The Torment

[Torment]

INS-Torment

CAPTAINS LOG - Entry #20: Sisyphean task
Date: May 15th, 829 A.S.

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It has been two week since Liberty began its rabid push into Vespucci. While we've managed to deflect their initial assault, the Liberty fleet seems nearly endless. The Torment has been engaged in skirmishes around the Sonora Ice Field almost constantly, with the moments of peace sometimes being no more than a few hours before the next hostile shows up on radar. It's starting to feel like they shifted tactics from trying to push through for a swift victory, to a drawn out war of attrition. Their vessels keep harassing us, forcing a response, all the while we are cut off from most conventional ways of resupplying.

Meanwhile we have to deal with our old Gaian problem on top of that. The Torment has been spared having to deal with them in the past, but now they have made their presence annoyingly known. I'll admit this much though, damn bretonian bastards know how to build destroyers. Those "Caliburn" class vessels pack a mean punch, fortunately they don't seem to have many of them, they tend to retreat once destruction of the vessel becomes a real risk.

Word has reached us that the evacuation efforts are still underway, Veracruz might not be a 'significant' planet when compared to the likes of Manhattan but we were hardly expecting Liberty to try something this desperate out of the blue. It seems we'll have to buy them some more time so we can evacuate as much personnel and equipment as possible. The Torment will continue to stand against the tide of Liberty.

...That said, I have feeling things are going to turn ugly soon.

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