A Hive of Activity

Once again, Seven-Twelve here.

The operation mentioned in my last update has been temporarily postponed, due to the recent influx of refugees. We will recoordinate the operation to take full advantage of the soldiers and their equipment, making this the biggest attack carried out by any faction in the Dust Region.

The base has been a hive of activity the last few weeks. Not only are we host to 400 refugees, we've brought in an entire medical team from Western Outpost to help lighten the load. Doc Murph has been too busy to see me lately, so I had to see one of the visiting doctors for my weekly physical therapy. A woman who's taken the name Pearl. We got to talking and apparently we were both workers at Power Station 1106 before being recruited by the Revolution nearly twenty years ago. In fact, we were both involved in disabling that Station for the Amherst Square operation which freed nearly seventy illegally held prisoners. Small world, huh?

She was telling me that when she first joined the Revolution she was staying at Kingshead Base (before the cave-in, obviously), and that they had uncovered a music disc in a scrapyard. They had an agent smuggle a disc reader from a Regency Manor and they were able to play the disc. Everyone in the base gathered around to hear the music, 350 people in a room gathered around a pair of tinny speakers listening to a song that could be hundreds of years old. Pearl didn't know the name of the song, but she remembered the tune off by heart. She hummed it to me while we were doing my hamstring stretches. It was a beautiful song, but at the same time made me realize once again how much they've taken from us. They destroyed and pillaged thousands of years worth of our art, literature and song. Even when we've defeated our oppressors we'll never be able to know how much they took from us. We have to take back what remnants of our past they're keeping in the Underground Library, and rebuild from there. They've stolen our history, it's up to us to take back our future.

I've gotten a fair bit of criticism for my method of reporting. I know my style is quite different than that of my predecessor 7223104, may he rest in peace, and many people believe that official newscasts are no place for these types of personal stories. Or as one agent who shall remain nameless put it, "Cut it with the human interest bullshit." Frankly, we are living in an inhumane world under the iron claw of inhuman masters. We all need a constant reminder of what it is we're fighting for. When we lose sight of what makes us human, we lose sight of what makes us powerful. I am only hoping to humbly provide that reminder.


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