Journal- 12 Aug '99
I've been fairly away from combat recently. Only had to once recently, and I didn't fire once. With all the new recruits arriving at Shangri-La we're cycling in and out of combat shifts now. Mostly training, and improving my shot.
I remember a few days ago when JosefStalinator was brought in injured. Not fatally, but he was out of commission for a while. Damn Mutons.
I also got to fly in our new 'Firestorm' class hybrid ship. Beautiful thing, pity my pilot's license isn't enough to get to fly it...
There was plenty of news about alien bases in Antarctica, and Jalapeno got hit by friendly fire in a mission that I believe had something to do with the Antarctic alien base. In South Africa, now that I think about it.
Journal- 13 Aug '99
It's confirmed. The aliens have a base on Planet Earth. Antarctica.
But much more interesting is emu. He was dead, I was sure. But some miracle of tissue-regeneration technology was able to revive him. It's both very relieving, and very worrying. The new emu has no memories of his old self. It's like a new person, yet he continually shows signs of his old self. Is it personality programmed into the flesh, or is there such thing as a soul after all? I won't think further into this for now.
Lucky got a promotion, and is one of the Troopers now. He's not a great shot, but he's got a lot of heart. I wish him the best of luck. This won't be easy.
Journal- 15 Aug '99
Big mission today. Our new sensors allowed us to shoot down a huge Muton ship, and we were sent to clear it out. I knew from the start it wouldn't be easy.
I was second out after emutwo (as several of us call him), and saw the aliens immediately. I kept calm and fired, and killed one. Warman took out another. Jay sniped off a third from the ship.
We saw the new aliens first seen at Novosibirsk here. 'Silicoids'. Anyway, they're nasty to look at and burn the ground on contact.
We boarded the massive ship after some sporadic fire and a sound of an explosion. Actually, the other way around, but the details don’t really matter.
There was a minor firefight as we entered the ship. I killed another Muton, but a bunch of my compatriots got shot. Fortunately, the armour took it all, and emutwo finished off the damn thing.
We then searched the craft. Some other guys killed the survivors. I found an extremely odd room that had something of a ‘retro’ feel to it. Apparently, some Mutons are just as nostalgic as some humans.
Journal- 20 Aug ‘99
After a few quiet days we’re at it again. Jalapeno’s healed and back on the team now.
Yesterday our mission brought us to Kinshasa. I was first out, and fired at a Muton. I was so focused on it that I didn’t notice a second one. It opened fire on me and I was hit. I thought I was about to die for a moment, but felt no pain. I mouthed my thanks to the engineers who worked on our armour and killed the alien. Someone else took care of the other.
Wubba lit up the area with some incendiaries to give us some light. I don’t like seeing rainforests burn, but it was, unfortunately, necessary. He and Warman then took out the alien in the ship, while the rest of us remained outside.
After this I was given a break again. I am beginning to wonder about our promotion system, however. Many of my peers are now Sergeant, while I am ranked below them, despite similar experience and kill counts. What am I doing wrong?
Recently, we have discovered that there is a huge UFO base somewhere in our solar system. Apparently the homeplanet of a dead civilization. Mars maybe? It will doubtlessly be interesting to find out. I was, in fact, just walking around the raised base periphery when I saw a UFO blasting by, fired upon by an interceptor. I immediately informed the higher-ups, who had seen the vehicle on video. There is now a worryingly-large chance that the aliens know of our location.
A mission was sent to the crash site. I have yet to hear much now that the team is back, but apparently Reno (One of the second batch of recruits, a Finnish guy. Now that I think about it, there is a surprisingly large number of Finns around here. Odd.) got shot and badly injured. He lost a lot of blood. It was the damned Mutons again. I’ve come to hate the things.
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Congrats Wubba.
Use me as uh... surpressing fire. Or to cut holes in walls. Just generally gun alien scum down at every opportunity.
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Get him in soon, okay daft!?
