XTravis: Any word.
Io: Not yet, sir. ... How did you know?
Travis: Pardon?
Io: You just -- you knew he'd talk before you ever took the comm. He wasn't even responding to routine hails from me. How did you know?
Travis: You're Analytics. You have his record. You tell me.
Io: Into the service at sixteen, out at twenty-five. When he wasn't being marked up for insubordination, he was in the brig for fighting. Though to be fair, given the New Ozark Army, half those are likely OPGs. Moved into a Recon unit at eighteen. After that he's got almost as many commendations as black marks. Exemplary conduct, bravery under fire. My thumbnail reading would be flexible but impulsive. Learned behavior of pushing back at perceived bullies. Poor with strict commanders and routines, but overperforms when he's trusted and given his -- head. Oh. Saints. I put myself straight in the overcontrolling category, didn't I.
Travis: It's an unorthodox mission. Everyone hates those. Zeke was an easy weak spot to hate.
Io: That is a beginner mistake. I'm an idiot. On an unrelated note -- considering an Analytics specialization, by any chance?
Travis: I've been more focused on the 'don't get anyone killed' aspect of my career lately.
Io: Not yet, sir. ... How did you know?
Travis: Pardon?
Io: You just -- you knew he'd talk before you ever took the comm. He wasn't even responding to routine hails from me. How did you know?
Travis: You're Analytics. You have his record. You tell me.
Io: Into the service at sixteen, out at twenty-five. When he wasn't being marked up for insubordination, he was in the brig for fighting. Though to be fair, given the New Ozark Army, half those are likely OPGs. Moved into a Recon unit at eighteen. After that he's got almost as many commendations as black marks. Exemplary conduct, bravery under fire. My thumbnail reading would be flexible but impulsive. Learned behavior of pushing back at perceived bullies. Poor with strict commanders and routines, but overperforms when he's trusted and given his -- head. Oh. Saints. I put myself straight in the overcontrolling category, didn't I.
Travis: It's an unorthodox mission. Everyone hates those. Zeke was an easy weak spot to hate.
Io: That is a beginner mistake. I'm an idiot. On an unrelated note -- considering an Analytics specialization, by any chance?
Travis: I've been more focused on the 'don't get anyone killed' aspect of my career lately.
When last we saw....
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The fellow thief who stuck Amra Thetys with a horrifyingly ugly statue was a friend. Now she wants answers. Chief among them: what about that statue has put an immortal assassin and a mad sorcerer on her tail?
April 30, 2010
OPG: 'Other, Presumed Guilty'. Imperial shorthand for cases where they know, or suspect, that the primary problem is not what the accused did but what they are. It's derived from the older term HPG ('Human, Presumed Guilty') coined by offworld mercenaries detailing the treatment they could typically expect from their alien employers.
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