The Warship's Diary

FUO Without Weapon

Monday, 3rd September 2020
In today's patrol, i didn't encounter any FUO. The elite HWS came with us on the patrol, and magically, i had no encounter with the FUO. That's probably because in the patrol today, i patrolled at noon. The FUO are more likely to try to send their reinforcement and supply at night because our visibility at night decrease, making it easier to slip past our patrolling forces. Well,  i am certainly happy that i didn't encounter any FUO. It's probably pure coincidence, but i wonder why the time i didn't encounter FUO was when i was with elite HWS. But i am not complaining. It certainly feels much better to return to the base unscathed, i don't have to stay in the medical room even for a second. But because i am unscathed, the admiral assigned me on another sortie on Thursday. Being a soldier means looking death at the eye. My little sister contacted me today, she is still unable to move any part of her body except her head, she had to ask help from someone else just to contact me. But i am already happy enough that she is alive. The reason i wrote this diary is also because i want to show her what i faced while i was a soldier. And i hope that i won't die until i am discharged from the battlefield so that i can show my sister my diary to her myself. My sister contacted me when i was at the mess hall where there were other people beside me. When they saw me talking to my sister, they began talking to each other about their family. Everyone has their own family to care about. And everyone at this base hopes, that they can come home to their family safely when they are finally discharged from the military.

Tuesday, 4th September 2020
Nothing really interesting happened today. I just passed the day by giving the engineers a hand. They really appreciate my help. Soldiers are easy to recruit, but it's not exactly the same for engineers. By the way, i took a photo of the birds i saw at the pier. I guess i took the photo for my sister to see. She likes birds. But i don't know what her dream is. She never tells anyone what she wants to become in the future(this is job i am talking about). She probably wants to be a zoologist or biology scientist. But no one knows what her dream is. Considering the situation right now, she will probably have to become an HWS and fend off the FUO until she is discharged or the war is over. Well, i hope she doesn't have to go to the frontline battling the FUO though. I have seen many of my brother in arms die at the battlefield. So much men die every day a war goes on. War will greatly reduce human population, but so many people reincarnate into another life every day. That is what my teacher taught me in religion class. I don't know what way of thinking will i think if i was not Buddhist, but in the end, the essence of what i am writing is the same. War is the worst conflict that has ever happened in human history. So many people die, and very few are remembered to this day. I wonder if one day, the same will happen to me. Die in the frontline, and eventually forgotten. But even if i didn't die in the frontline, i would probably still be forgotten. Only people which holds important roles in history like Soekarno, FDR, and Hitler will be remembered perhaps forever in history.

Wednesday, 5th September 2020
I have only realized this recently. I never tested the enemy's motion sensor whether it can still work underwater or not. I know that the motion sensor could not detect motion from under the water. But that doesn't completely mean it can be used underwater, does it? Actually, i don't even know if the motion sensor is water proof. But surely, the FUO could make motion sensor that is water proof if they can make motion sensors that can detect motion from far away. If the motion sensor still works underwater, then that's a problem. Some FUO submarines will definitely have that motion sensor if the motion sensor still works underwater. I think there is a high possibility that the FUO submarines have the motion sensor, because that day when i was the only survivor of my fleet, i dived into the water to avoid the enemy's torch that can give away my position. If i dived down to the water, the FUO surface fleet probably thought i was dead because there was nothing on the screen of their motion sensor. They shone their torch on my last seen location to make sure that i was really dead, not just standing still so the motion detector couldn't detect me. If the motion sensor works underwater, the FUO submarines probably saw the last dot in their motion sensor's screen disappear which is me diving underwater at that time. They probably thought that surface HWS couldn't dive underwater, thus giving me a chance to survive the battle and live longer. But it is also possible that the motion sensor does not work underwater and FUO were just over confident with their ambush that they didn't make sure i was really dead and not hiding nor pretending to be dead.