Patient Name: Alvarin, Minae (Shyeer)
Patient Number: 10C-NVZ
Race: Caldari
Bloodline: Achura
Age: 25
Family: Deceased
The following is a written documentation of a standard interview following the mind wipe procedure and DUST integration.
Shyeer: Where am I?
Enari: You are in a medical facility owned by Wiyrkomi's DUST Program. Are you feeling any discomfort?
At this point, the patient examines her surroundings.
Shyeer: What is the DUST Program?
Enari: It is a program designed to create and help soldiers like you.
Shyeer: Like me?
Enari: Yes. You are an immortal soldier. You work for the Wiyrkomi corporation to protect State assets on contested planets.
Shyeer: Death before Dishonor.
Specialist Note: Psychological conditioning it taking well. Recommend continued observation during training exercises.
Enari: You're remembering. Good. Do you remember anything else, Shyeer?
Specialist Note: Verbal cue given to bring in existing DUST Operatives to issue her armor and weapons.
Two armed DUST soldiers enter the room and specialist Enari steps aside. Behind them is a trolly with standard issue training gear for new soldiers.
Shyeer: Those are for me. Those are my tools. Why am I not wearing them?
DUST Lieutenant: Why indeed. Suit up and be ready to move. We're going topside for training ops in two hours.
Specialist Note: The patient almost seems happy to be applying her armor. Advise blanket wipes to all new DUST Operatives. We will continue monitoring her psychological condition as time progresses. Lack of emotional attachment and prior memory should limit inhibitions sufficiently.
Her movements in the suit seem almost mechanical at first. A few minutes are spent in the room with the officers as they explain everything before she exits. -End Transcript
File taken from a secure database in a Wiyrkomi DUST processing facility on *error-planet not found
Monday, January 21, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Dust to DUST
-My name is Minae Alvarin. As of this writing, I have not yet been submitted to the mind wipe. I have no doubt that by now my existence has been wiped from the GalNet for the treason I committed against the Caldari State and the Wiyrkomi megacorporation. I write this not as the manifesto of a traitor looking for sympathetic minds, but as a word of caution to those who would walk in my shoes.
-There is no perfect government. There is no perfect crime. There is no perfect Citizen. My actions cost the State lives numbering in the tens, if not hundreds of thousands. My infiltration of the Wiyrkomi corporation allowed me access to both troop and fleet movements across the cluster over dozens of fronts. I did not sell these movements to the Matari fleets to give their Gallentean allies. I wrapped them with a bow and handed them to the Matari on a silver serving platter.
-My infiltration was not within Wiyrkomi itself, but their Honor Guard. Devout patriots to the State, tried, tested, and true every single one of them. Except for me. There was a time I believed in what the Caldari stood for, but by that point I had completely forgotten about it. My late wife, Myri Alvarin, had a sister that afforded me a number of opportunities with the Honor Guard. Given she was already a friend to the Honor Guard, getting a recommendation was an easy matter.
-I worked with the Honor Guard as a communications officer, managing incoming and outgoing intel, decrypting enemy transmissions, etc, etc. Most of what I gathered was downloaded, put under a dozen different cyphers and hand delivered to my Matari contact in a Gurista hangout. I can only ask myself now if it was worth it. Then again, it won't matter soon enough.
-I was captured four months ago. Since then, I have endured numerous regimes of physical and psychological torture, hard labor, interrogations, 'medical testing,' and humiliation at the hands of the families whose lives I destroyed. A small price to pay for my deeds, I suppose. My options now are to live out the rest of my life in labor camps, death, or the DUST Program. Perhaps in another life I will restore my honor with the Caldari. But for right now, just this once... If I ask myself if it was worth it...
-I've always wondered what it would be like to be an Immortal Soldier...
Excerpt taken from a decrypted file on Wiyrkomi servers.
-There is no perfect government. There is no perfect crime. There is no perfect Citizen. My actions cost the State lives numbering in the tens, if not hundreds of thousands. My infiltration of the Wiyrkomi corporation allowed me access to both troop and fleet movements across the cluster over dozens of fronts. I did not sell these movements to the Matari fleets to give their Gallentean allies. I wrapped them with a bow and handed them to the Matari on a silver serving platter.
-My infiltration was not within Wiyrkomi itself, but their Honor Guard. Devout patriots to the State, tried, tested, and true every single one of them. Except for me. There was a time I believed in what the Caldari stood for, but by that point I had completely forgotten about it. My late wife, Myri Alvarin, had a sister that afforded me a number of opportunities with the Honor Guard. Given she was already a friend to the Honor Guard, getting a recommendation was an easy matter.
-I worked with the Honor Guard as a communications officer, managing incoming and outgoing intel, decrypting enemy transmissions, etc, etc. Most of what I gathered was downloaded, put under a dozen different cyphers and hand delivered to my Matari contact in a Gurista hangout. I can only ask myself now if it was worth it. Then again, it won't matter soon enough.
-I was captured four months ago. Since then, I have endured numerous regimes of physical and psychological torture, hard labor, interrogations, 'medical testing,' and humiliation at the hands of the families whose lives I destroyed. A small price to pay for my deeds, I suppose. My options now are to live out the rest of my life in labor camps, death, or the DUST Program. Perhaps in another life I will restore my honor with the Caldari. But for right now, just this once... If I ask myself if it was worth it...
-I've always wondered what it would be like to be an Immortal Soldier...
Excerpt taken from a decrypted file on Wiyrkomi servers.
Ashes to Ashes, Hnolku
-Minae used to be a simple communications officer under the Caldari Megacorporation, Wiyrkomi. Many consider those that operate in the Wiyrkomi war machine to be patriots to the Caldari State. Although, no one in the cluster can truly create a flawless system with perfect citizens that adhere to the ideals of their governments.
-This woman, Minae Svad'n Alvarin, was a traitor to the State.
-You may ask yourself what treason she committed. What crime could have been so terrible that her existence has been systematically wiped from the GalNet? Now, ask yourself honestly whether or not you ever considered that you had been born into the wrong government. Would you have sold out your compatriots for ISK because you didn't like them? Would you bribe a CONCORD officer to ignore a shipment of "mood enhancing drugs?" ... Would you plant yourself in a position to give away valuable intelligence to enemies of the State to have a personal hand in its' downfall?
-Minae Alvarin certainly did the last. In her eyes, the Caldari represented tyranny of the highest form. How many can argue against the Caldari stereotype that is mindful only of their profits? Her entire world had been built around profits and efficiency, and every culture must have its' poor and destitute. "It's not fair," she said during a private call prior to her capture. "It's not fair to children to teach them the importance of profiteering when they're barely out of the creche." In her defense children should have good lessons mixed in with their childhoods, but we all have to make an honest ISK somehow.
-Perhaps in her mind everything she did was justified, but you have to ask yourself how many lives are worth selling out your own fleets to the enemy. How many innocent lives must her actions take? How many families has she deprived of mothers and fathers?
-It is my personal hope that she is no longer among the living. The cost of her idealism is too high to allow her to spread it like a disease amongst the masses. Hnolai ki tuul, ti sei oni a tiu.
Anonymous
-This woman, Minae Svad'n Alvarin, was a traitor to the State.
-You may ask yourself what treason she committed. What crime could have been so terrible that her existence has been systematically wiped from the GalNet? Now, ask yourself honestly whether or not you ever considered that you had been born into the wrong government. Would you have sold out your compatriots for ISK because you didn't like them? Would you bribe a CONCORD officer to ignore a shipment of "mood enhancing drugs?" ... Would you plant yourself in a position to give away valuable intelligence to enemies of the State to have a personal hand in its' downfall?
-Minae Alvarin certainly did the last. In her eyes, the Caldari represented tyranny of the highest form. How many can argue against the Caldari stereotype that is mindful only of their profits? Her entire world had been built around profits and efficiency, and every culture must have its' poor and destitute. "It's not fair," she said during a private call prior to her capture. "It's not fair to children to teach them the importance of profiteering when they're barely out of the creche." In her defense children should have good lessons mixed in with their childhoods, but we all have to make an honest ISK somehow.
-Perhaps in her mind everything she did was justified, but you have to ask yourself how many lives are worth selling out your own fleets to the enemy. How many innocent lives must her actions take? How many families has she deprived of mothers and fathers?
-It is my personal hope that she is no longer among the living. The cost of her idealism is too high to allow her to spread it like a disease amongst the masses. Hnolai ki tuul, ti sei oni a tiu.
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