It was a stupid plan, Field Sergeant Eve de la Vega thought as she hugged dirt. Find the enemy. Pin them in place. Light them up. Let the fly boys do their thing. Except, her squad was the one pinned down, and her helmet was screaming warnings HER squad had been the one lit up. Where were the cowboys? Then she heard it, a hum in the distance. From behind the enemy positions. Air strike! ... [click here for more]
Flight Captain Rafe Williams, call sign “Varmit,” stared at the egg-shaped little VTOL sitting in the center of an otherwise empty hangar. Scratching his chin, he squinted at it. “It’s cute, but can it really fly?” Five months later while returning from a recon mission well behind enemy lines, his HUD flashed an emergency beacon. Green. A squad of grunts needed help. With a blink... [click here for more]
Field Corporal Eve de la Vega signaled her team to spread out through the rows of server farms and quietly slip toward the data center console at the far end of the room. She stopped, awe-struck by the sheer beauty of the data center console. Three tall crystalline quantum computing towers glowed, and her feet could feel the almost living throb. Foolishly, she let herself think victory was at... [click here for more]
No matter how often her squad trained in industrial settings, there was always the newbie who didn’t look up. That is to say, there was always a dead newbie who hadn’t looked up, so Field Sergeant Eve de la Vega drilled her squad daily. Simulations, practice runs through the plywood factory, range practice were her squad’s every day life. Now, three minutes into the mission to secure the... [click here for more]
Field Sergeant Eve de la Vega ground her teeth as she watched her newly re-formed squad run the simulation. “Take cover!” she yelled as Matsuhina 55 drones spilled into the warehouse. Instantly, the mechanicals opened fire with their dual .50 cal machine guns. Eve groaned. “Not behind the crate of grenades, morons!” From the corner of her eye she watched her new Fire Team A leader... [click here for more]
She sent commands to her metal squad mates. Buzzkill climbed seeking enough altitude to detect roof top snipers. Shelly crawled forward on nearly silent rubber tracks. When it (she?) neared its forty yard command radius, Eve sprinted forward toward cover, knowing her human squad members were doing the same. Squad Buddies is a set of three autonomous vehicles in three color schemes: (1) the UGV... [click here for more]
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