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We enlisted too early in this flashpoint war. We're straining both the mechwarriors and the support staff so we're riding out in our second line mechs (and honestly vehicles doing the heavy lifting at this stage).
The company is only 3 months old. We're barely equipped for sentry duty with just one omnimech and a converted industrial mech and some looted tanks and APCs that send no fear into even the smallest pirate bands.
But the pay was slightly better than our usual ones and war is our business so when the great house put out the call for mercs to take a series of raid defenses here we are hoping to be able to cobble a lance together for as long as the war lasts.
So here I sit in my salvaged Kitfox cockpit for the third time this week, with the whole company looking for me to brawl with this pirate lance while they sit on the ridge picking off the turrets. The blasted heat of this world slowing their progress.
We fight because we can't afford not to, I just hope this job will pay better than the last one. I've clawed my a couple hundred thousand C-Bills together but that's only enough to pay this month's bills and this month is almost over. At least I have one XL engine to sell if things get dire. We almost failed in the first month from lack of funds.
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