Lucinia Malveaux wrote:Lucinia made quietly interested noises for the first couple of items, but the mention of mysterious ruins got a quiet laugh. "Oh, my dear." She said, still laughing softly. "You really do know what to say to me, don't you? You had me at mysterious ruins, but powers beyond mortal ken is really going for extra credit."
She sighed, shifting pleasantly in Jan's embrace. "Would you tell me a story? Perhaps something from your service? When you were in a tough situation, but manage to fight through and save the day?" Lucinia's tone held a touch of wistfulness.
Blink"A story?...Huh...."
She gives Lucinia a soft look, maintaining snuggling levels at max."Well there was this one mission on Barathon III, it's a small world, nothing special. They specialize in handcrafted goods and circuitry for those wealthy enough to afford it. An Imperial governor with some pull was visiting there to pick up his new yacht....and I mean."
Shrugging around Lucinia"It
was a nice yacht, couldn't have been cheap. But Lord so and so had made more than a few enemies which is where my team came in. We didn't really do protective detail....much the opposite really. But they needed us because someone had put a 12 million credit Bartokk contract on him."
There's a sigh through her nose as her brow furrows"Nasty folk the Bartokk, dumb as a rock solo, geniuses in a squad, bugs of course. And well, we were the bug squad. So there we were down on this little planet at the yacht launching ceremony, everyone dressed up to the nines and the bug thew a fracking meteor at us!
...Uh, excuse my language Lord Malveaux, but it was fracking huge."
Her arms spread, that big!"And so we're packing everyone into the speeders and flying them faster and further than we have any right to and the sound of that rock hitting the ground behind us....Well, that got us flying even faster. But we'd made it right? VIP was still alive and so were most of his staff, so a win?"
Shaking her head"Noooope, phase 1. You see, Bartokk strike by taking out your fixed defences and then swarming you, and boy did we get swarmed. Hundreds of the little buggers flying down at us on anti-grav packs and using anti-vehicle ordinance which was
not fair. So evasive maneuvers, we're shooting at them, they're shooting back my sergeant..."
The slightest pause "He eats it, acid missile, most of his speeder wound up dissolved. I got hit a few times, and ended up having a corpsman patching up one half of me while the other is yelling commands and screaming for air support. Pretty much the longest day of my life, they did
not stop. I think our convoy was down to three before the fighters came in and drove their hive off."
She coughs and rubs her cheek on Lucinia's shoulder"Then they gave me a medal, that hurt quite a bit worse than getting shot but hey, the governor was very happy to be alive, so was I. Afterward we uh, took a holiday and spent a couple days on a beach. First leave the unit had had in three years and we just sort of hung out, talked family stuff I guess? We were all hurting....
Then after the holiday we took some less documented leave and uh.... 'dealt' with the hive. Some light treason I guess. No medals for that but I enjoyed it much, much more. Oh and I've got something in my eye, which is why I'm rubbing it."
Rub rub rub"So uh, not a happy story but still alive I guess? So long as we're not getting ambushed by 500 heavily armed flying bugs it's going to be a walk in the park."
