Kielen was relaxing on a pristine beach planetside. He had been spending more and more time out of pod lately. Life in space was so hectic and a holiday was exactly what was needed.
It wasent a resort as such he was staying in. Instead he had found a backwater Terran world in some part of W-Space, surveyed for the best slice of beach with a nearby mountain range and dropped down a Command Centre from orbit. Everything he required was shipped in from his Mammoth-class Hauler cloaked in orbit via the planets customs office,. Of course the actual Command Centre was several hours of hard offroading away, Kielen preferred to drive and hike through the untamed wilds.
Serenity filled his mind. The loudest thing at the moment was his drink, the ice quietly colliding with the glass tumbler. As far away from corporate life as was possible for a capsuleer. Even his implants and neocom were in silent mode, although the slow digestion of information from his neural coprocessor could be detected when concentrated on. Interceptors and Small Hybrid Turrets, those would make for some serious fun when he returned.
A High priority alert came in from his Social Adaptation implant, another war declaration had come through directed to the CEO of Sefem Velox. Knowing that the other directors in the corporation would also have received it the notification was deleted.
"Dammit I knew I should have resigned before leaving!"
Kielen relaxed and returned to his drink
***
Awakening the next morning with surprise, Kielen reviewed another notification. The war declaration was being retracted. A search servitor program was loaded into his implants and sent back to corporate database to discover what had happened. Not thinking on it any longer Kielen climbed down from the silicon flowfabric tent attached to the top of his Landbrusier HZ80 and preparred himself breakfast. Today was a spread of aboriginal fruits that he had collected the previous day. Working for ones food was a humbling experience. Many others had been capsuleers for so long they did not think of such things anymore.
***
The servitor returned with the results while KD was halfway up a nearby peak. It was ignored until finally hunger forced him to set an anchor in the rock and stop for lunch.
It contained several memory recordings from Sefem Velox members and a personal message from the acting CEO, Andie.
Topic: 49 Minutes
From: Andiedeath
To: Kielen Dres,
Hey KD,
In latest news, as soon as the wardec was made active Sefem joined up with the NZAU Aliiance and headed over to Gulfonodi to see what wartargets we could find. We found the CEO of 49 minutes as he already started hunting a few corp members.
Ive included references to the kill mails and some of the other members volunteered recorded memories of the fight.
None the less the war is over
Andie
Strapped to a rock 50 metres off the ground Kielen begun to access the recordings.
