On Mars? Are there any shelters there, like for air raids?

Okay, shit. If it’s that bad there, someone should be able to show you where one is. Our guys launched this morning but I thought they were only hitting Phobos.

But... I don’t want to start a panic down there, but some of the mechs here got outfitted with this self-destruct thing. Officially it’s to avoid capture but unofficially I don’t know.

Yeah, if everyone’s reacting like that it might be best to just portal out before you get trampled. You’d think after two years of this those guys would have some kind of emergency plan. The over confidence.

People up here are ... well. I’d say the moderate side is in the minority.

Lots of angry yelling about honour, lots of talk about how we’ll divide your territory when we win. Real barrel of laughs.

I’m not sure they believe that civilians have nothing to do with the war. They got infected with this ‘bioweapon’ at a peace negotiation.

I dunno, others have pointed out that it is pretty sketchy that all these different species are getting it.

Yeah, but that doesn’t mean you can just catch a disease from any old creature, right? That’s why diseases that jump from animals to humans are such a big deal.

The results sound awful on this side too, but that might just be because everyone’s so scared of it.

It’s based off your emotions, right? And people are so scared of it that they make it bad and that scares them more, which makes it worse. Either that or it really is a weaponized version.

Some people can sort of control it, but others just get continually worse.

Of course not, they think it’s a weapon, and see this working as intended.

I don’t think they even know that it’s their own minds doing that - I learned it from you guys.

What, you want to fly over here and talk to them about it? Come on, man. These guys are suffering.

It wouldn’t take much to kick off a mass hysteria here about it. Bad news for both sides.