Account of the Lumberyard by responding officer Luciano Moretti

    After 3 months of the BlackNet rebellion, the world’s economy had been significantly affected. The United Nations pooled together resources to create an army that would infiltrate the barren United States and locate the leaders of BlackNet using analog techniques. My name is Luciano Moretti, and I’m an expert tracker from Naples, Italy. We deployed into Washington DC on a cargo ship with vehicles, weapons, and supplies. We broke up into 50 groups of about 50 men each and each searched one of the states. I was assigned to Virginia which was considered by most to be the most likely place to find Lothian and his lair. I started at the prison he had escaped from and let my platoon outward in a circle from there.
    “Sir! take a look at this!” one of my men called to me. In the thick of the woods was a large lumber warehouse. We found a secret entrance in the floor and eased our way in quietly.
    The smell was overbearing. The room was lit by about 200 computer screens and nothing else. We located the main room and found a man dead with a deep knife wound. Across the room was Lothian. He was soaking in a pool of his own blood with wrists slit vertically from the wrist to the elbow. Two women cowered in the corner of the room. They were malnourished and terrified. I raised my gun to them and told them to stand and move to the middle of the room. They did as I instructed and told their story. They were simply prisoners of Lothian’s. He had gone insane just days into the rebellion and began behaving erratically and violently. I searched the bodies and came across a small, analog tape recorder on the man with the knife wound. Inside it I found detailed accounts of how this act of terrorism was carried out.