Only Dejonne and Port Vail currently made their list of worthwhile planets.īefore our arrival, no-one had spent the time and resources necessary to even conduct a system survey to update the planets navigational data since sometime during the Third Succession War. Of the nine inhabited planets only two of them meet the minimum criteria set by ComStar’s Office of Safe Transit and Astrogation for being self-sustaining techno-industrial worlds. The all of the planets we’d added were for the most part dependencies, at least for now. Currently that was making the Rift Confederacy worse off than before. We’d expanded the Rift Confederacy down to what had once been the border between Finmark and Timbuktu Provinces. Mustn’t let the fear show, I’ve fought in several major battlemech engagements, “Hangman Kindred” must not be unmanned from riding in a piece of steam-punk technology! Lisa would never let me live it down but I’m glad the kids are all safe and sound back at Castle Vail. It’s the local statistical equivalent of being in an airliner crash, but I still want to cringe after hitting every pot hole…I was so right about those tanks damaging the streets. While I know this is a lovingly-maintained vehicle and such failures are very rare they do still happen. It would probably have been seen as an insult to the local crafts guilds as well. It would have been disrespectful to have refused the Marquess kind offer of the use of one of his luxury steam-mobiles. Why did I have to choose to do a research paper on the Sultana disaster while in college? New year’s is supposed to be a time of reflection after all and it helps distract me from wondering whether or not the steam engine powering this so-called car will blow up during the trip. I know they are all proud of their new equipment but those heavy treads can’t be doing the streets any good.Īfter the parade I spent most of the trip back to the Palace of Marquess Karl von Austerlitz reminiscing over the events over the last few years. Perhaps I should have asked Colonel Scoffins not to have his tank crews drive their vehicles in the parade. It seems every year I resemble a dictator a bit more. As Yakov Smirnoff said "I like parades without missiles in them”. I find it unsettling because it reminds me too much of old news footage of the Soviet Union or Red China. The Austerlitz PDF’s tank battalion moved past the reviewing stand of the New Year’s Day parade. Louis Jordan, There Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens, 1947 It takes a lot of settin', gettin' chicks to hatchĪnd hobble, hobble hobble off and hit the hay We got ground to dig and worms to scratch
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