tanks were so shredded by small arms gunfire, that armour had effectively rotted away through the carapace, revealing giant chunks of the interior like a great ripping flesh wound on a torso. Soldiers had sent carrier pigeons, carrier mice, and even patrol dogs as a way to get help. Luckily enough, one of the dogs, known only as "Hope", despite sustaining multiple gunshot wounds, had ran all the way to Jacinto to inform the Loyalists of the treachery.

It had already been six days after Emperor Grimaldi's reinforcements were sent. Despite having sent 20 battalions and 16 armoured regiments, the city had been overrun and corpses were strung all over the pavements. Only three soldiers were recovered from the scene-Lt Major Seraphiel, PFC Williams, and curiously, a civilian soldier from Neochori named Jamsheed-Al-Khadr. As of now, these three figures have had their names changed and scattered across the world for their personal safety, but through the mouths of these three people do we know about the truth in this atrocity.