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"I'm used to being somebody's target, sir." He said, easily. It was not a boast; a mere statement of fact.
...Okay, so yeah. It was a boast.
"Unless you're offering a solution to that particular predicament. In which case, I'm definitely listening."
“Our solution is shooting them at the moment, y’know, with the guns.” Arwa remarked, walking up the ramp and taking a small communicator headset from the hand of the marine.
“Or sometimes rocks.” A marine said as the group turned away and back towards the destroyer. Two marines were waiting for the man, while the Major was speaking on the headset device.
“The sooner we get to the destroyer, the sooner we’ll find out why the Aschen are leasing out starships to the inner city schools.”
"It won't be able to outrun your hardware, so you don't need to worry about me bugging off. But I'd like to stand a chance in a dogfight, should the bogeymen catch us on the way. Know what I mean?"
“I’m sure the firepower won’t much matter with the Aschen we’ll be flying near ... but everyone wants their own coffin, right?”
As the Major turned away, he brought the communicator back to his ears while the marines around him engaged in several conversations. Meanwhile, the pilot-house onboard the Heavy Destroyer activated an optical beacon of it’s own, the small lighthouse structure atop of it sending a bright beam in parallel directions.
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