On Dermon Predimus, Part 4

From the edge of the forest, a sporadic 

pernicious fire. The book says, send out a squad to investigate.

On Dermon Predimus, Part 3

I remember the whisper of pattern bombs, the

sun in chemical turns.

 

On Dermon Predimus, Part 2

On Dermon Predimus

Hussar-Sergeant with the 178 Ghastoon Cavalry, Motorized. Gakgan Province, Dermon Predimus.

Voyage of the St. Weed, 798. Year nineteen.

LrD17

The Hercleze System/Operation Persimian

Terrain Continued

Trees you can never climb

or sit in the shade of.

 

Terrain Continued

Access.

 

Terrain Continued

Absent windows.

 

Terrain Continued

These missing walls. 

Terrain

All the buildings, ruined. Never

any sky.

 

Grief, Part 2

Grief

On Jeralez Moon: they have an animal 

that gives them orders.

 

Mada 39

Awake And Sing

Sawdust

Sawdust. Blankets.

 

The courage to keep up and continue.

 

Burning The Farm

Troops of the Agricultural Ministry

Irrigation Specialist with troops of the Agricultural Ministry on Urphalt 261; Western Prefecture, Yamdana System.

The 302nd Wasteland Reconnaissance Regiment is made up of numerous Company and Battalion level units which are mustered and trained at the local level before being assigned to the Regiment for off-planet deployment. While the Counties and Sub-Districts of Kalkovac supply the vast majority of this manpower, it is not uncommon to see governmental offices and even business entities provide units to the expeditions.

  Unfortunately the details of this photo leave no clue as to this soldier's rank. Probably taken around the time of the Embassy Purge, 901 or early 902. 

Voyage of The Adverse Victory, year 23 or 24.

Monochrome/Opposites

Time, Final

I closed my eyes

and fell into life.

Time, Continued

I can not pretend to understand time, or

how it passes.

Time

Next week I turn fifty.

 

I Don't Know

Pause

And the Regiment, as we have established, is nineteen thousand six hundred and forty personnel. This is the forty-first century. 

See how how good we are at counting everything. 

Numbers: The End

A Platoon then, 67. A Company is five Platoons, so 335. But then at the Company level you have the organizational addition of porters, stevedores, and radiation specialists, so really 351. You need to count them too.

A Battalion is 956 guys. A Brigade is four of those, but then add in engineers and mechanics, so an even 3890. That's at full strength.

 

The Numbers: Illustrated