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"Guthrie's pretty messed up, cap'n," said the boarding-party leader. "Top of his head, and most of 'is face, shoulders, and chest got scalded black. Doc ain't sure how much he can save."
"Is Sledmeir's ship intact?"
"Aye, mostly. One escape glider's gone, but the grapples slowed it down enough that it didn't take TOO much damage from the collision."
"Mostly. I saw the cockpit. You're telling me we can salvage that?"
"Well, it seems to be isolated...
“So,” said McDermott, turning down the radio a bit. “Vampires; evil or misunderstood?”
Julian Bennet kept his eyes on the dark, winding road, but pondered the question. It was going to be a long drive – best to keep the mind occupied. “In general or by definition?”
“By definition.”
“I guess that depends on who's writing them – what sort of reason or source for them existing the author uses.”
“Don't dodge the question, Bennet.”
Bennet had known McDermott...
The 1st Ranger Enhanced Battalion (REB, nicknamed the Rebs) was the first unit in the US Military to go public with its use of the M-36 series of Individual Battle Platforms (IBP), an advanced suit of mechanical armor designed to protect the soldier while offering both maximum mobility and a platform for carrying multiple weapon systems. It is essentially an 8-foot tall robot that each Ranger operates from the inside. It was developed through cooperation between WamTek and Northeast...
