1.1: Personal Journal of Capt. Mordecai Ashton

03.32.1434 Anno Dissolutio

Not ten days after the loss of L. Cpl. Masterson, Lieutenant James Allin, commander of 4th Regiment, Charlie Company, was turned. He took 4 men with him before a Sgt. Verdugo was able to bring him down. For the time being, I've given Sgt. Verdugo a field promotion to Lieutenant.

It has since come to my attention that many in the regiment knew that Cpl. Masterson and her Lieutenant had been engaged in...extracurricular calisthenics. Looking back, I should have realized something was wrong when Lt. Allin was unable to put down Cpl. Masterson. My internal conflict is drawing too much of my attention away from the performance of my martial duties, and it occurs to me that it might be time I step down, but I fear the effect that might have on the company.

Word has come from SigInt that the Guardian's Tower has dimmed; not so much that we can see it with the naked eye, but many of our most brilliant minds have been studying the tower from afar for years, and their equipment seems to indicate that the tower is growing dark. As we never understood what the Tower was in the first place, I can't understand what importance Command has attached to this information, so I have decided to withhold this information from the company until th