The e-war squad leader looked at his comms display and raised three fingers in the air for a moment. Then he went back to work. "Thirty seconds," Tyrant replied. Eva sighed as she thought of Miko. She had a feeling that she would have had no problems with this hack by herself. "Make it fifteen,"
Eva immediately shot a few bursts at Mia, but she had narrowly evaded them all. Mia was as skilled at piloting as her brother! Perhaps even better. The e-war wing was furiously chopping away at their code, and the breachers had finally stripped away the siblings' NetDef. They quickly pushed their
During the last few cycles that remained of their time at the academy, the surviving cadets helped try to put the training yard back to the way it was before. With everyone pitching in, from the sergeants to Commander Riddell himself, things more or less got back to normal. At least, on the surface
Some wept. Meanwhile, journalists and their cameras were poring over the proceedings as it happened, and broadcasted the funeral throughout federation space for all to see. It made for amazing propaganda, and many hoped it would lead to a surge in military applications. To the powers-that-be, it w
Although she wasn't a fan of doing drills until she couldn't stand, she came to realize its importance. Over time, she noticed how those drills had honed her, and the other cadets around her. They made them much tougher than they thought possible. But she didn't realize just how critical they were
When Eva got back to Helios, the first thing she did was head back to her pad and changed into a new set of clothes. Well, technically they were the same design as her set of black, except this one had some grey highlights. It was plain, but stylish. She realized that she had coughed up 1,000 cred
"Took care of it. But it cost.” "Same on my end," said Eva. "I… We also lost a few people, some real important. Coulda’ used your help there, too." Miko simply nodded. A moment of silence passed between the two of them. It seems their experiences were similar, so they understood where the other w
She had asked a few cadets about it during the academy, and found that everyone else didn't see it. Well, everyone except for Chengli, Grizz, and Tyrant, all of whom were refugee players. "I mean,” she continued, "streaming is a thing, but it requires a drone attachment and some extra control cyber