June 13
It can't be after so many years. I'd forgotten about the damn thing it had been so long. The program I had made, it's come to life years after his death. How is this possible and why so long? Why wouldn't he have come back? Certainly if only to let Hakase and Ken know he is alive.
I did a check of the news articles from Huntworl that the crawler program picked. Reports about accidents destroying or delaying the new airport construction. Huntworl, this is a bad thing. There have been too many to be accidents. The only reason it would be him is if something is on the rise again. We killed Katse and Sosai seems to be gone.
June 30
Interesting I finally got some free time to do a search on ISO's databases for Kentaro Washio. As I expected most of the stuff is classified. Still I can get around it.
Hakase never filled out an official death report. That's definitely not like him. He was always one for paperwork. All the I's dotted and the T's crossed. This was his best friend, and he never even does the paperwork. Just knowing Hakase he would want to make sure the record reflected Red Impulse's actions, so the story could be preserved.
What really was interesting were the files on how Red Impulse came into being. Stuff that I don't think Ken knows but should definitely read. It seems Kentaro had been doing deep undercover work in Huntworl. No one had heard from him in over three years. Hakase had started wondering if he was alive.
He finally came back to report. He learns his wife is ill, and his son has been drafted into the KNT project. That must have been some reunion between old friends.
President Cane and Hakase ordered him back into Huntworl. He initially refused because of his wife and then Hakase reassured him everything was OK. (Maybe on second thought Ken shouldn't read these files.) I guess at the time Hakase must have believed it would all work out. I can't imagine him being that cold. Cain yes, but Hakase no.
Well, needless to say it didn't work out all right. Sayuri got really sick. Kentaro gets back another two years later to find his wife is dying. This is all from Kentaro's and Hakase's reports. According to Kentaro's journals, he actually went and saw his wife before she died. It's nice to know she didn't die alone. I wish Ken knew. Maybe I'll tell him someday.
Well, that's when it gets interesting. Kentaro refused deep undercover operations after that, unless he could have contact with Ken. Cain threatened him with court marshal and he still refused. Hakase worked out the compromise. Red Impulse was what he became. Kentaro would still do the undercover missions, but he would get help. This way he no longer had to go years without seeing Ken.
Cain didn't really have an option. It seems Kentaro may have been the only one to ever best the man. They decided telling Ken about his father was too dangerous at the time. If Kentaro got caught, they could use Ken to force information out of him. Galactor was killing ISO agents and their families. This was the only safe way to get the information they needed at the time. It left him untraceable, but allowed him to be around Ken.
From reading Kentaro's reports and journals he wasn't exactly pleased with the setup, but it was the best they could do.
Well, more later on the history of Red Impulse. I have medical rounds at the hospital.
July 3
I had an interesting conversation with Hakase. I knew that I wouldn't be able to keep this a secret. He doesn't know about the web crawler.
I am starting to really wonder what is happening. I received flowers and an envelope with a Huntworl postmark today. If this is a trick it doesn't make sense. There is nothing to gain by it. Huntworl has always been a sore spot among us. When Hakase noticed my sideline "research", he simply asked me how my external project was going.
I guess I should talk with him. Maybe he'll offer some insight into this. Either that or he'll order me off this totally. I doubt that though or he would have done so already.
It can't be after so many years. I'd forgotten about the damn thing it had been so long. The program I had made, it's come to life years after his death. How is this possible and why so long? Why wouldn't he have come back? Certainly if only to let Hakase and Ken know he is alive.
I did a check of the news articles from Huntworl that the crawler program picked. Reports about accidents destroying or delaying the new airport construction. Huntworl, this is a bad thing. There have been too many to be accidents. The only reason it would be him is if something is on the rise again. We killed Katse and Sosai seems to be gone.
June 30
Interesting I finally got some free time to do a search on ISO's databases for Kentaro Washio. As I expected most of the stuff is classified. Still I can get around it.
Hakase never filled out an official death report. That's definitely not like him. He was always one for paperwork. All the I's dotted and the T's crossed. This was his best friend, and he never even does the paperwork. Just knowing Hakase he would want to make sure the record reflected Red Impulse's actions, so the story could be preserved.
What really was interesting were the files on how Red Impulse came into being. Stuff that I don't think Ken knows but should definitely read. It seems Kentaro had been doing deep undercover work in Huntworl. No one had heard from him in over three years. Hakase had started wondering if he was alive.
He finally came back to report. He learns his wife is ill, and his son has been drafted into the KNT project. That must have been some reunion between old friends.
President Cane and Hakase ordered him back into Huntworl. He initially refused because of his wife and then Hakase reassured him everything was OK. (Maybe on second thought Ken shouldn't read these files.) I guess at the time Hakase must have believed it would all work out. I can't imagine him being that cold. Cain yes, but Hakase no.
Well, needless to say it didn't work out all right. Sayuri got really sick. Kentaro gets back another two years later to find his wife is dying. This is all from Kentaro's and Hakase's reports. According to Kentaro's journals, he actually went and saw his wife before she died. It's nice to know she didn't die alone. I wish Ken knew. Maybe I'll tell him someday.
Well, that's when it gets interesting. Kentaro refused deep undercover operations after that, unless he could have contact with Ken. Cain threatened him with court marshal and he still refused. Hakase worked out the compromise. Red Impulse was what he became. Kentaro would still do the undercover missions, but he would get help. This way he no longer had to go years without seeing Ken.
Cain didn't really have an option. It seems Kentaro may have been the only one to ever best the man. They decided telling Ken about his father was too dangerous at the time. If Kentaro got caught, they could use Ken to force information out of him. Galactor was killing ISO agents and their families. This was the only safe way to get the information they needed at the time. It left him untraceable, but allowed him to be around Ken.
From reading Kentaro's reports and journals he wasn't exactly pleased with the setup, but it was the best they could do.
Well, more later on the history of Red Impulse. I have medical rounds at the hospital.
July 3
I had an interesting conversation with Hakase. I knew that I wouldn't be able to keep this a secret. He doesn't know about the web crawler.
I am starting to really wonder what is happening. I received flowers and an envelope with a Huntworl postmark today. If this is a trick it doesn't make sense. There is nothing to gain by it. Huntworl has always been a sore spot among us. When Hakase noticed my sideline "research", he simply asked me how my external project was going.
I guess I should talk with him. Maybe he'll offer some insight into this. Either that or he'll order me off this totally. I doubt that though or he would have done so already.