Weary-free
17 Dec 2019Tan Bin Phan Nguyen
When an object in motion accelerates, its mass increases. So increases the energy required to accelerate the object further, which would itself further increase its mass. Thus the law of diminishing returns does its work. Good thing our FSD lets us kick both Newton and Einstein in the balls at the same time. I'm getting off topic. My point is that I've been experiencing a similar yet inverted temporal perversion lately, one wherein I have become a blur; hot plasma fired out of a mailslot. I've got some great new tunes from Wa Kainga that gets my guts all twisted up with bliss when I'm 4 cups of kavajava into the relentless work of shifting these stubborn people's favor.Yeah- since it all began things have finally calmed down a little- well, I've found some comfort in routine, at least. And yet so much has occurred since my last entry that I feel inadequate to the task of recounting it. So instead of digging up stories of espionage, counterspies, honest politicking as cover for jackbooted skullduggery, I think I'll share something interesting that happened a few months back. I kept this to myself at first, but since then enough has passed to make this safe to share.
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About 5 months back, July 3305. Arbor Caelum had been founded just the month before, while I was far in the black. On return to my home, I brought my new companions to a warm Wa Kaingan welcome. In a few weeks our numbers had grown so quickly that more than those in possession of Pilots Federation Licenses were desperate to join the ranks. And so the people of Nemehi, in a manifestation of their will, created Arbor Caelum Internal Defense. This new faction appearing in the most valuable worlds of this system apparently greatly concerned the existing federation-backed corporate powers.
A great flaw that all of these corporate exploiters possess is that they are too massive, and too demanding of labor to do anything but hire almost exclusively local labor. The obvious result is that a meta-stellar corporation suffers constant leaks and security breaches due to an unsurprising and chronic lack of loyalty to the brand.
One day on Haipeng, this last July, I was passing from my autovend with a hot oolong when I saw a new parcel alert at the front door. Retrieving it, I found a sealed and verified envelope from an anonymous benefactor. Inside were internal communiques detailing our opposition's research on ARCM and ACID both, as well as personal dossiers on myself and my top officers. In the last 5 months I have received dozens of packages from my benefactor, each containing countless valuable pieces of information. The following are internal spy cables from our now long-vanquished enemy, Nemehi Bridge Services. I am posting this publicly so that others who stand against this kind of tyranny can see how they truly operate.
----NBS COMMAND TERMINAL v.9----
3305.07.01-0922
//INCOMING TRANSMISSION...
//ENCRYPTION COMPLIANT
NBS SECURITY SERVICES STATUS REPORT
Confirming reports from assets placed within locations of interest at Nemehi that a new faction has been established. Name: Arbor Caelum Internal Defense (ACID). ACID should be considered a direct economic competitor and until motivations are known should be treated with extreme caution. Requesting specialist to deploy to Nemehi 6 pursuant of company security charter article 7 section 9. Preliminary reports support the claims that the leader of ACID is a native of the aforementioned world, this specialist will acquire necessary background knowledge on this person of interest.
>>RECEIPT CONFIRMED
//END TRANSMISSION
----NBS COMMAND TERMINAL v.9----
3305.07.01-1555
//INCOMING TRANSMISSION...
//ENCRYPTION COMPLIANT
NBS RECON SPECIALIST REPORT
Attached data: biometrics, genetic data, family history
Subject: Tan Bin Phan Nguyen
Only son of the famed Nemehi naturalist, Trini Lews Nguyen and Federal research scientist Haimona Lews. Hai is a dedicated Federation man and reports show he has not had meaningful contact with his sire in many years.
Nguyen is an atypical anti-establishment agitator with an anti-corporate bent. His view of history with special regards to NBS and BNI in Nemehi is skewed by slanderous propaganda spread by enemies of progress and development. What makes him unique is apparent determination coupled with a complete lack of history with the traditional opposition parties in Nemehi. This is evidenced by his formation of ARCM and its vocational and expansionary arm ACID. Access to his personal database reveals a rather grim perspective of the ethics and mandate of the corporate powers controlling his home system.
Advise that senior leadership of NBS convene ASAP to discuss the ramifications of unintentional dissemination of company secrets regarding Nemehi 6 and Project <REDACTED>.
>>RECEIPT CONFIRMED
//END TRANSMISSION
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That final redaction was mine, not theirs. These documents came to me unedited, but certain matters cannot yet be discussed openly. There will come a time soon enough when the transgressions of the conglomerate of corporate overlords in Nemehi will become too much for the even the secret keepers to bear, and the truth will spill out.
Apologies if this entry is a bit slipshod, I haven't been sleeping as much as I need to lately. Problems with the family planetside, wife on comms all the time... it's so hard to explain why I can't promise that I'll be on terra firma come our little one's 9th birthday. That I hope I can be, I'll try to be there, but I know that isn't good enough.
She always asks me, "Why can't someone else lead this awful war?"
And I have to say to her, "Someone else already is. And someone else, and another. And another. We all are."
She knows this is our children's future, but she's angry that she has to keep moving to new homes for her safety. She's angry with me for endangering her and our daughters. I'm angry at the duplicitous extractors from on high for endangering every living soul on Wa Kainga, and all of Nemehi in the pursuit of profit.
Last month, when the news reels started billing me as a notorious terrorist, and blamed me for the deaths of all those journalists in Jiuyou, she stopped calling me when I was on trips, and was cold when I called her. I fear that she may believe the awful lies they tell, and I must recognize that if the corporatists are unable to destroy me, they will attempt to destroy my family.