The Bortele System was burning.
Gas harvesters plunged into the brutal depths of the gas giants they once harvested for fuel and other materials.
Light mechs on scouting duty suffered ambushes that caused them to get torn apart by the transphasic hyper energy cannons of alien phasefighters.
Multiple alien fleets surrounded one stronghold after another. They methodically bombarded orbital defenses from afar and choked any attempt to launch serious counterattacks.
Enormous energy beams and projectiles the size of meteorites struck the Titan Shields that protected many settlements from annihilation. These powerful energy barriers could only hold out for so long before they collapsed, causing the residents who failed to evacuate in time to pray that their underground shelters were deep and sufficiently far away to survive the cataclysms that would ensue.
