nineteen

[i_got_this]

Hey, Freelancers! Church. Spartan what's-your-face you can help out too.

Who started the insurrection and had the highest body count? Because I know it wasn't the UNSC.

[Someone's still feeling spikey after her conversation with Gale. Yes it's open for everyone to see. Feel free to threadjack!]

Comments

[fanstheflame]

[wow. ... she's still this mad, even after a week in Hogwarts, while he's just been quietly thinking about it?

he winces, and leaves it alone for now]

[i_got_this]

[Yeah, sorry Gale. South holds grudges and she thinks he's sympathizing with terrorists.]

Dictated

[babyaliendaddy]

...Are you seriously asking this? They repeated it like, fifty times in every base I've ever been in. We've seen the videos. Hell, I went toe-to-toe with those crazy mofos in the desert.

Dictated

[i_got_this]

God I know, right?

Wait -- you fought them? I thought you were only supposed to fight us.

Re: Dictated

[babyaliendaddy]

I was. Then I was doing diplomatic missions to the aliens because they liked me better than the other guys, because, well, Junior, and we were on this desert planet, and there was alien technology and suddenly the Insurrectionists and the aliens turned against us and I was the only one left alive... so I had to close down the temple and try to pick them off one by one. Fucking Insurrectionists.

I was there for months without support, because they killed anyone who came after me. Bastards.

Dictated

[i_got_this]

Geez ... yeah, that pretty much sounds like Innie bullshit.

Who's Junior?

Re: Dictated

[babyaliendaddy]

You bet that's Innie bullshit.

Junior's my kid. Half alien, half me.

[i_got_this]

[She wants to get into the Innie stuff because that's why she made the entry, but something else grabs her attention.]

Wait. What? You had a kid with an alien?!</i?

[babyaliendaddy]

[Ohhhh boy. Well, if he had no chance with her before, he probably wouldn't now]

Yeah, didn't Church tell you that story? I found this kickass sword, that made me this big alien hero, and ... then that alien impregnated me with the Hope of the Alien race. Against my will, of course, but hey, I don't blame Junior for that.

[i_got_this]

[She's just quiet for the longest time because, really? He expects her to believe that?]

Bullshit.

[babyaliendaddy]

True story, sister. You can ask Church or Tex.

Besides, why the hell would I lie about something like that?

[i_got_this]

I dunno, maybe you just want attention? [Kind of like you making this entry in the first place, South?M]

[babyaliendaddy]

...what kinda attention do you think I would want to get by saying I got impregnated by an alien? Seriously, that's just fucking dumb.

[i_got_this]

Hey it didn't make much sense to me either. But it's not like anyone's ever told me they've had alien babies before so excuse me.

South

[hatesgoodbyes]

We were told the Insurrectionists who broke off from the UNSC and threatened us. They were trying to sneak attack and destabilize us to weaken the military and our government. We were sent in to wipe them out.

We succeeded.

What we were told was a lie, but that sums up more of what we were told in Freelancer.

Texas

[i_got_this]

Wait, what? What lie?

[Oh good god don't let Gale be right about this.]

South

[hatesgoodbyes]

We were the lie.

Freelancer wasn't what we were told, well it wasn't what you were told. C.T. found that out but... she made sure I would know about it after.

The Insurrectionists weren't anarchists, they wanted to expose a program that had gone dangerously rogue within the cover of the UNSC itself. We were used to wipe them out because reporting them would mean exposing the program just as much as if they had come forward.

Texas

[i_got_this]

[Okay there's a lot of information on there but South latches onto one thing in particular, responding with venom;]

CT? Yeah, I heard about how you killed her.

South

[hatesgoodbyes]

Yeah, I did. [And she's not denying it, she's not glorying in it either. It's a fact and there is no point acting any other way about it.]

I had my orders and I followed them. And yeah, before you ask I would have done the same to any of you and would have expected it from any of you. Not an excuse, it was the mission. Nothing I can do can change that now.

Texas

[i_got_this]

Wow. Do you care, at all?

South

[hatesgoodbyes]

Then? I cared about the objective and protecting my own. C.T. was a threat I was told to neutralize that threat.

Now? Yeah, and I have that with me everyday. Omega made me better and stronger and faster but he was a son of a bitch without remorse or empathy too.

Texas

[i_got_this]

CT was my friend but you wouldn't know anything about that, woud you? [One of the few people she actually ever considered such. And yeah you know what? Bringing up the AI sin't really helping ...]

You had a lightbulb too?! What the fuck? What is there like a secret lightbulb club? Was CT a part of it too?

South

[hatesgoodbyes]

No, I wouldn't. I wasn't close with any of you back then, I was supposed to be separate because that was the plan.



The AIs were experiments, and so were the Freelancers. You didn't get one because you earned it, you got it because they wanted to see what it would do to you.

Texas

[i_got_this]

Wait wait -- The 'plan'? So you knew? You knew everything was going down?

South

[hatesgoodbyes]

There was a plan for me, well there was a plan for all of us. But mine was different from the rest.

I didn't know everything, I was knew little things but it wasn't until after CT that I really understood what was going on.