Date:- 25th March, 2424
Its been about two weeks since I made an entry in this diary. Simon wasn't very pleased to hear that. But the fact is that, it becomes a bit difficult to write down the stuff that you have seen. You have to relive through that whole moment again and it does cause some sort of discomfort. Simon says that its good cause it helps the whole thing "come out of your system".But sometimes you gotta ask yourself. Do you really want all that out of you?
About a week ago, my friend Flight Lieutenant Chris Walcroft, me and our Squadron Leader Robert Sinai went out on our AF-52 Spitfires some 200 kms north of Creet to investigate some strange sightings. Some of the soldiers in the local army said that they had seen some sort of orbs flying about in the sky at great speeds. They all seemed to targeting some sort of object in the middle with them exploding as they came in contact with it.
As the Governor of the Neuve Province, John McShane was travelling from Creete to Command City,the capital of Dragonholm in the new stealth transport TA-78 Titan at the same time when such reports came in, we naturally became a bit tensed. Top that of with the fact that the radar blip of Titan just went down in the same region along with that of their escorts, that gave us enough reason to scramble the three of us into action.
When we reached the coordinates of where we lost our governor on the radar, we found a burning wreckage not far away. Sinai landed his Spitfire on the ground using AVTOL( Advanced Vertical Take Off and Landing) technology that the aircraft was blessed with and sent the SITREP back to base while we kept a look out for other boogies. The sight was like nothing I had seen before. TA-78 Titan is a heavily armored piece of machinery. It is designed to take multiple missile hits and yet keep going on like nothing happened while striking a powerful defensive attack on the enemies. For that reason it is called "the Bunker of the Skies". So the question was, how did someone manage to bring this mighty Goliath down?
Curiosity caught the best of me and I hovered down a bit to get a better view. What I saw was a real surprise for me. The propulsion area where the propulsion system of the Titan is housed is one of the most heavily armored areas of the aircraft. An attack from behind to destroy the engines would have been useless as the heat generated by engines which were released by the exhausts was so huge that any missile that came even close to it would melt off and explode and yet it would not have affected the aircraft as a whole. Yet this particular Titan's downfall was because of it engines. The weapons that were used against were indeed very powerful. They just melted through the armor,reached the engine compartment and it utterly destroyed it.And all that was done with just two shots. Two very accurately placed shots disabled an aircraft that housed 6 engines for it to fly.
But there was no time to think who did this or what did this. I just saw something streaking once again in the clouds at a distance at an altitude much higher than me. I had a hunch that whatever that was, that thing was somehow related to this carnage. I quickly gave pursuit and Chris followed me. But it is hard to pursue something that you cannot see visually and on radar as well. Pretty soon we gave up the chase. But that proved to be a mistake.
The moment we turned around I saw multiple streaks in the clouds that we were in.Radar stopped functioning and we lost all sorts of communication with the base. That was when I realized that this was an ambush. But it was too late. Two blue orbs came from nowhere. They seemed to be made up of some sort of glowing material but it wasn't like your regular stuff made up from matter. These things seemed different. Glowing, sparkling and when they came a bit more closer, steaming. We realized that these are weapons made up of some sort of energy, with no form of metal.
The two orbs seemed to be headed for Chris. He went supersonic to try and get them off his tail. I followed him and started shooting at them with the laser cannons in my Spitfire. But with each hit on the orbs, they started glowing more and more as if they were absorbing the energy from the lasers.
And then an orb was targeted on me. I dodged right as soon as it came near me.But the orb acquired a new target and went hit Chris along with the other two orbs that were already hot on his tail.
The aircraft disintegrated in a matter of seconds. I waited with a baited breath for any sign of an ejection for many tense moments whilst swerving left and right occasionally in the off chance that another orb was fired at me. Finally I saw a ejection seat plummeting down toward the dense forest with an occupant.
The seat kept falling at a great speed. Twisting and turning every now and then. Chris kept trying to the stabilize it but it was a difficult task. Finally, the seat straightened, the tumbling stopped and the chute opened. Chris then descended into the dense forest beneath us.
Suddenly the communications with the base came back online. I told them all that had just happened. They asked me to keep a look out while Sinai and two other pilots escorted a search party team in a transport aircraft.All this while I kept staring at the radar screen for Chris's emergency beacon.It never showed up. After a few moments, the communications with base went down again.
And then I saw some streaks in the sky again. It was almost like they were tempting me to chase them. This time I didn't intend to do that. Chris's life depended on it.Wherever he was in the forest below, I did not intend to leave him. I started firing my canons on the wind streaks whenever saw them but to no avail. They vanished as quickly as I saw them.
After some time, the search party arrived. As Chris's emergency beacon it seemed was malfunctioning, we tried lowering our altitude to the very top of the trees of the forest. We kept searching and searching, but it was like finding a needle in a haystack.
Finally, the transport aircraft with the search party received a faint signal. We headed in that direction. It was indeed the ejection seat of Chris's aircraft. The chute was his as well. But he was missing. Sinai, me and the search party got down from our aircraft. A private then found some footprints leading towards the seat and some away from it. We followed the footsteps but they vanished after a distance.
It was apparent that Chris was now a prisoner.An abductee. And so was the Governor of the Neuve province. There were burnt bodies of many soldiers in the transport and the downed escorts but not of the Governor or of his entourage.
Since many months there have been rumors going on about some sort force backed by some sorts of monster dwelling in the forests. Oddly they target people who are related in some sort to the government indicating they have some sort of a grudge with them. There have also been rumors that some sort of huge group has been formed promising to bring the planet back to the days when the planet was governed by the people of Darwin and not by the Imperial republic of Earth.
To be frank I wont be surprised if that happened. There has been a huge disregard for nature since the great war was fought. Earth has literally started to plunder the resources of Darwin. Huge refineries have sprung in cities that were once considered some of the most beautiful in the galaxy but have now been marred by pollution.
Chris was one of my best friends. He was with me since flight school and we both went through trying times and times of celebration. He is a good man. He doesn't deserve to die at the hand of some rebels. But if they do kill him, I swear I will kill every single man that had a hand in this rebellion.Right now,tough times lie ahead not only for me but for Chris's newly wedded wife Rhonda and his parents as well.
Its been about two weeks since I made an entry in this diary. Simon wasn't very pleased to hear that. But the fact is that, it becomes a bit difficult to write down the stuff that you have seen. You have to relive through that whole moment again and it does cause some sort of discomfort. Simon says that its good cause it helps the whole thing "come out of your system".But sometimes you gotta ask yourself. Do you really want all that out of you?
About a week ago, my friend Flight Lieutenant Chris Walcroft, me and our Squadron Leader Robert Sinai went out on our AF-52 Spitfires some 200 kms north of Creet to investigate some strange sightings. Some of the soldiers in the local army said that they had seen some sort of orbs flying about in the sky at great speeds. They all seemed to targeting some sort of object in the middle with them exploding as they came in contact with it.
As the Governor of the Neuve Province, John McShane was travelling from Creete to Command City,the capital of Dragonholm in the new stealth transport TA-78 Titan at the same time when such reports came in, we naturally became a bit tensed. Top that of with the fact that the radar blip of Titan just went down in the same region along with that of their escorts, that gave us enough reason to scramble the three of us into action.
When we reached the coordinates of where we lost our governor on the radar, we found a burning wreckage not far away. Sinai landed his Spitfire on the ground using AVTOL( Advanced Vertical Take Off and Landing) technology that the aircraft was blessed with and sent the SITREP back to base while we kept a look out for other boogies. The sight was like nothing I had seen before. TA-78 Titan is a heavily armored piece of machinery. It is designed to take multiple missile hits and yet keep going on like nothing happened while striking a powerful defensive attack on the enemies. For that reason it is called "the Bunker of the Skies". So the question was, how did someone manage to bring this mighty Goliath down?
Curiosity caught the best of me and I hovered down a bit to get a better view. What I saw was a real surprise for me. The propulsion area where the propulsion system of the Titan is housed is one of the most heavily armored areas of the aircraft. An attack from behind to destroy the engines would have been useless as the heat generated by engines which were released by the exhausts was so huge that any missile that came even close to it would melt off and explode and yet it would not have affected the aircraft as a whole. Yet this particular Titan's downfall was because of it engines. The weapons that were used against were indeed very powerful. They just melted through the armor,reached the engine compartment and it utterly destroyed it.And all that was done with just two shots. Two very accurately placed shots disabled an aircraft that housed 6 engines for it to fly.
But there was no time to think who did this or what did this. I just saw something streaking once again in the clouds at a distance at an altitude much higher than me. I had a hunch that whatever that was, that thing was somehow related to this carnage. I quickly gave pursuit and Chris followed me. But it is hard to pursue something that you cannot see visually and on radar as well. Pretty soon we gave up the chase. But that proved to be a mistake.
The moment we turned around I saw multiple streaks in the clouds that we were in.Radar stopped functioning and we lost all sorts of communication with the base. That was when I realized that this was an ambush. But it was too late. Two blue orbs came from nowhere. They seemed to be made up of some sort of glowing material but it wasn't like your regular stuff made up from matter. These things seemed different. Glowing, sparkling and when they came a bit more closer, steaming. We realized that these are weapons made up of some sort of energy, with no form of metal.
The two orbs seemed to be headed for Chris. He went supersonic to try and get them off his tail. I followed him and started shooting at them with the laser cannons in my Spitfire. But with each hit on the orbs, they started glowing more and more as if they were absorbing the energy from the lasers.
And then an orb was targeted on me. I dodged right as soon as it came near me.But the orb acquired a new target and went hit Chris along with the other two orbs that were already hot on his tail.
The aircraft disintegrated in a matter of seconds. I waited with a baited breath for any sign of an ejection for many tense moments whilst swerving left and right occasionally in the off chance that another orb was fired at me. Finally I saw a ejection seat plummeting down toward the dense forest with an occupant.
The seat kept falling at a great speed. Twisting and turning every now and then. Chris kept trying to the stabilize it but it was a difficult task. Finally, the seat straightened, the tumbling stopped and the chute opened. Chris then descended into the dense forest beneath us.
Suddenly the communications with the base came back online. I told them all that had just happened. They asked me to keep a look out while Sinai and two other pilots escorted a search party team in a transport aircraft.All this while I kept staring at the radar screen for Chris's emergency beacon.It never showed up. After a few moments, the communications with base went down again.
And then I saw some streaks in the sky again. It was almost like they were tempting me to chase them. This time I didn't intend to do that. Chris's life depended on it.Wherever he was in the forest below, I did not intend to leave him. I started firing my canons on the wind streaks whenever saw them but to no avail. They vanished as quickly as I saw them.
After some time, the search party arrived. As Chris's emergency beacon it seemed was malfunctioning, we tried lowering our altitude to the very top of the trees of the forest. We kept searching and searching, but it was like finding a needle in a haystack.
Finally, the transport aircraft with the search party received a faint signal. We headed in that direction. It was indeed the ejection seat of Chris's aircraft. The chute was his as well. But he was missing. Sinai, me and the search party got down from our aircraft. A private then found some footprints leading towards the seat and some away from it. We followed the footsteps but they vanished after a distance.
It was apparent that Chris was now a prisoner.An abductee. And so was the Governor of the Neuve province. There were burnt bodies of many soldiers in the transport and the downed escorts but not of the Governor or of his entourage.
Since many months there have been rumors going on about some sort force backed by some sorts of monster dwelling in the forests. Oddly they target people who are related in some sort to the government indicating they have some sort of a grudge with them. There have also been rumors that some sort of huge group has been formed promising to bring the planet back to the days when the planet was governed by the people of Darwin and not by the Imperial republic of Earth.
To be frank I wont be surprised if that happened. There has been a huge disregard for nature since the great war was fought. Earth has literally started to plunder the resources of Darwin. Huge refineries have sprung in cities that were once considered some of the most beautiful in the galaxy but have now been marred by pollution.
Chris was one of my best friends. He was with me since flight school and we both went through trying times and times of celebration. He is a good man. He doesn't deserve to die at the hand of some rebels. But if they do kill him, I swear I will kill every single man that had a hand in this rebellion.Right now,tough times lie ahead not only for me but for Chris's newly wedded wife Rhonda and his parents as well.
