apr 30, 2025 - Dutch's eighth tape recording.

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It’s hard to believe that I’m still here recording this. I probably shouldn’t be smoking in the med-bay, but fuck it, it’s my birthday for Christ’s sakes. I turned 78 today, but I’m out there hunting. I should be retired. I should be doing anything but this. My life shouldn’t be possible, but the very thing that I hunt, that hunts me, is what’s keeping me alive. As we began to understand the Predator’s technology, we started to use it. A fight with a Predator female went bad and I was critically wounded. Dying. I agreed to experimentation.

Using their medical technology was painful at first, but it worked. It worked so well that the cells in my body stopped aging. Pushing eighty now. I’m fighting like a man in his 40’s. It’s not the only experiment that I’ve been a part of. I’m deadlier now than I was in Val Verde. The OWLF has been fully reinstated. It’s grown larger than ever before. We saved Sean Keyes from Stargazer. His father was Peter Keyes… I suppose you could say that he was a very dear acquaintance. His son is a gifted scientist. I worry about the future.

The Earth is seeing an unprecedented rise in heat and war. As the climate changes and the temperatures go up, more and more countries are becoming hunting grounds. We’ve killed so many of their kind, but they only send more. The number of events that we’ve witnessed has increased three fold in ten years. We’ve made an impression on them, but not like we’d hoped. We wanted to show them that we weren’t prey, to deter them from ever sending another hunter to our world. We sent a warning, but they took it as a challenge. I fear we’ve made things worse. If the Predators ever decide we’ve grown too bold. I have no doubt that they could burn the earth and all of humanity with it. My only hope is that while they waste time on sport, we can rise up together and stand against them as a species. Until then, we keep moving, we keep hunting, and we keep our eyes open.

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