The Killing Moon

An Elite Dangerous blog featuring the many exploits of CMDR Korinne Eichwald.

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HIC SVNT DRACONES

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And as my telescopic eye Focused on the marching line It settled on the fallen crown Now covered with a veil

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When this world is no more The moon is all we'll see I'll ask you to fly away with me Until the stars all fall down They empty from the sky But I don't mind If you're with me, then everything's alright

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QXR-13 Cocytvian - 65,652ly from Sol.

The ship has also been to the other extreme cardinal edges of the galaxy at the following locations:

Furthest from Sol / North: Oevasy SG-Y d0  Furthest South: Lyed YJ-I d9-0  Furthest East: Ood Fleau ZJ-I d9-0  Furthest West: Sphiesi HX-L d7-0

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Deep Space Security

Word came through the pipeline that the ongoing construction of Explorer’s Anchorage at the center of the galaxy had been hampered by... “repeated lapses in security.” Apparently, a Henry Class Bulk Carrier was even ambushed and disabled en-route to the site. Naturally, with such a high-profile project on the line, the powers that be wanted the best to sort it out. 

Lucky for them, we were already in the neighborhood. 

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Who are you in the dark?

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The Eavesdropper

A woman listens silently as the voices of the Federal Detectives drift through the door. They are cold, muffled, and unintelligible--in stark contrast to the whining shrieks of her boss amidst the interrogation.

"...It's--its a network of some kind--self-contained elements--as far as I can tell it pretty much runs itself, she has people that work out the details. We don't see her unless there's a problem.” 

“...I don't know where any of this goes, maybe she pockets it all--what do I care? Clearly, most of it is beyond me.”

“...How deep? Fucking deep, I haven't a goddamned clue where any of it ends! Don't you see? I can't help you, I’m no use!”

"...She said she needed time away. She's out there in the void--has been for a long time. That's all I've heard. I'm an accountant, I don't know the how's and why's of anything, just the numbers!”

“...I've already said too much, I shouldn't even be talking to you, She'll fucking put me on ice for this, I've--Just leave me alone man!"

As her boss descends into tears, the woman keys a brief encrypted message to recipients unknown. This is the sort of information for which she was to be given a generous reward.

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QXR-13 Cocytvian

30,000 lightyears from Sol.

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Happy New Year 3305!

just another day at the office

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Sirens: Fermenting Revolution 

Mezaviates 5 // Noether Bastion // Surface temperature: 20 kelvin 

The tavern was awash with corporate mercenaries grumbling about the threat of uprising in the system which had seemed to come out of nowhere in the last weeks. ‘Leftist extremists’ had up to this point already carried out several sophisticated attacks in short succession and with very few survivors. Corresponding propaganda proclaiming a new age of freedom and prosperity for the system abounded and, worryingly for them, public opinion seemed to be responding to this favorably. 

In a far corner, with her back to the wall and her pistol ready at the table, Korinne Eichwald quietly nursed a drink--her eyes steady on the patrons in front of her. Occasionally, an eye would drift upon her suspiciously. She wasn't a regular for sure, but her type came and went in old cobras like the one she had come in on all the time. As long as she was here conducting her business at a major port, and not out in the frozen wastes with those ‘bolshevik fuckheads’, she was probably nothing to worry about, they reasoned. 

They had no way of knowing the corvette drive-signature presumably responsible for destroying their convoys all week was her doing. She was just an independent trader, after all. There was no way to know she was only here now to watch the impending fireworks with sadistic pleasure.

Out in the darkness I saw an angel Held back the flood until the sky fell I see the future covered in roses Waves of gold as the door closes

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~Prototype Testing~

After months of development, unprecedented financial investment, and seventeen not unrelated murders, a new demon of another name took its first flight... 14/11/3304.

It was clear the experimental spacecraft would not be fully operational for at least a little while longer. During the day’s trials, it had demonstrated more than a few issues with thermal load management and very nearly didn’t make it back in one piece. When Eichwald landed at the new base of operations--itself still largely under construction--the previously bustling hanger was now silent and its personnel immobile. She emerged from the ship and sighed, it was just as well, everything had proceeded too smoothly up to then. She needed to get a handle on herself, she had promised to be different, and besides, the fear clearly evident in all of them was presently enough for her purposes anyway. 

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Why do people keep thinking I’m someone I’m not?

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'cause really I'm a psycho

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Black

We touched the walls of the city streets and Dead ends plain, sadly showed us our ways Of never asking why Cast down it was heaven sent and To the church, no intent to repent on my knees Just to cry Until you travel to that place you can't come back Where the last painting's gone and all that's left is black Grey nights he's coming to me and Some day they'll punish my deeds and they'll find All the crimes But then they ask when they gonna see them Then they gonna ask to feel the ghosts, the walls, the dreams We'll I've got mine At last those coming came and they never looked back With blinding stars in their eyes but all they saw was black Fooled them hoping to seem Like a slave of evil but the product of greed and It's not a mass so be honest with me We can't afford to ignore that I'm the disease Practical since we had to be and When they were old they came back to me and they tried Oh they tried And when you follow through and wind up on your back Looking up at those stars in the sky those white clouds have turned it black

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I’ve been a little busy of late.

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The Razgriz