En-route to Jiangxi

[Talion]

Entry: 3

That. Was. Good. Seriously, Joey's Bistro on Gran Canaria, couldn't have had better chocolate cake if I'd asked for it from a wishing well.

But yeah, my story. So I went through school, got pretty high grades as well. Definitely high enough to get some high-paying job on New London. But... did I really want to? I had no interest in corporate matters, didn't care about money. So while I decided, I joined the BAF for a tour of duty. My tour ended about a year into the Tau War, before it got really serious, so I had a fairly relaxed tour in Cambridge. Fought some Hessians, fought some 'sairs, before I knew it four years was up.

So I went back home, to Leeds, got a job in a factory and got ready to settle down working in a factory and living my life to the fullest with friends and family and hobbies and other stuff. That was the plan. But how often have plans really worked out?

Kusari broke through into Leeds soon enough, and the bombings started soon after that. After that, well, I wasn't really in the right mind-set for starting a family, seeing as I had to fake my death to avoid the military draft. Yep, I officially died in one of the first bombing raids on Leeds. Given the state of crisis in Bretonia it was only a matter of time before they called able veterans back into service. Actually, they did,a few days after my fake death.

I spent the next year going around, working in a few different factories wherever they'd hire a guy with no paperwork. Life wasn't that bad, I made some money and had some laughs. So I'll skip forward to the event that really got me thinking about more than me.

My old squadron had been re-assigned to the Leeds front a month after I'd left. In late '18 they were lured away from the planetary defences, and ambushed by the Kusarians. Four Hussars against two Kusarian destroyers and eight Chimearas'; they didn't stand a chance.

My friends were dead, but it took a long time for the news to really sink in. I'd had another year to think, during which Gallia had replaced Kusari as the attacking force. By the time it sunk in, everything on Leeds had become a depressing reminder of fighting I now saw as pointless. So I wanted to move away, far away. My home didn't feel like home now, it was just a dull shell. A reminder of what I'd lost.

So I decided on Jiangxi.