The Soul of Our Homeland, 10: Clearing SkiesHello. It's me again. It's been a while since I last recorded one of these... Had things to do. So, the Titan's dead, melted down and blown to pieces, Sol is officially Thargoid-free and even the Earth wasn't hit as badly as all those doomsayers may have...
The Soul of Our Homeland, 9: Will and WrathThis is it. This is happening. Cocijo, the last of eight Titans, is surrounded and besieged. And damn the beast is thick. Whatever it ate for the last couple years while sitting on the outskirts, I want that too. From there, it looks like every combat-capable...
The Soul of Our Homeland, 8: HeartbeatIf you could dismiss the noise, loading equipment screeching, engines humming on standby, footsteps echoing across the decks, you may hear a heartbeat. Steady, stout, resonating. Hearts of thousands of people beating together. Back then when the panic...
The Soul of Our Homeland, 7: Hunters and PreyOkay, I have to admit, I was reluctant to say that aloud earlier, but it seems like we're making good progress. The bugs abandoned all their attacks on Groombridge 34 yesterday, also LHS 380 and 450, and Luhman 16 around that time too. Fighting over WISE...
The Soul of Our Homeland, 6: Humanity in ArmsI record this and the ground trembles under my feet. I record this and everything around me burns. Groombridge 34 is being hit hard. Two stations in the system are fighting, Sawyer's Pride on Jaya, right under the main star, and Matthews City deeper in...
The Bureau of Peasant Relations: Official Statement on Rumours of Mass-Buying SlavesThe Bureau of Peasant Relations of The Majestic Imperium of Torval once again has to interrupt its daily business to publish an official statement regarding the fallacious rumours which has begun circulating in simpler classes of society, starting shortly...
The Soul of Our Homeland, 5: The Common EnemyWe fought them off in Duamta. Space around Orunmilla has been clear for more than an hour already, and recons reporting the same for the entire system. A little stretch of silence should've been a blessing but I'd be lying if I say that I feel any relief...
The Soul of Our Homeland, 4: ResilienceDamn of course the fat bugger chose Earth. As if there were any other options. Okay, let's put it directly. Yes, we retreated. We left Sol, we left Earth. But, unlike those fearmongers, freaking doom cultists and alien lovers like to say, we didn't...
The Soul of Our Homeland, 3: Impact ImminentI can feel the war drums beating. It's about to begin. The Titan is here, on our doorstep. Decelerating, searching for a place to stop. "Just another system that's invaded", I said earlier. "Doing our job, as we did before"....
The Soul of Our Homeland, 2: LiminalityEvery hour, more and more panic. As the realisation finally sunk in, that it's impossible to evacuate everyone in time, or maybe evacuate at all. It wasn't a secret from the very beginning but perhaps there were hopes. Which now are gone. Lost in the...
