001 | One More Time Around the Merry-Go-Round | Voice Post

[loyalcommando]

[it's hard to tell whether he's just talking to himself or is actually aware that he turned on the communicator device and is purposefully allowing himself to be recorded]

Oh, man! I thought I was finally done with war. Now I’ve gone and been conscripted for another one? How did that happen

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[loyalcommando]

[slight pause] I don't plan to. ...What else would they bring us here for and use the word "conscripted"? All's I am is a soldier; Gear at heart. Nothin' else makes sense.

[loyalcommando]

Huh. Now I gotta wonder where I am. That whole "earth" thing kinda confused me. [pause] A Gear is a COG soldier. We're really into order and working together so a lot of our nicknames and acronyms have to do with being a part of a whole--like an intricate machine.

[loyalcommando]

Heh. Happen often around here?

[pause for attempt at refusing to not laugh] Yeah, 'Plan B'. That's always my part of the deal...

[loyalcommando]

[coughs, obviously covering up something else] ...Fresh meat? Are you calling me green?

When do classes start? [<-he can't cover up the fact that he's amused/grinning and teasing now]

[xsniperkittyx]

We're pretty much left do do as we wish here. That is until an Entropi drops into the middle of the compound. Then we're stuck fighting.

[loyalcommando]

No training, no mock-ops, no... anything. [pause] The word "dumb" doesn't even begin to express the situation properly. I don't think I'm gonna like it here very much...

[xsniperkittyx]

'Dumb' sums this place up nicely. No one really likes it here very much and some of us have been here for over a year.

I'm First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye.

[loyalcommando]

...'M sorry.

Corporal Dominic Santiago, ma'am.

[ihasastarforge]

Trust me, most of us are just as displeased.

I'm Revan. You?

[loyalcommando]

Yeah, I bet. [doesn't sound very "convinced" so to speak]

Dom. ...Where are you from?

[ihasastarforge]

Well, I was the General of the Galactic Republic's full armed forces when the Mandalorians invaded the Galaxy.

[loyalcommando]

None of that means anything to mean. [sigh] There's a lot out there. Lots of places, planets, it seems...

[voice reply]

[lady_bounty]

Trying to escape's better than just sitting.

[Voice]

[loyalcommando]

Soldiers don't sit too well in one spot anyway, lady. I doubt I'll be sitting on my ass for too long.

[voice reply]

[lady_bounty]

Well when you're done sitting, let me know. ...My name's Faye Valentine, by the way. My condolences on your being drafted.

[Consider this the next day; voice post]

[loyalcommando]

Okay--I'm done sitting. It's cold outside, by the way. Is it Frost already? [pause; he sounds amused throughout the entire post] I'm Dom Santiago. Thanks for the sentiments, Miss Valentine.