My Brothers, it seems old rivalries don't stand still while we mourn. Tonight, an overextended fleet of Outcast ships invaded Gamma and wiped out Skyelius, Ximen Benitez and myself. Sky can give you the details of his fight and Ximen can show you some pictures of the stupidly large Outcast fleet. My own fight was not very good, I was flying around trying to stall in order to bring in more Corsair or allied forces into the region, but alias, my Titan gave way. The most interesting part, however was right before the attack.
I was patrolling Gamma, Kappa (Unknown), Delta and the like when corisno (i think thats how you spell his name) radioed in to tell me of some faction called the QCO. At first I couldn't place them but then I realized they were Bretonican and asked for assistance. Corisno was under a tight schedule and couldn't make it but I rushed to Kappa to ascertain what the Armed Forces were doing in Corsair space. After attempting to communicate, a transmission came in from something called the "Queen's Ransom." He was annoyed for some reason that I was bothering his pilots and told me an Outcast fleet was enroute to Gamma. Naturally I thanked him and burned H-fuel to Crete were I promptly locked the docking ring and attempted to organize a defense. My grand fleet of myself and Ximen didn't last long, but we did manage to stall long enough for Skyelius to fly in and heroically and graciously take down their one and only fighter (to my knowledge). I tell you, you could see the Destroyers' plasma flying in all directions in the Crete sky trying to lock onto Skyelius and failing. Skill can only get you so far, however and his Titan was destroyed.
Although a definite defeat, I ponder at why in hell's circles would the Queen's Ransom give us this information? Crete may be burning right now if it weren't for whomever this turns out to be.
//Transmission End.
"The thirteen saloons that had lined the one street of Seney had not left a trace. The foundations of the Mansion House hotel stuck up above the ground. The stone was chipped and split by the fire. It was all that was left of the town of Seney. Even the surface had been burned off the ground.
Nick looked at the burned-over stretch of hillside, where he had expected to find the scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad track to the bridge over the river. The river was there."
