The Sol Incursion
07 Dec 2024Jana Razeki
Personal logDecember 7, 3310
I guess this is where we are now. A Titan in Sol, a dozen systems invaded and four more immediately overrun around it.
If I'm being honest, I expected a lot worse. Sure, it isn't exactly great and probably bad especially for the local populations still having to suffer for the shitty decisions of their idiotic higher ups and leaders, but other than some donkey thinking it was a really great idea to shove the rescue megaships into Sol with the Titan...
Well, I had my stuff for fighting Thargoids moved into nearby space, just in case. And, of course, the Thargoids went for Duamta, to absolutely nobody's surprise. That friend of mine quickly told me she's safe, so there is that, but I still decided to give it a hand to defend it. For what it's worth, even if I already established I don't care much for Federal space or Sol, we don't really need them - Thargoids - to have their hands on the Aegis headquarters or Seo. If they haven't already gotten one or the other, because they've been oddly quiet on either's status despite making one or two statements. I don't know, probably is just the occasionally active intelligent and conspiratorial part of my brain kicking up, but there's no real doubt targeting their megaship in that system was a, well, targeted move. I guess maybe Sirius also is, but what do I care about those corpo morons, all they care for is profit. And there are enough gullible people flocking to the system's defense for them and their precious engineer regardless.
Anyway, I can't really shake that feeling we've still missed something. I mean, yeah, sure, Thargoids are attacking systems, massacring ports, blah blah blah, but for a supposed last stand of the final Titan in the Bubble, this doesn't exactly feel particularly... how to put it... like they're using most of their ships to keep it alive. More like they're putting in the minimum required effort to keep it from going down in a week while most of their ships are busy in the systems doing something else. What would that be, I haven't got a damn clue. If I had to be really idiotic, I'd say this is just some shitty simulator with a clueless idiot behind it trying to keep us 'entertained', or themselves, but maybe that is just the stupid illness I caught up god knows where and that I began feeling yesterday already. Great fucking timing, and I've barely been around other people for a good few weeks now. So much for helping defend the one system I care about - because someone I know cares about someone in it - and then just leaving the rest of the mess to be sorted by the other pilots. Some of them are just rabid, it's actually disgusting and makes you ask why the Thargoids haven't wiped us out yet.
But, ignoring that, it's starting to look like our ever great and totally not fucked reality is going to keep me out of this fight for the next day or three, by which time it is probably over anyway, or the part I am interested in. Can't exactly say it's pleasant or a particularly great idea to fly a ship when you feel a fever setting in and your throat constantly hurts because of absolutely shitty biological placement. Whatever is there again, I just know it is somehow related to the immune system. And it makes me pull whatever's in there out every time. It is painful for absolutely no reason and just so extremely distracting. And also really goddamn tiring.
... sidetracked again. Where was I about Thargoids... right. Yeah. Seemingly doing something other than actually trying to take systems. Definitely not what I would have expected after spending months not really doing anything like they were hoarding their ships. Can't say what they are doing in the places other than Sirius and Duamta, maybe there is something funny in Sol. Have no idea... it'll have to be up to someone else to figure that all out anyway. Weird how they just chose to attack one station - or megahsip - each in every invaded system, but I've got neither the interest nor the energy to try looking into it. Especially not now.
The Titan is probably going to last more than a week and a half in this position. But I don't get the impression that survival is really the goal here, and I think they know they've been sent on a one-way trip to... do whatever it is they want to do. "God" knows, and I mean the saying, not some deity I wouldn't believe in after all I've been through. I'm better at the fighting and brute force than doing the thinking... right now, my head starts to spin if I sit upright for too long or think too much, anyway. I'll just spend a day or three being a big lazy idiot in bed unless I need food. Even though I'm not really big except in specific places... which you don't need to understand. I'd better not lose any of it because I got sick.
Where is this going to go? Pff, as if I know. I'm not expecting the outcome to be very good for humans whichever way it goes, or that the Thargoids are really going anywhere, even if that makes you think of me as a pessimist. Sure, we can blow up their Titans, but they didn't need those to waltz into the place before. And now they got everything they'd ever need to go poke places from someone's brain anyway, so I kind of doubt they really need to send more again anyway.
Or maybe they'd send something even bigger, but that's not something any of us can predict. Only Seo or a certain other someone might. Only things I know in this is Thargoids aren't stupid as much as certain morons keep insisting they're nothing more than mindless insects and spouting "For Humanity" or "Make them regret coming here" over and over, and that they're probably not going to leave. Certainly not forever, if at all.
... okay, yeah, I think that's all my brain will do for today. Or at least right now. Need to just lie back down and sleep some more. Or at least try.
[Post-publishing addition]
Yeah, that sleeping's not working out so well. So, yesterday I also went and poked around one of the Thargoid-overrun systems and around one of the bases a Medusa decided to say hi when I got rid of the Banshee before landing. Barely got the ship out before it fired its shutdown pulse... and then when I was done with my work, the bastard just kept chasing me. But inctead of just shooting down the Scorpion, it kinda just kept circling around it as if it was playing with me. I swear, those bastards are really not as stupid as they look. Was tempted to just start shooting at it myself, but that would only ever have ended one way, so I resisted the temptation.
Eventually managed to lose it anyway by blocking its line of sight with a mountain it kept circling behind and keeping the Scorpion's heat low enough to make it hard to find with sensors on that frozen rock. They're definitely not messing around over there even if the chaos is scattered across several systems, instead of one like Shinrarta. Which I'm still not really sure what the purpose of was, to be quite honest.