Chapter One - MIA
Brutto stuck the data reader into its accommodating slot and clicked the button he needed - making sure that the casualty and MIA lists were downloading onto it. Whenever a new list was out, and up on the screen for general viewing, one of the Roughnecks would get the list and then check it for specific names that the others had given them. As he waited for the download, Max checked for his own friends, people he had known in boot, breathing a sigh of relief when he found none of them on there. Someone moved the list across to check names of their own and Max rounded on them with an angry scowl, when a name grabbed his attention - a name and a highly unusual, singular rank.
BAXTER, ELLEN Tophetian Medic Specialist
His fingers reached forward uncertainly, hoping to find out a little more, aware of T'Phai's friendship with the doctor and the computer enlarged her image. Her smiling face seemed so out of place, Baxter, Ellen besides her image and her rank was just to the side of her. Three letters flashed underneath her picture, M.I.A. He snatched at the now ready reader. He knew how much T'Phai would want to find out the information that he had gained - as he turned to leave two more words flickered up under her tag of MIA;
PRESUMED DEAD.
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Brutto stuck the data reader into its accommodating slot and clicked the button he needed - making sure that the casualty and MIA lists were downloading onto it. Whenever a new list was out, and up on the screen for general viewing, one of the Roughnecks would get the list and then check it for specific names that the others had given them. As he waited for the download, Max checked for his own friends, people he had known in boot, breathing a sigh of relief when he found none of them on there. Someone moved the list across to check names of their own and Max rounded on them with an angry scowl, when a name grabbed his attention - a name and a highly unusual, singular rank.
BAXTER, ELLEN Tophetian Medic Specialist
His fingers reached forward uncertainly, hoping to find out a little more, aware of T'Phai's friendship with the doctor and the computer enlarged her image. Her smiling face seemed so out of place, Baxter, Ellen besides her image and her rank was just to the side of her. Three letters flashed underneath her picture, M.I.A. He snatched at the now ready reader. He knew how much T'Phai would want to find out the information that he had gained - as he turned to leave two more words flickered up under her tag of MIA;
PRESUMED DEAD.
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