Measures of Absolution

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For the first time in her military life, Corporal Jackson thinks that she may not make it through to the end of her service after all.

The mobs on the streets of Detroit have done what none of the world’s third-rate militaries and insurgents have been able to do—kill or injure almost everyone in her squad. Without air cover or armor, it’s just a running gun battle. They’re slugging it out with ill-equipped locals, but there are many more of them than there are TA troopers on the ground tonight.

And the locals are about to win.

The bullets clang against her armor so frequently now that she has stopped counting the impacts. The rioters are using mostly old cartridge weapons, and few of those shoot anything powerful enough to pierce the ultra-tough laminate of military battle armor, but there’s more modern stuff in the mix as well. Jackson lets the computer pick her targets, but she needs to shoot with one hand because she’s carrying the crew chief of the downed drop ship they rescued a little while ago. She needs to shoot burst fire to make up for the imprecise one-handed aiming, and that wastes ammo she can’t afford to burn.

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