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Dec. 12th, 2012 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thatsagainstprotocol[ Connie and York are still asleep when he crawls out of bed at nearly two in the morning. He's sore and exhausted and shaky most of all, which means that sleep isn't going to happen any time soon. He takes his jacket off of the back of a chair and slides it on, and realizes he can't go with armor without being too loud. Well. The garden zones are safe enough, he figures, arming himself, slipping out the door with a note scrawled for the girls.
He makes it there shortly, and finds the nearest hill, flopping back onto his back, enjoying the press of grass. The desert hasn't been awful, but that and a ship-- god, he's just grateful for grass. ]
He makes it there shortly, and finds the nearest hill, flopping back onto his back, enjoying the press of grass. The desert hasn't been awful, but that and a ship-- god, he's just grateful for grass. ]
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Date: 2012-12-13 10:32 am (UTC)[ Oh for fuck's sake. York without memories, another him, male Yorks and now a fucking dragon?
Wash makes a strangled noise, trying to process it and then the second bit hits him. ]
AI chip interface?
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Date: 2012-12-13 10:45 am (UTC)They'd just be wild animals, otherwise. Without an AI implanted as hatchlings, they wouldn't be able to speak, or follow complicated commands, and they'd be about as much use on the battlefield as an eight ton cat.
[ dry, because she thinks it's much weirder for worlds to not have dragons, ]
Apparently my universe is somewhat unique. The Covenant use war beasts for their shock troops, and we use Spartans and dragons and anything else we can find to throw at them.
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Date: 2012-12-13 10:47 am (UTC)Apparently.
[ Yeah, fucking apparently. His voice goes strangled, uneven and he stares at her, utterly blown away right now. ]
This is UNSC sanctioned?
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Date: 2012-12-13 10:59 am (UTC)She glances back at him, and pointedly at the gun, becaue honestly bro what are you even gonna do with that. ]
It's all about numbers, and someone else was working on the supersoldier angle. If one Spartan is worth so many regular soldiers, one dragon and rider pair is worth a platoon.
We discovered the species at a Covenant outpost, actually. The UNSC was happy to devise a way to use their own resources against them.
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Date: 2012-12-15 06:19 am (UTC)How many are there?
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Date: 2012-12-18 03:55 am (UTC)Less than a hundred on active duty. 99% of the States are paired with a dragon but more of the Capitals aren't; the Project can't seem to get more than one or two eggs out of captive breeding and we're rarely lucky enough to stumble upon wild clutches in time.
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Date: 2012-12-24 03:35 am (UTC)Freelancer. That's the project name, isn't it.
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Date: 2012-12-25 06:07 am (UTC)--yes, actually.
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Date: 2012-12-26 06:25 am (UTC)[ Not enough that he had to deal with it there, but now here, too.
Wash stares her down a moment, swallowing. ]
Texas.
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Date: 2013-01-10 02:11 am (UTC)...do we know each other?
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Date: 2013-01-10 04:45 am (UTC)Wash fights down the sick, nauseating feeling and just stares at her instead, willing the feeling to go away, please, god. ]
No. No, we don't. I should go. Looks like the coast is clear.