APOCALYPSE QUEEN: LEVEL UP OR DIE
"Your men built a fortress for you up at Apex. But this... this gives us our Sovereign for a long, long time."
I looked at him, touched by the unyielding loyalty in his eyes, and gave a firm, confident nod.
"Let's get our loot home."
Loading the hardware was backbreaking work, but between Tristan's practiced efficiency and my LUS-assisted strength, we made rapid progress.
We used a heavy industrial hydraulic dolly from the lower maintenance bay to wheel the crates up the secondary cargo ramp. The somato-fiber suits, pulse rifles, ammunition, and automated turret assemblies were loaded systematically into the back of our secondary troop carrier, which Ronan had driven down to meet us at the q