Lens of History (8?)

STEC Archives, Digital Document Division
June 14th, 1989

Correspondence no. 4591
Sender: Saint Louis, Shipgirl
Recipient: New Jersey, Shipgirl

Jer. Not sure what to make of this – have you ever seen in cases where fairies attempt to fortify their surroundings?

Correspondence no. 4689
Sender: New Jersey, Shipgirl
Recipient: Saint Louis, Shipgirl

Fortify? What do you mean?

Correspondence no. 4700
Sender: Saint Louis, Shipgirl
Recipient: New Jersey, Shipgirl

Well, I’ve been watching them for an hour. Looks like they’re trying to dig trenches?

Correspondence no. 4702
Sender: New Jersey, Shipgirl
Recipient: Saint Louis, Shipgirl

They?

Correspondence no. 4779
Sender: Saint Louis, Shipgirl
Recipient: New Jersey, Shipgirl

Yeah. “They.” I actually don’t know what they’re supposed to be – the uniform sorta looks like UMSC but they aren’t matching anything in the book. I just know they’re mine from the shoulder patch.

If it helps, other fairies don’t seem to be talking to them either. So I’m gonna guess they’ve got nothing to do with my seaborn equipment. Maybe they’re strays?

Correspondence no. 4800
Sender: New Jersey, Shipgirl
Recipient: Saint Louis, Shipgirl

Maybe. Strays are usually fairly easily identified, though, and they’ll join up a department eventually. In any case, I don’t think fortification of immediate surroundings is necessarily unusual behavior – Nevada’s fairies do that all the time.

By the way, did you check with her? They might be Army fairies come to think of it.

Correspondence no. 5500
Sender: Saint Louis, Shipgirl
Recipient: New Jersey, Shipgirl

Okay, thanks. Sorry this got to you a bit late. Nevada came by the site and checked with me. No, they aren’t army. They’re way too heavily armed to match any historical army equipment loadouts. Each of these little guys are armed to the teeth and have at least a dozen or so grenades strapped all over. They’ve got these pretty big knives too – I saw a couple work with the twigs we deposited earlier.

During my lunch break they seemed to have either gotten into a few scraps with the raw materials pile or something – all of them look like they’ve just crawled out of a jungle ambush with patchy uniforms, twigs in their hair, and mud smeared all over their faces.

They’re still digging trenches, but by now I think I kinda see what they’re making. It looks like a defensive dugout and they see to have found a gun of some sort which we’re working on IDing. I gotta say it’s kind of neat. There’s like, netting over it and everything.

Correspondence no. 5611
Sender: New Jersey, Shipgirl
Recipient: Saint Louis, Shipgirl

Okay. Thanks. That’s always encouraging if they make their own gear. Mike’s been worried about non-shipgirl, non-conventional defensive capabilities of Avalon. So if you can keep a closer eye on them and see if this is just a flight of fancy or if they’re, I don’t know, maybe USMC engineering corpsmen fairies or something.

Oh. Let me know if the structures they build is transient or permanent. There’s talk about stockpiling pre-constructed bunkers of the sort you’ve seen on some of the other girls in case of Abyssal incursion.

Correspondence no. 5864
Sender: Saint Louis, Shipgirl
Recipient: New Jersey, Shipgirl

Well, the little guys saluted me and gestured for me to make an inspection. I told them that I’m too big to come inside and they looked very disappointed. I *think* the dugouts are just … tiny fairy-sized dugouts though. Nothing special or applicable here for what Mike would want. I did tell them what you said, though, and the little guys nodded. I think they understood.

So, I guess we’ll see tomorrow, huh?


STEC Archives, Digital Document Division
June 15th, 1989

Correspondence no. 49
Sender: Saint Louis, Shipgirl
Recipient: New Jersey, Shipgirl

Jer. You need to come look at this when you get a chance.

One of my comms fairies woke me up early. Judging from the excited jabber I thought something might be up. I reach the site and guess what I found? Thousands of tiny sandbags stacked up on the beach. The “leader” of the group had a huge cigar in his mouth (where do they even find this stuff?) when I approached. He gave a satisfied puff and offered me a light when he saw me.

Anyways. I’ve sent a batch of the sandbags off for testing. If that stuff works like how I think it might, then we’ve got a real opportunity on our hands.