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Letanga felt the inertial dampeners kick slightly as
the petals of his retard gear opened. The pod spun crazily before the gears
engaged and it stopped.
"I hate that part," he muttered as the pod
drifted.
"Straighten up and fly right!" a familiar
voice growled. He noted two pods drifting near each other. They were about 100
meters apart but Jethro was right to call them out. "Maintain separation
protocols," Jethro growled, making the Neo Leopard check his own air space
around him.
The closest pod was Ox, he was slightly behind and
above the sniper though, about 300 meters out so they were all good. It still
paid to keep an eye peeled though. A bit of turbulent air from a passing pod
could ruin two Cadre member's day entirely too easily.
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Rachel Miller saw the streaks in the sky and gasped.
She and her friends were out hiking the Echelon trail since it was such a
beautiful clear night. You really had to go out, away from the town and away
from the light pollution to really enjoy things these days. Even the sky had it
though, with the stations and ships all over the sky.
Still, some places had better views than others.
"Did a station explode?" Apu demanded.
"I don't know. I think we need to call it
in," she said, getting her cell phone out and making a call.
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Rachel was surprised when there was a flash of light
and then the plain over 10 kilometers away exploded in fountains of debris.
She yelped and then started to get hysterical on the
phone with the sheriff's office, insisting that something had crashed. Other
hikers got their phones out and began to record the event and or call the media
or family.
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Ensign Feathersnake grinned as the simulated KEW
strike was complete. Right on target, pretty close to the bull's eye. He'd have
to see the recordings to be sure. If they got it right it meant they'd done a
better job than Ensign Kapish had, which would give him the bragging rights. Not
bad he thought with an unseen grin.
He wasn't thrilled with the ten percent casualties
from the simulated SAMS though. It was going to play merry hell with his
planning, opening up dangerous holes in his ranks. He decided to take everyone
in hand and started to kick out drones and gather sensor data with his A.I.
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"What the hell?" Sheriff Uday demanded as
calls began to come in. Some were saying a station had blown up, another was
insisting it was some sort of invasion that the military had missed.
She looked out the window from her office near the
center of town and saw a faint glow on the horizon. "Okay, so, whatever
they are seeing it's real," she said as her deputies around her rose to
their feet to look as well. "We best be dealing with it," she said as
she turned and began to issue orders.
One of the first things was to call the government in
for backup. Whatever was going on they were going to need planetary LEO help
soon enough, especially when the media got wind of it and turned the town into
a 3 ring circus.
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