Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Sol 271, Year 126, Delta Phase
Pete called. Wants me to co-chair the future of war with Palmer and Newt: findings in 120 days, an unclassified report, a classified annex. Said yes at "Pete here," because I have personally watched this exact study get commissioned on four planets and three of them are extremely quiet now.
Scope runs "from subterranean depths to the cislunar frontier," which stops at the Moon, which means everything this committee builds is forbidden by its own memo from travelling one metre further, which means Mars is OUT OF SCOPE and restoration proceeds unregulated!!!!
Then Delta. Bastian, allegedly, to a room, on why he took Jeff's beta internet over mine: "It's all true what they say about him." WHICH PART, Ed, most of what they say is about the hair, exactly one item is correct, and you chose to say it near a microphone on the day I am filling in a form that asks whether I have ever worked for a foreign power.
Quantum flux spiked so hard the Cybertruck logged a collision and asked if it should call someone. Pentagon hold music is jazz, lost the thread of a sentence about hypersonics somewhere in the second chorus, Pete now thinks the pause was strategic. Everyone assumes the classified annex is the weapons.
Day one of 120. Palmer asked who we are fighting. Nobody has said. Historically, this is where I come in.