Log #26, short log : Evil invaders
14 Oct 2018(Wettoast) Wanda Fersegi
Maia NebulaI've finally made a large enough network of associates to get in on being part of a proper bug smashing crew. Hardened veterans who have probably seen more of these ugly insects then their own families in the past year of thargoids popping up throughout human space and the Pleiades nebula . While I would like to say I'm learning the ropes at a fast pace, I can't. Even with Selene's best work coating the hull and many internal module spaces, I trip over myself with the stupidest of rookie mistakes. Selecting the wrong fire group, poorly leading flak launcher shots on the swarm, and probably the silliest mistake is boosting into the goid while it tried tearing the ship apart with its lightning attack. But against all odds I've managed to aid in the disposal of 5 of the cyclops and 2 of the basilisk variants, or at least contribute meaningfully.... I don't even want to start thinking about the Hydra variants and possibly how many of those are out there, but each dead goid should make the bubble safer... I hope .
With the amount of signal sources in the Pleiades I've come to the realization that there may be an infinite supply of them. While I feel driven to wing up and destroy as many of these things as I can, but their regenerative properties they may put them in near infinite supply . If our collective treading into the Pleiades was a transgression to them, swarms of interceptors can easily spell the end of humanity considering they may have more resources on their side then we can possibly imagine. They have already found our little corner of the galaxy, once they realize that there are thousands of systems with thousands, to millions, to billions of us in them, a much larger force can come.....
When not dispatching bugs I was winging up with other rescue pilots, or lazing about on the park level at the Artemis lodge starport. Outside of drinking a bit too much with a fellow pilot, waking up on said park level on a bench, and being removed by a security officer, nothing out of the ordinary happened...At least it wasn't as bad for being suspended for sideswiping a hauler in the python on a navy supply mission.... Not like I wanted to be in the federal navy anywa-....uh.... While it would seem that earlier mass rescue efforts didn't pick up everyone due to the sheer number of those who have gone missing, I have a theory. Tourist barges and cargo runners keep coming out this way to get shredded by the the thargoids, regardless of pilot's federation warnings not to do so . Wedding barges, pleasure cruises, company getaways, doesn't matter. Only a few days in the Pleiades and I may have picked up a total of 100-150 human ice cubes . Just as the goids have an inexhaustible supply of soldiers to throw at us, the tourist industry has an inexhaustible supply of idiots that go into the Pleiades to feed the bugs...... I'm sure after spending days to weeks to possibly months and years in a deep freeze, they'll steer clear of the Pleiades region from now on, assuming they didn't get abducted.
Aside from raging over the thargoids destroying civilization, I've prepared myself for distant worlds 2 . With the ship software update dropping to us lowly pilots in a few weeks, the expedition should be setting off within hours or days of the update. While this may be damning of my own character, I'd like to set off into the black and forget about everything. It's not like I hadn't done that before.
( I'd like to thank bug hunting veterans Maxfaded, B0xcutter, and ( Capricos back in3303) for showing me how to bug blast properly. )
Also, cmdr Capricos you owe me 6 million credits, HA
Wanda N. Fersegi , "Wettoast" out.