SCMR Chpt 104

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==Chapter 104 - Self Configuring Modular Robot==
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The Archive...
...was accessed by catching a mining trolley and going another five kilometers past inscribed names...sometimes imprinted images.
A massive, cultural monument to remembering the fallen.
"Recognize them?" Duke Ngo asked, as they stood before a pressure door inscribed with three unit crests.
"The 90th Heavy Assault Regiment I know." the Goliath Scorpion Khan said, "I recognize the crest from your Coast Guards...but...is that..?"
"Unit crest for the 701st Kowloon Volunteers. yeah." Patrick said. "This is the Amaris War gallery, it's got a few items in addition to the names, and the archive sits on the far end."
The outer door, then an inner one, and they were inside.
Banners drifted in forced-air-circulation, faded but vivid in the artificial lighting, from the ceiling, and arranged in a circular formation, display cases filled with artifacts, holo-images, and items.
A pair of Nighthawk suits from the Black Tigers special operations infantry stand silent guard over a case with objects from that Terran unit's history.
"Elbar to North American campaign, after my ancestor got outed and was too sick to keep playing, Sam Winters worked with our people and dealt them fair, unlike most of the other Rallier units we had to interact with during the war."
There were faces even from his Clan's history in those cases. Images from their youth, from before Exodus.
Elizabeth Hazen's youthful face looking into a holocam sometime in the late 2770s.
"You do not have...a few things I almost would have expected." Nelson observed.
"Yeah, well, most of them didn't stick around." Pat said, "The bulk that did, went to the Feddies when it fell apart after Exodus. We only got a few of their guys that came this way, and most of THOSE settled on the Plateau with the Elbar adoptees. I seem to recall Gilmour went to House Davion, so we didn't get anything of his."
The Archive.
"Helmets, it's pressed up with neutral gases, can't breath Halon."
"Right." Nelson donned his helmet.
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