The New Sun
He lay on the ground, a fallen Ranger.
Joseph's hands shook again. His vision blurred a bit but he stifled it in. Grieve later. This is a time of reckoning.
A flicker of movement from the tree line across the field to the right. Slowly, he swung his barrel roughly towards that direction and scoped it out. It was unmistakable. The Empire of Greater Asia Marines; he had seen them so many times in the video feeds and the planetary network. Often, he'd see them, marching victorious, their wake of destruction in the background of some star system's city a few light years away. This time, he saw them for real, through his rifle scope, only 900 meters away. And what he saw was formidable.
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