The Forever War, Chapter One part iii
"back to my platoon, the 117th mechanised 1st platoon" he said over his shoulder. "isn't that platoon command?" she asked. "yes" "why are you going there?" he never replied to her.
The Gates of Hell I- Reunion
The men and women of 3rd platoon, d company, 1st battalion, 405th mechanised brigade felt ready for anything. the ground shook for another reason too.
A New Job - Part 3
The template engineer was called Teresa and she was a very friendly and welcoming squirrel. Buck teeth, heavy tank like tail and very strange forearms, they were long clear cylinders full of strange coils of metal and plastic. They made it hard to...
A New Job - Part 2
That's how Stardust found himself two hours later in a small, neat waiting room on the fourth floor of the recruitment centre dressed in a blue hospital gown. It was one of those embarrassing ones that they made you wear before surgery. Tied around the...
The dog and the cuttlefish
You cannot comprehend us, you cannot find a link in pure, mechanised logic, that long predates machines and logic. your thralls are mine, insects to smash, corpses to perfect.
A New Job - Part 1
Waving goodbye to his friends Stardust ducked into his transport capsule and settled down into the threadbare cushions and laboriously typed in the instructions to take him home. The capsule lifted a couple of feet off the ground, motivators humming...
Tigger Tank & A Horn Handled Gun (prequal)
This time it was a methodical mechanised army that appeared to be in no hurry. if it had any doubt in its ability it wasn't showing it in the devastation it created.
Comfort Zone: Ch.5
Being a small town with a small population allowed him to do this in comparison to big city shops where a book signing was more like a mechanised assembly line.
Leviathan 06: The Small Things
It's a small room, and the mechanised jackal that dragged him in has already left them alone, apparently deciding that this small, anxious young man is no great threat.
The Forever War, Chapter Three
Honoured volunteer, captain, 117th airborne mechanised demanding first platoon same regiment. over!" "juliet, pass me the vox" he asked. she picked up the heavy radio and handed it over to him. he picked up the phone from the caster.
Retreat from Bastogne
Vandal snapped off rounds into the vanguard mechanised infantry, the bison setting up to unleash a few dozen rounds to keep the clunkers suppressed, relocating every time to keep from being targeted and swarmed.
SATAM: Internal Conflict - Chapter One
Sally brought them to a halt in front of a control panel for a side entrance; while she punched in the first of several lengthy codes she'd memorised bunnie and tails kept careful watch, ears perked and eyes scanning for the slightest hint of mechanised trouble