Personal Log, Nephtys
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Finally, some time to sit down and update this damn thing. We're pulling triple shifts here, and everyone's preparing for a big assault on a Cultist base in central Iraq. Our research into basic types of Earth Weaponry is nearly complete, and we're churning out guns and ammunition at an absurd rate. We have bases in South America, Eastern North America, Europe, North Africa, the Baltic, Russia, and now pressing into the middle east. Sir Nitram tells me he's grown 'tired' of the crude guns and weapons he's made before, and has begun work researching both advanced projectile weapons and lasers of his own design.
As for even better news, our Supply situation is stable now, and we're able to expand at an outrageous pace, limited only by the speed in which we can identify strategic targets to seize. Our diplomats and propagandists have spread videos, leaflets and radio broadcasts, emphasizing our superior resources and mobility. Resistance to our efforts of pacification have dropped substantially, especially given that our new Peace Corps forces occupying newly claimed territory are making excellent use of Sir Nitram's flamethrowers in case of civil unrest.
For our ground forces, I'll be appending the updated personnel jacket to this file.
Peptuck remains one of our ground force's most capable assets. She has been quite valuable in close quarters fighting, where her shotgun training and sharp senses make her highly effective. I'm considering having her moved to lead our second squad, once we get it assembled. She has been moved off temporary assignment with new personnel screening after a few of her suggested 'tests' resulted in unacceptable fatality rates.
Wautd, 'Hero of Laputa' has certainly proven his worth, despite being the newest member of the original Squad McLargeHuge. He seems downright unkillable, and carries our heavy weapons into battle. I personally find his screaming somewhat unnerving, but others seem to find it a rallying call in battle. Well, he also carries the flamethrower for the team, though I've never seem him use it. Samuel has a theory, where 'skilled warriors' only take out their weapons for 'the final battle' or some other nonsense.
Vendetta is shaping up to be an all-around capable soldier. We've armed her with a newly recovered XM8 Assault Rifle, a highly accurate and powerful weapon. This one's been fitted with a gyrostabilizer mechanism to further increase it's stability and accuracy in capable hands. Vendetta's been reprimanded several times for foul language, and seems insufferable now that she chews what the earthworms call 'Bubble Gum'.
Samuel is still dumb as a rock, but he's a well armed rock now it seems. His old self-inflicted hand injury has finally healed, and he's somehow managed to get practice at the range in using two MP5 Submachine guns on full auto, one in each hand! I'm shocked as hell in how he managed to do this, but it's again, the influence of those stupid, stupid movies. He's telling me that he's practicing how to 'dodge bullets' next.
'Commander' Ford Prefect is the last original member of Squad McLargeHuge, and I don't understand this file at all. How are his intelligence scores rising? Even our Psionics are baffled by his apparent increase in mental capability, and even his newfound ability to block out their mental probes. They say scanning for his mind is like looking for a hole in space, and that he can project this blankness to others in close proximity. It's very strange. He has otherwise been fully reprimanded for the Hamburg incident, and has completed several more days of training in leadership and enemy anatomy, making him a... *ugh*... useful asset to the team.
Ryan Thunder is a new junior member of the team, recruited from Earthside. His averageness has branched out somewhat in a few missions we've sent him on, making him fairly good at most of his tasks, even if he's the most unremarkable person around. He has however, received medical training, given that everyone else on the team was busy learning new ways of killing things. He's now equipped with one of our few advanced medical kits.
Manus Celer Dei, another new Earthside recruit remains incomprehensibly dumb. She talks in that horrendous butchering of the english language that passes for an accent in 'South Carolina', and seems to have furthered her bond with Vanas. Manus however has taken a liking to our new sniper rifles, and has spent hours practicing at the range. I personally find a few of her habits disgusting, such as chewing on a wheat stalk incessantly. I think perhaps I understand one in every four words she says.
Vanas is one of our most capable Earthworms. She is skilled in the use of rocket launchers, heavy weaponry and close quarters combat. Her intelligence and judgement remain abysmally bad however, as shown recently when her concussion missile knocked down half of her own squad and alerted the enemy they were going to ambush. Practice with Manus has however, increased her teamwork abilities as they chitter in their incomprehensible earth-speech.
Darkevilme, our first Cyborg Soldier has FINALLY emerged from the hospital after a second brush with near death. This time, we've replaced his nose with a high quality prosthetic, and several internal organs. I don't know how much more his body can take. Pezook meanwhile, seems quite pleased by all of this. He talked to me last week about Darkevilme, and mentioned that the man was a 'SUPERIOR MODEL' compared to the rest of our 'MEAT-UNIT' soldiers.
MJ-12 is proving himself well as one of our new cyborg soldiers. His training in close quarters combat makes him a valuable asset for building sweeping, where his armored body and speed make him more than a match for a dozen reticulans or transgenants. He has mentioned recently that his headaches are getting worse, and that the 'radio transmissions' he's hearing are some dastardly alien plot. I've told him that we'll look into it, and that seems to have put the big cyborg at ease. Hopefully, he won't bring this nonsense up again about 'Star Ghosts' or whatever he has bad dreams about.
White Haven, currently our only active psionic soldier. She remains uncomfortably quiet, only communicating in a series of meek sighs and noises. Our other, more talkative psionics however, inform me that her mental powers are only expanding, growing beyond the need for our 'unaugmented audiatory-speech'. Because of her rather frail frame and the fact that our body armor won't fit her, she's received sniper training and a captured human-built laser sniper cannon. She was barely able to hold her excitement at being given such a monstrous thing, telling me all sorts of gasp and breath noises.
Hawkwing is another human recruit from the surface, but with extensive battle experience from being in our second-line pacification forces. As with his peers, he is insufferably retarded and speaks in that awful drawl. He seems to enjoy watching old videos of 'tractor pulls' and other most... intellectually stimulating events. He is a reserve rifleman and will probably be included in the second squad.
Erik Von Nein is still alive, despite his constant claims that this next mission 'will be the end of him'. To satisfy his morbid outlook, he's undergoing sniper training after that last hospital stay, where he spent the majority of it thanking everyone for visiting him at his 'deathbed'. Presumably, he'll think being hidden and behind our own lines is a death sentence, waiting for some inevitable cunning enemy encirclement maneuver to kill him.
Phred is another new Cyborg Soldier, provided thanks to our excellent relations with his people. While strong and fast as with his compatriots, he is trained in the use of heavy weaponry. We're giving him the RPK machine gun captured in a previous battle, and all of our surplus 7.62mm ammunition. He's already named his weapon 'Sasha' and plays Wagner from a pair of large speakers mounted in his shoulders in battle. I don't know if I want to laugh or cry at it, but he seems to be effective in the few battles we've dispatched him on.
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Our current plan is to secure the Cult's major bases in a series of lightning attacks to prevent their sabotage and infiltration from continuing. Perhaps then we can secure several 'Nuclear Missile' silos in North America and Eastern Europe, and turn those to defeat this inbound space rock.
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