Local Resident rescued from Raiders, Reaver Attack burns West Town

Local Resident rescued from Raiders, Reaver Attack burns West Town

Two waves of attacks buffeted the Hale's Moon Colony Monday. Raiders kidnapped a local resident, Emma Ditko, who was later rescued by local militia. Later that same day Reavers attacked in force and burned the village west of the Blackburne Colony,

An empty mid-sized cargo transport Firefly Series 03 with a Blue Sun insignia visited the Hale's Moon spaceport unexpectedly without asking permission to land. Sheriff Gallagher Aeon approached the two heavily armed men about their unannounced visit and the nature of their business in Hale's, this was met with provoking rude talk and profanity. Confrontaton with local resident, LilyBell Snoodle escalated to fisticuffs followed by one of the men discharging a firearm resulting in a street fight.



Local Militia managed to drive off the men, but it was later discovered had taken local resident, Emma Ditko, as prisoner and attempted to ransom her.



Communications off planet was offline and members of the local militia, Gabe Yazimoto and Jai Raghilda, managed to rescue Miss Ditko from the raider's base camp, not far from Hale's Moon.



After their capture, the raiders made several threats of retribution, such as to, "...tell that ranger that I remember him from the old days, and there's going to be a reckoning coming."

The two raiders were deposited in the local jail. No citizens casualties and major injuries were reported, The residential courtyard was severely damaged.



Later that same day, a large wave of Reavers invaded Hale's Moon and set the western village on fire.

Exact numbers were not given, but Madame Mayor Seana Kawanishi said that Blackburne Colonist Nack Barnes alone put down six. Local Resident, LIlyBell Snoodle, broadcast instructing local citizens to stay in their houses. Other citizens took shelter in Fook Yoo's. No casualties were reported, but Reese Shawbridge was reported to have suffered severe injuries. LIlyBell Snoodle was ambushed in the west town of the wasteland and witnessed the fires.