Blood price

Captain's Log 8-29-114,
Pator III (Huggar) - Moon 2 - Republic Security Services Assembly Plant
Aboard the Barkbarkbark(wolf)

I awoke this morning to glorious news - GIH and V7- had been taken. I spent the morning dozing with Mata in the tiny little bed aboard my wolf here in Pator. Now, new news has reached me that is driving all other thoughts from my mind: Hostile SBUs are being on-lined in V7-. Our hard-won prize is under threat before an Infrastructure hub has even been raised. As I write this, super capitals are on the field in V7-, and the battle is escalating quickly. Already three sub-capital fleets have been committed along with our super fleet.

This war is bloodier than any other war in history. Every inch we take in Tribute, every moon, every timer, is contested, and paid for in blood. NCdot have made us pay dearly for these two systems, and even more dearly for the technetium moons we've taken. While NCdot appears to be slowly being worn away, their will to fight remains unbroken, and they form up every time.

Typically, a sovereignty war means that one side is going to bring overwhelming force, and the other usually ends up putting up half a resistance. Or massive super-capital battles happen.

Neither have happened here. It's tit for tat, back and forth. Hostiles have showed up to nearly every fight. And even after we 'win' the battle, they still fight. Even after V7- was 'won' and their TCU was destroyed, they attempted to prevent our TCU from on-lining in a battle that lasted nearly six hours. And now they deploy SBUs to prevent us from putting up an Infrastructure hub.

All they have to do is keep those SBUs alive long enough for them to come online, then they can come and destroy the TCU again. And the battle will start all over again.

Even now as I look over at Mata, still sleeping peacefully, My mind wanders back to the battlefield.
All of our gains are paid for in blood.

May the spirits have mercy on my soul.