Rough Century: Every Five Years

The freighters still come more or less on schedule, every five years. Each time a Regiment is assembled and loaded aboard, dutifully. But the adventure seems to have dissipated. 

That part that's centuries old.

Rough Century IV

Rough Century III

It doesn't matter, and probably never did.

The soldiers began to doubt.

Rough Century Continued

And after that and for the next 150 years the freighters showed up on schedule, in orbit roughly every five years to pick up another generation of the Regiment.

But it became less and less clear where the ships were coming from.

Rough Century

The era starting about 840 was a rough century.

The Matabi Final, Into Rough Century

The Regiment went mad.

The Matabi XVII

The Matabi: Final Crime

We thought this was the final crime, and we never recovered.

As a planet, I mean.

The Matabi XV

This was different.

Just so.

The Matabi: Sideline

But we digress.

The Matabi, All Hands

In 669, the Ohmre disaster. 

The

Mikhaansa in 726, in the 

fleet action off Ferent Prime.

 

The Matabi: Context

The Hakon in 573 returned empty. Lost the Regiment in a warzone somewhere, dropped them off and then couldn't find them again. And the Laurie Alabaster in 598 blew up, all hands.

The Matabi, Part XI

In 708 the Broomcorn went missing in the Aeornholm Sector, was never heard from again. And then Wilhelm Troepf sailed in 732 and disintegrated six months out of orbit. 

Maintenance issues.

The Matabi, Tradition

That was a shock, but hardly the first one. There was the aforementioned Bedescu in 643, sailed into a star. All hands.

The Matabi, Part IX

The freighter Comrade Ladel left with the Regiment in 853, and in 855 it sailed too close to a magnetic disruption and atomized.

All hands.