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RIFTS Earth Story: Rebel Intelligence Debrief – The Roar Heard ‘
Round the Lakes
By: Raven Tepes Date: October 18, 2025, 12:39 am
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Archive Reference: RRN-GRL/032
Compiled by: Free States Intelligence Collective (FSIC)
Transmission Medium: Encrypted Leywave Burst via MageNet Relay
Priority: Red (Historical Record / Propaganda Circulation /
Morale Maintenance)
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1. Subject: The Fall of Fort Purity
When the night sky above the Great Lakes turned blue-white and
sang, the Coalition called it a catastrophe.
We called it deliverance.
For decades, Fort Purity had been the iron gate on the
borderlands—a fortress built atop the bones of old Detroit,
where screams never reached the surface. Every mutant, mage, and
D-Bee caught in the northern sectors eventually ended there. Few
ever came out.
Until the Tigress came home.
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2. Background: The Tigress Returns
Our scouts first spotted her weeks before the event—an orange
and black blur streaking across the ruins, tearing through a
Dead Boy patrol like they were made of paper. Her claws burned
with plasma, her growl shattered armor glass.
Rumor spread fast:
> “A tiger woman out of Neo-Tokyo.”
“A Coalition experiment gone rogue.”
“The Sound of Freedom herself.”
At first, no one believed it. Then came Dax Harrow, hauling
stolen explosives and an old Coalition banner to her camp.
Then Ryn of Tolkeen, who swore she saw Feling harmonize with a
leyline to deflect an orbital strike.
Then Tarn Vask, the psi-stalker deserter, saying he could taste
her power in the air.
Together, they built something the Coalition didn’t think
existed anymore.
A team—part strike force, part family.
They called themselves Echo Division.
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3. Operation "Roar"
Feling planned the assault on Fort Purity like a symphony.
Every sonic frequency, every resonance pattern—timed to match
the leyline’s pulse under the ruins.
While Ryn rerouted the base’s psychic dampeners, Dax crawled
through the sewers with shaped charges. Tarn led the freed
captives from the lower levels once the chaos started.
And Feling?
She went straight for the heart—the reactor chamber.
Eyewitnesses from the surviving rebels say she moved faster than
light, her stripes a streak of molten gold in the dark. Each
time she struck, a soundwave followed—tearing through powered
armor, shattering weapons, and bending steel bulkheads like
reeds.
She didn’t just fight. She conducted.
Every explosion, every scream, every heartbeat—it all became
part of her rhythm.
When the final detonation sequence began, she roared.
The sound wasn’t just heard—it was felt. Across miles. Across
radios. Across leyline frequencies.
> “Freedom isn’t silence,” she said. “It’s the right to be
heard.”
Then Fort Purity collapsed into itself in a burst of sound and
light.
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4. Casualties and Consequences
Coalition losses: over a thousand troops and total loss of the
Fort.
Rebel casualties: fifty-six. Most died helping the prisoners
escape the blast radius.
But the victory changed everything.
Across the Great Lakes, settlements that had stayed quiet out of
fear began to rise again. Refugees streamed out of hiding, armed
with weapons stolen from Fort Purity’s wreckage.
For the first time in years, people believed the Coalition could
bleed.
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5. The Legend of the Tigress
Since the Fall, hundreds claim to have seen her—though no two
stories match.
In old Chicago’s ruins, she was seen sprinting across rooftops,
leaving sonic echoes that scramble Coalition sensors.
In Northern Ontario, Dog Boy deserters swear she appeared before
them, claws shimmering, telling them: “You are not their dogs.”
On leyline frequencies, some mages report a strange background
hum that resolves into a heartbeat. They say it’s hers.
We’ve intercepted Coalition propaganda labeling her a “mutant
demigod” and “enemy of the human race.” They’ve tripled their
presence across the Great Lakes and even deployed orbital
surveillance drones.
Still, she moves.
Still, she fights.
Still, the sound carries.
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6. Field Debrief – Ryn of Tolkeen (Recorded Statement)
> “They thought she was just a weapon.
But she’s a melody they can’t control.
Every time she roars, the world changes tune.
She doesn’t just fight for us—she reminds us what it means to be
alive.”
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7. Intelligence Summary
Current Status: Feling Tigress and Echo Division last sighted
near Port Sault leyline nexus.
Coalition Response: Operation Muzzle underway; deployment of
Psi-Battalion units confirmed.
Public Impact: Civilian morale across the Northern sectors has
risen by 280%. Numerous resistance cells adopting “Tigress”
iconography—stripes, roars, and soundwave emblems appearing in
graffiti across ruins.
Projected Outcome: Rebellion escalation inevitable.
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8. Closing Statement
The Coalition says the night Fort Purity fell was a tragedy.
They’re wrong.
It was the first time the Great Lakes heard something other than
fear.
It was the sound of a world beginning to wake up.
And somewhere in that roar, the Tigress still runs—
fast enough to outpace despair,
loud enough to drown the lies,
and fierce enough to remind us all:
> “Freedom has claws.”
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