The memories of that star still give me chills, more so seeing it preserved like this. When I heard a desperate call for help evacuating people, just barely recorded as I flitted through a system doing something I no longer remember, my gut told me to go and help. I didn’t have any warship, my best option was the speed of a simple shuttle. So I directly connected to the person on the other end of that call and made a dash, then another, and two more. I only saved ten people.
And that star, hanging in the void like the tombstone of a system.
This is when I joined the war.
Sister. I feel for you.
I call you sister because I too fought at Nonni. Many other forces had been taking losses but I still could not leave that system. I mustered a small group and kept fighting, hoping it would be enough, that reinforcements would come.
It was not enough. Nonni haunts me to this day.
I feel the same, that I have failed. And I too have questioned everything. And I have found answers through those questions, not esoteric philosophy that would bring peace to one but the wisdom and experience of other capsuleers from all routes of life, all Four Empires.
Do not be afraid to question. Do not shrink from the answers. Face them head on, learn the determination and the practical lessons, and join our brothers and sisters in saving everyone else we can.
With the greatest respect I can muster, I am glad that your belief gives you this strength, but this belief was not enough for many.
This is the kind of thinking that will win this war. No bullheaded favoritism for one Empire’s architecture over another’s.
Harva. I do not truly know if I failed here, or if I succeeded in a strategic sense. When CONCORD withdrew, a few capsuleers and I came back, in small frigates equipped for EWAR. The notional fleet we had intended to support in a direct assault on Kybernaut forces never coalesced. With no options and some losses, my small crew and I began broadcasting on local. Metaphors and anthropomorphization, humanizing the Sun itself so that the Kybernauts would perhaps sympathize. It seemed to work for a time. But eventually we were stretched too thin to continue as Harva fell to the Collective.
Failure? Strategic stalling? Looking back… I just don’t know.