Hung by the Neck Until Dead
The fallout of the betrayal of Elohim was immense. In the wake of the destruction, two hundred SS aircraft lied burning on the runways of airports smoldering and wrecked from airstrikes. The first vanguard had just touched down when the weapons went off, and within an hour it was over. The leader of the SS, F.G.III, was enroute in his private jet when the attack occured.
His plane never landed.
The shockwaves were immediate - the factions of the SS, once united under the helm of Francisco Grail III, were now at odds with one another. The great houses of Konig, Nautilus, Arkeria, Bravis - were held together by a single hereditary strand of power. Now, with no clear successor, the organization carefully orchestrated and assembled over one hundred twenty years of operation was collapsing.
The first to go was the 24th SS. Sáŋgárvuohta Bárdni Váile Elohim. The traitorous legion broke ties with the Nautilane headquarters and blew up the remaining communications and ISR equipment in Elohim. Next, 20th SS. "Ryoma Pasternak" Crytilen, dissatisfied with the handover of Svarsk to the Zokesians, burned their equipment and left in boats back home, a nation fallen apart, to seek fortune as mecernaries in the lawless state formerly known as Crytil. And the 6th SS. Braviserstgeboren, with their newfound state and independent Fallschirmjäger, rounded up the remaining Kahnenerbe officers in Suid-Kafrica and shot them in their own dark, lavishly furnished offices.
For some, the day would pass as any other. But for the largest criminal underworld, the war had just began.