Stories tagged “spec ops”
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Deeper
My shoulders still hurt a bit from the sudden deceleration, but when you’re Spec Ops, you have to deal with that kind of crap. I take in the IR views given by my suit, open a bulkhead door, and venture inside. My fellow Spec Ops team is invisible...
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Hangar
The IR floods with a piercing, laserlike green, then compensates. I’m in the hangar now, a vast and cavernous zone with ships and personnel flitting about. Some unsecured ships and individuals are floating up now, unsecured when the grav system d...
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Total Immersion
Alarm bells ringing, smelling molten metal yielded under plasma fire, I shunt my way across the deck – nervous that my movements leave ripples in the smoke. Signals fly into my headset – commands, instructions, shouts and screams of pain fr...
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Shooting at the Breeze
There is total chaos in the hangar. Things are blowing up all around. The door to the missile magazine opens up and I run in, taking out obstacles. Everybody is in a panic because nobody can see us. Some of my teammates enter in with me. A large shudde...
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Homecoming
The 737 was painted in a red-and-white color scheme. The air rippled in the wakes of its engines as it taxied down the tarmac just off the Las Vegas strip. It was a blazing hot night; the casinos were giving out fans with imprinted logos and that laste...