Consider: the Autocannon (continued)

A Hawley Gun. Not much is known about this piece in the official record. 

1200 units were ordered as vehicle secondary armament in the late-700s, some of which were later apparently converted to the infantry support role.

Photo-pict from "The Observation Of The No.22 Company of Foot, Voyage Of The St. Weed" published in 806, Kalkovac.

 

Consider: the Autocannon (continued)

Schraft Model K, reverse view.

Notice the distinct profile of the manual cocking bar, a signature of the early models (A through M).

 

Consider: The Autocannon

Let's start with this revered classic,

the Schraft Model K.

The legendary statline of this gun is wholly unremarkable: 25-6 calibre, 2900 tPs, cyclic rate of 74 hd/s. 

The service record of the series speaks for itself, however. Still in deployment after three centuries, the Schraft remains unchallenged for constancy. 

The Model K featured shows a dorsal loading socket and iron sights, simply mounted on a spoked infantry carriage.

Date and location unknown.

On Litmus Prime, continued

On Litmus Prime, 941.

Voyage of the Pulchra. Year Seven.

 

On Litmus Prime, continued

We'll grow old together, tell stories.

 

On Litmus Prime, continued

On Litmus Prime the fictile stood the pilled glebe,

attentive to the argon in their 

plastic lungs.

Litmus Prime

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But that was a hundred and sixty years ago.

 

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When the water runs out, when supply fails.

How the transports left at Humicant, 843, and

for all we know the army is still there.

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Mapping the incomprehensible, all

readings different.

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Evacuation when the cause is forfeit.

 

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Creases in the landmass. Night

that lasts for months, and when the sun

comes up the armies go blind.

 

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Seas of phlogiston. Antithetical, opposed

landings. Fire from the treeline.

 

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An alien landscape 

but so beautiful and open that the army 

deserted.

 

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Slow rotation so that

timepieces cannot keep it. Field

of ruins, no one there.

A distress signal, a debris

field

a life raft.

 

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The fingers of history, in history. The air 

heavy with storms, a

crushed jeep.

 

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Civilizations that abandoned themselves, 

 and everything else. 

Nebula-sized questions. Science we cannot

reach.

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Moss in a vacuum. Ancient

roads, curves going off into the distance

to cross-current points.