6.1
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The PCA had been a little busy recently.
Well. The PCA had been busy ever since Grid 339. The bombardment of the Grid had been noticed by everyone on the planet after all, and Belius Staging Point going up in flames at about the same time had also been s...
2025-01-13 14:29:58 +0000 UTC View Post6.0
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October 10, 30 years post Fires of IBIS.
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Flatwell and I had been working together for the better part of six years, now. Strange to think of how quickly that time had passed, to be honest. Perhaps it was because I was always bu...
2025-01-09 09:57:41 +0000 UTC View Post5.10
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“You stole a C-Weapon.”
“I stole a C-Weapon~” I laughed. “Goodness I had a lot of fun today. I mean really, It started like any other, but then I got to just keep kicking the PCA right where it hurts, and right when ...
2025-01-07 05:00:57 +0000 UTC View Post5.9
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The reactivation of the Grid made the PCA legion halt in its tracks. The thousands of machines that had been so relentless in their assault, so dedicated to their attack, very suddenly stopped.
It was only for a moment, of course. The instant th...
2025-01-02 22:32:26 +0000 UTC View Post5.8
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Across the continent of Belius, and far in orbit on top of that, the PCA began to move.
Everybody noticed it. Such a wide scale of activity was impossible to conceal; the sheer amount of material that started shifting, the total mass of the...
2025-01-01 12:57:39 +0000 UTC View Post5.7
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The LCs reacted the only way one should react when a machine as large as a Heavy MT flings itself at something.
They scattered, thrusters igniting as they all went in completely different directions. Left, right, backwards, upwards- any dir...
2024-12-30 12:33:38 +0000 UTC View Post5.6
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With the surprise attack out of the way and the PCA briefly not in a position to retaliate, I had the Heavy MT pull back further into the maintenance passage. It was a simple and easy decision; the passage was absolutely tiny and anything which came through wo...
2024-12-26 14:17:10 +0000 UTC View Post5.5
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By the time the next squad arrived, the first had been completely wiped out.
That was not a condemnation of their skills or anything, just a simple matter of logistics. I had more and better than they did, and no matter their attempts to jam themselves i...
2024-12-24 13:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post5.4
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I saw the PCA coming well before they actually arrived. It wasn’t difficult; they certainly didn’t bother to hide.
No, they flew clear through the skies, above the Outer Shell of the Grids, where anybody else on the planet would have been promptly sh...
2024-12-20 11:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post5.3
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“I need a distraction for the PCA.”
“That is one hell of a way to start a conversation, Flatwell.” And yet, it was so very intriguing an idea. “Before I say yes, how big of a distraction are we talking about and why?....
2024-12-18 15:05:15 +0000 UTC View Post5.2
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I did not expect to find wherever ALLMIND was hiding any time soon. Belius was a pretty damned big place, after all, and my own experience told me that there were a lot of places that one could hide.
Was she in the Grids? Potentially. There...
2024-12-16 10:34:39 +0000 UTC View Post5.1
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April 19, 30 years post Fires of IBIS.
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ALLMIND, as much as I really didn’t want to say it, was turning out to be pretty damned good at her job.
The conflicts of Rubicon were growing... routine. What had been a ...
2024-12-12 08:26:45 +0000 UTC View Post5.0
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March 28, 29 years post Fires of IBIS.
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It was amazing how quickly the unusual could fade into the regular, how things that were strange became things that were completely normal.
I watched idly as my Firekeepers enga...