05-21-2007, 11:02 AM
The Chamberlain Guard had traveled halfway around the Domain's lip, the furthest distance between the southern and northern poles, and between the leading troops. They stopped marching. The Troopers rolled their Launcher Tubes from the budles on their backs, some wielding rockets to load the tubes.
Other heavy weapons Troopers dismounted bundles, set tri-pods (that wouldn't submerge), and guiding the mounts locked. Ammunition belts were discarded, the waist deep water dampening the gunpowder shells. Heavy Bandoliers met the same fate. Soon equipment jetsam floated in an unfelt current.
The Rockets still functioned.
Auspex sent the last Chamberlain forward when the jetwash sounded. He turned, catching several contrails of smoke bloom from spent Launcher tubes. The spewing rockets streaked across the room in a withering howl. They detonated around Leviathan, striking her wings, and arched past, towards Slash.
Over five hundred Troopers made the Chamberlain 12th. Somehow Auspex managed to fit them in, two-by-two, with rifles slung in their bundle packs, water slogged and reeking drying water.
Other heavy weapons Troopers dismounted bundles, set tri-pods (that wouldn't submerge), and guiding the mounts locked. Ammunition belts were discarded, the waist deep water dampening the gunpowder shells. Heavy Bandoliers met the same fate. Soon equipment jetsam floated in an unfelt current.
The Rockets still functioned.
Auspex sent the last Chamberlain forward when the jetwash sounded. He turned, catching several contrails of smoke bloom from spent Launcher tubes. The spewing rockets streaked across the room in a withering howl. They detonated around Leviathan, striking her wings, and arched past, towards Slash.
Over five hundred Troopers made the Chamberlain 12th. Somehow Auspex managed to fit them in, two-by-two, with rifles slung in their bundle packs, water slogged and reeking drying water.