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The ruler was skimping out on the troops he’d provide, and if you were putting your best troops on the line so was would it. You simply stated: “If you were planning on not sending your best to the fight, you should’ve changed your security detail. I want as much as you can spare of your quality troops.”
The ruler didn’t speak for a few moments and only managed to say: “Affirmative: operation, go in T -15 hours” in an audibly annoyed tone despite the garbled up voicebox.
You replied to thing: “We’ll make our preparations; give us a frequency we can communicate on and alert us when you’re ready.”
The ruler gave a closed comms channel and with that, ou gestured to Zami and left the room. You came to see your squad dawdling around like they always do on down time. Currently they seemed to be in a particularly heated match of dice with one of the guards, Logi seemingly winning by the constant ridicule he was subjecting the guard to. When their attention diverted to your presence, they hurriedly stopped the game and pulled Logi out his celebrations to a strange salute once he too noticed you, which only made you internally sigh.
You gestured them to follow and started heading back to your hovercraft. You followed the same winding streets and arrived at the gates faster than when that scav was leading the way the opposite direction. From the back you could see the guards at both sides of the door mount a circular wheel made of scrap with handlebars attached to it, and with great effort opened the gates panting and out of breath by the end.
You strolled through to your APC which had landed in the bridge. You transmitted your code to the craft and the rear hatch opened, allowing you to step inside. The squad followed and put their weapons on the rack.
You moved up to Meli and took the comms to alert the convoy of the operation at hand: “Alright people, find a clearing and prep the guns, operation is a go in 15 hours. We will be assisting the scavs in raiding the nest of a biomechanical creature called maws. They can’t do shit from range, but showcase ‘abnormal’ bursts of speed, so we’ll put them behind the scav force accompanying us and turn ‘em to ash”.
After all vehicles gave the “Yes sir!”, starting with yours the convoy moved one by one you to a clearing you had scanned earlier above the town. Once you landed you went outside with the others taking first watch and the engineers performing weapon checks on the mounts. Between the IHO sticks and some light conversation with the troops, first watch ended fast and it was your turn to rest.
You switched positions with those that were on the bunk and went to sleep. You saw no dreams. When you woke up, the attack the ruler had planned was only a hour or two away from the timeline the ruler had given to you.
