Farewell

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A peace born from violence is no peace at all. u2014Lady Efrideet

FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-221

HG01: u2014took heavy fire! Jax and Klaid are gone! Cabal dropped out of nowhere; they must have our transponder signals!

VSYS: Vanguard ship, ID code is scrambled. Please reauthenticate.

HG01: We need to make an emergency landing at Venus FOB!

VSYS: Please reauthenticate.

HG01: Five times! I tried reauth five times! Look, I have a damaged jumpship, and I'm escorting a frigate of civilians! Clear me for landing!

VSYS: Clearance denied. Venus Forward Operating Base automated orbital defenses now online.

HG01: No! Turn 'em off!

VSYS: I cannot comply.

HG01: Worthless piece of scrap!

HG01: New plan! Captain Hennek, you still with us?

CC03: Reading you loud and clear, Guardian! What's the plan? Those Cabal cruisers are right behind us!

HG01: I'm sending you new coordinates! We'll make a few short jumps; try to lose them in the Reu2014

FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-236

HG01: u2014still work. Ah, see! Green blinking light means power.

UNK1: This ship will never fly again, Human. What value is there in a flight recorder?

HG01: You never write a journal before?

UNK1: I have. But I fail to see the value.

HG01: Well my options here are to talk to youu2014and no offense, but you Reefborn are an acquired tasteu2014or talk to that one, and I don't speak Fallen.

UNK2: [untranslated]

HG01: You see what I mean?

UNK1: So you would ratheru2026 talk to yourself.

HG01: Now you got it. C'mon, help me disconnect the primary power coupliu2014

FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-238

HG01: Been trying to figure out how to word this. Don't know if I'll ever make it back to Earth. The thought of not saying goodbye to you keeps eating away at me.

HG01: I don't know if you're safe. Don't know if you made it out of the City.

HG01: Comms are down, Cabal control the channels. Been trying to get the Awoken to help, but after the whoopin' Oryx gave them, they're reluctant to get between us and the Cabal.

HG01: I miss you so damn much.

HG01: If we see each other again, none of this will matter. I'll complain about Reef cuisine, you'll criticize all my tactical choices, and I'll fall asleep in your armsu2026 None of this'll matter.

HG01: But in case it does, I justu2014I want you to know I love you. That, even out here beyond the light, I never forgot you.

FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-239

HG01: We got the old Dead Orbit ship set up as a shelter. Atmospheric controls are still working, heat, radiation shielding seems good. The friendly Fallen out here are real helpful. I thought they were slaves of the Awoken at first, but it'su2026 not like that at all.

HG01: Captain Hennek finally succumbed to his injuries. I was with him when he went. Last thing he said to me was, I guess, right now, we're not all that different.

HG01: [long silence]

HG01: I wish you were here.

FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-240

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FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-241

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FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-242

HG01: A Fallen named Kesk is helping me hardwire a linguistic modulator his people built into the flight recorder. Should translate their speech back to me in something I can understand, and then I can run it through the vocal processing heuristics onboard my jumpship to speak back.

HG01: Faster than learning a language I don't have the mouth parts to speak.

FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-243

HG01: Today was our anniversary. I hope we were looking at the same stars.

FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-244

HG01: Traveler.

UNK2: <>

HG01: Huh. Okay.

HG01: Family.

UNK2: <>

HG01: Okay, that's where we're hitting a wall. Can we try some root words? We need to build the Fallen database.

UNK2: <>

HG01: Right, sorry. Eliksni.

FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-245

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FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-246

HG01: I had this dreamu2026 like a memory of a memory, you know? But I swear, I heard your laugh when I woke up.

HG01: Being Lightless is hard, but it'su2026 it's these little phantom pains that are the hardest.

HG01: I feel like my whole life is a phantom limb.

FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-247

HG01: Light.

UNK2: Light.

HG01: I'm not sure why I'm surprised by that.

UNK2: <>

HG01: Yeah.

UNK2: <>

HG01: W-why do you say that?

UNK2: <>

[Long Silence]

HG01: Thatu2026 makes sense.

UNK2: <>

[Long Silence]

HG01: Dig.

UNK2: <>

FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-248

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FLIGHT_RECORDER_LOG // VG777-T // L-250

HG01: I'm heading back to Earth. The locals agreed to take care of the civilians.

HG01: I don't know if I'll find you, but I can't sit here anymore.

HG01: If I find you, you'll never hear this. But if I don't, and I liveu2026 Being here has opened my eyes to a lot of things and I justu2014I can't fight like this anymore. Not without you. There's an enclave out past the Jovians; pacifists. You'll find me there.

HG01: Kesk will have my Sidearm. I told him to give it to you if you come looking for me. Oru2026 if he finds out you'reu2014goneu2014to send it to the Vanguard.

HG01: I won't need it anymore.

HG01: All I need is you.

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