Blast To The Past

Something I found and I thought I share.

Through the scope I watched him as he moved from house to house, he would knock at each door if there was an answer he would spend approximately two minutes chatting get out an envelope, pass it to them, smile and nod his head politely then move to the next house, If there was no answer he would crouch and retrieve an envelope and slip it under the door.

When he had been to all the house's in the square he began the walk up the lane towards the place where he had parked his MTAC. At two meters from the machine he did as he had done in the previous five settlements, stopped and lit a cigarette. I breathed out as his body slumped to the ground, two weeks that were not coming back but it had been worth it.

Gurden Edearis had been a Serpentis enforcer for around eight years he was untouchable, or so it had been though. I picked my way through the rocks down the slope and onto the road leading towards the town. My rifle, already dismantled, now sat in the briefcase which I was holding firmly in my left hand, I strode into town looking dead ahead at Gurden's MTAC.

The town's people parted as I came towards the body, rolling up his left sleeve I found what I was expecting, the Serpent engraved into his arm. I then removed my data pad from my breast pocket and attached the facial scanner.

[GURDEN EDEARIS

AGE: 28
POB: Unknown
RACE: Gallente
ASSOCIATED GROUPS: Serpentis Corporation
CRIMES: Money Laundering, Drug manufacture & distribution, racketeering, manslaughter, tax fraud and murder.]

This is an extract from my father's journal of his younger years, at the time he was writing this he was still in university, so it has been an eye opening experience for me to read and has definitely given me some questions that I can ask him when I next visit Syndicate.

Killing A Mechanical Tortoise

The whole feel of the pod was different I felt weaker slower and restrained like each thought that normally ran so smoothly from mind to ship was clogged somehow the messages got through yes but not so neatly or for that matter so effortlessly. Sansha has arrived.

So I have been silent of late, this has not been to a lack of activity simply a lack of time to write about it. My attacks on pirates both capsuleer and non, have been regular and with results as ever changing as a stormy sea, my market orders both buying and selling continue to be fruitful, sadly my fitted ships have not done so well.

Planet side operations continue to be a success with many orders for hybrid cattle coming in every week. The Masseri State is really on the map, another trader has recently moved into the area which means competition should bring more business to the area and more trade opportunities seem to be appearing in Eugales less than a stone's throw away.

But now Sansha has arrived and his hoards as before threaten all who dwell in our system. I acted fast to begin with, first I looked at Intel and then I tested my metal against the forces of evil myself eventually I took out six frigates and two battleships in three separate battles. But it seems Sansha learns fast and soon singular groups containing just frigates and battleships became a rarity and the cruisers proved more then a match for me. After these first attempts I later joined up with my Corp mates and began a second round of assaults this time we took out approximately ten Frigates and one cruiser. It's slow and steady but we seem to be getting somewhere.

Now I fear for those planet side, I myself have been in station since the incursion began but I worry for my friends and relatives. I have already started looking into producing aid packages as well as repopulation plans for some of the smaller colonies in the Viriette constellation. I have every confidence in the Intaki military in combination with Modus Legion to put up a good fight if Sansha does put feet on the ground but I do wonder if there is more I can do.