Fleet Command: No one’s left. Everything’s gone. Kharak is burning…
Fleet Intelligence: Kharak is being consumed by a firestorm. The scaffold has been destroyed. All orbital facilities destroyed. Significant debris ring in low Kharak orbit. Receiving no communication from anywhere in the system… not even beacons.
Those lines are delivered perfectly as well. There’s a veneer of professional detachment, because they are all that’s left and have a job to do, but you can hear them about to crack.
Fleet Command: No one’s left. Everything’s gone. Kharak is burning…
Fleet Intelligence: Kharak is being consumed by a firestorm. The scaffold has been destroyed. All orbital facilities destroyed. Significant debris ring in low Kharak orbit. Receiving no communication from anywhere in the system… not even beacons.
Those lines are delivered perfectly as well. There’s a veneer of professional detachment, because they are all that’s left and have a job to do, but you can hear them about to crack.
Needs Adagio for Strings for maximum impact.
Subject did not survive interrogation.