Daniyal's Neural Net Logs.

[Venture]

October 25th, 817 A.S

Again...again a while since my last entry, too much happened between them.

One, I had a near-death scenario as I was escaping the atmosphere of Manhattan, I had landed there to meet up with some officers for new assignments. As I was escaping the atmosphere, my ship lost control and stalled. I don't know why but it seemed more slower and clumsy than usual.

I apparently didn't achieve the escape velocity and stalled my craft. It suddenly tilted down vertically and went down really fast.

I couldn't think of anything else but to get the plane back under control, I wouldn't land in the mountains, it was where our outpost was located. And I knew that any moment, I will run into some high mountain hiding beneath the clouds and die. I could not see a thing, it was completely overcast.

I kept pulling back the stick really hard, and my craft titled a little bit horizontally, but that barely helped as I almost hit the apparent tip of a mountain. It gave me a near-heart attack so I 'threw' the stick away, tilted it back to it's vertical position.

I jumped forward and caught hold of the stick and pulled back with all my force, the aircraft had got some speed and could be flyable again, the craft completely tilted horizontally and I had a sigh of relief.

However, I ran into a mountain, I swayed to the right, and I heard a loud thud and crunching sound. I looked to the right, and saw I didn't had a starboard wing.

Then my plane completely lost control as it swayed towards the ground, I gave up and ejected. The plane crashed into some valley and I decided to glide towards the outpost, which was 2 kilometers away.

I couldn't glide that far and landed on some short hill, surrounding me were a few mountains, and I could already see the outpost in the distance.

I ran to the outpost, and into the office, slammed the desk in front of the Lieutenant and told him what happened with my ship. He decided to do a full-out check on the ship.

That was all it happened, they are still performing their simulations to check what caused the problem.

Number two, I had escorted some frigate into Rheinland then into Kusari, we had one stop at New Berlin then the other at New Tokyo, it was apparently a diplomatic mission and the frigate carried politicians and VIP's...it was a Liberty Navy Frigate.

After the escort mission ended, I was supposed to fly back to Colorado and reunite with my wing, but I stumbled upon someone...it was Just.a.Person.

We met each other in the Shikoku system, and had a little chat, then we flew to Kansas, that's where bad things started to happen.

We were ambushed by Xenos, I asked my wing to come over for assistance, and decided to engage them on my own. Some navy patrol of two ships also came in to assist me. But I failed something...

After we had taken down the four Xenos, Just.a.Person's transport got badly damaged, so we decided to escort him to Ames to get repairs. When we took the lane, another ambush happened, 8 Xenos!

I could not believe it, they were everywhere, they took down one of the fighter then they took down the other one, the navy patrol which assisted us was destroyed. We already took down four of them, but a executioner and a camera against 4 Griffins is suicide.

I told them to bring it on and engaged them, after I took down one of them, three of them switched targets and attacked Just.a.Person, they ripped apart his hull as he tried to eject, the camera exploded. I lost signals with him and I just wished he was alive and well.

My wing finally arrived, and we took on the remaining Xenos, killing them all. However...Just.a.Person was destroyed, my old friend got badly injured and was hospitalized, but he died after a few days, the doctors couldn't do much.

I sat in my house in sorrow, thinking about life and what else have I remaining to do before my turn comes. I have just lost my friend and my best friend, and this would be just the beginning, I would see what is going to happen.

There is a possibility Liberty may go into war with Rheinland, then my mortality rate gets higher...

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A Nest of Vipers