RidOv Chpt-9

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==Ridiculously Overboard!! (A Captain Roberts Tale!!)Chapter 9 - Super Soldier==
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Seron examined...
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...the helmet-cam images more closely.
The bandage was a giveaway-the staining was consistent with seepage from cranial surgery that hadn't quite healed fully closed.
the way she favored her shoulder and neck was suggestive of painful injuries or stiffness near the cervical vertebrae.
But the reveal, was her dash.
She predicted where they were firing. her movements were fast, fluid, but off.
Overdriven. Thermal layers revealed it-she'd overdriven her body evading them. Adrenal boosters?
"She is a ****** desmond." Seron muttered. A 'Desmond' because those were moves once trained to the Special Armed Services of the Star League's royal regiments. Very few had gone with the Great Father, because very few lived to see the end of the Amaris War...and outside of specific units, like the 90th Heavy Assault or 'Black Tigers' (Kerensky's Sledgehammer), they were rare to begin with. The literal years of training in obscure methods and physical conditioning at the SLDF training camps at Langebann and Hereford meant the methods did not exactly carry over.
But the reputation? it did.
"She is a damned Desmond."
It fit with the decidedly odd way she'd overcome the security at the spaceport, using feral animals and garbage to play a mind game on PGC warriors to make them inattentive.
Star League Special Forces training would have taken too long. Even Sibkin did not have to endure the years of training necessary...
They somehow turned the girl into a Founder-damned Desmond.
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*;Slang Term: Desmond : Circa 2450s' to late 28th Century, this slang term references graduates of SAS ground school at Royal Terran Hegemony Training Establishment Hereford, or SLDF Langebaan on Terra.A 'Desmond' is an SAS operative trained and conditioned to act as a solo operator with a focus on wet-work, assassination, or sabotage missions, particularly missions intended to be extremely deniable. The term in slang usage derives from stereotypes revolving around such operators being somewhat mentally ill and characteristically anglosphere oriented in background, specifically upper class non-nobles, or psychopathic in nature, as per the infamous 'Glasgow Barber' Desmond Forrester (see: Glasgow Butcher, infamous serial killers of the 25th century) who targeted off-duty military and civil service personnel exclusively. (Said serial murderer was a graduate of Hereford SAS school, but was discharged dishonorably for [redacted, Director-General's eyes only].
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