Gods & Legionnaires (Galaxy's Edge: Savage Wars Book 2) by Jason Anspach & Nick Cole

Author:Jason Anspach & Nick Cole [Anspach, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Galaxy's Edge Press
Published: 2020-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

Gods: Chapter Twenty-Three

“Sixty seconds to atmospheric insertion!” cried the Uplifted pilot over the static-washed comm of the captured Animal freighter. Re-entry turbulence was already incredibly violent as super-heated oxygen began to scream across the falling ship’s hull.

“Combat mission filters in place, Eternals!” shouted Commander Zero from the front of the lead assault stick. Her command-indicated mission downloads were in place. A second later Crometheus had his assignment, lane, and objectives for the operation. The neural processor that had been synced with his new body and brain made the transfer of information near instantaneous; it was downloaded, unpacked, and installed within his brain in the blink of an eye. His mind accepted all this as though it were his own cognition. Six months of intensive training in everything from commando assault techniques to demolitions training had been acquired in the same fashion. All of the best training pirated from the most elite military training schools Uplifted Intel had been able to access by subterfuge and theft from the militaries of the Coalition worlds. Spilursan Ranger CQB. Britannian Sapper School. Espanian Indirect Fire Support Courses. Umorian Asymmetrical Warfare Operations. All of it, along with pro athlete muscle memory sports conditioning and techniques, had been downloaded into each Eternal, post-body acquisition surgery. All of it within two quick minutes, including specializations in training-specific tasks, after Maestro had asked each of them if they were “ready to proceed.”

Crometheus had been assigned to a thirty-person forward assault squad within the Eternal force now inbound on Spilursa’s northern pole. The objective was tagged by the Animals as Ice Station Hades.

“Instituting in-game parameters to keep everyone motivated!” called out Zero as the turbulent atmospheric effects across the freighter’s hull began to subside.

The Eternals were no longer synced with the main body of Pantheon forces. Maestro had them officially routed as attached to another Uplifted tribe intent on taking some new world. For the moment the small yet elite team was operating on its own, outside the collective of the Path, a rogue detachment intent on staging a palace coup. Yet Maestro and the Eternals’ command staff believed that keeping the Pantheon’s “in-game” filters for combat would help smooth out some of the body-brain sync problems the Eternals were currently experiencing. As Uplifted marines they’d fought several wars in a massive online combat arena that awarded them points, scores, and kill streaks in order to keep the battle, or game, rolling. Or such had been their perception, and thereby their truth. In another reality, one without filters, their physical frames had fought physical enemies in real combat. That other reality had been the same reality, with different brushstrokes applied, an artist’s rendering, each reality as real as the other, one in body, one in brain, but the perceptions… different.

Perception is everything.

So now, even though the Eternals were fully armored and combat-capable, physically perfect and trained in accordance with the best special forces units of the Animal worlds, there were still some interfacing problems that needed to be ironed out.

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