Somewhere on the northern coast of Tepror, the headquarters of the MoEa's DoMD sits overlooking a small and forgettable island. Inside workers of the department and military scramble around the building. The officers quickly deliver authorization codes to the corresponding officer and ensure that the forward watch party is firmly out of the blast radius. The DoMd workers rush to reinforce the headquarters and ensure the payload is in working order. On this day of all day, if even a single mistake is made it will be catastrophic.
While the orderly chaos ensures, not broken even by new orders, alarms start blaring in the HQ. Quickly people rush to positions watching a nearby island. They are extremely close to one of the drop sites, men prepare to repair any last-minute breaches. Then a voice comes on, Minister Alexa's voice. "My dearest compatriots of our republic, today is the day we conduct the grand showcase of our newest weapon. All cameras are on the island so let's not mess up, anyone who causes even a slight mistake I will throw into space k thanks." The PA system falls silent but the alarms are still blaring, and the officers who were invited to watch the demonstration have their eyes glued to the island. Fire operators look at their respective jobs ensuring everything remains the same. "fifteen seconds until contact." Eyes are fixed on the island, no moment can be seen other than the alarm lights. "Ten seconds until contact." Two fire operators look at each other and ready their stopwatches. Lights on terminals begin to glow as the time ticks down.
"Five.... Four.... Three.... Two.... One..."
A supermassive fireball can be seen in the distance, the light is almost blinding to the skimtari. "Contact made" is the last thing the HQ heard for three whole minutes. For three whole minutes, nothing can be heard, The silence itself is deafening. No one dares to move not even to look outside the window. One minute goes by, and The fireball's light has only grown brighter, it is bigger than researchers anticipated, But no skimtari dare even move to note the results. Two minutes in the fireball glow dies down. The explosion is now easier to see, that includes the shockwave. The surrounding sea was shown to be rushing towards them at extreme speeds. One could be forgiven for confusing it for a small tsunami. At the last minute, with bated breath the skimtari watch.
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The shockwave hits the HQ, rattling everything in it. Skimtari falls to the ground due to the extreme force hitting the bunker. Terminals not fastened to the floor come crashing down, skimtari those who aren't on the ground from the first shockwave quickly move to secure the remaining terminals that are still collecting data. The noise is deafening even for the skimtari, disorienting even, most are unable to think or move straight. Then the second impact hits, water begins to flood as the impurities of the building break on impact. Skimtari rushes to fix the breaches and pump the water out. For two hellish minutes, the skimtari had to fight for their survival in deafening noise and flooding walls.
After the noise died down and the flood was solved, a brave volunteer dared step outside to survey the damage to the building. But that's not what caught his attention, it was the test island. Shattered into seven pieces the island was gone. Reduced to dirt under the sea floor. The only evidence that there was even an island was the smoke stack from the explosion and the clouds that had parted way to the WMD. Stunned silence spread across the building, only the crashing of the waves was heard... Until Alexa came on the PA system. "That was amazing," She says with a chuckle in her voice. "The test was a major success, it even surpassed our initial test! I am sending a behemoth to pick you up. De team players and clean up any chunks you find Okthankyouiloveyou!" They continue to sit in stunned silence, they are trying to come to grasp what exactly they created.
