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BATTLECORPS




ENCOUNTER AT
EL GIZA
by Kevin Killiany
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Plains of Al Jizah, El Giza
Mosiro Archipelago
17 May 3067

тАЬThermal contact!тАЭ Lieutenant Dora CampbellтАЩs voice barked
from the scannerтАЩs speaker, flat and tinny in the cramped turret.
Jake Jacoam stepped up the gain as the Vulcan pilot read out her
location.
тАЬGot those coordinates, Teddi?тАЭ
Below and between his knees, the back of Sergeant Theodora
YannisтАЩ head nodded. She swung their J. Edgar through a tight arc
and gunned the accelerator.
The hover tankтАЩs ICE wound to high pitch, the phantom knocking
Silverlake could never find ratcheting to frantic staccato. The roar
of the fans rose above the engines as the tank surged forward,
flattening the two-meter-high heather in its wake.
The hover tank broke from the high grass into the broad dou-
ble circle of bare earth surrounding the two Mosiro University
DropShips. A sharp jig carried them past a tank trailer, one of sev-
eral the DropShip crews had used to spread defoliants. The fans
kicked up clouds of dust and chaff as Teddi grabbed extra speed
over the open ground. The twenty-five ton hover tank couldnтАЩt
boost to its full one-fifty-plus kph over the undulating plain, but
Teddi thrived on pushing it to the edge of stability.
The comm chatter spilled from the speaker sharp with tension.
Jake wished he could talk to the тАЩMech pilots instead of just listen,
but realized he had nothing useful to say. They already knew more
than he did.
First Alpha Lance, already prepping in the shadow of the trans-
ports to take second watch, scrambled to join First Gamma. First
Beta, which had had third watch, would be in the sack. So would
Second Company; theyтАЩd just come off twelve hours of night ma-
neuvers.
Farther away to their left, the square shape of New Mumbai
stood out sharply against the rolling prairie land. Invisible at
this distance were the temporary buildings surrounding Mosiro
UniversityтАЩs excavation site.
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