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GUARDIAN CALLSIGN: ******
PASSWORD: **********
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OPENING JOURNAL PROGRAM.
Was easier this time.
If you just followed my instructions it would have been done ten minutes ago.
Yeah yeah.
Now let's see it been what, three days?
Four days.
Ah four days since my last entry, and things are going.
Ok I guess.
The instructors are fine, most are laid back outside of class, but once class begins they get serious in a hurry.
The first day was mostly history, what had happened to humanity since finding the traveler.
The rise of the golden age, the collapse, and current events.
Honestly it was only slightly above boring.
I know that history is important and everything but I can tell I'm not going to need to know about the cultures of the golden age.
Except for one portion I found very interesting.
We covered the fallout of the U.R.A.
That stands for the United Republics of America.
Just a few years before the traveler was discovered the former USA had its third civil war.
What the war was about no one seems to know, but the end result was the creation of six different republics.
The Alsk-Canada republic, the New England republic, the Californian republic, the Mexican republic, the Great Plains republic, and the Texan republic.
Ten years after the traveler discovery, the republics decided to band together to form the URA.
Each republic kept its independence, but the leaders would rule on a council when deciding on issues that affected all republics.
During the collapse, the URA was primarily attacked by the hive.
Uh
The hive look like the undead mixed with insects if you ask me.
Beside the point, the republics fought hard against them but guardians were still rare then, so one by one the republics fell.
Finally only one was left, the Texan republic. Just as it was about to fall, it decided that the hive could not be allowed to hold the areas of the republics and chose to ensure the hive were dealt a furious blow.
They detonated over 100 ancient nuclear warheads at strategic points, wiping out the hive presence in the western hemisphere.
That is why that area is now called the fallout alley.
Why I was so interested in this part is that that was where the ghost found me, in the old Texan republic capital city.
Of course the area isn't radioactive anymore thankfully, or I may not have made it out before dying all over again.
That would have been a fun way to go.
Well after that we moved on to weapons.
We got to try all the different primary and secondary types of weapons.
Me, I liked the scout rifles, hand cannons and shotguns.
Plenty of stopping power at all distances.
The instructors said that we won't be trained on heavy weapons till we actually find one.
Oh!
Yesterday we found out what particular type of guardian we are.
There were a row of chambers over in tower north.
I think there where 7 of them total.
Each of us were told to go inside one and wait for instructions.
I was part of group three to go, along with the punk I punched off the ledge.
Once inside the door closed leaving me in complete darkness.
Someone on a speaker told me to take 2 steps forward then turn around.
I followed the instructions but now I wasn't sure in what direction I was facing.
Then I was told to close my eyes and picture a light source.
Anything at all
A candle,
A torch.
Even a match.
Just whatever felt right.
Once pictured to make it as large as possible and hold that image as long as I could.
I'm still not sure what that does or unlocks, but I did it.
It was difficult to picture a source that felt right to me, I tried the candle, a torch, a flashlight, a lightbulb.
Not seemed.
Right.
Till finally I got it, what felt right was
A star.
Like the sun only this one was blue, and mixed in with the fire was power, electricity.
It started out small, and getting it bigger was really a struggle.
I'm not sure how making something imaginary bigger is so tiring, but it was.
I held it for what seemed like hours.
They never did tell us how long we were in there for.
Finally I couldn't hold the image anymore and let it fade and return to the darkness.
After a little bit that speaker turned back on.
It said," congratulations guardians, you are a titan of the striker class. Your file has been updated."
After that the door opened and I was sent back to my quarters for the day.
I am a titan.
Not sure how I feel about that, but it seems right somehow.
I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
FILE SAVED.
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