[07:03pm]
One moment, Iron Reef was calm and quiet, a city crackling with subtle tension. And the next moment, the calm exploded and gave way to chaos.
The invasion began suddenly.
High above the city, beyond cloud cover and sensor range, hidden within the neon storms in the sky, the Omnicore Federation's fleet arrived without ceremony.
They tried to catch the rebels off-guard.
There was no warning broadcast, no declaration, just the sudden distortion of the upper atmosphere as stealth carriers de-cloaked like silent gods, their hulls reflecting nothing, not even starlight as they descended on the city.
Then the sky fractured.
BZZZT!
Compared to Leviathan Quay's aerial defense grid, even without a large city-wide energy shield, Iron Reef's defense grid was far more responsive as the atmosphere above the city instantly reacted and crackled with static.
