Turn 37 - This Is War (II)
By pure coincidence, the word in today's Word A Day calendar is ‘Defenestration’.
Which is very appropriate, considering that you are going to defenestrate two of your lovely children and your husband and your grandfather-in-law.
Twice.
Once you manage to actually catch the four of them they are all going through all the windows.
Of course, your lovely twins and husband and grandfather-in-law had arranged for you to discover that the twins had been Pulling A Tyler for
FIVE years on you and everybody else from your grandkids, while you were pulling babysitter duty while Jeremy and Alita participated in the big exercise.
Granted, you quite approved of both of your new daughters-in-law, even if they had been going along with the twin’ long-running Tyler-ish behavior. Both were pregnant with twins, so you’d soon have FOUR MORE GRANDBABIES (grandbabies covereth a multitude of sins). Both were involved in the racing industry, Phyllis as an engineer and Lisa as a spotter. And a discrete check with Janet showed both were quite suitable, with no red flags on them from a security perspective.
Of course Thanh and Sarah are quite annoyed with their big brothers for managing to dodge a Proper State Wedding, but the scheming duo had managed it neatly. You are pouting a bit about that. Another reason to defenestrate them both when the time comes.
Bastet is off hunting with Anubis, and Sekhmet is looking quite smug about how that courtship is going. A few more years and you might have kitten grandbabies too!
Or would that be grandkittens? You and Sekhmet spend time laughing about that.
There’s a bit of a breakthrough, as a small private engineering firm patents a system for preventing damage from internal detonations from propagating to other parts of an armored system via blow-out panels and cellular organization, aka a slightly different form of the CASE technology that had been found in the various datacores. Both vehicle and mech designers are looking at the new technology as a means of protecting from internal detonations of ammunition.
There are a pair of proposals for an upgrade to the
Defiant dropship, both in light of operational experience, new technology, and the results of the recent exercise. Both fully meet the requirements that the AFGE had put forth.
[] | Name | Cost | Upgrade Cost | HP | A/D | Specials |
[] | Defiant-2M | 23,928.12 | 23,263.20 | 244 | 124 | Armored 7, Swift, Missile 6, AMS 20, Armor-Piercing |
[] | Defiant Refit 1.1 | 20,560.32 | 9,792 | 269 | 149 | Armored 7, Swift, Missile 5, AMS 12, Armor-Piercing |
Your grandson, incidentally, is starting his second season of go-kart racing, and you are making sure to take the time to attend his races. It gives you plenty of excuses to be with your grandkids after all! Your oldest granddaughter has been bugging her parents and you to be allowed to race like ‘big brother’ but she’s still too young according to the league. She certainly gets her pout face from Willis. You regally ignore all insinuations that she gets it from you.
The first of the luxury dropships for the line you are an investor in has been completed and has finished trials. She really is a beautiful machine, and her first trip is a highly profitable and successful one.
There’s a bit of a scandal on Pollux, where a dozen local government officials, almost a hundred teachers including almost the entire leadership of the local teacher’s union, and several dozen others have been indicted as part of a massive bribery and kickback scheme whereby the teachers had blackmailed parents with threats of reduced grades and disciplinary action against students unless said parents ‘contributed’ to various ‘charitable’ organizations that were run by the union and local officials, from which they all drew excess salaries.
Why does that continent and honest schools seem to have a ‘look but don’t touch’ relationship? The planetary government is quite upset about the situation and is threatening to thoroughly clean house of the entire system and replace everybody who even in the most tenuous possible way could have been involved, adjacent to those involved, or adjacent to those adjacent to those involved.
You decide to keep out of this unless it is brought officially to your attention.