After-Action Report - HF Research Facility

Operation C3047-112 Operatives: Adelhyde, Aurora, Imsh, Wolfwood Location: Human Federation Allied Casualties: None Other Operational Casualties: Steffi the Owlbear, 2LT Haley & squad, unknown Drow male. Synopsis: Human Federation is using ritual sacrifices to infernal beings to create anti-magic war materiel.

Details: HF research installation in Kolnitskaya is using Drow & Duergar prisoners as sacrifices in blood rituals which involve infernal beings (Chain Devil in captured surveillance, unclear if it is a specific partner or if any devil will do.) Drow & Duergar are being utilized as they are races known or at least suspected to have magic-resistant properties. HF is on lookout for additional races or beasts with similar properties. Ritual infuses equipment with one of three known properties: Nullifier, Capacitor, or Reflector. Procedure seems to not yet be reliably repeatable, as experimentation continues and full-scale production has not yet begun.

Analysis: Release of this intelligence to Gnimellar or any Elven nation is likely to serve as casus belli against the Federation. Private release to any other power would prompt immediate condemnation if publically known. Private release will probably result in covert action, either direct or by proxy. Rikland may argue for a brokered solution due to hatred of Duergar, though their alliance with the Svartalves may demand direct confrontation. If left to continue this research will provide a strong deterrent against hostility from magically advanced nations. However, it should be considered potentially destabilizing due to alarmingly powerful first-strike capability.

Loss of life necessary to power full-scale production of this equipment potentially an extinction-level event for Svartalfheim.