Cavalry, Command (xx)

A bit strange looking admittedly, but most of the lads agreed that they were just marvelous horseman.

 

Cavalry, Kiosk (xix)

Cavalry, Orbit (xviii)

Another leg in the relay.

And the planet below

peers up through the atmosphere

like a dull, unfocused eye.

Cavalry, Relay (xvii)

We exit the celestian interval

to change course and take on supplies.

Cavalry, Message (xvi)

Meanwhile, a message from Devos IV:

"Keep the solar winds at your back, and the future before you.

Courage, the journey." 

Transcript ends.

 

Cavalry, Dot-Five (xv)

Cavalry, Needle (xiv)

The East, in pieces.

 

Cavalry, Heretic (xiii)

Cavalry, Rusty Clock (xii)

Ribbons of shade.

 

Cavalry, Pane (xi)

We ride the black foule.

 

Cavalry, Fifty-Five (x)

Time is a leash.

 

Cavalry, The Charge (ix)

The work of reconnaissance is done best by animals.

 

Cavalry, Ice Surface (viii)

Cavalry, Another Sighting (vii)

Another sighting, Vetonli-Senya. Torla Sector, the Outstation.

 

Cavalry, Sketchbook (vi)

Cavalry, Beasts (v)

Happy Holiday.

 

Cavalry, Beasts (iv)

We ride beasts to war.

 

Cavalry, Dragoons (iii)

Dragoons. 

 

Cavalry, Spear (ii)

Ring the bells.

 

Cavalry, Horseback (i)

Vistuland rider.

Booker's Station pt2

The Veteran Sergeant clattered acrimoniously, the spare

tools on the tank.

Booker's Station

We're talking billions of miles off-course.

 

On Tremaine, Final

770; The Expiration.

 

 

Voyage of the Wilhelm Troepf. Year Thirty-Eight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Tremaine, 9

You improvise.

 

Tremaine, Year Thirty

By Year Twenty-Eight, few of the personnel remember that they came from Kalkovac at all. 
By Year Thirty the washout begins.

Maybe Maiden Month, Maybe Furl

By Year Twenty-Five, the Expedition is entering its second generation. The goals change. The men rebuild.

Mostly they are complex instruments of the mission, after all.

Sometime in 758, following the Harborstay. Maybe Maiden Month, maybe Furl. Fourth Disorder, near Azimuth West. 

Voyage of the Wilhelm Troepf. Year Twenty-Six.

Twelve Days, Twelve Years

Please forgive my absence, I was gone for twelve days. 

Now where were we?

On Tremaine, a Scout-Rifleman with the 234th Provisional walks detail near the Dysphem Iron Works near Pozsos. Fighting around the central highway juncture here was terrible after the thaw.

While hard to discern at this resolution, it is worth noting that the soldier pictured wears the Late Model Y Breather System (LMYBS), a vast improvement over the much maligned Model X.

 

Late season 754, Voyage of the Wilhelm Troepf. Year Twenty-Two.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Tremaine 5

The Regiment was scattered during the evacuation, and ultimately sent to several hundred system in fragments. 

 It was a catastrophe of logistics.

Class III Archeologue Orderly with the 16th Royal Sapper(Spec) near The Mounds, North of Raisbergit, Central Steppe. 

About 751, Voyage of the Wilhelm Troepf. Year Nineteen.

  

On Tremaine 4

On Tremaine 3

Traffic to the deployment zones.

 

On Tremaine 2

Through a turgid jungle, short sideways steps. Compost,

skeletons, carnivore plants.

Scout-Rifleman in an unidentified Hussar's unit; Bandooli Province, Tremaine.

Near the so-called Second Equator, around 748, voyage of the Wilhelm Troepf. Year Sixteen.

 

On Tremaine

On Tremaine, felted hills swept upward roll

bunched to the nearest sky.

Meltagunner with No7 Company of Engineers, near The Flop.

Prior to Siege, 744. Voyage of the Wilhelm Troepf, Year Twelve.

 

Rubber/Road

It Wasn't Clear pt2

e.) All of the above.

It Wasn't Clear

It wasn't clear who to surrender to:

   a.) At Burbur Ridge (725, Himmell Sector).

   b.) At Grestleman Crossing (564, Jotl Sector).

   c.) At The Transfer (868, Station Amiga).

   d.) After Coordinate 0104.3 (980, Bortes Moon).

  

By The Time We Deserted

By the time the army deserted into the Lemonstall Range:

   a.) The seventh river burned.

   b.) We couldn't remember where to file the report.

   c.) Fuel?

   d.) It was over.

Just Before The Mutiny

And just prior to the general mutiny at Meridian: 

   a.) The rations expired.

   b.) Unidentified sulfur smell.

   c.) 316 Company volunteered for afterlight duty.

   d.) Sense of calm.

 

Consider: the Autocannon (continued)

Consider: the Autocannon (continued)

Another obsolete example, this the CAS Close Support System.

Completed manufacturing trials in 543 and issued to the initial landing parties on the 544 sailing of the Yubari, this gun was touted as a "hybrid" by UMIG Industries.

The exact sentiment of that statement is lost to history.

 

Consider: the Autocannon (continued)

Consider: the Autocannon (continued)

A Conductor Model 71 SubPortable; 3/8 Bore, 12-caliber-12. Capable of a high cyclic rate, the Model 71 is capable of maintaining extreme GsF ratios in myriad conditions.

An impressive piece.

Consider: the Autocannon (The Friday Rifle pt2)

Friday Rifle on a G178 Carriage. Note the augmented recoil platform and heavy cast wheels, indicating that this gun was probably assigned to a mountain brigade. 

Consider: the Autocannon (The Friday Rifle)

The Friday Rifle, an autocannon produced in large numbers for several voyages between 541 and 710. Capable of extremely accurate fire in the hands of a well-trained crew, this model was rugged in design and served with distinction. 

Exisiting records do not indicate the circumstances under which the contract for the Friday Rifle ceased production. Alas, no known examples of this gun survived the general uprisings of the late seven hundreds.

Consider: the Autocannon (yet continued)

Bekar Model 91-4, alternate view. Note the unique loading arrangement, nicknamed the Cinema Magazine, which operated on a central sprocket and recoil-driven spring.

One of the few successful highlights of the innovative but deeply flawed design that defined the 91-4.

Consider: the Autocannon (continued)

The Model 91-4, produced under ministorial contract from Bekar Industries. Production of the 91-4 ran from 810 (voyage of the Castlemate) to 885 (voyage of the Myopy) with total units produced numbering 16,000.

Early models were beset with overheating problems, and the gun was heavy and awkward to reposition. Nevertheless, some surviving 91-4s remain in service mainly in garrison roles.

Consider: the Autocannon (continued)

Hawley Gun, portside view.

A mechanically simple design.