Sol-Date: 2215-51-72

It's been ten days since my promotion and the paperwork has yet to end. So many things I've had to sign just to get the promotion official. I haven't started my duties just yet, which I'm still unsure of what they could even be. The captain had told me that I'd be his personal advisor, but still has given me no other information.

When I told the wife, she was estatic. When I told her about the pay increase, she asked why I hadn't accepted the promotion sooner. I left out the part about it being voluntold. I think she's already looking into a new house. That woman will be the death of me.

Yesterday the captain came to me with some more information, mostly from news sources. The fighting on Kyou has yet to die down. Some of the pilots were taken over and fighter drones were stolen. The infected fuckers can fly now, which means any attempt at containing the virus is relegated to the orbital defense systems and any military ships in orbit. I just hope they don't get their hands on any of those systems.

As a lieutenant, I have gained accessed to some more...harder to get recordings. They aren't strictly classified so much as the high ranking officers do not want it to become public knowledge and I think the people have the right to know. From my understanding, this isn't whistleblowing, but at the same time I could get into some shit for sharing it with the masses. Nothing serious. Probably just some shit work, but being enlisted for so many years I'm kind of used to it.

Anyway. The videos show some...interesting occurences. The individuals that have been infected have grown very pale, and their skin seems to have hardened into a shell of some sort. When they are shot, the entry wounds are cracked around the outside, some even cracking across an entire portion of skin. From these cracks is an odd, pinkish color. I thought that it had to be glowing, but passed it off as bad video quality. Perhaps it does, but I wouldn't know. I don't particularly want to come face to face with these things either.

My wife wants to come see me on Religence. I told it was dangerous but she seemed adamant. "Damned what the rest of them say," I think came out of her mouth. She'll be here in a week's time, I'm sure. I'm kind of excited, if I'm being honest. Been a while since I've seen her.

I'm getting off track again. Seems to happen when I do this voice to text thing. But I think I'm out of stuff to talk about for this post anyway. It's a bit short, but most of the time since my last post has been all paperwork, and some brief updates from The Captain. Wait, he's an admiral now isn't he? I think I made a mistake up above but I'm not sure how to get up there with this voice to text. Oh well, I'll just have to edit it later. I'll probably forget.

Until next time. Stay safe. Who knows what's going to happen in the weeks to come.