The Coming Fall - Raven's Log
07 Dec 2022SpeedsMcRonalds
I haven't slept. Coffee and adrenaline are the only things keeping me going, it's been... Man, I don't even know, three days? Four?Readings show you have not slept for forty-nine hours, twenty five minutes, and seventeen seconds, Commander.
Great. Awesome. Thanks Eden. It's been a non-stop fight against these bugs in HIP 23716, and they just keep coming no matter how many of them we kill. Me, the rest of Grizzly, AXI, and a whole heap of every other group and gang in the galaxy are out here for a piece of the action. It's almost reassuring to see humanity starting to come together like this, hell, I was fighting alongside an Imperial today. Me, fighting with an Imp, hasn't happened since HIP 22460. But that little bit of hope isn't enough to let me get some shut-eye. I left my crew back in Tionisla, SLFs just get swatted out of the sky and I don't want anyone getting killed on my account, so at least I'm not worrying about them too.
I don't even care about the money anymore, I stopped caring a while ago. I'm set for a million lifetimes, mom and dad got back my medical bills a thousandfold, no debt on my head. I can die without regrets, but it's still scary as hell to think about going to that big goodnight at the hands of these death-daisies. But maybe the tides are turning, new AX weapons are coming along, and those maelstroms... I've been to the center of Taranis, and I sent my findings to the eggheads. And from what they're seeing, along with Jameson's logs, we're pretty sure they're hive ships. Giant flying fortresses with millions, or even billions, of the bastards in there, and we can't get to them yet. But it's a start.
I just can't- No. No, you know what? No! I'm done, I am done being scared! Screw that, and screw this mopey bullsh- Sorry. Sorry Eden, I'm so damn high-strung and sleep-deprived... Heh. But I think I get it now. Some clarity maybe, or maybe I'm just finally losing it, but I bet we can win this. We're humans for crying out loud, we're not millions of years along like the Thargoids but we're smart. We've got ingenuity, we've got the means, and most of all we have some tenacity that can get us through just about anything. Eden, call Julius- No, screw it, send an internal message to everyone. Tell them to get their ships, yes, even Tetris with his Battle Barge.
We're going to fight. And we're going to win. Or skies damn it, we're going to go down swinging, kicking, and screaming.