When the War Dogs organization's satellite control center outside Golden City was swallowed by a sudden explosion, the Wakandans living in Golden City knew nothing. Over the next twenty minutes, assassinations, kidnappings, and explosions followed one after another. Some nobles were reduced to charred corpses by mines disguised as trash cans or pulse weapons while riding hovercars; others had guns pointed at their heads in their homes by former War Dogs members disguised as servants. Upon receiving the news, the War Dogs organization immediately rushed from the royal palace to the scenes, only to find that the perpetrators had long since vanished.
The Royal Army and Royal Air Force maintained an eerie silence throughout this period. Only after New King En'Jadaka summoned the command staff and marshals to the palace did the Wakandan military begin an unwilling lockdown. Yet this did nothing to improve the situation. The enemy seemed intimately familiar with Wakanda's vital military installations. By now, the source of the attacks was obvious, but even if New King En'Jadaka wanted to make a public broadcast informing all of Wakanda that the attacks came from former members of the royal family, he could no longer do so.
Having taken the throne only two days earlier, the new king had yet to fully control all of Wakanda's forces. Some nobles and War Dogs members who had once been wavering seemed to know some secret and began cooperating with the former royal family's operations—communications, power, seawater filtration plants, and other facilities came under attack in succession. Stubborn viral code, like a chronic disease clinging to the body, had been implanted into the control systems of these facilities. Even the royal palace faced the crisis of losing both power and water.
At the same time, the Border Tribe stationed at the frontier