The Treason of Lady MacDuff - The private diary of Nesrin Khan

[Enkidu]

Entry 4, August 1st, 823 AS.

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I believe.

Over the last two weeks the situation has degraded so rapidly you’d start to think the universe wanted to punish us. The grim verity of it doesn’t provide any settlement - the universe is trying to punish us. We are all going to be slaughtered by the mechanism of the ancients.

But we play the paradigm, we load the dice. We do what humans are designed to do - we cheat.

Through Admiral Hunter of the Order and Commander Reeves of the ESRD, we have, gradually, steadily, accumulated agents to our cause. “Our” cause… It’s difficult to avoid the talons of institutional thinking. Organisations mean nothing in our rarified times - there are the infected, and those who are not. Us and them. Us and them.

I looked out of the Eidolon’s bridge and saw an Osiris next to a Bullhead next to a Liberty Dreadnaught. Three ships sitting next to each other under a banner of truce, when they should have been blowing gouts out of each other’s space frames. Curious how the apocalypse makes armies out of the multitudes. I nearly got canned for disclosing HECATE to the Overwatch representative in his gunmetal warship. Too many secrets. Too much hiding from each other to bridge the boundaries between those who still harbour independent minds.

Liberty is degrading. The LSF and the Navy are tearing into each other, into the hide of the house body. Infected are crawling everywhere - Ish’Tar itself was sighted within Cortez just a few hours ago - I heard the war klaxons claw around me as the LNS vengeance tried to carve us into atomic ash. We survived the present day - but what of the next, the next, the day after days?

Until HECATE can be deployed, better sooner than never, the sooner we can start to detangle the chain of chaos strangling Liberty by the neck. We need trust. There’s nothing more rarified than trust.

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THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's outlawed trade unions, determined to take the underworld for themselves.)

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