Things were a lot simpler when I used to have my income delivered to me on a silver platter every quarter.  Still, it was the right thing to do.  The lie I lived needed to be exposed.  The wrongs made right and the faces of affected more visible to someone like me.

Speaking of those with struggles…it’s been a while since I made a stop at terminal city.  I think I should drop by later today.

I had a deep blue one in my old apartment and it got me through many all-nighters.  With the way things have been going lately, I really could use the comfort of my old faithful little espresso machine.

The X5 Series was the first successful prototypes of a project to create perfect physical, mental, and psychological commandos, which could be utilized for a wide variety of Special Operations assignments and missions.

Bred, trained and raised by Manticore, a sinister top-secret military institution controlled by a shadowy government “Committee”, all X5’s are human/animal-transgenic-hybrids, or Chimeras.

They were genetically-engineered at Manticore’s highly advanced genetics labs by splicing together genetic samples taken from numerous superb human specimens with a sample of feline DNA, most probably taken from a member of the Leopard or Tiger family. After the bio-engineering and in-vitro work was performed the X5 embryos were implanted into surrogate mothers, a group of young women who carried the supersoldiers to term in exchange for a considerable sum of money provided by Manticore.

After birth the X5s were immediately taken from their mothers and placed into the care of Manticore handlers. As the X5s matured and grew, they endured rigorous and brutal physical, mental, and psychological training intended to supplement their superior abilities with advanced special forces training.

Supervised by Colonel Lydecker, the techniques used were exceptionally harsh and were intended to mold them into obedient, efficient, amoral killing-machines who would happily perform even the most dangerous or morally questionable assignments without question or argument. As they were kept separated from the outside world and knew only their strict, military surroundings, this training was mostly successful, until Eva(X5-766) defied orders and was shot and killed by Lydecker in 2009.

After this incident twelve of the X5 Units, including Max(X5-452), rebelled against their handlers and escaped from Manticore’s Gillette, Wyoming facility. Led by Zack(X5-599), the twelve ten-year old X5s managed to reach the facility’s perimeter fence, using teamwork and the skills they learned from their special training to avoid and evade the teams of Manticore soldiers searching the surrounding forest for them.

After successfully evading recapture and escaping into the world, the twelve escapees would attempt to blend in with the ordinary civilian populace and live normal lives, while simultaneously living on the run, constantly having to avoid the authorities and their military creators.

There’s a lot more users that might be showing up here since Manticore went down.  We’ll probably end up sharing the InformantNet with transhumans, transgenics and ordinaries alike.

I’d better get back to work.

Since White and his gang trashed my place it’s been difficult getting everything going again.  Many relationships have been lost with some of my most valuable informants.  The cost of being unreachable for these many, many months.

I know they’re still out there though.  And I’ll find them.

A lot has happened.  Max and I — well — things are still complicated.  let’s leave it at that.

Right now I’ve got to focus on getting this site up and running again on my server.  And this damn theme is giving me hassles.  Can’t seem to get the featured images to show in the slider.  Seems that during my hiatus I’ve also lost a lot of my skill behind the keyboard.  I’m rusty, plain and simple. I’ll figure it out.

To everyone that find their way here…home, welcome back.  You’ve stayed strong in the struggle a long time, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.

Peace. Out.