Chapter Two
Planet Skye, Skye Province
Fire Base Freedom
Command Bunker
January 2, 3028
12:00 GST
As Colonel Devlin walked into the command bunker the Private on Duty yelled out, Commander on Deck Colonel quickly said, at ease, everyone he secretly hated everyone jumping up at attention in the Command Bunker specially during an emergency, but today was not an emergency thankfully.
What you got, Hauptmann Greymane."
The Company Commander of the 6th Company was pulling Duty Officer at the moment, Sir, we just got a report coming from FNN news and just before you arrived we received the official report from Lyran Command verifying the news report Greymane AKA Whiskey said. Well, Whiskey lets see this report, Colonel Devlin said.
FNN station came alive on one of the monitors.
Today the offices of First Prince Hanse and Archon Katrina Steiner announced in a joint news conference of impending Marriage of First Prince Hanse and the daughter of the Archon, Melissa.
Well, thought Devlin this might change things drastically or at the very least speed up plans of several interested parties. Very well, Sergeant get me a private secure line and place it in my office I will connect myself. Roger sir, the sergeant said. As the Colonel walked to his office, Hauptmann Greymane stared with curiosity and thought, who does the Colonel have to call with such secrecy. It almost reminded him of when he was a slave as a child running at the sound of his evil masters voice.
18 years ago
Ulric was angry at what his life was, he was a slave, a slave at the age of 7 to a nasty man who beat him, throw whiskey at him, and let other men abuse him, he was miserable. As the boy thought and dreamed about escaping there was a large crash followed by several booms, walls were shaking, people screaming. As the boy left his room, he saw chaos men were fighting, killing, and buildings being destroyed. Ulric was scared, he knew this might be his only chance for escape but he was scared. Soon the fighting stop and all he could hear was the crunch crunch crunch of a mech walking to him. This mech was bigger than anything the boy saw and with the big black head of a hound on a background of red on the chest of the mech he was mesmerized. The the cockpit open and a strong clean, powerful man with kind eyes looked down at Ulric reached out with an open hand and said Child come here if you want to live, you will no longer be a slave but will sit at my table as equals That man Kyle Ward, Ulric would come to know as Father. His new mother when she first saw him fell in love instantly since she was unable to have children of her own she welcomes him, the first thing she said was you need a bath you smell like stale whiskey; hence that nickname stuck with him until this day.
Now...
As the Colonel was waiting for the connection he looked over the readiness report of his fully operational Regiment, as of this moment due to some of the men sick, and a few pieces of equipment in for maintenance they were 98% Combat effective, not bad considering 8 years ago him and his Atlas was the only thing on the roster.
Edward, pleasure to see you, I take it this call is about the most recent news? the person on the other line said. Yes, is there any other info that you can share? Edward said, Sending you a file, its top secret but even then some of the document has been redacted person x said. Edward then asked, Thanks, do I need to prepare the men is it time yet?
No, not yet, but soon real soon, the person said on the monitor as the person cut the transmission causing the monitor to go to the standard symbol of the 4th Skye Guards.
