From: William Edgar Kroe
To: Elan Edgar Kroe
About: What I did
One day, they'll tell you about your father.
I'm sorry.
I love you.
Okay everyone, I'm at Kroe's lab now. It's in a safe place, so don't worry. Kroe and I are working on the Engine right now, and we're working constantly in order to get it to work. We've got some more or less lucid subjects from the Project here to help us too. They're looking tirelessly for Alkain, trying to find him before he ends up doing something terrible.
I got to talk to one of them. His name was… Lance I think. From the second I met him, I got this odd vibe from him. I felt like I wasn't looking at a young adult in his twenties, who at this point would have his whole life ahead of him, but more the appearance of a war veteran, who really didn't even want to live at this point.
PTSD-suffering and trying his best to atone for his actions that he ended up doing while he was a test subject for Kroe's research. I'm wondering about it myself, why would he want to help the one who is essentially the root to all his suffering?
He told me about one time, one time where he had met Alkain back in the Satellite, a few months before the incident. He said they were talking about nothing really, but then Alkain asked him a question that sparked something in Lance he said; 'When do you think we'll go home?'
Lance told me he answered something like:
'Home? We can't go home. People like us have to cross a line. And when we cross it, there's no going home. No, all we can really hope for, is peace.'
The moment he said that, I realized why Lance was here. He thought; no, he knew that all this was going to end badly. He's here to try and do as much good as he possibly can before everything goes to shit. And when that comes… I don't think Lance will hesitate in ending his own misery.
There's a certain amount of inspiration I'm filled with when I see these kids. They've been tortured at the hands of Kroe, and yet they chose to forgive him. They saw how much Kroe regretted his research, and they understood his pain. And so they came to help, to try and stop Alkain before he ends up killing people.
But those are only a small number. Most of the previous subjects are now running wild in the city, and who knows what might set them off. Perhaps they've headed to the Arcadia Movement, in the hopes that they can find a place there. I pity those misguided kids, from what I've managed to pilfer, the Movement is anything but a safe haven for psychics, and more a small self-contained dictatorship, preparing itself for war.
And though their doomsday weapon Jay Alkain failed, and is now running loose, Sayer's still got insane funding for the Movement through his high position in Chessary. Houston's death didn't slow his plans down one bit. They just altered them slightly.
But we've got the few psychics out there and looking for Alkain and trying to recapture any other previous Project Akron subjects before they end up hurting others or themselves, but so far, we've found no one, and Alkain is still on the loose.
Stay inside and stock up everyone, because what's coming isn't gonna be nice. Keep off the street, and be sure to report any suspicious activity to Sector Security. At the very least, it'll give our guys a much easier time to find those who are out there, and hopefully stop them.
Wish us the best of luck, everyone. Hopefully we can stop this before it gets too bad.