Back to the Green Hell

[ChillerMiller]

Larissa Schmitt, a 19 years old member of the Liberty Navy who originated from Rheinland, was sitting in the cafeteria of Battleship Mississippi. She was having lunch and a cup of coffee before she would leave for her next assignment. After she finished her lunch she took a sip from her coffee and started to read the mission details. She skipped most of the document as it mostly contained useless information, the real assignment was somewhere near the end of the document.

'€œSo, let'€™s see what they want me to do now...'€

She carefully read the relevant lines, she expected the usual stuff, some patrols of the core systems of Liberty, but this time they wanted her to patrol the Bering system, a place of which she still had bad memories. It was months ago when Larissa decided it was time for her to leave Rheinland, she didn'€™t consider it to be a home, it felt like a prison for her. One of the things she always wanted in her life was freedom, which was not able for her to have in Rheinland, at least that was her opinion. She was surrounded by mindless puppets of the Kanzler, even her parents and one of her sisters could be considered to be the same. That and many other things made Larissa angry and frustrated, the hatred towards her home grew bigger the longer she stayed there.

The way she took to leave Rheinland was dangerous, it happened some months ago when her sister, at that time a member of the Rheinland Military, visited her family'€™s home at Planet Baden Baden. During the night Larissa stole her ship and took the fastest way to freedom, the place she always dreamt about...Liberty. She didn'€™t expect the travel to be that dangerous, the stolen ship was suspicious and soon she had a Military patrol chasing her through Rheinland. It was in Bering when it was almost done for Larissa, as in her dying to the patrol, however she had luck that day and managed to get into Texas. Her name became known and she was considered a deserter from now on, however, she didn'€™t plan to return to Rheinland in the nearest future. Life continued and after some time she got used to her new home in Liberty, her hate for Rheinland stayed the same though, and one day she decided to join the Navy in order to protect her new home. And there she was now with her assignment into the system where she almost lost her life.

She wasn'€™t feeling well about that assignment, there was, however, no way to show weakness. She finished her coffee with a sigh and proceeded to the docking bay to prepare herself. It would be the last time for her to fly for the Liberty Navy and she would soon realize that. Her Guardian entered the trade lane to the Bering Jumpgate where it used the gate to reach its target...