excerpt from recovered journal
They must have been smuggling in weapons for months. Weapons and people. I still don’t know how they did it.
Hmm. Maybe they gave one of the security chiefs money. Humans lose their minds when they get enough money.
[pause] I hope that’s not what happened. Even the thought makes me mad. My life is about protecting people. I don’t get paid – it’s what I’m for. It’s my job to die in the place of someone else.
But if you pay a human to do it, they’ll let people get killed if someone else gives them more money?
[extended pause]
So, Dubai wasn’t safe anymore. I knew if I didn’t get her off the colony fast, we’d be trapped in a warzone. I knew we’d have to fight our way through the separatists to get to the pad.
I just didn’t expect…
I didn’t know I’d end up here.
{analysis confirmed. voice match: Goliath 231}