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Embers After Flames, Chapter 12.1

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Embers After Flames, Chapter 12.0

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The post-war plans had been utterly meticulous.

They had been assembled over the course of years. Data had been gathered. Information had been compared. ...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 11.8

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With a brand new entranceway, it took Gamma Squad absolutely no time at all to make their way in.

The sheer depth that the UW-CO had penetrated provided,...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 11.7

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Assault Armour, at close range, was spectacularly dangerous. All that energy, the dangerous oscillation, the destructive interference, released in a s...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 11.6

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A wall of metal blasted towards Raven and Ayre. Both of them split up, one going left and the other going right.

CATAPHRACT BALAM went straight ...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 11.5

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The only thing that had stopped me from just outright obliterating Arquebus and Balam via orbital bombardment was the optics of that situation. It was generall...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 11.4

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Freud’s drones streamed out again, moving once more to orbit his AC. He held off on firing for the moment, however.

Instead, it was his blade that lit ...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 11.3

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This time around, it was Dolmayan who took the first shot, though ‘shot’ wasn’t quite accurate. He chose to attack with the Coral Oscillator on his left ...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 11.2

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With the Enforcement System’s Mainframe under my control, there was nothing to even slow down my army from leaving Watchpoint Alpha behind.

I simply op...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 11.1

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It was sheer irony that the most protected and most important part of the PCA’s entire apparatus was also the most vulnerable, to me.

It was something ...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 11.0

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Alright.

Alright alright alright.

Branch is alive, but no longer active. The PCA is moving in the way that I need them to move. Arquebus and Balam ...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 10.8

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Going back and forth took a decent bit of time, but I eventually got it all worked out. When I had, the only thing that remained was the briefing.

“<...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 10.7

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I didn’t bother to stick around for what would come next. I just gave them their privacy and left them to it.

Perhaps this was foolish. This entire gro...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 10.i-2

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“Alright.” Carla spoke. “Let’s lay it all down. Chatty, do me a favour and keep track, would you?”

“Yes, Chief....

Embers After Flames, Chapter 10.i

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The mission had been like any other. Arquebus wanted a PCA base destroyed and their resources reduced. All he had to do was release the Hound to do the job, an...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 10.6

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Carla didn’t answer immediately. I was perfectly fine with that, to be honest. It gave me the opportunity to just keep going, and that was great, be...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 10.5

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“Alright then.” I spoke. “Let’s talk.”

Carla and Walter were present, of course. Also present was RaD, which meant the full g...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 10.4

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There was one, very brief, moment of silence. A single instant where everyone on the opposite side of the battlefield was afforded the chance to realize precis...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 10.3

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I was beginning to run into a problem that I hadn’t been expecting to have. A strange situation, where all of sudden, something that had been true for three ...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 10.2

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The battle that followed was quick, violent, and utterly lethal. Six ACs versus the entire PCA army, and the former went through the latter like a hot knife th...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 10.1

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It was just one ship, for the moment. It posed no threat to 621, and soon enough there was a Warship’s wreck decorating the surface of the Ice Field.

T...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 10.0

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When I was done teasing Ayre for the day, I went back to work. I had a bunch of shit I suddenly needed to do, and with how rapidly things were accelerating, it...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 9.8

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The spontaneous detonation of the Howling Head Bay Area was both entirely expected and completely planned for. My sensors had been watching for it, keyed to ale...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 9.i

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It was a very rare occasion where her mother asked anything of her.

It was a very rare occasion where her mother asked anything of any of her sib...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 9.7

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Things were quiet in Belius.

It was... unusual. For the past five-ish years, the conflicts had been endless. Unrelenting. The Megacorporations were always...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 9.6

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Freud was currently on fire, missing an arm, and heavily damaged on top of all of that. Until he was dead, this was not a meaningful reduction of his threat lev...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 9.5

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Freud shot forwards, LOCKSMITH shifting into pure aggression. Dolmayan met his joyous assault with undaunted determination, ASTGHIK clashing with the other AC w...

Embers After Flames, Chapter 9.4

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“Hear me, scavengers!” Dolmayan called over the comms, broadcasting out in the open. “You’ll find nothing you seek here! Forged in ash, we ...