"Bunch, Chris - Last Legion 01 - The Last Legion 2.0" - читать интересную книгу автора (Bunch Chris)

The recruiter came to his feet, beaming, well-rehearsed camaraderie in
gear, while the back of his brain told him the young man had no doubt
just slipped away from the nearest home for the terminally confused.

'Good aft, friend.'

''Day,' the young man said. 'I'm interested in joining up.'

'Well, this is certainly the place,' Kerle said. 'And you'll never
regret it if you do. The Confederation needs good men, and will make you
proud you decided to serve your government.'

'What I'm really interested in is travel.'

'Then the Confederation is your ticket. I've seen twenty, thirty worlds,
and I've only been in ten years, made tweg in the first four, and should
be up for senior tweg when the next promotion list comes out,' Kerle
said. 'Not that you have to enlist for that long. Standard term is only
four Earth-years.'

'Reasonable.' Garvin Jaansma said. 'Gives everyone a chance to see if
they get along.'

'Any particular trade or skill you'd be interested in?'

'I'm not much on working inside. Prefer to be outdoors if I can. What
about that?' The young man was pointing at a small model of an assault
lifter. Kerle picked it up.

'That's a Grierson. Used in Armored Infantry. The Grierson's the
standard assault vehicle, called an Aerial Combat Vehicle, an ACV.
Carries two attack teams. Chainguns here and here. Rocket pod here.
There's a whole lot of different configurations. Ultrareliable. Dual
antigrav units under here, give it about a thousand meters overground
lift. We use it for patrols, or attack. In the assault it'd be backed up
with heavy lifters, gunships like that model of a Zhukov there, and of
course there'd be other assault lifters with it. You can even modify it
into an in-system spaceship. You could command one of these in a year.
maybe less. Five million credits the Confederation'd trust you with.
Plus twenty men's lives, which is the real price. Not many jobs give
someone your age that kind of responsibility,' Kerle said, sounding
truly impressed.

'Sounds interesting,' Jaansma said.

'A couple of things first,' Kerle said, toes curling inside his mirror
bright boots, anticipating the bad news. 'Have you talked to your family
about this?'