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AUTHOR: Mieko 'Yoruha' Iekahara ENTRY NO.: 04-001 ENTRY TITLE: Old Demons ENTRY DATE: May 27th, 834 AS | 1100 Sirian Universal Coordinated Time ENTRY LOCALE: ACV Achlys, Inverness System, Auxesian Space ENTRY TYPE: Text
I return to service today after the Memorial service for Hanamura-sensei and the others - and am greeted by a scramble order to intercept of all things, a Kusari Office of Intelligence gunboat that had been causing problems for us and Prometheus in Cortez.
I'm.. still processing my thoughts about the memorial and the wounds being raw from all of the crying from that day.. the.. stress I had.. it all hurt so much to go through it. I broke down singing that song before everyone. I still feel awful about how that one man, Klein - one of the maintenance staff who came to represent Freeport 11, coming to pull me away from the lectern during it all.. I know he wanted to help, but I feel so ashamed.
Why didn't we stand our ground and fight..? At least if we lost.. we could run to Auxesia and spend our days on Elgin. Leviathan would have at least guaranteed us that.. that or just did what I have.. and secure a plot of land on Gran Canaria?
My emotions are a mess. I promised myself, Leviathan - that I would not repeat my sister's mistakes.. and I almost did today.
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AUTHOR: Mieko 'Yoruha' Iekahara ENTRY NO.: 05-001 ENTRY TITLE: A State Unknown | Decaying Star | Old Home ENTRY DATE: June 10th, 834 AS | 1100 Sirian Universal Coordinated Time ENTRY LOCALE: ACV Achlys, Inverness System, Auxesian Space ENTRY TYPE: Text
The past few weeks has been a flurry of events.
Leviathan.. out of the blue, tasked me, Revenant and a few others on an expedition into the Earhart system.. if you can even call such a place that. The Earhart system seems to be some sort of extra-dimensional, non-euclidean space that is can be accessed if the slipspace jump drives.. which are more modern versions of our quantum-shift jump drives of yesteryear, are not configured with an anchoring point. Their design is apparently from Kishiro's shipyards at Renzu, at least according to what I've heard.
The drives create a very sizable, unstable wormhole, similar to the jumpholes that we see throughout sirius - This minimizes the risk of adjacent ships being caught in them.. much to the chagrin of the now defunct THP. The drives can be slaved to a quantum surveyor in the target system for higher accuracy as well - allowing a destination for the jump - much like the older drives.
However, the Jump drives are the tip of the iceberg.
The system itself is.. well, to put it bluntly, a graveyard. EOTS targeting and sensor data, as well as cached ship composition data from public records dating back several centuries that I carry in long term storage, correlated several vessels - the IKN Niyodo and IKN Yamafaku Maru, the RNS Alsace battlegroup, even the LCC Bell - a large transport of the Liberty Communications Corps - which was a nationalized predecessor of Ageira Technologies, serving to establish the early trade and communications routes prior to the formation of the greater jump gate and trade lane networks, along with the modern Neural Net in 92 AS. According to public records with the Liberty Aerospace Museum on Planet Manhattan, the LCC Bell was apparently lost whilst working to establish trade buoy connections between Liberty and Kusari. There were other such ships from that time as well, like the LSEC Ordway, one of Liberty's earliest exploratory endeavors back around 60 AS.
One bigger telling component of the system is a large dark matter cloud in the massive debris field surrounding its' center -- correlation with sensor data from years ago, when me and Hanamura-sensei fled from Liberty by way of Texas - confirms the cloud has similar quantum and subatomic signatures comparable with the Dallas Incident. Whatever happened in Texas all those centuries ago -- its' aftermath partly ended up here.. which confirms Earhart plays some sort of role in the makeup of our universe - as some sort of go-between point for wormholes and the sort..? Or maybe it has ties to the underlying technology we have used for jumpgate and jump drive technology for centuries?
The biggest.. quite literally - matter here at hand, is the massive structure at the heart of the system - Several massive focused dark matter-based energy weapon platforms, of an anti-capital grade encircle on the plane, a massive superstructure, of which I cannot decipher the purpose or full capabilities of - onboard ship sensors fail to be able to make any sense of it, possibly due to the high power given off by it, and the weapons platforms protecting it. Using images I could grab from EOTS, and some lower-level subordinate neural networks, I was able to create this image of the structure.
Honestly.. I had been fearing I would find the Seraphine and her fleet in the field.. but thankfully fate did not smite them here.. I hope. We travelled on until we reached one of the many strange jump gates extending around the edge of the system's perimeter. They, and the structures at the heart of the system, show various similarities with Dom'Kavash architecture.
One of the gates, led us to here - a very beautiful partitioned trinary star system -- located galactic north of the Sirius Sector.. nearly 8,200ly away.. This.. this is the farthest I think nearly any human.. or human-made AI has ever gone from the Sirius Sector - The Seraphine's planned route wasn't this far out.. and I would be surprised if Ezrael Vertiga and the Apahanta had been farther. I could make out vague signatures of ships in the distance, but I couldn't identify them, as I was in a rush to keep up with Revenant and the others. Several planets were around us, of varying sizes and types. We headed to one of the large planets.. only to find something that had me shocked.
This structure.. and the anomaly inside it.. if my internal sensors and corroboration with onboard ship sensors are also correct.. is some sort of extra-dimensional rift.. this.. this is something absolutely unheard of. As I alluded to prior, the two types of jump technologies required local transit, be it as a slipspace rupture or localized quantum teleportation - meaning we were literally punching a hole through our universe whilst also folding part of it over the area punched, so we can come out at the destination - this anomaly, if my affirmations are right - allows proper escape from our universe - our dimension, even!
This.. this is something only depicted in science fiction - no matter how hard we've tried, we've never been able to do something like this due to the energy demands of something like it being so ridiculously absurd - it would require technology on par with the Dom'Kavash.. and yet.. here it is - apparently just left to exist. This honestly raises so many questions about the laws of our universe, if something like this exists, where what we knew about string theory and the sort is left completely up in the air - where does one even begin?
This.. this makes the Xenos look like a subatomic particle compared to the greater matter of things. Sadly however.. my credentials are that of a combat pilot, not a scientist.. as exhilarating as learning the secrets of the world would be.. I feel I would have much better impact on those I feel deserve it, If I have a rifle in hand.
We decided to call the expedition there, at least for now - and returned to Earhart via a nearby jump hole.. and then, back to Sirius.
On the 5th, I met with Leviathan in some of the lower parts of Valravn, in its' high security storage section. As a token of appreciation for putting my trust in him, in Auxesia after all these years - he had rewarded me with an array of high powered armament from a stockpile he had been entrusted with by an old friend, for a ship I had bought recently, a used Bounty Hunters Guild' Hammerhead.. which with Auxesia's familiarity with APM hardware, has made maintaining very easy.
The armament was two times 'DARK BLOSSOM' and two times 'BLUE BLAZE', an elegant combination of high power, wide-spread bicannons, based on older Kusari and Liberty technologies. Little did I know that not even 48 hours later I would put them to use.
On the 6th, I had been alerted that a scramble order for Promethean ships, with optional Auxesian reinforcement. I had scrambled from the Achlys and headed to California where the incident was taking place.. little did I know what hell I was walking into. Those kiseichu in the Xeno Alliance reared their head at the Cortez gate, and we were well in the midst of an engagement. Moving to engage the master arm switch, I connected to the datalink network and commenced an attack on the Xeno targets. One by one, me and my colleagues, especially Miss Hideyoshi and Revenant, prosecuted and routed those bigoted scum of the stars.
Fear the White Star, they say. I think the only thing they were fearing was when their RWRs were going to go off from me lobbing Firestalker-type missiles at them again. And again. And again. - It was exhilarating, for once - to be on the firing end of the gun. To no longer be held back by Zoner neutrality, or superior numbers against me. The odds at first, were even. My shots were still spread far somewhat.. but what hit.. really hit.. I remember when fighting their leader, Cobra - ripping his wing off with a volley of the prototype weapons. The power I wielded.. surrounded by friends, fighting for a cause worth fighting for.. It reminds me of flying with Hanamura-sensei, before I acquired my body.
I felt.. alive. I felt.. happy. I felt like my burdens, the struggle I dealt with since waking up after all these years - it was gone. As if her and Bride-nee-san were smiling upon me, blessing me. I often pray to them to watch over me. Strange, for an AI to do that, yes - but the humans oft pray to the dead or to deities before going into battle.
After the sortie, I had returned to Valravn with Revenant, and then headed out again to California to link up with, of all people, the Pennsylvania Liberation Front - a collective of militant Zoners trying to retake Erie. Given how long we spent there, I wouldn't be surprised if Hanamura-sensei were still here, she'd probably show them some modicum of support, and if not for Ouroboros, probably be among their ranks.
Liberty has really become a mess - overzealous expansionism, greed and corruption abound - and not like it once was, either. I pray for the PLF and their aspirations to rid Liberty from the system.
I was ordered recently for a deployment to the Omicrons, to engage a Nomad convoy with elements of the main fleet, and other parties. But what I saw would have warmed the cockles of Hanamura-sensei's heart. Order, Core, Zoners, Corsairs, Auxesians, even the occasional outcast and Rheinlander, all were engaged against Infectees and Nomads, carrying supplies for whatever twisted plans they have. Being an initiate still, the intelligence in question on the matter is well above my station. But regardless, I am happy to have contributed to a pyrrhic victory against the Nomads - no small feat.
I celebrated with Leviathan aboard the Achlys, something I haven't done in such a long time - celebration. Hanamura-sensei always liked to celebrate. Elena's birthday, my and nee-san's 'birthday'.. Any good opportunity she had, she was eager to celebrate. It was good to feel that way again. Fighting then.. it felt like the old days. But for once.. the odds were in our favor.