Town Council reacts to Aggressive Automatons

In the aftermath of yesterday's attack by swarms of automatons, the Town Council and the Mayor's Office had a brief question and answer session to help alleviate concerns that a full scale robot invasion was immanent. "The colony has dealt with far worse than this," The Mayor was quoted as saying. "A bunch of cheap knock-off's of the KM Series Replicants aren't going to be able to break this town."

Analysis of several recovered wrecks indicates that, while superficially similar to the KM Series deployed by Weyland Yutani some years ago, the automatons that attacked the town were of much lighter, and less sophisticated, design. "These machines relied on swarm tactics, and did most of their damage by brute force."

When asked about casualties and damage, the Mayor replied "Our medical resources are stretched pretty thin, and we'll certainly need resupply in the coming days. But we're doing OK for now. Worse comes to worst, we'll evacuate the wounded. The Alliance has a Frigate on patrol not too far from here. Won't hurt to have them earn their keep."

Repair crews have already started repairing the damage done to some of the colony's infrastructure, and communications has been largely restored by routing traffic through Flight Control's main relays. Citizens are advised that some low priority traffic may be delayed until the may relay comes back on-line.

In response to questions about a possible motive, or source, for the attack, the response was somewhat non-committal. "I've heard everything from Weyland Yutani sending bots to try and disrupt Blue Sun's operations here, to the possibility of one of those factory machines like they had on Blackburne. Without more evidence, we're not prepared to say anything more than 'we're looking into it.'"

When pointedly asked about some citizen's suspicion that resident Mechanical, Krenshar, was behind the attack, the Mayor replied "History aside, that's a completely unfounded accusation. While these bots looked a lot like a KM Series, like Kren, we've seen enough of the wrecks to know they're not. They barely count as cheap knock offs. While I know a few people are a bit riled up, accusations like that don't help anyone."

An inquiry into the source of the robots and the motivation for the attack is under way.