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OOC: Yeah RL came up and this is all back dated and crap stick with me any way though.
0156 Sol II Standard Time
28 Nov 4433
Sedina V Hold, Sedina
Log entry 0023
Once again I was back in the same bare well lit white room. I was leaning against the wall, no longer a large hunk of metal with a brain, I had gotten my body re-grown from DNA contained in my brain tissue. I still opted to keep my implanted internal organs, but was growing to regret that decision.
Last week I tried for a few hours in vain to get a good buzz drank almost 6000 bottles of the good stuff, only to find the built in poison filters were removing most of it from my system. Unfortunately I did not find that out till the next morning, after having spent the night before drinking and using and making head calls. So yeah I'm thinking of growing some internal organs one of these days.
Other then those issues, I'm doing very well, back down to 5'7, 160 lb. trim and fit, my good ol face with a nice jaw line, prominent check bones, utterly hairless save for my eyebrows and lashes, piercing dark brown eyes. And yes I still think I am the sexiest man I have ever seen in my life.
Many of my old implants where no longer needed thanks to my new Energy Focus abilities given out by the Void with then intention of entrapping me to it forever. I do fear it may one day try again to reestablish a link with my self, as it has with the other Itani possessing an EF. The good Doctor has found that Samo can act as an effective shield against the effects of the Void, I'm currently looking into that.
All this how ever was the least on my mind at the time, I stood looking at the down right suicidal Ghost.
"You had to try and blow it up, couldn't have the decency to just port out..."
I sighed as I let my voice trail off looking for some visible clue that he was even listening. Using my EF I quickly made sure he was not meditating before continuing.
"You remember that one day few months back? Down in Bethshee?"
I waited. I was sick of him ignoring me.
"Look man, you ain't gonna die here, they won't let you. You can't kill your self, again they won't let you. A little conversation can't hurt ya eh?"
He looked up for the first time and sighed.
"The bar?"
"Yeah, the bar on the CtC run. Member how I was all depressed, I had a feeling the Serco government was lying to me..."
"And you started asking about the Itani, and then I told you about our meditation and how it could maybe help you."
He stopped and we looked at one another. I'm sure the sorrow in his eyes was mirrored by the sorrow in my own.
"Looks like I was right after all..." I said finally letting my voice trail off as I looked down at the floor.
"After it's all over, Itan."
"Yeah, you did say that didn't you, after the war was over you would take me to meditate on Itan, and I said I would show you how Serco Proms are made on Sky command."
I looked back up at him remembering that instant friend ship made that one night in that bar between CtC convoys.
"Then we hopped back in out ships and started waring again... And now your here..."
His face clouded over and I swore under my breath.
"One button! All it would have taken was the push of one button and you wouldn't be here, I wouldn't be here! We could have stuck with the status quo..."
My voice broke off as I looked up at him now with anger. Finally I let out, "Why?"
"Honor." He said looking up with sorrow in his eyes.
I snorted.
"Honor? Honor. Heh, I'm sick of honor, it's useless in this age, no one has it any more. I once though I was an honorable Serco warrior fighting for the salvation of my great nation, then you know what?"
He looked up as I answered my rhetorical question.
"I found out that my great nation had lied to me, I found out not only was I not who I thought I was but that I was scum. Don't get me wrong I like my self, I'm proud of the fact I was once a pirate, it thrills me to know governments feared me. My heart is warmed with the knowledge that I had every intention to give my life in the removal of the "great" leaders of the old chapter of the Order of Akan.
How ever I am far from the honorable warrior I thought I was, in doing what I did, I have murdered men, women, and children, at time en-mass. Oh yes I was good at what I did, but at the end of the day no matter how I sugarcoated it so I could live with my self I was and am a murderer."
I sighed and then gritted my jaw staring off lost in my memories.
"But I am not you I had honor."
"In this life no one has honor. How many have you killed to get where you are? What have you done when no one is looking to work your way up the chain hmm? What things have you done that no one knows about?"
"No! I had honor, I lived with honor! Just because you only know corruption does not mean you have to be corrupt!"
"Look where your honor got you? Where is your honor now huh? Your left to rot in your own self pity in this hell hole in grey!"
"Self pity!"
"You heard me! "Oh no I've lost my honor! The world is gonna end!" blah blah you know what I'm talking about."
We where now both standing our faces inches apart.
"Don't blame your own failings one me."
He finally spat out before sitting back down. We stared one another down for a bit, as I worked the muscles in my jaw clenching and releasing then starting all over again. Finally I spun around and slammed my fist into the wall with a thud before opening up the door and walking out. Before I closed it I heard him say.
"Don't let your circumstances define you, but over come your circumstances and then define your self for who you are, not what others think you should be."
Turning my head around as I left I said over my shoulder, "Wise words Itani, maybe you should think on them your self." and then shut the door and began the sequence to leave the cell.
As I walked out the final door and started to leave the building one of the gate guards looked at my fist and informed me I was bleeding. Looking down I saw he was right, I guess this flesh body is going to take some getting used to again, good thing I kept the Xith reinforced bones.
0156 Sol II Standard Time
28 Nov 4433
Sedina V Hold, Sedina
Log entry 0023
Once again I was back in the same bare well lit white room. I was leaning against the wall, no longer a large hunk of metal with a brain, I had gotten my body re-grown from DNA contained in my brain tissue. I still opted to keep my implanted internal organs, but was growing to regret that decision.
Last week I tried for a few hours in vain to get a good buzz drank almost 6000 bottles of the good stuff, only to find the built in poison filters were removing most of it from my system. Unfortunately I did not find that out till the next morning, after having spent the night before drinking and using and making head calls. So yeah I'm thinking of growing some internal organs one of these days.
Other then those issues, I'm doing very well, back down to 5'7, 160 lb. trim and fit, my good ol face with a nice jaw line, prominent check bones, utterly hairless save for my eyebrows and lashes, piercing dark brown eyes. And yes I still think I am the sexiest man I have ever seen in my life.
Many of my old implants where no longer needed thanks to my new Energy Focus abilities given out by the Void with then intention of entrapping me to it forever. I do fear it may one day try again to reestablish a link with my self, as it has with the other Itani possessing an EF. The good Doctor has found that Samo can act as an effective shield against the effects of the Void, I'm currently looking into that.
All this how ever was the least on my mind at the time, I stood looking at the down right suicidal Ghost.
"You had to try and blow it up, couldn't have the decency to just port out..."
I sighed as I let my voice trail off looking for some visible clue that he was even listening. Using my EF I quickly made sure he was not meditating before continuing.
"You remember that one day few months back? Down in Bethshee?"
I waited. I was sick of him ignoring me.
"Look man, you ain't gonna die here, they won't let you. You can't kill your self, again they won't let you. A little conversation can't hurt ya eh?"
He looked up for the first time and sighed.
"The bar?"
"Yeah, the bar on the CtC run. Member how I was all depressed, I had a feeling the Serco government was lying to me..."
"And you started asking about the Itani, and then I told you about our meditation and how it could maybe help you."
He stopped and we looked at one another. I'm sure the sorrow in his eyes was mirrored by the sorrow in my own.
"Looks like I was right after all..." I said finally letting my voice trail off as I looked down at the floor.
"After it's all over, Itan."
"Yeah, you did say that didn't you, after the war was over you would take me to meditate on Itan, and I said I would show you how Serco Proms are made on Sky command."
I looked back up at him remembering that instant friend ship made that one night in that bar between CtC convoys.
"Then we hopped back in out ships and started waring again... And now your here..."
His face clouded over and I swore under my breath.
"One button! All it would have taken was the push of one button and you wouldn't be here, I wouldn't be here! We could have stuck with the status quo..."
My voice broke off as I looked up at him now with anger. Finally I let out, "Why?"
"Honor." He said looking up with sorrow in his eyes.
I snorted.
"Honor? Honor. Heh, I'm sick of honor, it's useless in this age, no one has it any more. I once though I was an honorable Serco warrior fighting for the salvation of my great nation, then you know what?"
He looked up as I answered my rhetorical question.
"I found out that my great nation had lied to me, I found out not only was I not who I thought I was but that I was scum. Don't get me wrong I like my self, I'm proud of the fact I was once a pirate, it thrills me to know governments feared me. My heart is warmed with the knowledge that I had every intention to give my life in the removal of the "great" leaders of the old chapter of the Order of Akan.
How ever I am far from the honorable warrior I thought I was, in doing what I did, I have murdered men, women, and children, at time en-mass. Oh yes I was good at what I did, but at the end of the day no matter how I sugarcoated it so I could live with my self I was and am a murderer."
I sighed and then gritted my jaw staring off lost in my memories.
"But I am not you I had honor."
"In this life no one has honor. How many have you killed to get where you are? What have you done when no one is looking to work your way up the chain hmm? What things have you done that no one knows about?"
"No! I had honor, I lived with honor! Just because you only know corruption does not mean you have to be corrupt!"
"Look where your honor got you? Where is your honor now huh? Your left to rot in your own self pity in this hell hole in grey!"
"Self pity!"
"You heard me! "Oh no I've lost my honor! The world is gonna end!" blah blah you know what I'm talking about."
We where now both standing our faces inches apart.
"Don't blame your own failings one me."
He finally spat out before sitting back down. We stared one another down for a bit, as I worked the muscles in my jaw clenching and releasing then starting all over again. Finally I spun around and slammed my fist into the wall with a thud before opening up the door and walking out. Before I closed it I heard him say.
"Don't let your circumstances define you, but over come your circumstances and then define your self for who you are, not what others think you should be."
Turning my head around as I left I said over my shoulder, "Wise words Itani, maybe you should think on them your self." and then shut the door and began the sequence to leave the cell.
As I walked out the final door and started to leave the building one of the gate guards looked at my fist and informed me I was bleeding. Looking down I saw he was right, I guess this flesh body is going to take some getting used to again, good thing I kept the Xith reinforced bones.
0923 Sol II Standard Time
4 Dec 4433
Sedina V Hold, Sedina
Log entry 0024
I was really starting to hate the white room as I had started calling it.
"Well I guess I should ask you some of the stuff they wanted me to. Lessee here, first off how did you do it?"
"Do it?" He was at least looking better, allot less moping and more talking, but he still seemed off.
"Yeah they want to know how you made it alive into Sol II and all that."
"Heh, you should know."
"Oh?"
"Remember that night with Puck?"
"You mean when he wanted SKV to plant 4 nukes on Sky Command?"
"Yeah and he outlined a way he thought we could get in an do it."
"But you all said he was crazy."
"Only for wanting to take out SC, the plan to get there and complete an op was sound as we proved."
"To bad he never told us how he planed to get out alive hmm?"
Ghost did not say any thing as an uncomfortable silence filled the room. I cleared my throat to break the silence.
"So how many where with you?"
"A few."
"So you weren't alone?"
"Oh you mean were not counting the voices in my head?"
I let loose a deep sigh and dropped it.
"Why did you want the SEFP?"
"I thought it would have the spike in it."
"So that's why you kept calling it the spike."
"Yes."
"What did you want to do with it?"
"I was going to upload it into Bojan's computer and freak him out."
"I think I liked you better depressed..."
We stared at one another, a slight smile played across his lips, a looks I had my self had in many UiT prisons before. The prick.
"They say the odds of you getting outta here alive are very slim, your to much of a risk to be released." I said as I put up my pen and paper.
"They say? What do you say?"
"I've blown up better prisons in my life."
He looked up at me a smile in his eyes.
"You would need help from the out side, and if what you say about your honor is true you won't ask them to help you and even if you did the Serco are looking for the Itani to try some thing. Lets face it mate, I had BLAK help back in my day, there is nothing we can't do. But that's some thing you don't have. Sides even if you did get out what would you do?"
"When I get out, I will regain my honor."
"Well when you do let me know how it works out, I'm in the market for some honor my self." I said as I started to get up and leave.
"Have you talked to him yet?"
I snorted.
"Good luck with the escaping you'll need it." I let my words hang in the air as I walked out.
Dad was the last person I felt like talking to in my state.
4 Dec 4433
Sedina V Hold, Sedina
Log entry 0024
I was really starting to hate the white room as I had started calling it.
"Well I guess I should ask you some of the stuff they wanted me to. Lessee here, first off how did you do it?"
"Do it?" He was at least looking better, allot less moping and more talking, but he still seemed off.
"Yeah they want to know how you made it alive into Sol II and all that."
"Heh, you should know."
"Oh?"
"Remember that night with Puck?"
"You mean when he wanted SKV to plant 4 nukes on Sky Command?"
"Yeah and he outlined a way he thought we could get in an do it."
"But you all said he was crazy."
"Only for wanting to take out SC, the plan to get there and complete an op was sound as we proved."
"To bad he never told us how he planed to get out alive hmm?"
Ghost did not say any thing as an uncomfortable silence filled the room. I cleared my throat to break the silence.
"So how many where with you?"
"A few."
"So you weren't alone?"
"Oh you mean were not counting the voices in my head?"
I let loose a deep sigh and dropped it.
"Why did you want the SEFP?"
"I thought it would have the spike in it."
"So that's why you kept calling it the spike."
"Yes."
"What did you want to do with it?"
"I was going to upload it into Bojan's computer and freak him out."
"I think I liked you better depressed..."
We stared at one another, a slight smile played across his lips, a looks I had my self had in many UiT prisons before. The prick.
"They say the odds of you getting outta here alive are very slim, your to much of a risk to be released." I said as I put up my pen and paper.
"They say? What do you say?"
"I've blown up better prisons in my life."
He looked up at me a smile in his eyes.
"You would need help from the out side, and if what you say about your honor is true you won't ask them to help you and even if you did the Serco are looking for the Itani to try some thing. Lets face it mate, I had BLAK help back in my day, there is nothing we can't do. But that's some thing you don't have. Sides even if you did get out what would you do?"
"When I get out, I will regain my honor."
"Well when you do let me know how it works out, I'm in the market for some honor my self." I said as I started to get up and leave.
"Have you talked to him yet?"
I snorted.
"Good luck with the escaping you'll need it." I let my words hang in the air as I walked out.
Dad was the last person I felt like talking to in my state.
0239 Sol II Standard Time
7 Dec 4433
Sedina V Hold, Sedina
Log entry 0025
As I wiped the vomit from my lips I cursed my self for getting natural internal organs to replace my mechanical ones.
"You needed to stop drinking any way, why not stop then hmm?" I mumbled to my self as I exited my ship. I guess you could say I was a little nervous. This would be the first time I would see my father as my self in almost 14 years.
I had putt allot of planing into this moment. Even went as far as to contact old friends to make sure Dad would not be doing any thing at the time I showed up, I did not want him to know I was coming, nor did I want him to have a way out. He had at least an hour before any thing would come up, 200k had made very sure of that.
No after months of not even knowing who I was I felt it was time for some truth, if he hated me for leaving, then I wanted to know that. I did not want him to have time to prepare a nice little fake speech about how he loved his returning son, and how he was proud of my new command. I wanted the truth, some thing after all this I felt I deserved.
I left my ship on Sky Command and jumped into the tele-porters that would take me to the surface of Serco Prime, taking time to calm my nerves, I needed to at the least look under control.
Once on planets surface I had a small hover craft waiting for me. I gave the driver a 500k chip (Well over the cost of the craft it's self) and informed him I would like to drive my self, he did not attempt any sort of argument.
Walking into the building my father had his office in I passed security and waived. Another part of my plan coming into play, for you see if I had to take the time to pass all the needed checks to get in I would most assuredly have attracted some attention, so instead I had my contact find which guards would be interested in making some money, and then made sure they where working at the time of my appearance. He who holds the money in his one hand, holds the world in the other, was never truer to me then it was now.
I opened his door with out knocking. I felt no need to, I was far from one of his brown nosing assistants, nor did I want to start off the conversation by allowing him a power play so short into things.
He looked up as I thought he would, wondering who would dare enter his domain without knocking. His eyes locked on my face, this was the first time he had seen me as any thing other then a mass of walking scar tissue. I cocked an eye brow as I walked in an took a seat. We stared at one another for some time. I had of corse kept track of him after I joined BLAK due to the easy availability of way to do such, but at the same time this was the first time I had seen him up close in a very long time.
People used to say we looked alike, but this was far from true, were I had larger eyes, his were beady and narrow, his nose was also much more acute then my own, his lips and mouth dwarfed those of my own, and his pronounced forehead cast shadows over his deep set eyes.
"You still look like your mother." He finally said breaking the awkward silence.
"I, um heard she died a few months ago?" I kicked my self for stumbling over my words at the start.
"Yes. Hive attack in Latos. She was running supplies past a bot blockade, your know how she was..." The sorrow was evident in his voice.
"I heard she was not Serco, which could account for her large heart."
He snorted, much like I would have when dismissing some thing I felt was irrelevant.
"She was always so proud of you. I can remember after she saw some news coverage of the "Lahmi incident" she saw a SNN special on it and looked over to me... You face was on the holo projector, she was grinning, she said look at him. Would you just look at him, look how happy he is. He always loved playing games, now he's doing what he's good at."
My jaw tightened as I felt my eyes moisten over. I took a deep breath to compose my self and heard my father doing the same.
"So, why not tell me about the E9 stuff?"
"You mean my other life?"
"Yes, why not instead of pushing, no forcing me into the Serco Army, where you knew I would have been kept in reserve as the mere notion of any form of combat with the Itani on land is far fetched at best. Why not help me to work in black ops, I would have loved doing that."
He learned back in his chair and took a deep breath as I started to go on.
"It's as if you wanted to keep my out of any kind of conflict while still making me into some kind of pusdo warrior you could still be proud of. "Oh look at my son the warrior who has never seen combat out side of a training sim!" Why would you do that? You knew I never wanted to be side lined in the war..."
"I did not want to side line you, it's just well... You can now see very well why I wanted to keep you out of black ops, I can see it in your eyes, you've seen that which I have seen, what I wanted to protect you from. You lay awake in your bed at night wondering, if you can ever find redemption for all the evil you have wrought, you wonder what happened to the honor you once thought existed. You've tasted the same bitter fruit I have, and you hate it as I do. Is that why you tried to kill your self?"
"Kill my self?"
"Yes kill your self. Surly you can remember your little trip to Itan with our bombs?"
"Yes, I wonder about that to this day. How is it I am still here?"
"Well in your attempt at redemption..."
"I never said I needed redeeming." I shot out sharper then I had intended. He stopped talking for a second and stared into my eyes with sorrow before continuing.
"When you contacted the Serco High command with your unusual plan and request for bombs the message quickly went to Serco black ops, which as I'm sure you know now handles the shall we say hidden war on the Itani, and of which I'm sure you now know I largely command.
I needless to say approved the plan of using a BLAK who had infiltrated the Akanese to sacrifice him self in the way you had out lined. While the Serco nation has never had a problem with BLAK, we also had no great love for them, and if it helped us why not. Then I found out the name. Shinas, A.K.A. Borb The Second, A.K.A. Borb II, my son. So I had some modifications made to the suite of bombs we had manufactured for you, hoping that in your understandable haste to get things over with you would not take the time to make sure the suit was as untouched at we said it was."
"Why would I have needed to, the Serco would not want to mess up some thing so beneficial to them self's."
"Quite, an thus the reason you are able to stand here today. Next time you want to kill your self check your gear better."
"Why brain wash me?"
"You wanted to kill your self, you ran out on me 14 years ago, you did have trauma to your brain as well as the rest of your body. I could... I would not risk you doing some thing..."
"Worse then trying to blow up a bunch of people?"
"Yes." He said chuckling.
I started to say some thing, as my com beeped. I opened up a channel, noting the signal was coming from Sedina. It was Mar Ani.
"Sir, sorry to bother you, but it's really important."
I knew she knew I was seeing my Father, a commander him self. Interrupting two commanders talking to one another in it's self was a bad idea. Interrupting two commanders that where father and son, and had not seen one another in 14 years well... I knew this had to be important.
"What's going on Mar?" I said after a tense moment.
7 Dec 4433
Sedina V Hold, Sedina
Log entry 0025
As I wiped the vomit from my lips I cursed my self for getting natural internal organs to replace my mechanical ones.
"You needed to stop drinking any way, why not stop then hmm?" I mumbled to my self as I exited my ship. I guess you could say I was a little nervous. This would be the first time I would see my father as my self in almost 14 years.
I had putt allot of planing into this moment. Even went as far as to contact old friends to make sure Dad would not be doing any thing at the time I showed up, I did not want him to know I was coming, nor did I want him to have a way out. He had at least an hour before any thing would come up, 200k had made very sure of that.
No after months of not even knowing who I was I felt it was time for some truth, if he hated me for leaving, then I wanted to know that. I did not want him to have time to prepare a nice little fake speech about how he loved his returning son, and how he was proud of my new command. I wanted the truth, some thing after all this I felt I deserved.
I left my ship on Sky Command and jumped into the tele-porters that would take me to the surface of Serco Prime, taking time to calm my nerves, I needed to at the least look under control.
Once on planets surface I had a small hover craft waiting for me. I gave the driver a 500k chip (Well over the cost of the craft it's self) and informed him I would like to drive my self, he did not attempt any sort of argument.
Walking into the building my father had his office in I passed security and waived. Another part of my plan coming into play, for you see if I had to take the time to pass all the needed checks to get in I would most assuredly have attracted some attention, so instead I had my contact find which guards would be interested in making some money, and then made sure they where working at the time of my appearance. He who holds the money in his one hand, holds the world in the other, was never truer to me then it was now.
I opened his door with out knocking. I felt no need to, I was far from one of his brown nosing assistants, nor did I want to start off the conversation by allowing him a power play so short into things.
He looked up as I thought he would, wondering who would dare enter his domain without knocking. His eyes locked on my face, this was the first time he had seen me as any thing other then a mass of walking scar tissue. I cocked an eye brow as I walked in an took a seat. We stared at one another for some time. I had of corse kept track of him after I joined BLAK due to the easy availability of way to do such, but at the same time this was the first time I had seen him up close in a very long time.
People used to say we looked alike, but this was far from true, were I had larger eyes, his were beady and narrow, his nose was also much more acute then my own, his lips and mouth dwarfed those of my own, and his pronounced forehead cast shadows over his deep set eyes.
"You still look like your mother." He finally said breaking the awkward silence.
"I, um heard she died a few months ago?" I kicked my self for stumbling over my words at the start.
"Yes. Hive attack in Latos. She was running supplies past a bot blockade, your know how she was..." The sorrow was evident in his voice.
"I heard she was not Serco, which could account for her large heart."
He snorted, much like I would have when dismissing some thing I felt was irrelevant.
"She was always so proud of you. I can remember after she saw some news coverage of the "Lahmi incident" she saw a SNN special on it and looked over to me... You face was on the holo projector, she was grinning, she said look at him. Would you just look at him, look how happy he is. He always loved playing games, now he's doing what he's good at."
My jaw tightened as I felt my eyes moisten over. I took a deep breath to compose my self and heard my father doing the same.
"So, why not tell me about the E9 stuff?"
"You mean my other life?"
"Yes, why not instead of pushing, no forcing me into the Serco Army, where you knew I would have been kept in reserve as the mere notion of any form of combat with the Itani on land is far fetched at best. Why not help me to work in black ops, I would have loved doing that."
He learned back in his chair and took a deep breath as I started to go on.
"It's as if you wanted to keep my out of any kind of conflict while still making me into some kind of pusdo warrior you could still be proud of. "Oh look at my son the warrior who has never seen combat out side of a training sim!" Why would you do that? You knew I never wanted to be side lined in the war..."
"I did not want to side line you, it's just well... You can now see very well why I wanted to keep you out of black ops, I can see it in your eyes, you've seen that which I have seen, what I wanted to protect you from. You lay awake in your bed at night wondering, if you can ever find redemption for all the evil you have wrought, you wonder what happened to the honor you once thought existed. You've tasted the same bitter fruit I have, and you hate it as I do. Is that why you tried to kill your self?"
"Kill my self?"
"Yes kill your self. Surly you can remember your little trip to Itan with our bombs?"
"Yes, I wonder about that to this day. How is it I am still here?"
"Well in your attempt at redemption..."
"I never said I needed redeeming." I shot out sharper then I had intended. He stopped talking for a second and stared into my eyes with sorrow before continuing.
"When you contacted the Serco High command with your unusual plan and request for bombs the message quickly went to Serco black ops, which as I'm sure you know now handles the shall we say hidden war on the Itani, and of which I'm sure you now know I largely command.
I needless to say approved the plan of using a BLAK who had infiltrated the Akanese to sacrifice him self in the way you had out lined. While the Serco nation has never had a problem with BLAK, we also had no great love for them, and if it helped us why not. Then I found out the name. Shinas, A.K.A. Borb The Second, A.K.A. Borb II, my son. So I had some modifications made to the suite of bombs we had manufactured for you, hoping that in your understandable haste to get things over with you would not take the time to make sure the suit was as untouched at we said it was."
"Why would I have needed to, the Serco would not want to mess up some thing so beneficial to them self's."
"Quite, an thus the reason you are able to stand here today. Next time you want to kill your self check your gear better."
"Why brain wash me?"
"You wanted to kill your self, you ran out on me 14 years ago, you did have trauma to your brain as well as the rest of your body. I could... I would not risk you doing some thing..."
"Worse then trying to blow up a bunch of people?"
"Yes." He said chuckling.
I started to say some thing, as my com beeped. I opened up a channel, noting the signal was coming from Sedina. It was Mar Ani.
"Sir, sorry to bother you, but it's really important."
I knew she knew I was seeing my Father, a commander him self. Interrupting two commanders talking to one another in it's self was a bad idea. Interrupting two commanders that where father and son, and had not seen one another in 14 years well... I knew this had to be important.
"What's going on Mar?" I said after a tense moment.
1303 Sol II Standard Time
8 Dec 4433
Sedina V Hold, Sedina
Log entry 0026
"He's gone sir."
I sat in my fathers office stunned as I processed the information, Ghost had some how escaped while I was on leave. Some one had better have a good excuse.
"How?" I finally said after the long silence.
"Well sir he was intercepted on his way to Serco space in Helios."
"What!" I said sputtering at a loss for words.
"Sorry sir it was a command decision."
"I'll be down there in 20 mins." I growled, after another pause, and then I turned off the connection. Quickly I stood to my feet in a rage and started towards the door, then I remembered where I was. Turning I looked back at my father apologetically.
"Heads are gonna roll for this one boy." He said as I turned.
"I may lop them off my self." I said walking out.
As I made the trip down to Sedina I had time to analyze what I knew and come up with some form of a damage control plan. Slowly I talked my self through things, yeah some people think I'm crazy for talking to my self, but meh.
"From what I knew Ghost had for some unknown reason been moved from the safety of Sedina back to Serco space. A move which no matter how hard they undoubtedly tried would have been known to the itani. Government networks as they are...
Thus there would have been no reason to move him, as movement would have made him most venerable. So there would have been no good reason to move him. Lt. Soulcatcher was in command, Mar said it was a command decision. None of my people have to do what the personal at Sedina ask, I cleared that with The Three my self...
And then we have Mar, some thing like this would have meant the one that messed up should have had to call me, that would have been Soulcatcher."
I vented out loud for the remainder of the trip now sure some one had passed the buck after screwing up. I personally hate being mad, I dislike the lack of control I maintain over my emotions at the time of the anger, and this only makes me more angry for being angry. For this reason I try to stay as calm as I can no matter what goes down. Well that and the fact that last time I was that angry 3 men ended up dead and another was in a coma for 17 months. But that was many years ago, and I think the statute of limitations has run out on it.
Finally I put down in Sedina. Black 2 was waiting for me.
"Hello sir, so..."
"Where's Soulcatcher?" I quickly demanded brushing past him.
In about 3 minuets I was standing out side my own office where Soul had taken up residence during my absence. Throwing open the door I walked in ready to unleash my fury.
"Commander." He said courtly rising as I walked in as if nothing was a matter.
"What happened!"
"Happened?"
I swore. "Ghost! What happened with Ghost!"
"SKV in response to our heavy presence in grey space, and SCARs increased activity in Helios decided to in return launch an operation in Helios. So I decided we should move the prisoner to safer space, as it appears grey is about to become a war zone."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, become a war zone! This place is a war zone, we knew that coming in here that's why this place was made as safe as possible! This is my home turf, I know what it takes down here! He was safe here!"
"Maybe."
"Maybe! Well we sure won't ever know now will we! I leave for a few days and you can't hold things together!"
"Maybe the mission was never meant to work out. Maybe the spike has..."
"Maybe your unfit for command!"
"Maybe the same could be said for you, your "old" life style taken into consideration."
At this point I can remember slamming him back into the wall and informing him that he would no longer be a Lt serving with in ST6, then in a rage I stomped out of the office looking at Black 2 as I did so muttering that he could have Soulcatcher's job.
All that aside high command views this "loss" as my problem, as they should. I was ultimately in command of things down there in Sedina, and even if I was not there at the time, they will see it as my fault. It's how the chain works. Which means days, no weeks even possibly months of hearings and councils.
Soulcatcher may have been who I went off on but I get the feeling, I will be every one else's Soulcatcher.
8 Dec 4433
Sedina V Hold, Sedina
Log entry 0026
"He's gone sir."
I sat in my fathers office stunned as I processed the information, Ghost had some how escaped while I was on leave. Some one had better have a good excuse.
"How?" I finally said after the long silence.
"Well sir he was intercepted on his way to Serco space in Helios."
"What!" I said sputtering at a loss for words.
"Sorry sir it was a command decision."
"I'll be down there in 20 mins." I growled, after another pause, and then I turned off the connection. Quickly I stood to my feet in a rage and started towards the door, then I remembered where I was. Turning I looked back at my father apologetically.
"Heads are gonna roll for this one boy." He said as I turned.
"I may lop them off my self." I said walking out.
As I made the trip down to Sedina I had time to analyze what I knew and come up with some form of a damage control plan. Slowly I talked my self through things, yeah some people think I'm crazy for talking to my self, but meh.
"From what I knew Ghost had for some unknown reason been moved from the safety of Sedina back to Serco space. A move which no matter how hard they undoubtedly tried would have been known to the itani. Government networks as they are...
Thus there would have been no reason to move him, as movement would have made him most venerable. So there would have been no good reason to move him. Lt. Soulcatcher was in command, Mar said it was a command decision. None of my people have to do what the personal at Sedina ask, I cleared that with The Three my self...
And then we have Mar, some thing like this would have meant the one that messed up should have had to call me, that would have been Soulcatcher."
I vented out loud for the remainder of the trip now sure some one had passed the buck after screwing up. I personally hate being mad, I dislike the lack of control I maintain over my emotions at the time of the anger, and this only makes me more angry for being angry. For this reason I try to stay as calm as I can no matter what goes down. Well that and the fact that last time I was that angry 3 men ended up dead and another was in a coma for 17 months. But that was many years ago, and I think the statute of limitations has run out on it.
Finally I put down in Sedina. Black 2 was waiting for me.
"Hello sir, so..."
"Where's Soulcatcher?" I quickly demanded brushing past him.
In about 3 minuets I was standing out side my own office where Soul had taken up residence during my absence. Throwing open the door I walked in ready to unleash my fury.
"Commander." He said courtly rising as I walked in as if nothing was a matter.
"What happened!"
"Happened?"
I swore. "Ghost! What happened with Ghost!"
"SKV in response to our heavy presence in grey space, and SCARs increased activity in Helios decided to in return launch an operation in Helios. So I decided we should move the prisoner to safer space, as it appears grey is about to become a war zone."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, become a war zone! This place is a war zone, we knew that coming in here that's why this place was made as safe as possible! This is my home turf, I know what it takes down here! He was safe here!"
"Maybe."
"Maybe! Well we sure won't ever know now will we! I leave for a few days and you can't hold things together!"
"Maybe the mission was never meant to work out. Maybe the spike has..."
"Maybe your unfit for command!"
"Maybe the same could be said for you, your "old" life style taken into consideration."
At this point I can remember slamming him back into the wall and informing him that he would no longer be a Lt serving with in ST6, then in a rage I stomped out of the office looking at Black 2 as I did so muttering that he could have Soulcatcher's job.
All that aside high command views this "loss" as my problem, as they should. I was ultimately in command of things down there in Sedina, and even if I was not there at the time, they will see it as my fault. It's how the chain works. Which means days, no weeks even possibly months of hearings and councils.
Soulcatcher may have been who I went off on but I get the feeling, I will be every one else's Soulcatcher.
1007 Sol II Standard Time
9 Jan 4434
Sol II, SkyCommand
Log entry 0027
"If ST6 is unfit for duty then just disband us and quit lying to us all with your pompous double talk!"
Now I'm not gonna say I'm bad ay politics, I happen to be quite good at playing the game, I just happen to strongly dislike it. And for the past month it's been the only thing I've been doing. Every thing from after math briefings, interviews, tribunals, investigations and having my face plastered on every news net from GR to Sedina. Almost makes me wish I had left it off.
But I guess the crux of it all is what they have done to ST6. After the Ghost debacle Serco high command was needless to say pissed. And as with every thing they needed some one to blame the problems on. Enter ST6.
I can see it now some board room some place full of old outta shape men that have never seen real combat sitting around, then one says to the other hey lets blame it all on ST6 Ghost was being guarded by them after all right? The other looks over and says hey that's a great idea, we can make that pirate Borb guy have to jump though every insane hoop we can come up with and then we won't even clear his name.
The head chairman then looks over and says omg you guys roxzors! And then we can stick all of his team on restricted movement and spy on their every move saying they are under investigation. And then the whole Serco nation will see that once again they are run by a great government that nips any problem in the bud.
Then they all stand up shaking hands and patting one another on the back as they head off to make my life hell.
By now a month into it all I'm fed up with every thing and thinking about blowing my self up yet again just to get some postmortem peace. But no, unfortunately there I sit in yet another inquisition with most useless Serco politicians. But this time I get mad and I shout a long tirade for 5 or so minutes and then I put my fist though a table for emphasis, and then they decide that they have had a nice little interview and that we will all come back tomorrow for now, as they have gotten enough information for today. And we all walk off.
I hate bureaucrats.
Fortunately the day for once did not turn out too bad. As I walked into my room I saw a seated figure in my living room. Pulling a small gauss shot blaster from behind my coat rack I walked in and flipped on the light.
"They let you out early for once ay?"
"Dad."
"Howdy."
"Haha, so too what do I owe the break in?" I asked sitting the gun back in it's place and sitting down opposite of my father.
"Dr. Lecter."
"Mmm sounds fun, what's that old psychotic mess up to?"
"Oh I think you'll like it, he left this com frequency to contact him at."
"No hints?" I said reaching over and taking the small chip from my fathers hands and slowly inserting it into a small port behind my left ear.
"Hmm well lets see, I think you will have to piss off a few more bureaucrats but if you do every thing right you may just get ST6 ungrounded."
"I like the sound of that." I said as my com connected to Lecter.
"Hello if your hearing this message I'm off eating Miharu's family members and chopping Leber up into little pieces leave a massage after the beep and I may just invite you for the feast."
*Beep*
I rolled my eyes.
"Hey Lecter it's Borb heard you wanted to..."
"Borb!" The com came alive suddenly in the middle of my message.
"Screening your calls Doc?"
"Ahh, some UiT humanitarian has been pestering my all day. So you got my message?"
"Yeah what's going on?"
"Well do you have that little spike thinggy still?"
"Yes..."
"Good good! I need it."
"Oooook, so I'm just gonna tell high command that I'm gonna give a crazy guy the spike for some thing and that they need to piss off I'm busy, even though I'm not suppose to leave Serco space?"
"Well I though some one like you would come up with some thing more fun, but sure if that's how you want to do things."
"Uh huh, and why exactly do you need it?"
"To stick it in some one that will do some thing to some one and supply with with fresh food for weeks to come. Oh yeah and it should make high command forget any issues with how it was done."
"Ok say I go along with this, where do you need the spike?"
"Helios, but don't worry I already took it."
"You took it?"
"Yeah well you know, can't make an omelet with out breaking a few legs."
"The Serco cargo transport and the lost Itani ship in the news..."
"You don't miss a thing well done as always."
"What do you need me to do?"
"I need fighters in Latos on the 14th and lots of them. Also I need you so people will think this is legit."
"Thinks what is legit."
"The trap. You really should stop by my place in Helios some time the weather out here is nice this time of the year. Ta!"
And with that he hung up leaving me puzzled as he always does.
"So what kind of help do you need from some one at the top boy?"
I looked up at my father an grinned, it has been along time since I last broke some rules.
9 Jan 4434
Sol II, SkyCommand
Log entry 0027
"If ST6 is unfit for duty then just disband us and quit lying to us all with your pompous double talk!"
Now I'm not gonna say I'm bad ay politics, I happen to be quite good at playing the game, I just happen to strongly dislike it. And for the past month it's been the only thing I've been doing. Every thing from after math briefings, interviews, tribunals, investigations and having my face plastered on every news net from GR to Sedina. Almost makes me wish I had left it off.
But I guess the crux of it all is what they have done to ST6. After the Ghost debacle Serco high command was needless to say pissed. And as with every thing they needed some one to blame the problems on. Enter ST6.
I can see it now some board room some place full of old outta shape men that have never seen real combat sitting around, then one says to the other hey lets blame it all on ST6 Ghost was being guarded by them after all right? The other looks over and says hey that's a great idea, we can make that pirate Borb guy have to jump though every insane hoop we can come up with and then we won't even clear his name.
The head chairman then looks over and says omg you guys roxzors! And then we can stick all of his team on restricted movement and spy on their every move saying they are under investigation. And then the whole Serco nation will see that once again they are run by a great government that nips any problem in the bud.
Then they all stand up shaking hands and patting one another on the back as they head off to make my life hell.
By now a month into it all I'm fed up with every thing and thinking about blowing my self up yet again just to get some postmortem peace. But no, unfortunately there I sit in yet another inquisition with most useless Serco politicians. But this time I get mad and I shout a long tirade for 5 or so minutes and then I put my fist though a table for emphasis, and then they decide that they have had a nice little interview and that we will all come back tomorrow for now, as they have gotten enough information for today. And we all walk off.
I hate bureaucrats.
Fortunately the day for once did not turn out too bad. As I walked into my room I saw a seated figure in my living room. Pulling a small gauss shot blaster from behind my coat rack I walked in and flipped on the light.
"They let you out early for once ay?"
"Dad."
"Howdy."
"Haha, so too what do I owe the break in?" I asked sitting the gun back in it's place and sitting down opposite of my father.
"Dr. Lecter."
"Mmm sounds fun, what's that old psychotic mess up to?"
"Oh I think you'll like it, he left this com frequency to contact him at."
"No hints?" I said reaching over and taking the small chip from my fathers hands and slowly inserting it into a small port behind my left ear.
"Hmm well lets see, I think you will have to piss off a few more bureaucrats but if you do every thing right you may just get ST6 ungrounded."
"I like the sound of that." I said as my com connected to Lecter.
"Hello if your hearing this message I'm off eating Miharu's family members and chopping Leber up into little pieces leave a massage after the beep and I may just invite you for the feast."
*Beep*
I rolled my eyes.
"Hey Lecter it's Borb heard you wanted to..."
"Borb!" The com came alive suddenly in the middle of my message.
"Screening your calls Doc?"
"Ahh, some UiT humanitarian has been pestering my all day. So you got my message?"
"Yeah what's going on?"
"Well do you have that little spike thinggy still?"
"Yes..."
"Good good! I need it."
"Oooook, so I'm just gonna tell high command that I'm gonna give a crazy guy the spike for some thing and that they need to piss off I'm busy, even though I'm not suppose to leave Serco space?"
"Well I though some one like you would come up with some thing more fun, but sure if that's how you want to do things."
"Uh huh, and why exactly do you need it?"
"To stick it in some one that will do some thing to some one and supply with with fresh food for weeks to come. Oh yeah and it should make high command forget any issues with how it was done."
"Ok say I go along with this, where do you need the spike?"
"Helios, but don't worry I already took it."
"You took it?"
"Yeah well you know, can't make an omelet with out breaking a few legs."
"The Serco cargo transport and the lost Itani ship in the news..."
"You don't miss a thing well done as always."
"What do you need me to do?"
"I need fighters in Latos on the 14th and lots of them. Also I need you so people will think this is legit."
"Thinks what is legit."
"The trap. You really should stop by my place in Helios some time the weather out here is nice this time of the year. Ta!"
And with that he hung up leaving me puzzled as he always does.
"So what kind of help do you need from some one at the top boy?"
I looked up at my father an grinned, it has been along time since I last broke some rules.
:(
Won't be much fun with out you... E-mail inbound.
hummm...
Wednesday, 11 Jan 4434
[Itan] Temporary HQ
Divinia M-14
Alone in the darkened room with the photon glow of Deep Blue illuminating his face, LeberMac flexed the neural interface to make sure the data mining thread was still running. Yes - the mental pings indicated that the search had almost completed. Shunting aside the queries about the evil jexkerome's wherabouts in the garbage scow, delegating the ID-checking algorithms for new [Itan] members, and subordinating the day-to-day routines of managing the Coalition, he had made this search his top priority.
The Neural Spike had been sighted, and it was on the move. His own commander had spotted the spike briefly, but had not been able to collect it in time. The Serco team responsible for its theft in the first place,[ST6], apparently had been given a reprieve from their lockdown after losing the [SKV] second-in-command, Ghost. Recent sub-ether-net comm traffic also indicated another [ST6] operation was underway. It was this enormous volume of data that Deep Blue was currently sorting through, and it had come up with a few predictable trends, as well as valuable voice intercepts.
The spike was being moved to Latos for some reason. The compilation of obscure newsfeeds and disparate monitored conversations had told him enough. LeberMac uploaded the results of the datamining task and the summary on the Coalition's message hypernet and he terminated his link with Deep Blue.
Moving quickly, he hopped in the next available ship for the trip to the grayspace-Serco border. Time to patrol, and to keep a watchful eye on Latos.
[Itan] Temporary HQ
Divinia M-14
Alone in the darkened room with the photon glow of Deep Blue illuminating his face, LeberMac flexed the neural interface to make sure the data mining thread was still running. Yes - the mental pings indicated that the search had almost completed. Shunting aside the queries about the evil jexkerome's wherabouts in the garbage scow, delegating the ID-checking algorithms for new [Itan] members, and subordinating the day-to-day routines of managing the Coalition, he had made this search his top priority.
The Neural Spike had been sighted, and it was on the move. His own commander had spotted the spike briefly, but had not been able to collect it in time. The Serco team responsible for its theft in the first place,[ST6], apparently had been given a reprieve from their lockdown after losing the [SKV] second-in-command, Ghost. Recent sub-ether-net comm traffic also indicated another [ST6] operation was underway. It was this enormous volume of data that Deep Blue was currently sorting through, and it had come up with a few predictable trends, as well as valuable voice intercepts.
The spike was being moved to Latos for some reason. The compilation of obscure newsfeeds and disparate monitored conversations had told him enough. LeberMac uploaded the results of the datamining task and the summary on the Coalition's message hypernet and he terminated his link with Deep Blue.
Moving quickly, he hopped in the next available ship for the trip to the grayspace-Serco border. Time to patrol, and to keep a watchful eye on Latos.