Dead Cities and Deader Men (Operative Title)
Day 4 of 30
Quiet until half way into what would be the next shift of
driving. Kept myself going with stims and cafjuice. The Main Gunner came up a
few times, seeing on progress. Will take a good ten full sleep cycles to make
it back. Not going to be able to stay awake that long. No way to stop the track
until we return to The City, coded that way. So will have to nap at some point,
have one of them up here against protocol to assist. Might need to look into
that spare Tail Gunner, see if it might be up to the task. Could just dump them
all, make it back on my own.
Open up the interior comms, “Master Gunner, please come to
the drive compartment.”
It takes a little while, then the hatch opens up and someone
else comes in. Some other gunner, don’t know any names, comes up.
Young looking kid, male pretty sure, the weapon attachment
points prevalent on forearms with ports on his neck.
“Hi, I’m Trale Fiftyseven. I was told that you might need
someone to help out:”
Definietly male, totally too young for this. Likely why he
is only a Tail Gunner.
“Sit down. Watch that screen there.” Point to the radar
“Radar, maser, feeds from the Main, Side, and Tail Guns
along with radio detection and passive detectors. Tell me if you see anything that
looks like it is too big to go over, or is moving towards us.”
Simple enough. Anyone should be able to do that much. Slow
the speed down to the lowest allowed by the governors and step over behind him.
“So the top overlay is the radar. The sub overlays display
the other data corelated to the main radar. The camera feeds are separate and
integrated. Shows what is ahead, sides, above and behind. Back there in the
Tail I presume you have a similar display slaved to the weapons.”
“Yes Sir, The Shock Cannons are tied into my limbs and the
PDW pods to the ports and eyeblink controlled. Been modded to have full
autonomous control of my eyes, throat, breathing, heartbeat. So I can speed them
all up or stop them as need be. Main Gunners are too old to handle the Side and
Tail stresses. That is when they go to the Main Guns and Aux Deployers.”
Never knew about that. Always thought they just grabbed and randomly
just plugged away at anything.
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