Echoes Across the Stars

Chapter 9

  Today we decided to go live inside the tank just in case for now. It is actually quite comfortable for what it is.

The Sons of Eondar (I hate that name as it links back to the UE) started to bombard earth and in some places they bombarded so much that only dust remained of buildings. The KCG will probably send their entire fleet to the solar system but it will probably be too late.

It has been calm for a few days so I think they are deploying troups now.

Yes they are, they attacked us with spacecrafts, thankfully the base version of the KCG tank can survive half an antimatter pellet apparently. I am impressed it's even possible but apparently Khrenta knew that already which is normal I guess.

Today we were able to shot down on of the spacecrafts with one of the two canons of the tank, we were overjoyed when it happened.

It's been a few weeks now since they started to attack earth and we discovered the tank has an a special port where an AI can be connected and that it already has a basic AI.

Today we saw a few SoE troops and they saw our tank but probably though it was out of action so they went by without doing anything.

A couple days later a team was sent to recover our tank so we had to take action so it's advance technology would not fall into the SoE hands, I would not want to see that massacre again.

Living in an enclosed space like that reminds me of the first moments with Khrenta which adds a sweet touch to what we have to go through right now. I asked Khrenta and she thinks the same but also said that we should probably focus more on surviving.

Today the SoE started to bombard our tank from orbit with those supercruiser-carriers but thankfully they don't know how to fully use KCG technology so they miss by a lot but it's so powerful that we hear it through the tank's stereoscopic microphone using 3 microphones and it allows the basic AI to calculated how far those shots hit by how sensible those microphones are, we discovered during the previous encounter with soldier that it can hear the heartbeat and locate it at a distance of around 150 meters.

Today a shot landed nearby an it flung our tank a bit, it also used a noticeable amount of stored energy so I think this tank especially has a force field of some sort. It also mean that because the tank was flung it is almost invincible but us inside are not. I hit my head on the roof of the compartment I was in and it now bleeds, Khrenta was very sweet while she bandaged my head.

They stopped bombarding and a few landing crafts landed not very far and we had to defend ourselves, this tank is the pinnacle of engineering, even Khrenta is now impressed by it's capabilities which really says something. And something I learned about Khrenta is that she makes a really good commander. When I asked her about it she said she went through basic training but then was redirected to psychologist training. If this is basic training, I don't know what normal training would result in.

Bombardment have restarted and now they are way more precise, almost each shot shakes the tank, I'm kinda scared but Khrenta is here to comfort me.

Just now a shot directly hit our tank and it pushed the tank into the dust which resembles and I hit my head again, but not as hard as Khrenta which very sadly lost her consciousnesses and she is now laying in the medical capsule.

The medical capsule said that she lost too much blood so I asked if there is any way to save her and the AI said the only way was to transfer her mind into the tank so I accepted instantly even if it said that the brain was damaged so the chances were 34%. And the procedure started.

The second hit on my head is a lot harder than the first one and my head in in unbearable pain but I can't get to remove the body of Khrenta to see if anything is wrong with my head.

The transfer is completed, she is here again, in an other form of course but she is here with me and she is technically keeping me safe as she is now the tank as she said.