RidOv Chpt-11

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==Ridiculously Overboard!! (A Captain Roberts Tale!!)Chapter 11 - What is a Desmond??==
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"What am I looking at...
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...here?" Khan Alberto Crow. asked, glaring.
"The programming is old, Khan Crow. These are from Terra...from Hereford on Terra, though there is one from Langebaan." Acton Howe was new to the job, having been elevated after the death-by-old-age of Klaus Harper, his mentor.
"Significance??"
"Royal SAS." he said, "They were trying to make these children into Desmonds." he stated, "Very few Royal SAS personnel joined the Exodus, fewer still, joined Nicholas Kerensky on his second exodus, because there were very few to begin with, a lot of them died in the field during the war against the Usurper, and the survivors mostly died of old age or suicides during the Pentagon Civil War, though a few, markedly, racked up impressive body-counts among the warring factions."
"Oh..."
"The Founder was unable to retain their training regime." He added, "because the trainers all died before the Clans were founded...but we have records of some of the techniques they used, only..."
"Only what?"
"Not how they learned them. only that however it was reputed to work, most suffered gross complications, as if they had been trained to drive their bodies beyond breaking point to complete their missions..."
"You have a different conjecture or you would not be bringing this up."
"Aff. I think we are looking at HOW they did it-it was not training...it was early medical cybernetics interacting with the human nervous system. I think these are originals...and I think our dead Blakist cell. Maybe made a mistake and actually succeeded in installing one, out of eleven attempts, successfully...and... So I recommend to the Khan, that we dispatch something a little more potent than a Watch officer and a star of front-line warriors to apprehend or kill Amanda Roberts-though apprehension might be better, so we can get the damned thing out of her before she completes whatever mission of insanity and evil they were preparing her for."
"What in the founder's name is a Desmond??" Alberto demanded, "I keep hearing you use the name..."
"Wetwork, sabotage, and assassination specialist, solo operator, intended for use in high-risk deniable situations. One of House Cameron's less...open...policies, Black operations."
"Well, ****** me..."
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