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THE STORY THUS FAR
Sergeant ‘Snake Eyes’ Natalya is a survivor. From the tender age of too-young-to-remember she has fought, clawed and killed her way to the top of a very nasty food chain. Lucky enough to escape the dying gasps of Earth, but unlucky enough to find themselves stranded on the moon that is the deadly jungle world called Clayton’s Cradle, she was the only member of her family to last more than a few months in the merciless Green.
Clayton’s Cradle gives no second chances to the unwary and no leeway to the hesitant. Be it deadly predators large or small, plantlife toxic or carnivorous, diseases wasting or virulent, its small population are each hardened through experience and boosted with vital genemods stretching the limit of what a biological human can achieve (or indeed what constitutes a biological human).
Joining the Black Company was a way off that deadly rock, a well paying one that at least saw Snake Eyes serving alongside fellow humans instead of being drafted into the alien armies of the Savis Legions and their Cradler Auxiliaries. Achieving the rank of Sergeant in the 77th Krieger Platoon wasn’t easy, it took some gusty moves and daring choices on her part to make it. That and supressing her crippling gambling addiction long enough to afford the basic gear.
Now she’s the primary babysitter, feared leader and beloved chef (in her own eyes at least) of one of the most lethally eclectic band of misfits the universe has ever seen. Ex-gang members,ex-human Republic army regulars/deserters, ex-Alien Fed enforcers, ex-bartender/part-time-model, ex-miners, ex-slaves, ex-pirates, current convicts, current killer-bots animated by highly illegal AI, current alien musical cabbages good with surgery tools. If you name it, then 'it' is probably in Snake Eyes squad (or her sister squads) and there's good odds that 'it' has an outstanding warrant out for its arrest somewhere in the galaxy. And all of them, every man and woman and genderless being among them, each one of them was dumb enough to gamble on getting shot out of a ship in high orbit into a hostile warzone and surviving long enough to collect their paycheque for the trouble.
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Sergeant ‘Snake Eyes’ Natalya is a survivor. From the tender age of too-young-to-remember she has fought, clawed and killed her way to the top of a very nasty food chain. Lucky enough to escape the dying gasps of Earth, but unlucky enough to find themselves stranded on the moon that is the deadly jungle world called Clayton’s Cradle, she was the only member of her family to last more than a few months in the merciless Green.
Clayton’s Cradle gives no second chances to the unwary and no leeway to the hesitant. Be it deadly predators large or small, plantlife toxic or carnivorous, diseases wasting or virulent, its small population are each hardened through experience and boosted with vital genemods stretching the limit of what a biological human can achieve (or indeed what constitutes a biological human).
Joining the Black Company was a way off that deadly rock, a well paying one that at least saw Snake Eyes serving alongside fellow humans instead of being drafted into the alien armies of the Savis Legions and their Cradler Auxiliaries. Achieving the rank of Sergeant in the 77th Krieger Platoon wasn’t easy, it took some gusty moves and daring choices on her part to make it. That and supressing her crippling gambling addiction long enough to afford the basic gear.
Now she’s the primary babysitter, feared leader and beloved chef (in her own eyes at least) of one of the most lethally eclectic band of misfits the universe has ever seen. Ex-gang members,ex-human Republic army regulars/deserters, ex-Alien Fed enforcers, ex-bartender/part-time-model, ex-miners, ex-slaves, ex-pirates, current convicts, current killer-bots animated by highly illegal AI, current alien musical cabbages good with surgery tools. If you name it, then 'it' is probably in Snake Eyes squad (or her sister squads) and there's good odds that 'it' has an outstanding warrant out for its arrest somewhere in the galaxy. And all of them, every man and woman and genderless being among them, each one of them was dumb enough to gamble on getting shot out of a ship in high orbit into a hostile warzone and surviving long enough to collect their paycheque for the trouble.
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