2001-07-14 - 11:50 p.m.

Planetarion: Another Brawl

I was on Planetarion today, and my galaxy-mates got into another fight.

The end.

But seriously, folks!

I know that I have fallen far behind, but once again I'm bitten by that old bugaboo about trying to have aaan entry for every day. The trouble is I'm not writing every day. I'm also not posting entries in the order I wrote them.

Usually for every date in my little journal-file I assign a topic. Sometimes I write an entry for a topic on that day, and sometimes I write the topic of a previous day.

The problem is that I want to post the entries in date order, so the more recent entries have to wait until the older ones are written.

All this is probably boring as heck to all of you wondering why I am now over two weeks behind.

I assigned the topic "Planetarion: Another Brawl" to this date, but as I am actually writing about it some 17 days after the fact, my memory is a little hazy about everything that happened.

My best recollection is that it involved an embarrassing little snafu among my galaxy mates. It was discovered that in a big alliance battle there were people from our galaxy on both sides. Whoopsie!

The people on the attacking side were very angry because at first it looked like the people on the defending side (my allies and me) were defending against them on purpose, but this wasn;t the case. I was assigned to defend a target and when I scanned the person I had just launched my defense fleet at I saw to my horror that I was defending against my own galaxy mates.

Note to self: scan BEFORE you launch, not after. Scanning after is like looking both ways after you've finished crossing the street. There's nothing wrong with doing that, until you get run over by a bus,

When I told my galaxy-mates I was defending against their attack, they were plenty pissed off. It took me a really long time to convince them it was just an unhappy coincidence. We have a little log on out galactic boards where people post their attacks and defenses, and the attackers posted about a minute after I launched. Another unhappy coincidence.

Another row followed. I don't really remember what was said, and perhaps that's just as well. It all comes down to the fact that thanks to the wars between our alliances we now find ourselves on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence.

It's really a mystery to me how badly things have degenerated in what used to be a pretty happy galaxy. I know that in some way I'm partly responsible, but also the blame isn't all mine. I think in some way, Planetarion is helping me get in touch with an angry child that is living inside me, and now I'm watching that angry child get into fights with all the OTHER angry children that are wandering around this godforsaken little corner of space. I hope this is doing me some good psychically, because it is not helping my karma any.

They say in space nobody can hear you scream. I really wish that was true.