– by DarkTemplarBlackWolf

“Life out here has never been an easy one. For as long as men have walked our desolate ice covered planet there has been little time for politics and the petty squabbles, the great empires of the Amarr, Gallente, Minmatar and Caldari lay far to the galactic north and since the days of Sansha none have even considered colonizing planets such as ours.

Our icy gem floating with one face locked towards the sun held no particular strategic value and was safe on the galactic rim.

The age of Capsuleers was no different than the age of the great galactic war… it didn’t affect us in any significant way except maybe the odd fireworks display as one fleet engaged another in orbit but up until fairly recently the Capsuleers have been as far removed from us as the Empress of the Amarr. We lived our lives in relative peace… that is until two months ago when one ship bearing the markings of Concord paid us a visit… it brought news which shocked most of us… the law prohibiting Capsuleer colonization of planets had been lifted and more over they now had the right to land troops to support any territorial claim they made…

A couple of weeks later a Capsuleer ship dropped into orbit and began scanning the planet…it didn’t take them long to figure out why this planet had been colonized millennia ago. A few hours later a massive ship appeared out of warp above the planet… since then a station has been slowly taking shape in orbit… the fate of our world is now sealed… I’m recording this on a holoreel hoping that someone will find this and let the Empires and Concord know that they’ve doomed countless billions to death… I… -gunfire can be heard in the background-… damn it… they’ve already begun landing…”

The video goes on to show an arctic landscape locked in perpetual twilight and the distinctive flashes from the hunting rifles of the colonists being countered by semi-automatic fire. In the distance one of the old colonial mass driver batteries let loose a few rounds into the sky, a sleek ship hurtled towards the ground in flames but just as the one wielding the camera sighed with relief, several bolts of energy start bombarding the town… the video starts breaking up as mushroom clouds start appearing in the distance … the last image captured shows the face of a young man barely into his twenties… behind him tracer rounds from a medium railgun can be seen streaking towards the ground … to the side three figures in military grade armor can just be made out as they begin to take aim towards the camera…