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PART FORTY (Note: Approval for the republication of this work on The Sietch has been granted by the author.) The Phlegethon Bridge, Dysprosium Highway, Hell “Well, its not boiling blood.” Captain Keisha Stevenson looked at the scene through her electro-optics. It was one of almost pastoral...

PART THIRTY-NINE (Note: Approval for the republication of this work on The Sietch has been granted by the author.) Outer Ring, 7th Circle of Hell The voice was urgent, omnipresent. Corporal Tucker McElroy! Do you hear me? I hear you! McElroy screamed back in his mind. It wasn't because he...

Absolutely no argument there. Not just overreliance on our drones though; a blind assumption that other people won't either build better ones or think of really interesting counters to them. We've already lost one top-line drone when its flight system was hacked.

Alas poor demons . . . . This is the trouble with a static society; they get to be unable to understand that other societies may not be static. The US is beginning to develop this problem now; the US as a society is so used to having an overwhelming technical edge and combine that with a bland...

PART THIRTY-EIGHT (Note: Approval for the republication of this work on The Sietch has been granted by the author.) Camp Hell-Alpha. Martial Plain of Dysprosium, Hell “The dimensions are all screwed up.” Captain Keisha Stevenson was watching the mechanics remove the dust filters from...

PART THIRTY-SEVEN (Note: Approval for the republication of this work on The Sietch has been granted by the author.) Tartarus, outer borders of Hell Count Belial had long since stopped watching the bleak landscape roll past below. He had been flying for two days straight and even his inhuman...

There were several incidents of that sort including one where the guns fired on a reviewing stand (the resulting panic-stricken stampede causing several injuries and another where the guns would only point at the ground. In the case I saw, the latrine was on a reverse slope with only the roof...

It's more that the US Army has never fought in a situation where it doesn't have at least air dominance and more usually air supremacy. They've never really had to worry about air attack on a sustained basis. Now, though, they do. The harpies drove helicopters from the battlefield in a few...

I like the way you think :D The artillery trick was actually used during the Second World War although mechanical timing was used to calculate the time of the explosion rather than electronic. Nuclear-tipped surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles used a similar mechanism. One of the weaknesses...

PART THIRTY-SIX (Note: Approval for the republication of this work on The Sietch has been granted by the author.) Section Twelve, DIMO(N), Fort Bragg, North Carolina “Let’s start with weapons. Jerry?” “In Helljar-One, that’s the one simulating the normal Hell-place environment, it’s the...

In the final analysis, Luga is loyal only to herself but she is also aware that simple prudence demands she keep herself in a position where she can jump ship either way so that she ends up on the winning side. So, having established a reasonable (albeit insecure) position with the humans, she...

PART THIRTY-FIVE (Note: Approval for the republication of this work on The Sietch has been granted by the author.) Palace of Asmodeus, City of Dis. Hell “Explain yourself.” Asmodeus’s voice was unforgiving. The subject of his displeasure was cringing on the floor, trying to think of some...

PART THIRTY-FOUR (Note: Approval for the republication of this work on The Sietch has been granted by the author.) Private Quarters, Palace of Satan, Dis, Hell Satan contemplated the goblet of wine in front of him and sighed moodily. Then he grabbed the orc servitor that had brought him the...

More names the better! :D Most of an insurgency movement is to create the idea that there is widespread opposition. So the same small group of people turning up under different is good. We had that back in the 1980s when the various terrorist groups in Europe turned out to be the same small...

PART THIRTY-THREE (Note: Approval for the republication of this work on The Sietch has been granted by the author.) Swamps by the River Styx, Fifth Ring, Hell Okeraphluxos looked over the swamp from his castle. It was small, of course, just as he was a minor duke; he owed his fealty to...

I know. Shouldn't be in short supply, should they? :devilish: Seriously, finding suitable factories was one of the things I used to do years ago.

PART THIRTY-TWO (Note: Approval for the republication of this work on The Sietch has been granted by the author.) Headquarters, Multi-National Force, Baghdad, Iraq “Well, they’re human.” “You have got to be kidding us. There’s no way those things are human.” Dr Surlethe settled back in the...

Well, he couldn't be less truthful could he ;)

That's very true; a lot of such gestures are commonplace for the same reason. Touching a cap allegedly dates from the days of visored helmets and lifting the visor so one can be recognized. Shaking hands puts both participants weapon-hand out of play. A modern one is wearing a jacket...

PART THIRTY-ONE (Note: Approval for the republication of this work on The Sietch has been granted by the author.) Army Training Centre, Cultybraggan, near Stirling, Scotland. Warrant Officer Class II William Bell watched with some satisfaction as the company he had helped train entered the...