OPENING FILE
CAPTAIN'S LOG:
Date: 18th November, 2553
Location: UNSC Sword of Giants, in transit back to Earth.
James Croft, Captain
The Defense of Luna was a decisive success for the forces of the UNSC. Once again, mankind was able to put aside its differences for the greater good. Whenever a threat endangers us all, we all come together as one. United we stand, not as worlds or nations, but as a species. We feel the same, we think the same, act the same. We are the same. We should all work as one.
If only this beautiful idealism was any more than that. After a brief moment of shared mourning and relief, the UEG and its client planets once again divided themselves into separate governing and territories, and rebellion ensued.
Silence is the only of these rebel planets to ever approach their strive for freedom in a proper manner. The Silence Independence Act was brought up for vote last month, but, despite a mere decimal difference, it failed.
Presently, the people of Silence result to fighting, as many worlds before it have. But that is humanity. We feel the same, we think the same. We act the same. And when we do not get what we want, we fight for it.
Major Gardener (as he became today, and rightly so) has been appointed head of operations for the newly-christened Eureka Division's role in the campaign. I believe Gardener, though a risk taker, is a fit leader for the division. I trust him with these people, and I trust him this mission.
But they are all tired of battle. Tired of war. Hopefully, no such thing will happen. Hopefully, the freedom fighters will sit and think of what they are about to do.
Hopefully, they won't do it at all.
Eureka Division is being deployed in two weeks. Godspeed
MISSION LOG... END
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