Operation: Knightfall

Inside the shields there was an explosion of equipment
"Attention all ground protection teams, team two alpha deserviced, remaining units extract" Overwatch boomed, and the fire remaining Umbrae Populus fell back to the Indespectus ships. They slowly rose into the air, as the Umbrae Populus boarded. They moved slowly forwards, then sped up. There was a burst of energy from each other them as they opened fire with their small energy projectors upon the town of Appleloosa, a once prominent town which had since lost it's importance due to the collapse of the mana-coal industry. The he town hall burnt under the great flames of apocalypse from the two angels of death that swooped overhead before leaping out of reality and into slip space to escape the Equestrian planet
The hall was completely obliterated, and the surrounding structures had been turned to glass. The structures surrounding it had either been destroyed, set ablaze or had been turned to glass, and everyone within a mile of the town hall was dead, and many people within a further mile were seriously injured or had radiation poisoning with a few cases reaching beyond that. The small variant of the energy projector was more focused and generally caused less damage than it's larger cousin... if one of those had been fired, it was obvious that the town would probably have been totally destroyed. It seemed the Collectives shots had been lenient too, both being centered in the same place instead of being used to maximise damage
It was a message, plain and simple. It was a message that said: Look what we can do to the people and the government is powerless to stop us