The Retreat

Tell this story She could never get used to the cage.

Best description of highly realistic space combat I think I've ever read: "You and your opponent are glued onto the top of trains going in opposite directions. You have laser pointers and can try to blind the other guy from 35 miles away._ If you fail to blind the other guy, you can throw hand grenades at each other as the trains make their closest approach. Those hand grenades are small nuclear weapons…and if you're very quick, you can shoot them down with the laser pointer. You have no real way to change the speed of the train, or to take it off the tracks." It only gets better when you realize that you're wearing nothing except a big, glowing, neon sign that points at your arm and your butt.

5150: Space Marines They Invade Ships So You Don’t Have To 5150: Space Marines “Falcon’s Fist, this is 4-1 Actual. We’re loaded into the assault and ready to release clamps.” “Go for release, 4-1 Actual. Clean ‘em out.” “That’s the plan, Fist. Hitting pirate destroyers is my favourite thing to do on a lazy Saturday. 4-1 Actual out.” They Invade Ships So You Don’t Have To There is a definite difference between the kind of soldier you need for taking and holding planet-side (or even asteroid-side) facilities and areas, and the kind of soldier who’d willingly strap themselves into a wedge-shaped chunk of metal, get hurled onto a slightly larger one, then get to the careful business of killing other men who probably knew they were coming in tight quarters within a box that might suddenly lose all its air at any moment. There’s a certain level of challenge there that not everyone is ready to take up. Those that do get called “marines.” Sometimes worse. ...

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