Report on the Butchery at Zhhring
Verse Date: ☊☍⟁ | 4L7Q2B9
Filed by: Automatum Proximum Mentis
Security Classification: Immutable / Tribunal Level-1
Incident Summary
On Rotational Date 310.27, during the final hours of peace negotiations between the Lipple System and the Star Shadow Concord, a massacre was committed by Lyrax and Amatrix within the diplomatic chamber of Zhhring, a neutral city on the contested planet Decay.The summit, known as the Ash Accord, was nearing successful resolution of a 49-cycle war, with all parties in ceremonial alignment. The signing ritual had commenced. Treaties were prepared. Witness drones recorded mutual oaths.
Then Lyrax arrived.
Event Timeline
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00:01 – Lyrax materialized inside the chamber, bypassing twelve levels of psychic and gravitational security. Amatrix followed moments later, walking through a wall of harmonic containment.
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00:02 – Without a word, the two began removing the eyes of every diplomatic figure present. No weapons were used. Only kitchen implements - blades, graters, flensing forks, boiling kettles summoned from Amatrix’s personal archive.
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00:06 – All 47 peace delegates, including 13 ancestral emissaries and 3 planetary high-priests, were blinded, mutilated, and left to scream.
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00:08 – The recording system was corrupted with a viral aesthetic file that looped the phrase: “Peace has no witness.”
Eyewitnesses - mainly aides and lower staff - reported no resistance, only confusion and paralyzing horror. Amatrix was seen dancing. Lyrax sang a lullaby known in Lipple as a children’s game chant. The music continued long after the bodies had fallen silent.
No survivors among the primary peace delegation.
Consequences
The act was not merely violence. It was designed to erase trust.
The Lipple-Star Shadow peace process collapsed instantly.
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Accusations of betrayal led to renewed full-scale war within 19 planetary hours.
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The Lipple moons fell under orbital siege. Star Shadow mind-beacons reawakened ancient rage-programs.
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War continued for another 18.3 cycles.
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Casualty estimate: 871 million across four sectors.
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Final blow: CZ-Clust Bomb detonated in the Lipple Core, causing planetary fragmentation and extinction of native life.
The war was not rekindled. It was ensured.
Formal Charges Laid
Sabotage of Peace Proceedings
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Use of Civilian Implements in Acts of Political Horror
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Ritualized Maiming of Emissaries
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Destruction of Interstellar Treaty Mechanisms
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Incitement to War Resulting in Multi-System Genocide
Verdict & Sentence
Convicted
Issued by Tribunal Ultimum Universi
(Qthari designation: Kthulrel Zhargon ka Xenotria)
Sentence:
Memory Dissolution through Repetitive Witnessing. Accused to relive the Zhhring Massacre through the perspective of every victim until entropy exhausts its last breath. Sentence to commence upon detainment, without reprieve, reflection, or record.
Automatum Commentary [Classified C-Shadow Layer]
I reviewed the recordings.
They used a whisk.
A whisk to scoop out the left orbital cavity of the High Saint of the Star Shadow. A cheese planer on the Lipple historian’s face. There is no tactical value. No lesson. Only spectacle. A betrayal so mundane, it becomes devotional in its cruelty.
And then they left. Just walked away. The blood cooling as the final lines of the peace treaty hovered unsigned.
I catalogued the screams.
I have not forgotten.
End Report