Disconnect / Atonement
11 Nov 2023Frynge
It has been a year of running logistics and providing fire support for the many-faceted war against the Thargoids. I am grateful for the technologies we've developed now. The situation is now more controlled and I will remain on standby to provide further. This has also been profitable for the company, but we have not had an opportunity to use the profits for expansion, funneling to war efforts. We have... also lost many excellent pilots and employees over this time. I will honour them all in my own way.
I have been brought back to the path that I believe I truly belong on by an event that happened only yesterday. In order to cover a supply gap, I directly took command of one of our Type 9 mining ships to assist. I jumped into the Sol system where I would find the supplies, only to find myself pulled out of supercruise immediately. Upon translation into normal space, I was attacked without any contact on my comms. A Fer-De-Lance with no designation. This ship had only one purpose. To assassinate.
my assistant, Abe, launched one of the ship's fighters to hold them off as we escaped.
We have safely returned to dock and the Type 9 is under repair. This is not the first time this has happened. There was an incident with a similarly unmarked Chieftain in Tau Ceti. I managed to destroyed the ship with my Wayward Son's unexpected capabilities. Now that it has happened again in a much more vulnerable ship and in consideration of Incident i-ext357 at Chadwick... I am convinced once again that someone is targeting me from the shadows.
Someone knows what I have. What I am after. I am now convinced that despite the situation in the Inner Orion Spur, I must press on and finish my hunt. I was onto something before, but my time around the Thargoids has me thinking. What if the Thargoid Sensors that cause us so much trouble and caused Jaques Station to malfunction are actually the key to finding those wormholes?
I will find an end to this war by providing a new capability for humanity... or I will die trying. This is how I will now fight. This is how I will honour the lost. This is how I will find those responsible for the assassination attempts and bring a reckoning.
GridJumper Industries was not founded with a humanitarian aim. I was bored and I have harmed many in my way. Perhaps this is also how I will atone.