The kett took my family, but the Roekaar took my heart. The kind of evil that makes a mother shoot her own son. I don’t know what happened to her after that, but at that moment I vowed to fight the Roekaar until Heleus is rid of their hatred and lies. My favorite mother looked at me with the kindness and empathy that I remembered… then she shot me. I came face-to-face with her on the battlefield recently. A cell recruited her to fight the kett-then the “Milky Way intruders”, and finally… her own people. You see, the Roekaar prey on survivors like her. My mother Joevett wasn’t there that day, so she wasn’t taken-but she was changed forever. One day, she brought all the siblings and cousins to a mountain so we could throw it over the edge and blast it with shotguns. Once, she built an instrument from a description in an ancient poem-it looked wrong and played no music. She loved to recount the forgotten stories of Voeld before the Scourge: its massive cities, its technology, its life. She taught me that empathy was not weakness, but strength. I loved my mother Joevett because she was unshakeable and passionate in her beliefs, but she showed more kindness and empathy than anyone I knew. I hate the Roekaar, and I want to tell you why:Īmong my mothers, I had a favorite (most angara do but won’t admit it). The Roekaar are angara, but I assure you they are our mutual enemy. Soldiers, this is Evfra de Tershav – Let’s talk about the Roekaar. Evfra de Tershav, leader of the Angaran Resistance, has asked to address you directly.
We need to get in there and take it back.
We’re tracking a development at an angara facility codename Firebase Aqua that’s been taken by a Roekaar cell. It would be disastrous, deadly, to both the Initiative and Resistance causes.ĪPEX, Kandros here. He urges you that this intel can’t be allowed to be disseminated from that base on Voeld. Such heroics won’t go unrewarded.Ĭommander Kandros, Evfra has asked me to pass the above correspondence to you at once. You’ve just saved the lives of many of your Roekaar brothers and sisters. Once we figured out exactly how we want to deliver our ‘code bomb’, we can send instructions out to all of our bases. Transmit the intel to the outpost on Voeld. We can bring our enemies down, all at once. We’ve discovered a systemic weakness in the Milky Way enemy’s shield tech that our scientists can exploit. Commander, we’re under imminent attack but our hackers have discovered exciting, unexpected intel. Parties: Between Unknown Combatant at Firebase Aqua and Roekaar Command on Voeld URGENT: Highly sensitive and timely information.įorwarded to Nexus Command by Angaran Resistance: Show them that integrity and decency is powerful and that it can kick ass. Show those stupid, pompous bastards what good ol’ evolution can do. We need you to get in there and do as much damage as you can-reduce their numbers, sabotage, mess their shit up. In all my career, I’ve never encountered an enemy more despicable than the kett and their genocide disguised as reproduction.įirebase Aqua-recently recaptured from the Roekaar-has been taken by the kett. I’m sorry I have to send you out to take on those soulless, ugly, bone-faced, motherless, ignorant bastards once more. Sure, you’re a rag-tag militia called into duty when you’d rather be settling Andromeda-but no commander of a dedicated army could ask for better. And it’s because of all of you and your commitment and expertise. However, the life I’ve created here in Heleus-this life as director of the militia-is more challenging and rewarding than anything I had imagined.
Our time in Heleus has been intense, filled with conflict both internal and external, expected and unexpected.įirst let me say: when I joined the Initiative and left for Andromeda, I never intended to lead a military life.
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