ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Personal Log PERIOD: Colony Era SPEAKERS: Reed, D. [ID: DREE] TOPIC: Security Commander's Personal Assessment SUMMARY: New Cascadia Security Commander Davic Reed, reacting to an unspecified event. =================================================================== [DREE]: Entry 7-8-3-9. General Reed, Op Sec Command, New Cascadia, TCIV. [DREE]: Hey… uh… yeah. Hassan says talking to you helps. Hassan says, "doctor's orders." Something about "self-care." She's probably right. You were right, for all the good it does to say it now. You were right about a lot of things, like the bad days. You said there'd be some. Said there'd be a lot. Swore it. Meant it. All this time, distance… Can still hear it in your voice. [DREE]: I knew you weren't wrong. But weighing good and bad, that's just life. It's just the choices we make. That's not something that changes at any distance. Earth to Mars. All the way out here. Even three hundred years away, bad days aren't unique to any one person's experience, or any given solar system. But bad? Hell… Bad is a sunny day next to impossible. And this… These days, impossible's the only way I can explain it. But you saw this comin', yeah? You tried to warn me. I remember. [DREE]: I remember you said, "Runnin' away won't solve tomorrow." Thing is… fuh… I thought it would. Maybe not for us. Not me and you. But the bigger picture… What we're doing here was—is—the right thing, a good thing. And "bad days"? That always just meant hard work. Making a new life for 30,000 people. Building a new home, all of us together. That's worth whatever bad might complicate our lives. The tough choices. The missed opportunities. The… loss. [DREE]: That's what I thought. That's what I believed in. Building a future. That's what I bought into. Then bad turned impossible, and I don't know what I believe anymore. What I stand for. And I know you can't—even if you could, I know you can't. But I hope someone will forgive us. Forgive me…'cause there's no more runnin', and tomorrow needs a solution I'm not sure we're ready to accept. =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X]