Trinity - Fiction - Lieutenant's Log: Luther Zöller

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IN RETROSPECT...

This was a 'fun' form of fiction that I wrote, simply to introduce the Firebat character of the campaign and I believe it was inspired by a Red Dwarf book in being a log.

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Luther Zöller is a Lieutenant at Beta Outpost on the Dominion’s ice world of Polaris, and is ever vigilant for some sizeable action to come his way...

Entry number: 88
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Diary entry: Three months. Three long damn months I’ve been on this ball of ice and still not much action at all, other than occasionally having to flame my own butt due to frost bite. My work here at Beta outpost involves monitoring a screen doing nothing all day and regulating troop discipline from time to time. Well, Jones wants to lead a small recon mission. His report has got some reasoning to it, as the Devils Crag area hasn’t been explored much, but I know he just wants to get out there and just do something. I’ll be relative, rather than be an absolute strict idiot like some officers I’ve known, and just let him get on with it.

Entry number: 89
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: Jone’s squadron left this morning. Just several vultures, some with two men apiece. He said they should be back within a week. Seems to be a while, but I suppose he’s doing things the long way to take up time. Oh, and I’ve come up with my latest theory: I think that the reason men like me are at places like this is a sort of prison sentence. I’m still unsure if that officer reported that illegal stimpack usage of mine a few months ago, but I reckon that the Dominion is doing this as a sort of punishment. Well, under the cover of the Emperor’s ‘New Worlds’ programme maybe. Then again, colonising new worlds for his empire is possibly a good idea...pah.

Entry number: 90
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: Nothing to report.

Entry number: 91
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: Nothing to report. Played Brigsy at WarCraft IXXX again and lost. Damn Orcs. There’s a blizzard that started today out there, which scared that new kid Roper. He’s fresh from Korhal so I’m not surprised. It doesn’t look like we’ll be able to communicate with Jones detachment whilst this thing is on. Communications is everything I know, good thing were not in the middle of a war…I wish we could get some of that advanced radio equipment.

Entry number: 92
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: Nothing to report.

Entry number: 93
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: Nothing to report.

Entry number: 94
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: Discovered entrance into a parallel universe in the Barracks toilets, teamed up with a sexy female agent called Caprice and destroyed the evil tyrant Golobulus, saving the universe from his malevolent galaxy cannon. Returned in time to play Poker with Brigsy and Roper.

Entry number: 95
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: Waited all day and there’s no sign of Jones’s squad. The raging snow storm is still going strong, so our communications are still hampered.

Entry number: 96
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: Had to discipline Reggie today, as he took up a bet with Carl to see if he could dive off the top of the Barracks, imitating some wrestling move I think. His armour protected him, but I had to give him a lecture and the usual procedure. You have to do it as an officer so I’ve got to live with it.

Entry number: 97
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: STILL no sign of Jones squad. Getting a little worried. He’s done this sort of thing before, but not without a joke transmission involving several crap Zerg impressions involving gargling. Morale at the base is fairly low. Hasn’t been this bad since Arnold accidently taped three episodes of World Championship Risk over the top of Beyond the Valley of the Cheerleaders XXVII: This Time It’s Personal. And that’s really saying something.

Entry number: 98
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: Biggs continued his abysmal poetry:
When it’s done in Zero-G
Sex is fun for you and me,
But what can be a tragedy
Is visiting the lavatory
I don’t know which is going to drive me insane first- his poetry, or his pathetic attempts at chatting up the few medics we’ve got here. Sheesh.

Entry number: 100
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: Jones squad is till missing. I radioed Alpha outpost, but they didn’t answer. There’s a possibility a snowstorm is hampering their equipment, as ours are fine, and I don’t think there’s a storm near here. Briggs reported seeing a trio of dropships heading over the horizon in the general direction of Alpha outpost. If he wasn’t hallucinating off another XXX stimpack, this is strange news- as no flight confirmations have been planned whatsoever. There’s no smugglers here, at least not miles away from the capital Valhalla, so I don’t know what to think. Bah, it’s probably nothing.

Entry number: 101
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: There was an incoming invasion force on our scanners. There was brief hysteria and panic for five minutes when a cleaning droid did its daily clean up and revealed the truth- it turned out that this ‘invasion force’ was actually off when Reggie sneezed on the radar screen earlier in the morning and forgot to wipe it. Story pretty much summarises this base.

Entry number: 99
User name: Lieutenant Zöller, Luther
Log entry: An email tells me a new base officer is arriving soon- he’s to oversee the completion of Beta outpost and deliver the resources we need to construct a starport, which will pretty much make our base complete with the necessary utilities. Don’t know how, upon his arrival, I’m going to explain one of my sergeants is missing and that the entire base was on scared by a corporal’s congealed phlegm yesterday. Great.

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