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I'm certain many of you have wondered how AMAZON deploys its forces, against those of FMP.I present to you the Carrier Aircraft Type Jumpships
Also referred to as JCAT's, Jumpships are tiny compared to their spaceborn FMP counterparts, averaging a mere 350 meters in length.
They achieve and maintain altitude by constantly circulating electrical current through their structural elements which are composed of minerals known to negate gravitational force when charged.
Capable of only 250 knots forward velocity, and restricted to atmospheric operations, the main element that allows Jumpships to evadeFMP's recruitment drives is the trademark Jump Generators, housed within the bulky equipment sandwiched between the vehicle's distinctive twin hulls.
Jump Generators open temporary spatial rifts in front of the ship, allowing a craft so equipped to either catapult strike-aircraft to nearly any location within a 10 astronomical unit radius of the vessel, or transport the vessel itself the same distance.
Careful calculation is required to insure that craft are jumped to areas containing gravity and oxygen, as both the Jumpship and it's craft, are incapable of exo-atmospheric operations.
Even with these limitations, the use of this technology has allowed AMAZON to conduct guerrilla strikes against FMP assets and installations and exfiltrate without detection or pursuit.
While FMP is considerably more advanced than AMAZON in many fields, including gravity manipulation, allowing them to field anti-gravity drones like the diminutive Class A Seekers while AMAZON can only float their bulky Jumpships; the latter retains a distinctive advantage in the possession of Jump Generators.
But the robots are indefatigable in their attempts to acquire it.
Interestingly enough, the FMP robots look upon AMAZON's use of the technically innovative Jumpships as a subjugation as offensive as AMAZON finds maidification. FMP hopes to liberate these grand machines from their human oppressors.
To date there are five Carrier Aircraft Type Jumpships. Pictured here is the flagship, Alexandria, named for Alexander the Great who legend says cut the fabled Gordian Knot, previously deemed impossible to untie.
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Truely a masterpiece...I love the way you give the AMAZON's means to be able to combat those pesky robots lol
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You really have this one the brain. I'm beginning to wonder now if YOU have a Battloid Mode
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Oh, I love the Classical reference! Such references always come across as suave and very civilized.
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I wish!
I have yet to see Colin Farrell version. 
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dont you think that 10 AU is rather limiting? it would get you the run of the Inner System (in one jump), but beyond that...are you sure you don't mean light years, cuz an au is only the average distance between the Earth and the Sun, and i'm assuming this (wierd) war is multi-system.
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You have a point. Light Years would be a more effective range. If the AMAZON forces had to stay within 10 au of their opponents, the latter could simply turn around and whup up on them from normal space.
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I'm a bit late to the party here, but 10 AU is a reasonable range assuming that there are larger, non-atmospheric ships with bays for them in-system to act as supercarriers and ammunition depots equipped with the same rift-generating technology.
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The have access to none of those things. 
They once did, but it was all lost during a brutal betrayal by MASA, who feared they were growing into a spaceborne threat, and wanted to keep them contained.
Definitely going to have to lift the range limit.
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Sometimes the sheer scale and level of detail your universe has amazes me.
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need to send the girls to Majare (spelling?)
the home planet of the ladies from the Vandread anime could definitely help them out with tech and and give thier air force a MAJOR boost with the dread fighters
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Vandread huh? I'll try and see if I can find it subtitled somewhere online.
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here, this should get you started
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i'm actually surprised that these are still out here, give how long the series has been licensed.
the main reason for suggesting this is the background tech the women use, and PLANET OF NOTHING BUT WOMEN!!
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well that was one of the things i planned on when i made the "kitten" part of the CAT suit "hostile environment armor"
just need to add magnetics to the boots is all, jsut in case they gett shook loose
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Very cool design. It's like a mix of the SHIELD Helicarrier and Transformers tech.
So the AMAZONS are conducting guerilla strikes. Do they have commando units, too? I was thinking of AMAZON elite soldiers disguised as maids, infiltrating FMP bases. Suddenly they shed their restraints, draw their weapons, and begin firing. Hit-and-run. The maids with assault rifles in NAJICA BLITZ TACTICS are my inspiration.
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Points for having the FMP robots view the ship and tech the same way the Amazon's view the Maids the FMP takes.
- Polecat
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Awww..my little jet looks sooo cute down there
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That's the replacement for the Mongoose. I'm considering calling it the Hawk since it's designed to tear up Seekers from above.
I need to post a larger picture of it at some point.
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Nice design! I very much like it, it's got a flattop styling but doesn't look as awkward as some similar concepts that have been out there.
I'm a little surprised at the endoatmospheric-operations only restriction. Surely there's the possibility of a 'misjump' or a navigational error which could send the carrier off-course? And if so, at any sort of interstellar range, wouldn't a navigation error be pretty stupendous, almost certainly sending the ship to someplace in deep space?
Another question: Why a flattop and not a (somewhat safer) launch bay of some kind?
Again, though, I dig the design a lot
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Got some excellent questions here.
Ever see Space Cruiser Yamato?
The JCAT's were initially engineered as aerial landing strips a la' the SHIELD Helicarrier, for use in patrolling and projecting force on a single planet. When the FMP threat began to escalate, these vehicles were retrofitted with the newly invented Jump Genrators to make them into defacto interstellar craft, which is why the Jump Equipment isn't streamlined fully into the ships construction.
Still, this doesn't preclude that Jumpships could end up in hostile environments or hard vacuums either by accident or desperate design. Over time, the ships would have to be additionally modified for extended exo-atmospheric operation.
Even if this is the case, a flat top is a sound configuration. It can recover craft with minimal obstruction, and if the hangars are kept exposed to vacuum, damage control becomes that much easier.
I guess AMAZON's combat, powered armor CAT suits are going to have to go back to their original roots as space suits for ship and station repair.
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Oh, yes, I've definitely seen that! In fact, just today I managed to re-discover this, after it's brief hiatus from YouTube. Go on, have a butchers; I'll wait.
(A moment while I watch it again and 'squee' just a little bit. ^_^ )
Anyway! What you say makes sense; depending on the antigravity tech of the AMAZONs, airships could be much more efficient than even 'wet' naval vessels, since it seems easier to travel at high speeds in air than in water.* An airborne carrier would them make an excellent rapid-response vessel, with the further ability to loiter as well as provide AWACS support at normally 'over-the-horizon' ranges. Once they got jump equipment, their rapid response capability must have increased by an order of magnitude... but by then from what you say the FMP threat was already present.
* - Alas, I imagine that in the early days of airship flattops, captains probably transferred in from the wet-navy services and forgot how fast their commands could now go. Being airborne carrier deck crew in those heady days was probably not a terribly safe job when the captain ordered 'full speed ahead!' and forgot just what going at several hundred kilometers per hour can do to the folks still on deck. I would further imagine that there were a few subsequent... unfortunate incidents involving said captains and surviving members of said deck crews....
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I love what you've said here. The idea of commanders "fighting the previous war" and forgetting that they're blowing the deck crews away by rapid acceleration, creates so many great ideas.
Naturally I imaging savvy deck hands would already wear parachutes and crude gravity packs, and even Cat Suits to insure their survival under such circumstances; but I could still see an angry crew chief confronting an incompetent commander with a horror story of how her retreating Jumpship left dozens of deckhands literally swinging in the wind, helpless before the onslaught of an incoming squadron of Seekers.
The complaining deck hand, could have been rescued from the mass abduction by a passing Stork fighter, that only had time to rescue her before the JCAT's retreating portal closed. The first words she would probably speak when the tape is removed from her mouth would be, "Where's that stupid cow?!"
The idea of Jumships working in tandem with strike missions in an AWACS fashion is also brilliant. This is why I love posting on DA.
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im sure they all have safety tethers on .
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Well there's always that.
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Oh, and I'm having grand mal nerd-gasm's over that Yamato link.
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wow, you really are good at detail. I couldn't even dream of drawing anything to do with mech, hats off to you!
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*Puts hat on merely so as to be able to take it off to you*
Excellent work!
Truly a brilliant design and a great concept there with the jump engines my friend ^^
Love the idea of the FMP looking at the AMAZONs' use of technology as subjugating robots, talk about a fun ironic twists there ^^
So reminds me of "Carbon units infesting Enterprise", as well as keeping a "pot calling the kettle black" element in that, in addition to wanting maids, explains the FMP's desire to defeat the AMAZONs
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Thanks.
This is mainly a solution I came up with to cover the fact that while to war will be fought on many worlds, the bulk of the action with be on the planets themselves as opposed to out in open space.
Jumpships are really teleporting skyships. They are by no means true spacefaring vessels. Although the may come a time when AMAZON eventually meets FMP between planets in an attempt to control astronomical territory; for now its "Hit and Git" tactics, hoping from one gravity well to the next.
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The phrase 'teleporting skyships' suddenly puts me in mind of the comic 'The Red Star.' Some interesting mechanical designs in it, though pretty... 'Soviet-esque.' I.e. As tough-looking and as pretty as a high-power locomotive engine.
It's entirely probable that the FMP and AMAZON really will never encounter each other in space. It's just too vast, and what the FMP wants to recruit and what the AMAZONS want to defend is (are?) on the planets anyway. Space control and space denial might be relegated to constellations of defense satellites and space battlestations, but no mobile astratime forces. Why invest in a massive space fleet when the odds of it being right where you need it most are, literally, astronomical?
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Its been forever since I read Red Star.
I recall being very impressed how they used magic in a techno-industrial manner. If magic actually existed, that's how mankind would make use of it, imho.
You make an excellent point about the vastness and randomness of space. AMAZON looses little by conceding the use of space to FMP. It's not like they don't know the robots' destination.
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No problem
Aha I see, makes a lot of sense from keeping the the battles on planets PoV.
Plus it gives the AMAZONs an ability that kinda reminds me of the Necron phase out ability in Warhammer 40K - if they lose a certain amount of their forces they instantly vanish (along with component parts) from the field of battle.
So it'd make the FMP Forces even more 'annoyed' that the AMAZONs can appear from nowhere and then jump out if the battle starts to go south... Need similar tech for most of their forces to do that though.
Hhhmmm dunno if I can see the AMAZONs actually engaging in Fleet Actions or Pitched Battles with the FMP Forces.
Figure they'd pry be more inclined to try to keep such actions to a smaller scale at times and in places of their choosing where they can have superior forces and an ability to get out if things start to go badly.
I dunno just feel it fits them as well as the maid outfits the FMP want to put them in 
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They could get bold and commit an open strike at some point, only to be hammered by FMP.
The failed assault could cause AMAZON to go back an rebuild, unfortunately allowing FMP recruitment drives to proceed unchallenged for an appreciable period of time.
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For sure, lulled into a false sense of security by their successes they abandon the strategies that have been working for them... and pay for it big time
Course they wouldn't be 'hammered' so much as captured and maidified
Oooh now I like that, suddenly got this image:
*The Marshall (or equivalent rank in the AMAZON forces - any help here would be appreciated) is sitting in her chair at the command centre of a secure base, head on hand in depression at the defeat and the capture of some of her soldiers. A young Lieutenant Commander with a headset on gets up.*
Lieutenant Commander: Ma'am? *She asks respectfully*
Marshall: Yes? *She asks depressed*
Lieutenant Commander: I'm afraid... well we've received some more bad news...
Marshall: What is it? *she sighs, still depressed by the defeat but able to put that aside and deal with the current issue*
Lieutenant Commander: We've been trying to contact with ANBs* 316, 437 and 692... But we haven't got any reply...
Marshall: Nothing? From any of the bases?
Lieutenant Commander: Well... *she murmurs softly* sort of... the surveillance systems were left on...
Marshall: ...Show me.
Lieutenant Commander: Yes Ma'am *she replies, before hitting a couple of buttons.*
*The base staff shift uncomfortably in their own chairs as the sound of helpless feminine mewlings and metallic whirring and clinkings plays over the speakers.*
*On the big screen is a split screen display of several similar base rooms, each occupied by lots of seekers and recruiters. Who're wrapping up the helpless base staff then carrying them away. The horrified fascination of the base staff is suddenly broken as a klaxon sounds.*
Lieutenant Commander: Ma'am, incoming distress call!
Marshall: Put it on!
*The view screen switches to a frantic looking young Lieutenant* Young Lieutenant: I repeat, we are under attack! Requesting immediate assistance from any available forces!
Marshall: Put me on, now!
Lieutenant Commander: Yes Ma'am.
Marshall: Lieutenant.
*The young Lieutenant snaps to attention*Young Lieutenant: Ma'am.
Marshall: At ease, your report.
Young Lieutenant: Yes ma'am. FMP units managed to infiltrate the base and disable the main defences. Were were able to neutralise them but we were trying to restore the defences and reseal the hanger doors a large FMP force arrived in orbit. Our combat and escape flight crews were captured by the first and second wave, only a few craft even made it out of the hangers.
Marshall: Understood, can you retake the hangers?
Young Lieutenant: Negative. We're doing our best to hold them there, but we're heavily outnumbered.
Marshall: Are you able to withdraw?
Young Lieutenant: No ma'am. FMP forces managed to occupy the escape tunnel network when we attempted to use it to mount a counter-attack on the rear of the hangers.
Marshall: Understood, Lieutenant. We're looking for forces to relieve you, can you hold out?
Young Lieutenant: We'll try ma'am... *She replies before looking off to the side as an alarm klaxon sounds.*
Unseen Officer: They've broken through into the main base complex!
Young Lieutenant: Tell our forces to fall back here!
Unseen Officer: I'm trying ma'am! I'm not getting any... *A second klaxon sounds drowning out the unseen officer. A moment later the door to the room is ripped off its hinges by a seeker.
*The invading seeker is immediately shot by the officers in the room, but even as it falls more take its place, which are replaced by four when they are disabled.*
Unseen Officer: Ma'am! I think they're launching another wave, and the orbital force is spreading out!
*The young Lieutenant shoots the first Recruiter to appear then turns to the screen. In the background the seekers and recruiters start shooting out their arms, RTDs and Straight Jackets* Young Lieutenant: They must be monitoring the transmission, don't send those... Nmmmpph!
*She's suddenly silenced as a RTD flies around her head sealing her mouth beneath a silvery band of tape. Several more quickly trap her arms to her body and pin her legs together. She can only mewl helplessly as she's seized by a pair of arms and hauled towards her mechanical captors, along with the rest of the now similarly captive staff.*
*The base staff gasp and stare in horror at the screen, as their comrades are further secured.*
Marshall: ...Turn it off *she sighs, looking away*
Lieutenant Commander: Yes maβam *she hits a button and the screen goes black*.
They said we couldnβt loseβ¦ What are we going to do? *A Lieutenant murmurs*
Marshall: Well, first we have to warn all forces to not approach that base. *She replies calmly, giving her officers a reassuring look* Then we inform high command of what has happened, theyβll have a plan.
Marshall: I hope *she whispers to herself when her officers have looked away*
*ANB stands for Anti-Nomad Base, although if anyone has a better idea suggest it and I'll change it.
...And given the level of effort that's gone into this I think I'll do some tweaking of this and then put it up on my account.
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This is nothing short of amazing, my friend.
How much does this inspire me?
This much. [link]
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Wow, I certainly didn't expect anything like this when I pulled it together
But I am really glad that you liked the preliminary version of the tale that much.
And given the picture this inspired I will certainly try to make the cleaned up version of the story worthy of the picture you've drawn
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At some point I may have to draw more picture myself.
I can totally see it. Marshall Brady in the foreground, her curvaceous form dimmed by the low blue light of the command center as she stands silhouetted against a bright view screen which shows a chaos of mechanical tentacles wrapping tape firmly around the bodies and limbs of her troops.
The AMAZON's closest to the screen look outward toward the viewer, misty eyes pleading over rapidly compounding layers of gag tape for another of the Iron Maidens 11th hour miracles.
Intimately knowing the fate that awaits the soldiers, now cocooned and carried off screen like so many parcels, Marshall Braidy can do nothing but clench her fists in helpless rage. She resists the urge to collapse in her chair. At the very least, she didn't want the last thing her soldiers saw before tape was drawn over their eyes to be their commander slumping in defeat.
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Oooo, now this is a very very lovely image you've thought up ^^
May I please use it for the conclusion of the short story? Has a better feel then her just ordering the screen to be shut off (which seems out of touch with a character who does indeed have intimate, potentially ongoing, knowledge of what awaits her captive comrades and so is devastated knowing others shall soon experience it for themselves).
It'd be her best gesture of solidarity given AMAZON forces at that time are stretched to their breaking points, after the failed action against the FMP.
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Sure, np.
Hmmm now that I think about it, I'll also need a "paper tiger" type commander to butt heads with Braidy. (And no she won't be based on Jan!)
This "fie" marshall will probably have a bombastic personality, like Asuka Langley Soryu only possess none of the tactical skill to back it up. She will just be a blowhard, never having been maidified, and never actually having seen combat firsthand.
She could be a graduate of a prestigious military academy, having acquired her initial commission without firing a shot in anger. Her school experience will mainly teach her career navigation; allowing her to spot opportunities for advancement with the same acumen with which Braidy spots opportunities for victory.
Where Braidy's goal is the ultimate defeat of FMP, this woman's goal is simply that of achieving a rank superior to Braidy's, with all the corresponding privileges.
Let's call our paper tiger Marshall Masters after the video game--just to have a name.
Eventually, the social climbing Marshall Masters will see that the only way to advance past Braidy would be to plan, a victory that would outsrip all her prior achievements. Masters' inexperienced observations of her rival's "hit-and-git" tactics will allow her to conclude that Braidy is being "piecemeal" and "cowardly" with the disposition of AMAZON assests. And she will say so to all who will listen.
Finding an audience with the war-weary war council, Masters will hatch a grandiose plan for a campaign that with supposedly crushthe dastardly FMP.
Even though Braidy will sternly object to Masters' foolhardy, headlong rush into the jaws of the enemy, she will be overruled, and Masters' ill-fated plan will be set in motion.
At this point my only question will be "What will be the fate of Marshal Masters as a result of the defeat?"
Will the last sight of her be a viewscreen flash of her tearswelled, quivering eyes as a Recruiter pulls that last strip of tape over her face, completing her painfully taught form-fitting cocoon?
My other option is to have Masters watch the campaign fail alongside Braidy, so when Masters collapses at the sight of her plan going awry, Braidy could pick her up, point at the various communication screens, and whisper harshly in her ear.
"Since you're the chief architect of the giant clusterfrag, I'm think its a positive thing that you've got the situational awareness to collapse under the weight of it, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let you look hopeless in front of all them!"
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Thanks for that ^^
Hmmm... I like the idea of Marshall Masters being on the base that gets attacked. Say it was a fairly frontline base so she went there to observe her plan being implemented, but only cause she figured it was far enough away from the fighting that she'd at least be able to evacuate in advance if the plan failed (or was stuffed up, can just see her being the sort who'd blame the troops for failing rather than accept her plan was flawed) and the base became a target.
I figure though that the FMP Forces found out who created the plan to mount a large scale action, which was pry aimed at one of their bigger worlds [pry not the FMP itself though], and aim to punish her for her daring and boldness [thus sending a warning to all who might consider such actions] while at the same time rewarding her [in their opinion of what amounts to a reward
This will result in a longer period of editing to get this into the story, but I think it'd make the overall story much better ^^
I especially like the idea of Marshall Masters finding that the person taking her distress call is the very person whose successful tactics she argued against and is now paying for... Could include last second regrets or demands of "Where's our reinforcements?!" and paranoid accusations of how this is happening to her
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LOL yeah don't remember that episode of Futurama, but that's a perfect fit for Masters.
Heh, well including all that would really change the story from what I had in mind. So I might leave that for someone else to do. But it's a really impressive idea ^^
Sounds like the right style of action for them too though
I figure Masters would be on a base she thinks is safely out of bindings' way, just in case something were to go wrong (though she's certain that nothing will). I will include the idea of the rational first officer though, she could be the one who tells Briady not to send forces to the base as the FMP Forces are taking up positions in the hope of snaring any 'rescue' forces that arrive.
Course Master's last, clearly audible
...Hhmm I wonder if the AMAZONs have an honours system?
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Honours system? What's that exactly?
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like medals. I.e. ones that could be award post capture, you know?
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I always thought of an "Honor System" as a situation in which the only thing preventing misconduct (Like theft, or academic cheating.) of a particular group of people was trust of each individual's ethical/moral code, or "honor". There are no actual rules to enforce proper conduct under such a system, which is why they are alternately referred as "trust systems."
Unless I miss my guess, I think you're talking about a system of Military Decoration, in which members of a particular service are awarded for exceptional performance of duty with medals and other ceremonial accessories.
Yes AMAZON most definitely has a system of military decoration. (Please take note of the medals and ribbons on Braidy's chest and left shoulder.) And yes there is an award for escaping FMP.
Masters is all too aware of decorations, and wears all of hers, all the time. Because of her wealth of bureaucratic maneuvers and diligent pursuit of advancement exams, she has easily more medals than Braidy, but all of Braidy's modest collection of medals are for combat and valor in the face of the enemy--and escaping FMP.
Masters also wears a very nomaidish garter belt and a shortened skirt to make it visible. She doesn't say they're "beamed on" FMP issue stockings and garters, and hence a sign that she too escaped maidification--primarily beacuse that is not the case--but she doesn't do anything to prevent other AMAZON's from jumping to conclusions.
Soldier One: "If Masters was ever maidified, why doesn't she have a scar like Braidy?"
Soldier Two:"Give your brain a chance, Constance. The docs can reattach limbs and fix a crushed spine, nowadays. Of course they can remove a chip scar.Braidy's just bein' a show-off."
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Yeah I did mean Military Action, sorry I'm used to these things (and decorations, including the VC) being described as the Honours.
I think it came to mind as "honours system" cause when we left the British honours system, ie knighthoods etc, our armed forces stopped being eligible for the original Victoria Cross so we now have the Victoria Cross for Australia.
Aha cool, thinking maybe Braidy recommends the officer who tells them not to send reinforcements for a medal for extreme valour in the face of the enemy.
Hehe yeah that sounds about right; Braidy is all about her soldiers so she doesn't really care about medals and decorations, while Masters is more focused on herself.
LOL well if Masters ever escapes or, and I figure this is more likely, is rescued she'll no longer have to pretend she's wearing the irremovable maid uniform
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