Into The Battle

Our squad has been loaded into a troop carrier.  We're being thrown into the fighting on Sataurous, the latest planet being fought over.  A few minutes in hyperspace, and we'll transport down into the killing fields, after eating a fighting cake to hype us up.

With the great science and technology the leaders are always bragging about, it's amazing that it always seems to come down to fighters like us slugging it out with each other.  The grunts on the other side probably wonder about the same thing.

At least the laser guns from the battle cruisers will provide a protective umbrella while we're downloaded.  Then we're on our own.

Who knows what the fight will bring?  Not me for sure.

So I'm taking these few minutes to record this for the son-ke I've never seen.  I think of him as looking like me, but it really doesn't matter.  As long as he's healthy now, and grows up to keep the blood line going.

If I don't make it, he'll have to grow up like me.  Never knew my dad-ke.  All I know of him is what my mom-ke told me, and his image in the locket that she always wore.  My picture that I left behind, might have to serve the same way.

"My son-ke, know that you and your mom-ke are the reasons I'm out here.  I fight to protect both of you, and our home.  If you must, carry on the good fight to protect all of our kind."

Not much, but it will have to do.

"Eat your cakes, lock and load, flex your claws" the Captain says.  "The body armor these Earthlings wear is no match for ours, so let's go get 'em."

I'm ready to defend my son-ke.