Accident at Gale silo kills 8

HCS bloggers are reporting that there has been an accident at one of the Gale IRBM silos which circle the "central district" of Ailier, Cloneworld where the capital, HCS GHQ and other major military bases are located. A missile exploded in it's silo while undergoing maintenance. The crew of 6 technicians and 2 base staff were killed in the explosion which badly damaged the silo. Luckily the missile in question was not nuclear armed.

Why the missile exploded is not known but it is speculated that the high explosive warhead was set off somehow.