The Sword Of Truth terrorist group have suffered their first serious loss in their bloody war with the secular government of Cloneworld. In a departure from their recent highly successful tactic of random attacks on HCS officers around 20 senior SOT members went to attack the HCS Officer Training School in Relium. Enroute to the school in a civilian registered CH-36 helicopter the aircraft appears to have suffered some kind of mechanical fault and crashed on the slopes of Mount Gelu-Urbert with total loss of life.
One unconfirmed report says there may have been a weapons malfunction aboard the helicopter, maybe a missile or rocket prematurely firing which caused the accident. A HCS spokesman said most of the dead were ex-members of the disbanded RP Cloisters Brigade and the core of the SOT.
