New Gallimech is a planet in GCPS space with a major dig site
About
A garrison of Cro-Tek marines were besieged by phalanxes of Asterian constructs, the alien constructs appearing without warning just beyond the marines’ perimeter. As Cyphers probed their defences, the garrison’s walls were pounded for a full local day by fission beams mounted on Phanta-class gunships. Soon after the siege began, the garrison began receiving distress calls from miners at a dig ten kilometres to their southwest. More Asterians had been spotted and the miners were ill-equipped to defend themselves. The marines were unable to leave their base in response though. Every time one of their Hornets appeared above the garrison’s wall it was instantly vaporised by unseen anti-vehicle weapons.
A Mule convoy met a similar fate, its lead vehicles being quickly knocked out by sniper drones, leaving half the transports stranded outside the base walls. Eventually the marines stopped trying to break out and resigned themselves to concentrating their efforts on staying alive within their walls. And, eventually, the distress calls stopped coming.
Early on the third day of the siege, the Asterian guns stopped firing. No signal the marines were aware of had been given - the alien gunships simply left, vanishing as quickly as they had appeared. Scouts soon reported there were no more Asterians anywhere near the base - the siege was over. Their constructs and war machines were not all the Asterians took with them though.
A second Mule convoy was organised, accompanied by what was left of the marines’ Hornets, and dispatched to the mines. Cresting the last ridge along the way, the first Hornet pilots to reach the dig site could barely believe their eyes and their superiors back in the garrison couldn’t believe what they were being told: the mine was gone. Where there had once been an extensive operation to recover ore laced with precious metals, there was now nothing but a colossal hole in the ground. It looked, to quote the marine pilot who discovered it, ‘like somebody just scooped up the whole place and carried it away’. The hole measured nearly a kilometre across and nearly a kilometre down. The miners, all their equipment, and anything they might have dug out of the Gallimech ground was gone.
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