The Spirit of Humanity

January 7, 2008

Xenet 71.43.1 System Msg

TTY31201.01.07

Network Connection Enabled
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As the sun sets here, in Camp Freedom, where insanity meets reality, I chug down a drink that, as I am told, is closest to a Martini as it can get. Without the olives. Or gin. Sometimes I call this the last place where humans remain humans, but that is just bitter...
Well, I am a bitter person so everything is in place I think.

My thoughts race to the events of today, of what I did and the consequences of it. As a recon operative I’m not usually walking alongside “frontline” troops.

More often I’m dropped somewhere in the back and wait for the appropriate moment to give the sign to strike. Sometimes I even roam alongside the bane patrols, camouflaged as one of them using powers and technology that twenty years ago belonged in a science-fiction movie. Who knows, I might even slammed it for being “too fantasy” on an online-review website.
This time however I was alongside the troops, as there was no way to get in covertly to one of the Bane outposts overlooking Maligo Base. And we needed that outpost ASAP, as I was told, a small strike team was to be deployed from it, it’s objectives the Ulstor Yard and the base beyond, sabotaging a top secret Bane project. I didn’t get into my position by asking to many questions, so I didn’t press the issue. I saw my fellow humans rejoice in the thrill of battle, I saw them fight to the death and ultimately succeed in their mission. But I also saw acts of cruelty and hate that should be left with the Bane. When I tried to stop a torture session on a wounded Thrax prisoner, they looked at me almost like a traitor. This is not the first time something like this happened, sometimes I get the feeling command wants us to become war-criminals.

We cannot become the Bane to defeat the Bane. That is not victory. That is proving that they are right. The idea, that the only way the galaxy can be shaped is through endless conflict and slaughter and ultimately dominance of one race over others. That is sure not the teachings of the Eloh. We had wonderful achievements as a race before they destroyed Earth.
It’s gone now, but the spirit of Humanity cannot die along with it. We are better then the Bane. It’s about time we start proving it. To ourselves first, then to others.

Nathan Ashcroft
12th AFS Infantry
Recon/Espionage Specialist