Commonwealth Day Massacre
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The Commonwealth Day Massacre of 3146 was the largest single war crime committed by Clan Jade Falcon forces during their occupation on Arcturus.
The Occupation[edit]
Arcturus V, first capital of the Lyran Commonwealth, was one of his most important planets. First conquered by Clan Wolf, their rule was very soft, and didn't force major changes on the planet, so their occupation, apparently, wasn't heavily contested. After they migrated to the Wolf Empire, Arcturus recovered the independence for about two years, until Clan Jade Falcon arrived and easily took the planet, seizing major utilities and making clear than any resistance will be punished with death.[1]
The Massacre[edit]
During most of the occupation, the population avoided antagonizing the Falcons, but on the fifth of January 3146, a journalist of the resistance, Kimberley Wells, amongt others, organized a protest against the Falcons' mistreatment of workers. About ten Thousands of protesters marched to Malcheema's Lyceum. Star Captain Ferrau, the Falcons' security-force commander, was at the Lyceum. And, as a follower of the Mongol Doctrine ordered his forces to open fire on the protestors. One hundred and eighty protesters died in the first five minutes, with another two hundred and twenty getting shot or trampled on as they tried to escape. And Ferrau, not satisfied with that, sent security teams to every hospital of the city, where they executed any wounded protestor they found, adding another seventy deaths to the body count. Kimberley Wells and a couple of her associates managed to escape the massacre and hid in a safehouse of the resistance's commander, Quaid McKlaven. The next week, Ferrau's forces scoured the city, searching to anyone related with the protest. After receiving a tip from the local noble Vander Chabnill—which hated Kimberley for personal reasons—Ferrau's forces stormed the safehouse, dragging her and her associated to the street, where they beat them savagely. Ferrau executed them personally, leaving the bodies in the street.[2]
Consequences[edit]
The Commonwealth Day Massacre will have lasting consequences: Kimberley Wells' fiancée, the noble Torin Fyhne, was devastated by her brutal death. Since then, the resistance avoided any major strike to prevent new atrocities, awaiting their opportunity to strike. That arrived when Khan Malvina Hazen took almost all the garrison to Terra. Shortly after, the resistance surged and annihilated the small garrison. The Falcon civilians integrated themselves into the population, but almost all the garrison was annihilated. Only two dozens managed to escape, and for their war crimes all were convicted in absentia, sentenced to either life without parole or, in Star Captain's Ferrau's case, to death penalty. Thanks to the help of local collaborators, Ferrau and his group managed to keep hidden, but after they launched an all-out attack against the reborn Tamar Pact leadership, they were annihilated, with Ferrau personally killed by Torin Fyhne, which avenged his fiancée.[3]
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Bibliography[edit]
- Elements of Treason: Duty (novella)