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the-sword-lesbian · 1 year ago

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AUDIO_LOG_DELTA_735_TANGO [SA-Washburn] "Ya needa cut dat kinda talk out, scrap. Ain't ya heard dem stories about CA goons disappearin grunts like ya fuh runnin dey moufs?"

[CP-Raegan] "You don't get it Sarge, you've never been there!"

[PVT-Chiro] "Been where Micky?"

[CP-Raegan] "We were stationed on New Rhea, whole mission was FUBAR. Got pinned down on all sides, had to retreat back to this bunker. It was some server hub for the whole quadrant. CO was dead, over half my squadies were dead. Call came in from some fucking Admiral who's probably never put boot to dirt her whole career. 'Protect the station to the last man, in event of total takeover, they'd send an orbital strike and glass the whole continent.' Can you believe that shit? But even still we held as best we could, days go by, more scraps die. In the end it was just Prosty, Juarez, and me."

[SA-Washburn] "Em tellin ya scrap, ya needa shut it."

[CP-Raegan] "So double dawn breaks next morning, you know New Rhea has that twin star shit right? So dawn comes and we're just waiting to die. My magpin's empty, I think Prosty had like four more rounds. Suddenly the whole sky's on fire. I'm just laying there staring at it, cursing that admiral for calling down a strike on us. Just praying that maybe, somehow, I'd get to see my little sister again. But then I see something in the fire. Something big, coming down slower than shell but way way faster than terminal. It hits the ground and I tell you Chiro I thought I was gonna die. My soul shook from that impact. But then it stood up. Chiro it... it was a Queen man. Have you ever even seen a Queen? I thought they were just PropCom bullshit. I was crying man, that ferrotitanium armor with the fire and the sun gleaming off of it. The Angels are real man, my prayers were answered. She lifted up one arm-"

[REDACTED] "Corporal Raegan we need you to come with us."

[CP-Raegan] "Who... who the fuck are you??"

[REDACTED] "That's not important right now Corporal."

[CP-Raegan] "What the?! Get the fuck off me!! THE ANGELS ARE REAL!! TELL EVERYONE!! TELL EM-"

[REDACTED] "Thank you for the heads up Private."

[PVT-Chiro] "Of course sir, Unity through vigilance."

[SA-Washburn] "Why'd ya hadda do dat Chiro?"

[PVT-Chiro] "It's like you said Sarge. She should have kept her mouth shut."

AUDIO_LOG_END

The Corporation is distinctly opposed to calling pilots "angels". They've released several statements recommending that officers silence any such language, saying it "threatens the integrity of the forces", and that HAKs and the pilots who control them are "tools, not deities". But I mean, when you see the way a suit's holoprojectors form a pulsing ring around a pilot's helmet, or when one slumps forwards out of its cockpit to reveal that thick mass of wires creeping from its back, it's impossible not to see the resemblance. And when, like most of the men stationed here, you've found yourself pinned down by heavy artillery fire from two directions with no chance of survival, but out of the heavens a Bishop-class rig emerges and razes the enemy with what can only be described as holy flame? I mean hell, that's enough to make anyone a believer (pardon my language).

I have a buddy who deals with the HAKs directly. He works in biomechanics, combat simtech or whatever. I asked him once what he thought about the whole "angel" thing. He got real quiet, and he looked directly at me and said, "you don't even know the half of it." And I stared right into his eyes and I could see that same heavenly flame burning in there and I knew that he had seen something he couldn't quite understand, but that he loved with all his heart.

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