The recent VoF article tells of a dust brigrade interference happening. Around that same time I was returning from a mission in newland desert so by coincidence I happened accross the event. However, I had no idea it was happening, all I knew was happening was the server going fubar, preventing me from leaving to my next mission, so I eventually gave up and went off to play some Tribes 2. Maybe in the VoF they should have added a paragraph somewhat like this so people had a role playing element to this bad choice of FC's:
"Dust Brigrade operatives also released a lag monster into the streets of Newland, consequently preventing anyone from leaving the horror. Cries of panick like 'the whompa is broken!' and 'i'm paying for this?!' where heard throughout the city, some even chose to end their lives to avoid this evil manifestation. On interviewing some locals, one said 'man FC sux they need better stuff' and one said 'damn server went fubar'. Although it's uncertain what these people mean, it is expected that the Dust Brigrade will launch repeated lag monsters whenever they are in any city."