17/3/3307 - Stress, Anxiety, and Conspiracy
17 Mar 2021Claudette De La Croix
17 / 3 / 3307This is the personal log of Commander Claudette De La Croix, captain and owner of the Arrow.
The purpose of this log is to combat loneliness in space when long-distance communications are either not working or not sufficient. Plus, it helps to have a diary.
Earlier this week, terrorists from the New Marlinist Liberation Front attacked and devastated multiple stations throughout the Bubble, including ones in high-security systems such as Sol and Lave.
And Achenar. Despite Lavigny's Legion and the ISS, the NMLA managed to blow up a station in Achenar. Even during the war against the Federation I can't think of a time something like this has happened.
It stresses me considerably. My wife Delana was on that station just a day before it was attacked. What would I have done if I had lost her? Why am I still just a few jumps away from home?
They asked only search-and-rescue pilots to enter the system to not interfere with the Navy and military. I feel helpless, drifting through space in my ship when I should be home, holding her in my arms, cooking her breakfast as the tide comes in.
She tells me everyone is OK but I'm not.
I am sick with worry and my mind is fraying from the anxiety and lingering questions. No hostile force has ever made such a brazen and massive attack in the history of mankind, not for a thousand years or more.
The NMLA has to have had help. The Raxxla scholar in me thinks she knows who, but how does a puppet fight the puppet master? As I write, an intelligence agency forms against the NMLA. Patriotic fervor swells against a common enemy.
Who benefits from the new war?
I will be home in a few days. I will bring treats from Shinrarta for the nephew-in-law.