MrShooter01
Ustio Mercenary Squadron
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Posted - 2016.02.06 21:54:00 -
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It certainly feels like someone's trying to finish us all off again... names I haven't seen in months or years suddenly popping up all over the place, brutal coordinated attacks on mercs in the field, deploying ludicrous amounts of firepower and assets for a minor battle with a payout worth a fraction of the value of their weapons.
CONCORD and the empires may have looked the other way for a time after our little uprising but we may have pushed our luck too far, playing at being warlords fighting over backwater systems. It's turned into something of an embarrassment for them. Some of my contacts are saying the empires are spooked about yet another group of immortals - piloting starfighters this time apparently - coming into play, and they might be trying to clamp down on all of this "illegal" clone activity in a last desperate attempt to hold onto their old power.
And on the other hand, I've been hearing rumors of some kind of "next generation" clone soldiers going around and wiping out their old competition, us, with superhuman reflexes and impossibly precise aim. Battles get shut out by an unstoppable squad of them, then they somehow trace the signal back to your warbarge and board it, in order to... well, that would explain the mercs stockpiling the best weapons on the market in their barge, could be handy. I know it all sounds like a myth, the kind of thing told to the rookie mercs to scare em like all those bloody "514" horror stories they used to tell me, but with those "drifters" the eggers are dealing with suddenly appearing I would believe in just about anything these days.
Either way, nothing about whats happening feels right, and I don't want to be in the way when the hammer falls.
So speaking of eggers, I've gotten in contact with a capsuleer buddy of mine who has been tinkering with cloning tech, same guy who helped me evade the earlier empire purges. He's been helping me move my warbarge deeper into space, setting up some extra communications relays for me to bounce off and hopefully make me harder to find. But in case all that fails... I've got an ugly back-up plan. Backups, that is. Of my mind. Got a couple safehouses of my own setup, and with the help of a little neurosurgery don't even remember the locations of them. Got them set on a sort of "dead man's switch." If something happens to me, if I disappear completely or I'm not... myself... hopefully they'll activate in a few weeks or months.
Now I know what you're thinking, all those reports about how dangerous and illegal it is to have multiple conscious clones, and how unstable "backups" are, but I want to reassure you they are all completely true. If it comes to that, the backups sure as hell aren't going to be up to date and might have a spot or two of brain damage, but hopefully will have enough sense to asses whatever situation they find themselves in and wait for things to settle down. Hey, it beats fading away.
I'll chip in what I can for this "Network" of yours, as it sounds like a better plan than mine, but still I advise you all to start thinking up backup plans for your backup plans. If any of you know eggers you can trust, try to work out something with them, they've been at this game a lot longer than any of us and know how to hide things right under the nose of the Empires.
Don't trust them too much of course, we all know some eggers that would rather keep the concept of immortality all to themselves, and are afraid of what we might do to them if we get enough power. |