For those I left behind - the memoirs of Colonel Jason Myers

[Jansen]

The first Colonial bases in the Sirius sector have been constructed using mostly the materials taken from the Gemini and Orion, this way our Republic did not have to rely on assistance from the outside. I doubt that anyone except the IMG and the Zoners would have granted it anyways. The bases the Republic constructed in a relatively small time were Minato Harbor, which served as the Colonials Freeport, allowing access to everyone not considered hostile to the Republic. Minato soon became the Colonials main trade hub. Sarawak Station, the Colonials research station right next to planet Mindanao was the place where most of the improvement to Colonial weaponry and newer shipbuilding projects came from. The Military headquarters were located on Sulawesi Station, while the Colonials shipbuilding efforts were located at the well hidden Singapore shipyard. This is the place where the first Carrier prototype Warhammer and all other Zephyr class Colonial Carriers had been built.


My own involvement within the Colonial Military began in the 812, at the time when the tests on the prototype Carrier Warhammer were already finished and Valkyries construction had started. I had reached the age of 18, old enough to serve in the Military, just like nearly everyone in my family did before.
Back then nearly everyone in the Colonial Republic was born in Crayter, the only outsiders within our fleet were a few Zoners that decided to live within a Republic that offered more freedom then the other Sirian houses did. At this time the Republic was at war with the Kingdom of Bretonia which accused us of breaching the Planetform contract, even though they were the ones that decided on the Anti-Colonial laws in Bretonia. The Maltese nation started to be a problematic neighbor as well, as soon as Colonial forces stopped the first Slavers, heading for Malta. The Republic had never been in favor of slavery, the very principle of owning another human being had always been considered wrong by us, so we had to free those people. Most of them had lost everything in the places they came from, so the government offered them to stay within the Republic, freed slaves were granted the possibility of being a part of the Republic. Even though the Colonial citizenship had only been granted to them after they served in the Military. I still consider this to be one of the best decisions the Quorum ever made.


Basic Military training at this time took one year, so in 813 I had my first combat operations against Bretonians and Outcast forces alike. In the middle of the year the Carrier Valkyrie had been finished and I was one of the first people to serve onboard of it. I can assure that my time within the Valkyries Battlegroup was one of the best times in my life. It lasted for 3 years, until I had been promoted to the rank of a Captain. Within those three years the Carriers Rubicon and Nemesis had been constructed. The Rubicon always remained close to our home, the Tau 44 system, to serve as a line of defense in case of a hostile attack, while the Nemesis has always been involved in combat operations, even far beyond enemy lines.

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