The Matabi, Part VIII

Just off into nowhere.

The Matabi, Expectations

It's been centuries 

and most of the expeditions 

never returned at all.

The Matabi, Part VI

Though you'd be surprised, it isn't like we hadn't suffered horrendously before.

The Matabi, Uncertainty

After that incident the process of recruiting for the Regiment became uncertain.

Traditions slipped.

The Matabi, Part IV

Cholera.

The Matabi, Part III

By that point two-thirds of the Regiment 

had been killed by cholera.

The Matabi, Part II

They came home with medals of course.

And a unit citation.

The Matabi

In 838 the freighter Matabi showed up in orbit to transport the Regiment to the Fanderum System.

They were taken to a prisoner of war camp on Makelbee 14 and interred for the next eighteen years. It seems that the general in command of the front needed to fill a quota for prisoners in the offensive, so he incarcerated his reinforcements. 

Password

And you what 

go on now what.

Fifteen Years

The Castlemate sailed in 810, carrying the Regiment to garrison on an Orbital Station off Gangeejl 16. 
They stayed for fifteen years, guarding

a scaffold

of girder and pole.

Texture

Of words:

ammunition and wire.

Call It Anything

We've run out of names for these places.

Listen

Listen, just

to bring this back in line.

More Correct

Tomorrow

This flogging tomorrow.

This someday.

H-174

Pallets; Gravel & Rust

Concrete Deployment Specialist with #3209 Pioneer Bn, circa 842.

Expedition of the Acton Crescent.

The Garden of Hiber

On campaign in the Salish System, shortly after starfall. This soldier is attached to a refit unit, evidenced by his Type 41 tool pack and characteristic sleeve garters.

Around 973. Voyage of The Garden of Hiber.

The Machine Beast