บท 231: Chessmaster, Pt 1

One Year Later

Bloody corpses littered the dusty compound base, which was located on a distant plant somewhere in the outer reaches of the Federation. Scattered here and there were armored hovertanks, most of which had been shredded thoroughly by gunfire.

Many had been rendered useless, and had crashed into whatever was nearby - people or buildings or other hovertanks.

And the buildings themselves were torn open by force - mostly through the liberal use of bullets and explosives of every size and caliber. Some were even still on fire.

Especially the largest and most heavily defended building. Although it had multiple layers of fortifications and armor plating, it too had been ripped open violently. The bodies of its defenders lay everywhere, and their blood had decorated most of the walls.

Worse, the central vault had been blown open, and its contents emptied of everything.