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Dear stupid journal,
With all these rising threats around such as Dust Brigade having someone to lead them, ninja legionnaires and increasing prices on the market, I decided to give the Newland militia new cards to play with. The long term effect would be... not having Omnis or Clans elites protecting the town, and not protecting its independence at all.
So I had a look at their equipment, and their training. They received fine tuned JAME blasters, and sets of Nonpartisan Armor in perfect condition.
But concerning their training... They never use nanoprograms. And for soldiers that's lame, as strong as they are because Total Mirror shield is really needed if, lets say, someone decide to launch a missile on us. And what more demoralizing that barely hitting someone ?
Thanks to Wolf Brigade I have now a good supply of reflective fields and ncu. I started the training but I have some problems... Teaching them anything is worse then extracting lead viralbots. I'll get it done eventually.
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A couple of days ago, near an outpost in Newland Desert:
Boltgun: "Okay, each one of you have a belt, 6 chips, and a partial deflection shield crystal ?"
"Yep" answer the 4 guards in front of him.
Boltgun: "Good then let's start the Operation Estimohn! Who is using nanoprograms regularly ?"
Among the 4, 2 hands raise.
Boltgun: "Guard Ronand ?"
Ronand: "I have a lighter nanoprogram to light my cigars."
Boltgun: "Awesome you can offer aliens a smoke! and you Guard Andy ?"
Andy: "I use often sense boost.."
Boltgun: "Good!"
Andy: "Yeah I often put my Yalm keys around and forget where they are. This really help to find them."
Boltgun: "..."
Boltgun: "Anyway lets start! First lets install your ncu, all of you must first install the belt and wait for a whole minute and half for... activate."
Ronand: "Can't we install the chips first on the belt ? You know we could put the whole thing on and off at once."
Boltgun: "Well, erm... Hum... You know what I hear ? Not the sound of a belt getting equipped! However I'm hearing the sound of a guard who is going to patrol down the subway!"
Ronand: "Whatever."
Boltgun: "Alright now you install the chips, one at a time in all the slots."
The next minutes pass quietly as the guards putting their chips... very slowly.
Boltgun: "Alright now you can see that your memory have raised ?"
"Err... Boss Marshall?"
Boltgun: "Andy ?"
Andy: "It says -376."
Boltgun: "Okay come over here!"
As he check Andy's belt he realize the awful truth, he is witnessing something that he have never seen before. What is front of him is something that nano specialists would kill to see.
Boltgun: "Abruti! Sombre cretin! You put the memory backward!"
Andy: "What ?"
Boltgun: "Lemme try to put one off... Dammit, it's stuck."
At the same time Andy reach another chip on the other side of his belt and start pulling.
Boltgun: "No, you idiot!"
Both manage to remove a chip. Belts have usually a system that prevent several slots to be equipped at once, nobody knows the consequences of touching 2 memory at the same time.
Both wait nervously for a good minute. Suddenly smoke start to escape from the remaining memories.
Andy: "Ow, ow, ow ! My belt is going to explode!"
He rip the belt off as fast as possible and throw it at a rock not far away, a deafening explosion vaporize it. Boltgun just look at the hole that have replaced it.
Boltgun: "Awesome. Put that in a casing and... Oh yea, you see this bag full of rocks ? You take it and carry it around for the whole day. Now take another belt but have someone install it for you or I'll make sure it stay on your waist when it explode!"
(To be continued...)