Starside, Log #032
02 May 2022Alexander Jameson
INITIATING ANUBIS OS. USERNAME: cjameson1879
PASSWORD:**********
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WELCOME BACK CAPTAIN. APPLYING ENCRYPTED CONNECTION
Initiating Recording Playback...
AUDIO RESYNTH: ACTIVATED
LOG #032
AUDIO LOG
RECORDING LOCATION: FES TRAVELLERS WILL (DIAMONDBACK-CLASS VESSEL)
SYSTEM NAME (REPAIRED): Pyramoe NB-V b36-20, 7,473 LIGHT-YEARS FROM THE FNS SHROUDBREAKER
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I feel... Tired
Looking out the window, it feels like I haven't seen the stars in ages. Being out in the black with nothing but your wits and a cappuccino machine changes people. You lean back in your chair and stare out into the abyss, wondering where you're going next...
I need another coffee. Anubis, pause the recording and start the cappuccino machine, please---
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It's odd, you know? There are more pilots out in the black than in the Bubble. Being a combat pilot for over two decades, you realize that going out into the black is a brand new thing to you. When I first left, I was out of my damn mind. I had gone crazy. I was missing for two months. They thought I was dead. And then fate pulled me back. It didn't want me to die yet, and of course, wanted me to suffer more in this reality than in the next one I may live in. Sitting at a desk doing paperwork isn't what I was meant to do damn it. I'm supposed to be out there with a full wing of 8 taking out Interdictors and shooting down Imps and pirates.
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But now fate has me sealed in a glass box, waiting for me to break out after I've found how to. It'll be soon, and I'm sure of it. For now, I just have to wait.
Anubis, plot course to home.
End Recording.