At Plymouth City, the sky was a grim tableau, a mixture of swirling crimson and thick, oily black. Soot from countless fires and the violent aftershocks from detonated plasma vessels had choked the skyline, casting a permanent, hellish twilight over the metropolis below.
Plymouth City was an expansive urban sprawl, formed by the coalition of twenty large satellite cities that had grown and merged over time. The invasion had taken this hub by surprise, just as it had the rest of Section 1. Fortunately, the military effort here was strong enough to defend the city and prevent a catastrophic loss of life and property. The vast majority of the city's infrastructure remained intact, for now.
