Giaians and Xenos

[Dusty Lens]

Yeehaw.

It is true that much of our banter isnt terribly terrifying. Its extremely difficult to be scary and take yourself seriously. Furthermore its rather tricky to engage in being terrifying when the response to your presence is onoez xeeeeeeners and so on.

The method by which we generally establish being frightening is in our more tangible habits, such as ripping your sad little transport apart until its venting atmosphere and flame from its many brand new oraphi (is that a word?), decommissioning your pretty little mining op and dancing in the leavings of your scattered cargo.

Yeeeehaws arent scary. Whats scary is dropping out of a lane into a bunch of bombers who dont really care about your two mil, theyd rather just have some die thank you very much.

As to the suicide bit, no thank you. To be honest we employ more of a try to survive at all costs philosophy. Every ship precious, every pilot a commodity. The fight you survive to fight another day is the victorious one, nevermind the outcome of the op itself. If it looks like things are going south its time to suddenly break and scatter. Fighting to the bitter almost end and then going out in a blaze of glory is for chumps and Outcasts Or am I being redundant?

Of course, Im not going so far as to tell you whats happening on the ground. Space resources are expensive. However it should be remembered that the Xeno movement that we encounter in space is but a fraction of the overall story. The vast majority of the fights, struggles and battles of ideology and explosions take place on the surface of Libertys worlds.

So whos to say if some man, without a hope in the world standing upon the ruins of a broken life with nothing behind him but Houston with nothing ahead of him but Houston yet again, staring down the minutes till another LPI raid upon a tent city amongst the desolate ruins of abandoned factories wouldnt reckon on strapping something as goes boom to himself and marching up to the nearest checkpoint.

But Im pretty damn certain that any space pilot who tried to do the same would be slapped upside the head.