Truly Alive

March 5, 2008

Xenet 71.43.1 System Msg

TTY31201.03.05

Network Connection Enabled
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People always say the Bane are evil for what they did to us and to our planet. I disagree. All they did is kill a dying beast. Before the Bane I was nobody. You wouldn’t have given me a second glance. Just another corporate drone making my way through life by taking pill after pill. Just like every other poor slob did before the war. And even then, I thought of doing anything at all to break the drudgery of my boring life and do something worth while, other being able to type 150 words a minute. Then the Bane attacked and everything changed, and while I miss Earth and realize that we’re fighting for our very existence here, I’m kind of grateful. You see, now I have a purpose. Let the Cormans whine about the violence, let the bleeding heart AFS marines you see running around complain about hard they got it. My only love in life now is the fight, the roar chain gun, the satisfying thump of a RPG, and the battle cry of my squad as the last of the Thrax we ambushed fall to ground. I stand silent reloading my weapon a smile plaster on my face as the adrenaline fades away and our dropship come to take us deeper into enemy territory. I feel more alive now then I ever did on Earth.

- S. Galen
Commando of the Laughing Skulls