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“I often find it depends on the CO you have,” Marcus said with a chuckle, “But most Captains at least take your views into account.” Marcus changed tact, “You said you were having problems with the wildlife, is there anything I can do to help on that front?”

-Lieutenant Junior Grade Marcus Anders: Chief of Security-

”..Well only way I figure any of those folks in their puffy suits inside..” he said thumbing over to the more higher class buildings and admin offices of the colony further down the way. “..Will take anything I suggest with seriousness if showing them beyond any doubt the problem I’m saying is true. Only way that is going to happen is if we get down and dirty out there in the wilds and tag a pack or two of the beasties and show a natural pattern of movement. Given my tasks assignments kept me from doing that to keep my complaints down, I could use some extra hands laying tag traps and scan drones out in the boonies. Presuming you Fleeters dont mind getting a bit of a hike in? Thing we found with these beasties when their in migrating or heat they got a sort of sixth sense about higher band energy emissions. Transporters and such only make them madder and nasty. So we got to go in on foot, so you still up for that?” he asked.

GM CockRoach

“I use to love nature hikes when I were a lad, count me in, do you think we’ll need weapons?”

-Lieutenant Junior Grade Marcus Anders: Chief of Security-

”..Might be a good idea just in case. Never know how things will turn out once you get out into the more wilder areas of the colony..” he said leading the way to a transport car and getting in.

After a brief overland ride on wheels, the group of four, three colonial militia and Anders arrived in a more mountainous area. Getting out in a small parking spot the group locked up the ground car and looked about stretching after a half an hour ride. Moving over to a ranger post the Ranger Chief unlocked the door and went inside flipping on a power switch to bring the computers and such inside out of sleep mode. “..This here is one of our regional ranger posts for this area. Got another five scattered around..” he said pointing to a small lit up map showing the five posts in yellow and their current one in green, “..Yellow means their unoccupied and in observation mode, when in use they go green like ours..” he explained.

Turning to a console he began typing in some commands. “..Let’s start by getting an update on current things. This will just take a moment..” he said.

GM CockRoach