Personal Log, 22 September 3303
22 Sep 2017User78245
I've set up shop in the Lave System out of Lave Station. It's good to be home after, what, 4 years? The station is good enough for now, I don't think I can handle heading dirtside just yet. We'll see about that.I'm in need of some credits so I loaded up 80 tons worth of some specialty goods from around the Cluster to sell off elsewhere. The target? The Pleiades Nebula. They need things like Uszaian Tree Grubs, right? Actually, I needed a good excuse to visit The Oracle because...well, have you watched the news lately? What I see on the Galnet lately really unsettles me.
The site of the battle was truly horrific. That battlecruiser ripped open and spewing a noxious green gas. Corvettes and dropships scattered like toys. Bodies drifting everywhere. Every war has that one crystallizing moment, the one that tips everyone over the edge. This is the one, I feel it.
Something just occurred to me. I enlisted in the ADF for four years and separated, but I'm obligated for 8 years. If...when war comes they can call me back and get another four years out of me. Or however long they need. They're going to call me back eventually. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that. Just a waiting game for now.
Watching this again makes me sick to my stomach, yet I cannot tear myself away.
I got contacted by The Pilots Federation today. Weeklong contract to deliver Explosives to Eurybia. I'm going to accept it, even though it feels like war profiteering to me. The things I do for money...