Interlude

On Ebbes, Final

On Ebbes, IXX

Our inoculants are holding up.

We disinfect according to schedule.

You look up at the sky and just know the ships aren't coming back.

 

On Ebbes, XVIII

I see stars.

 

On Ebbes, XVII

On Ebbes, XVI

But the truth being, there is no enemy and we've never really had any orders to speak of.

 Relay and Hose Specialist, 4th Btn, 1015 Irradator Company.

On Ebbes, 999. Voyage of the Bedhaven, Year Six.

 

On Ebbes, XV

Oh, we still act like the enemy is out there. 

Shooting off guns and rockets, demolishing a bridge now and then, arresting people when we need someone to be suspicious.

It's training mostly. A game of cautious behavior.

 

On Ebbes, XIV

It's not so much that we defeated the instigators as they just sort of disappeared. 

In fact we haven't seen the enemy in three years.

 

On Ebbes, XIII

We were only just unloading when the fleet left.

Column Assistant with the Queen's Daphne Battalion, summer-pattern uniform with felt putees and canvas smock.

His carbine is an S pattern Type 26.

On Ebbes, during the Month of Sunrise, 999.

Voyage of the Bedhaven, Year Six.

 

On Ebbes, XII

On Ebbes, XI

Non-commissioned Clerical Accountant with 39th Light Dragoons set to field work, near Takin Point.

During the Defense of the Aero Fields; on Ebbes, 999. Voyage of the Bedhaven, Year Six.

 

On Ebbes, X

On Ebbes, IX

The last orders we received were years ago.

 

On Ebbes, VIII

A hundred and sixty-two days of incessant rain. No sign 

of the Separatists.

 

On Ebbes VII

And every year that passes you reach a point and just

realize that the crops aren't going in 

next season.

Sisjmak Ice Feature, early season 998. As the army split, shortly before the thaw. Voyage of the Bedhaven, Year Five. 

On Ebbes VI

Never even really got out of the mountains.

 

On Ebbes V

On Ebbes IV

Never even saw that lake.

Inland sea, whatever.

 

On Ebbes III

Ebbes: after the transports leave the supply dump

blows up.

They evacuate the heavier equipment and we get orders to dig in.

Kardinet Suburbs, mid-season 997. Voyage of the Bedhaven, Year Four.

On Ebbes II

Ebbes: we ride the landers in from orbit with orders to map a subarctic inland sea, and six years later we're firing artillery at caves and distributing leaflets.

On Ebbes, Late 996

Scout-Rifleman with No. 50 Battalion, on Ebbes during fighting for the capitol. The 302nd was heavily engaged around the Central Shipping Yards establishing waypoints and fending off incursions from the Chop Rebellion.

Ebbes, near the 32nd Parallel; late season 996 just prior to the general retreat. Voyage of the Bedhaven, Year Three.

Wait, 13

Wait, Ore Lifters

Ore lifters play the music 

we hear clank clang clank.

 

Wait, 11

Wait, Strange Gods

These days we worship strange gods.

 

Wait, 9

Wait, Meteorites

At sky

the night

smashed with a million meteorites.