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After the better part of a decade fighting and breaking the warlords of the Coldlands, Yanov decided that he would take up a place closer to home. He had a wife and a few children, and he had been away from them for too long. In 8IA, he decided to take up a full time rifle training position. He could hammer these new recruits into fine soldiers of Infrastructure during the day and come home to a loving wife at night. The Infrastructural Army needed more soldiers so their were always new recruits coming in. He still managed to make a difference and he did not have to worry about warriors hacking his head in two. It had its own difficulties, but he still found it rewarding.

Among the difficulties he faced was the change in weapons. In the fall of the 10th year of the Infrastructural Age a quicksilver mine was obtained. In the spring of the 11th year, a new weapon came into service to replace the old flintlocks. A new breech loader like the cavalry screw rifles. Unlike those, this one had special cartridges which were loaded into the back and used a spring loaded needle to set them off. This new weapon shot four times as fast and was called Type-3R. Hundreds of them were being produce night and day, to re-equip. Yanov was among the first to try these new guns out and was impressed, it took some time to get use to the Type-3R but he got the hang of it soon enough and for the next year he was working around the clock retraining soldiers how to use these new weapons. There was also the Type-3P pistol, which had a rotating cylinder and could be shot six times before reloading. But it was not just soldiers who received them.

As Dalatyr grew so did life change for its residents, usually for the better. People began to buy more things that they used to make themselves from bread to clothing. More far people were literate and people began to work clock patterns into their daily routine to name a few. But there were other changes, among them the rise of crime. Before the survivors came there were raiders and bandits outside, but in the town walls their was rarely much disturbances. Any chronic thief could be quickly identified in the small population and dealt with. Outside the warriors their was rarely any robbery save for Mischief by youngsters. Under the rule of Heisenoff and his predecessors, a couple of warriors would patrol the town at night with torches for anyone who seemed auspicious. After the Survivors took over, some guards did the same thing. As Dalatyr grew, it became more and more possible to hide in the crowd even in daylight and commit petty crimes. In the year 9IA, Supernova a small force of men distinct from the army to patrol the streets and keep order. Their purpose was to enforce the law, thus was born the Enforcers.

Yanov was a bit suspicious about the Enforcers, most of the military men from Dalatyr were even after Drive told them that it was better to have dedicated specialists fighting crime and that this sort of work required being a lot less trigger happy than soldiering. There was some resentment about having a separate armed body. He was also a bit shocked when he heard that a few of them would be given the new guns. Mostly pistols but a few rifles as well. They had a couple of hand-me-down pistols. Twelve Enforcers came in to the range during September, among them sergeant Hanlov, a bearded man who moved over from Shelging when he was eleven. He gave his opening speech on maintenance and care and had the "Sergeant" practice shooting, then the rest of them. He thought that the survivors would have hired some toughs to do the job, but Hanlov seemed to be a calm personable man. By the end of the fourth session, he offered to buy him a beer.

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After the better part of a decade fighting and breaking the warlords of the Coldlands, Yanov decided that he would take up a place closer to home. He had a wife and a few children, and he had been away from them for too long. In 8IA, he decided to take up a full time rifle training position. He could hammer these new recruits into fine soldiers of Infrastructure during the day and come home to a loving wife at night. The Infrastructural Army needed more soldiers so their were always new recruits coming in. He still managed to make a difference and he did not have to worry about warriors hacking his head in two. It had its own difficulties, but he still found it rewarding.

Among the difficulties he faced was the change in weapons. In the fall of the 10th year of the Infrastructural Age a quicksilver mine was obtained. In the spring of the 11th year, a new weapon came into service to replace the old flintlocks. A new breech loader like the cavalry screw rifles. Unlike those, this one had special cartridges which were loaded into the back and used a spring loaded needle to set them off. This new weapon shot four times as fast and was called Type-3R. Hundreds of them were being produce night and day, to re-equip. Yanov was among the first to try these new guns out and was impressed, it took some time to get use to the Type-3R but he got the hang of it soon enough and for the next year he was working around the clock retraining soldiers how to use these new weapons. There was also the Type-3P pistol, which had a rotating cylinder and could be shot six times before reloading. But it was not just soldiers who received them.

As Dalatyr grew so did life change for its residents, usually for the better. People began to buy more things that they used to make themselves from bread to clothing. More far people were literate and people began to work clock patterns into their daily routine to name a few. But there were other changes, among them the rise of crime. Before the survivors came there were raiders and bandits outside, but in the town walls their was rarely much disturbances. Any chronic thief could be quickly identified in the small population and dealt with. Outside the warriors their was rarely any robbery save for Mischief by youngsters. Under the rule of Heisenoff and his predecessors, a couple of warriors would patrol the town at night with torches for anyone who seemed auspicious. After the Survivors took over, some guards did the same thing. As Dalatyr grew, it became more and more possible to hide in the crowd even in daylight and commit petty crimes. In the year 9IA, Supernova a small force of men distinct from the army to patrol the streets and keep order. Their purpose was to enforce the law, thus was born the Enforcers.

Yanov was a bit suspicious about the Enforcers, most of the military men from Dalatyr were even after Drive told them that it was better to have dedicated specialists fighting crime and that this sort of work required being a lot less trigger happy than soldiering. There was some resentment about having a separate armed body. He was also a bit shocked when he heard that a few of them would be given the new guns. Mostly pistols but a few rifles as well. They had a couple of hand-me-down pistols. Twelve Enforcers came in to the range during September, among them sergeant Hanlov, a bearded man who moved over from Shelging when he was eleven. He gave his opening speech on maintenance and care and had the "Sergeant" practice shooting, then the rest of them. He thought that the survivors would have hired some toughs to do the job, but Hanlov seemed to be a calm personable man. By the end of the fourth session, he offered to buy him a beer.

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