Advocates/Hunchbacks II

Sometimes people call them, also

the Hunchbacks.
But not publicly.

In private. Amongst friends.

Pretend you didn't read this.

These Are The Advocates/The Hunchbacks

These are the Advocates.

 

False Hope 5

But orders are orders, even when you are a little soldier made entirely of plastic.

False Hope, 995. 

Voyage of the Von Owen, Year Sixteen (plus).

 

False Hope 4

The materials describing military success were fourteen hundred years old, and written in a desert.

 

False Hope 3

False Hope 2

But for six hundred years that's been

just under the surface anyway.

The army is mutiny on a single emotion.

False Hope

False Hope, 993. 

Voyage of the Von Owen, Year Fourteen.

We are the Opposition.

 

Resistance To The Chemical Agent, Part 3

We anticipated trouble on False Hope,

- but honestly?

 

Resistance To The Chemical Agent, Part 2

By springtime, the men seemed more lively, at home 

in this congenial wasteland.

 

Resistance To The Chemical Agent

Resistance to the chemical agent built much more

quickly than the manual said.

 

They Are Returned, After

We are / they are

after they are

after we are returned.

 

Cavalry, Final (L)

I'll be gone for several weeks, riding the trains

three thousand miles east.

When we return, a new series.

 

Cavalry, Seven (iL)

Cavalry, Books (xxxxiii)

Oh, they burned the books.

 

Cavalry, The Adverse Victory 6 (xxxxii)

Though it is fair to say that the Governess House has never been exactly progressive

even in the indolent history of Kalkovac nobility.

Cavalry, The Adverse Victory 5 (xxxxi)

She ruled for 75 years.

 

Cavalry, The Adverse Victory 4 (xxxx)

At the time, the Royal Family was in free fall. The Governess House of Kalkovac was ruled by a distant cousin to the lineage,

a dour adolescent named Beranice.

 

Cavalry, The Adverse Victory 3 (ixxxx)

He coaxed the army in ways beyond imagining. A very different Regiment boarded the Adverse Victory

than we'd ever seen before.

 

Cavalry, The Adverse Victory 2 (xxxviii)

It was a dark ship that came to collect the Regiment that year.

 

Cavalry, The Adverse Victory (xxxvii)

By the time of the sailing of the Adverse Victory, 878, the population was in it's second generation of foment. Five hundred and forty years of sending troops to wars in systems who knows where and for causes beyond reproach had taken a toll.

Kalkovac, as a planet, needed a little coaxing.