Black Sands under siege!

Date: 201010
Planet: Tatooine
Region: Black Sands

Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).

Black Sands is a town that has seen large-scale violence in the past - several times. From raids by thugs in Jabba's employ to droid and slaver attacks, the citizens of Black Sands have seen it all. Or that's what they thought.

For currently the town is under siege by imperial forces, surrounded and cut off. The situation of the people left in town is grave. Their ships have been shot down or destroyed on the ground and bombers have wrecked the space defenses. Snipers prey on anything that moves and stormtroopers are slowly forcing their way past the barricades that have been hastily errected by the defenders.



What brought this attack on is not sure, but according to rumors the imperial garrison was attacked and driven off by locals, then returned with reinforcements. Other rumors claim that the Remahr Company, the leading corporation of the town, is disintegrating, most of its leadership including Remahr himself supposedly has gone missing when the new Vigo-class freighter of the corporation was destroyed early on.

So far the defenders, augmented by combat droids, are holding up, but for how much longer is hard to say - with no relief in sight and no way out and losses rising the future for the people left in town looks grim indeed.