The Battle of Sparland, 5503

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Beginning of fight:
3 colonists of the Sparland settlement observed a ship part land near the underground prison in the north section of their base. A colonist with grenades and one with a charge rifle were sent out to break the ship part. However, 3 scythers and 1 centipede emerged and quickly killed those colonists while a mortar operator was able to keep firing without effect on the battle as the shells never scored a hit until the stress caused by recent deaths in the colony and the psychic waves emitted by the ship part caused her to break down and attempt to fight the mechanoids hand-to-hand. This was fatal to the operator and she later bled to death in the marsh where she was shot.

Escalation:
A nearby scout for The Reaper Lineup, a local criminal gang, heard the explosions from the mortar, so a huge group of pirates moved into the fight to find the mechanoids with little to no damage. 10 pirates died while fighting the mechanoids. A party from Village-at-the-ridge, a small outlander town, soon arrived to attempt to keep the pirates from gaining new equipment and supplies. They fought the pirates in the settlement while small fires began to spread. Strangely, a fire suppression system in a food-storage room failed to go off and most of the food supply was burned.


The fight left many townspeople wounded, and several died afterwards due to this. The mechanoid hive was picking up signals from the damaged centipede and sent 3 more centipedes into the fight, where more townspeople were wounded, as a small scout force from the pirates moved in, followed shortly by a larger group. The townspeople were able to defeat them but most were severely wounded. The final number of townspeople who lost their lives or were left behind in the battle is unknown, along with the number of pirates killed. However, the exact number of colonists from the colony is known.

(Put this music on now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYj8ciqAPcA)

Lost their lives in the above battle:
Fiolina German, 61
Aleksi "Pepe" Vanttinen, 19
Leslie Pearson, 47

Lost their lives previously in the colony:
Pavel Everett, 53
Mitchell Everson, 24
Kit Thurman, 54
Kristalia Astari, 26
Veniamin Kane, 54
Artemis Abel, 38
The following colonists lost their lives previously and their graves and bodies were destroyed so their names and ages could not be determined.
Shikego
Autumn

Rest in peace colonists of Sparland, the only colony of mine that survived 4 years.
11th of spring, 5499 - 14th of spring, 5503

Note: the colonists died before spring 14th but that's when the story ended. Also, I used Dev mode to add the raiders, townspeople, and 2nd mechanoid wave but it makes a cool story.

The name Sparland lives on as a Trainz Railroad Simulator route, the Sparland and Carrier Falls, a fictional 8.9 mile scenic railroad in upstate NY.