Red 3, White 3

Regime Change 101, Part Two

Let all those grievances have some air.

Gain expression.

Regime Change 101

First thing you do is round up the authorities.

Anyone who has ever overthrown a planet could tell you that.

Trondometer

Civil War, Part 26

Separatists.

Cz 1

Division united. A
voice in the 

exhaust.

Bodyguard

We finally caught up with our machines.

The Election

So much salvage, this where we turn.

The Most Beautiful Shadows. . .

Another Year

Now it is the Year of Our Proselyte, 999.

The Great Exhaustion, pt.3

Later on, they took everyone. But that was after the Great Exhaustion. It's important 

to remember that in the beginning 
anyway, we were optimistic.

The Great Exhaustion, pt.2

Kalkovac, always a decision in the distant past.

The Great Exhaustion

At the beginning we were confident

they seemed so easy

the voyages I mean.

KrC-91

Distant

Continents, moons.

Misleading

Watch what we destroy.

The High Desert

We, the deeds.

Rope, Magazine, Backpack

Voyage of the Krantine

Forward Observer with 22/15 Royal Deforesters during the Third Rungeria Incursion, circa 722. Note the atypical breeches in unusual arrangement with the soldier's standard field pack; also the coding pamphlets cylinder, type 107, under the soldier's left arm.

Altogether a remarkable photograph.

Scree

Who

Tell who it matters to.

Rough Century X (ten)

Face it- generals don't fight. They

rarely even 

carry their own luggage.

Rough Century IX

Loyalty? Subjective.

Rough Century VIII

New masters.

Rough Century VII

They became strange.

Cults formed.

Rough Century VI

The men and the officers.

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.

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.