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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:34 pm
"We're not enlisted. We're born. Enlisted men get paid, get retirement benifits, can leave the service; us? we're made to fight. thats it. no pay, no benifits, and no life outside the service. whe're here till we die in battle or in about another 15 years due to the side effects of Rapid aging." Copy said. "Enlisted men can quit. we can't we go rogue, they hunt us down and kill us. Thats the way the Army works."
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:37 pm
"Hey,atleast it rules out the chance of being killed in a firey blaze of death."He spoke to Omikron."Okay then what do you mean by 'elagence'?Perhaps oh I dunno...rigging a power lift to drop us to our doom?"Now he was interested.If he could he would squeeze all the information out of Theta or as much as possible that would satisfy him for the rest of the way.
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:44 pm
Zeta sighed slightly. "If you want to go in depth, the analogy is incorrect, I just meant we were basically involuntarily chosen to fight."
He trudged on, more pensive now. He worried about Psi at this point, so he tapped him on the shoulder. "How have your guns been working? And your armor? Still satisfactory?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:48 pm
"And people wonder why I smoke." Copy muttered as he trudged ahead. the Trail started going up hill. Copy kept his repeating pistol up, eyes awaiting the possibility an enemy could try to use the height of the trail in front of them to their advantage.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:03 am
Chi, who counted herself as a scout, trudged with him. "Something wrong, sir?" She turned to him, her armor's outline varely visible against the snow. "You don't like the cold much, do you? ANd why do you suspect command is being so..vague?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:18 am
"Don't worry about it trooper. No I don't like snow, but theres worse places we could be. As for our commands, you let me worry about that." He nodded to the trooper as he continued walking. "Hows the leg holding up?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:20 am
"Oh," she brightened noticably, "it's fine. I should thank you...if not for you, it'd be more than my leg I had problems with..." She laughed a little, "And this leg is stronger and more resilient than my last one... of course, now I'm talking about it like it's some accessory to change every month..."
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:26 am
Copy nodded and motioned up the ridge. "Good. then use it and your other leg and hike up to the top of that ridge. keep low and tell me what you see."
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:47 am
She nodded. "Yessir, Cap'n."
She rushed up the hill, camouflaged form shimmering with subtle static and swaying with her movements. She reached the top with some difficulty, as the demolitions gear and cold-weather equipment weighed her down, but still swiftly. She gazed over the ridge, her vision assisted by macrobinoculars built into her helmet. She spotted a few droids, glinting blue against the reflective snow. Out farther away, a much greater congregation of them guarded an icy lake that led into a harbor, which held a couple large, shadowy forms.
She recorded what she saw and rushed back down the hill, reporting to Cap'n. "Almost totally open from here to a kind of harbor a good 12 clicks away. Sparse super battle droids on the way, with a great number of droids concentrated in and around the harbor. I speculate that they have some tanks there as well." She shook her head. "We can't do this alone, Captain..."
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:01 am
((ND, a blast cannon isn't that big. Theta uses a blast cannon. Although, you could say its a repeater cannon or something...))
"I hadn't thought of that one, Psi. But I probably wouldn't do that either. Too much room for error. As for elegance, I mean a quick, clean death. Something that doesn't involve screaming, shouting, yelling, bleeding, blowing, or otherwise leaving a visible trace of what the hell happened. As for examples, you're not getting any out of me. It won't help, and most of all, I make up new ones as the situation changesm" Theta replied to Psi.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:20 am
"Ooooh.I'm thanking any genetic defects that I have a completely different mind then you Theta."He shook his head and turned to Zeta."Yeah,I made more then a few adjustments and changes to it onboard the ship.Though changing the armor wasn't entirley part of the plan.It ended up working it's way in when I kind melted some of the upper arm.So I had to find somthing to make it mostly fireproof and almost completely un-meltable.So I ended up working on the armor when I had a new one made,while still following the appearance of my old one.So I dont have too much to worry about if the fire comes back to me.And I'm starting to investigate the boots again,well,was until this came along.And my rifle,well I added a few things in place of standard and my previous adjustments.Though I couldn't get anything too fantastical if I'm just a foot soldier.So I made do with military equipment and parts snatched from droids and fallen clones on Raxus Prime."
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:44 pm
Zeta smiled behind the helmet protecting his face from the stinging winds. "Very resourceful. How have your capabilities improved then? Besides making yourself more fireproof...?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:58 pm
"I've added more into this glove here.And played aorund with the nozzle.Such as an adrenal stim injector for quick sprints.I played around with areas around the joints to lessen the likley-ness I might sprain somthing.Improved sights and targeting with my rifle.Played around even more with the pistol.So if I get in a rut I have an effective weapon.It wont overheat as much as the default ones.And some other smaller things."He said prodly.Sure a mechanic or technitian could do better,but the fact he did it amde him proud all the same.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:00 pm
Zeta patted him on his well-armored back. "Glad to see you're going at it with enthusiasm... your armor is your life, after all..." He knocked on the armor tentatively, "And I'd say you've got pretty good defense there..."
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:28 pm
"Thanks."He chuckled and shouldered his rifle,one arm under the pancho."Sheesh,those bots are lucky.They dont freeze like we do.Of course,they break like twigs if you hit them right."He shivered.Even with the cold weather gear and armor he was still freezing his a** off.Sure it improved on running around in not but a jumpsuit but it was still cold.
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