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would stumble across it."
"Wish I'd seen it. For years we've looked at those nukes and stencilled on
them, but we never got to actually use one. And I slept through it all. Don't
tell me, they can bill you for it?"
"Yeah, well, the tabs getting quite big. It won't make much difference."
That night was Hicks' second of normal sleep in a row. He didn't miss the
cryogenic alternative in the least. You never dreamed in cryosleep. Maybe
that was another reason why the military preferred it.
Another off duty time. This time Hicks memories flashed back to the time on
Tionis.
Bored bored bored. They were in temporary accommodation, playing craps and
racing the Insects someone had collected, while awaiting the orders to move
onto the next troublespot they had to clean up. Half the time, a few big time
hunters would suffice to clean out whatever marauding wildlife had taken a
fancy to the colonists. But no, they had to send a team of soldiers instead.
Great. They'd trained for years to become bug hunters.
"Okay, chiluns, I've scored us some vids", Drake the smartg
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