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— Nullifiers attack Team Tomorrow Headquarters
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: At 9:21 AM local time, the nova group calling themselves the Nullifiers appeared from a 'warp' rift over Addis Ababa and immediately began to attack the Team Tomorrow Headquarters building. After several minutes of pitched battle, the Nullifiers were repelled without loss of life, and three of their members were captured. Four members of Team Tomorrow — the androgynous "It," Andrew "Skew" Parker, Samantha "Songbird" Page, and Allison "Psyche" Pfaltzgraff — were treated for minor injuries, but according to Utopia spokesmen all are expected to fully recover within the day.
The flying 'N!' cameras that constantly monitor the Team Tomorrow Headquarters building showed the attack beginning very suddenly, with Nullifier leader "The Colony" spearheading an immediate quantum bolt volley on the "T2M" symbol above the doorway. Within moments, the entire Nullifier team, including three new members, had emerged from the spacial rift and begun attacking the building. Even as they did so, however, the headquarters building counterattacked with its own armament, and soon after that Team Tomorrow members poured out and aided in its defense.
At first, the Team Tomorrow defenders were hard-pressed, even with the presence of leader Caestus Pax, due to the Nullifiers' greater numbers and the need to defend the baselines below them. But as the battle continued, progressively more Team Tomorrow members joined in the battle and the tide turned. Once the Nullifiers were outnumbered two to one, The Colony shouted, "All right, Nullifiers, we've made our point!" The rift reopened and the Nullifiers retreated, but not before two of the new members and one other, none of whom have as yet been identified, were captured.
"This just proves how dangerous rogue novas can be," Caestus Pax said to reporters after the battle. "There was no rhyme or reason to this attack. The Nullifiers are just chaotic anarchists who take the Teragen's so-called 'philosophy' to its most ludicrous extent. The Colony wants to play games with Utopia and the world, but we aren't playing. Now please excuse me."
Pax's fiance Songbird had similar comments, agreeing to make a statement while being treated for a dislocated shoulder. "Supposedly non-violent Teragen make feeble excuses for murderers like Geryon, claiming that they have no 'interest' in hurting baselines. Then terrorists like the Nullifiers endanger baselines as a combat tactic. It may have helped them in the short-run, but we won't forget this. Not only is their hypocrisy appalling, but if they think they can threaten our co-workers, friends and families with impunity, then they're fools as well."
Songbird's daughter had, perhaps, the most succinct response: "Those bastards better pray I never erupt."
Curiously, well-known Teragen member Raoul Orzaiz had similar comments. "While the members of Team Tomorrow have many views with which I disagree, in this particular instance I am forced to concur. While those who truly follow the Teragen philosophy will occasionally use more violence than is perhaps necessary, these so-called 'Nullifiers' are nothing more than poseurs who wish to cloak themselves in respectability by using the Teragen symbol. No self-respecting adherent of the Null Manifesto would ever attack fellow novas with such callous disregard. ... What the Nullifiers are doing is deluded comic-book caricature, not the way of the Teragen," he added.
The Nullifiers have issued no statements regarding the attack.
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