"THE WITCHES HAVE COME!"
From the moment the local authorities detected the arrival of an enormous fleet that was projected to carry well over 200,000 threatening mechs, it was as if a bomb had exploded throughout the Pima Prime System!
In fact, it was not just the millions of colonists in the star system that reacted with a combination of shock and dread at the news.
The rest of the Friday Colonies and even the entire Friday Coalition back in the old galaxy all became gripped by nightmares of the Komodo War.
Had the remnants of the former Hexadric Hegemony gone crazy?
It was one thing to launch opportunistic raids at the vulnerable and frankly overstretched outlying outposts of the Friday Colonies.
It was another thing to launch a bold and brazen assault at the richest, most valuable and most developed stronghold in the colonial state!