TO: Oshiro Arkase
FROM: Silic Vas
SUBJECT: Re Old Friend
Dear Arkase.
I still remember the day we met outside the PA bay of the Nadare, it was my first day out of bootcamp so everything was almost alien. It's good to hear from you again.
I'm afraid to say that the Nadare was lost with all hands shortly after I was dismissed from the Taisho's command after that little bit of French Leave that you witnessed. It seems none of the crew had had a back up from after the incident, and so I feared that I was all but forgotten. I still miss some of them despite the brevity of my stay.
I pretty much spent a few months relaxing happily in the reserves until I was suddenly yanked out into the frontier. I suspect the machinations of a snubbed intelligence officer from the Nadare in my reassignment, spiteful creatures that they are.
I've now landed in the a fighter squadron, I was hoping to settle in quickly into a quiet mechanics job but I've become person in the squadron that sits in the backseat of the aircraft, and frankly some of them scare me. I always seem to end up in bizzare, strange, and or dangerous situations and I kinda get freaked out, everyone else here seems to think that that's normal.
I'm sure you'll be able to work things out with your squad, but the people I'm with are just nuts. My former commanding officer thought it would be a good idea for a psychopath to be her protege, and I have to sit behind her every mission. It's so bad I've developed a small phobia of space. To make matters worse I seem to constant suffer physical assault in the presence of certain members of the squad, and most of the mechanics seem to blame me for everything that goes wrong.
I've also found a strange mention of a laser wound I don't remember getting in my (quite lengthy) medical record shortly after I arrived at the squadron. A strange occurance, maybe it's a mistake.
Anyway, I hope you're able to get things together over there. Maybe you just need a holiday somewhere sunny with happy people. Worst comes to worst, perhaps a new command is not the worst thing to happen. I sure wish I was transffered some times, but then I worry that the next assignment might be even worse.
Silic Vas
YSS Heitan
P.S. Do NOT holiday on a planet called Aqueous, just take my word for it.