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“What’s this about?” [[Joxer]] asked. | “What’s this about?” [[Joxer]] asked. | ||
The [[Titan]] sat across from the rogue [[Lightbearer]] known only as the [[The Drifter (character)|Drifter]]. Between them, unloaded rifles, hand cannons, and Last City food wrappers lay strewn across [[the Derelict]]’s rusty deck. Joxer could feel the ship’s engines humming under his boots, reverberating throughout the chamber. | The [[Titan (class)|Titan]] sat across from the rogue [[Lightbearer]] known only as the [[The Drifter (character)|Drifter]]. Between them, unloaded rifles, hand cannons, and Last City food wrappers lay strewn across [[the Derelict]]’s rusty deck. Joxer could feel the ship’s engines humming under his boots, reverberating throughout the chamber. | ||
“Think of this as a job interview,” Drifter replied. “I got a whole new operation about to come online, and Gambit was training for it. You’re one of the best candidates I got.” | “Think of this as a job interview,” Drifter replied. “I got a whole new operation about to come online, and Gambit was training for it. You’re one of the best candidates I got.” | ||
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They call themselves [[Hunter]]s. Scouts. Survivors scavenging from races older and nobler—so that their people might rebuild what they’ve lost. | They call themselves [[Hunter]]s. Scouts. Survivors scavenging from races older and nobler—so that their people might rebuild what they’ve lost. | ||
They call themselves [[Titan]]s. Soldiers. Killers—slaying the enemies of humanity so that their City might live one more day. | They call themselves [[Titan (class)|Titan]]s. Soldiers. Killers—slaying the enemies of humanity so that their City might live one more day. | ||
They call themselves [[Warlock]]s. Martial philosophers. Harbingers of Light. Scholars searching for meaning when all is already lost. Their machine god abandoned them long ago. | They call themselves [[Warlock]]s. Martial philosophers. Harbingers of Light. Scholars searching for meaning when all is already lost. Their machine god abandoned them long ago. | ||
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[[Jasleen]] was nine cycles old. She stared out from the top of a hill across a blasted, ashen landscape. This morning, this had been her village. Before the [[Fallen]] [[Ketch]] and its [[Fallen Walker|Walkers]] arrived. Those were equally ruined, reduced to a trio of smoldering, metallic husks at the center of town. | [[Jasleen]] was nine cycles old. She stared out from the top of a hill across a blasted, ashen landscape. This morning, this had been her village. Before the [[Fallen]] [[Ketch]] and its [[Fallen Walker|Walkers]] arrived. Those were equally ruined, reduced to a trio of smoldering, metallic husks at the center of town. | ||
But Jasleen was alive, and so were her parents, and her neighbors too, thanks to the [[Titan]] who patrolled the region. | But Jasleen was alive, and so were her parents, and her neighbors too, thanks to the [[Titan (class)|Titan]] who patrolled the region. | ||
That [[Lightbearer]], a giant in an iron suit, watched curiously as her father tried in vain to smoke a fire into existence. Her mother stared in silence at the burning ash that used to be their home. | That [[Lightbearer]], a giant in an iron suit, watched curiously as her father tried in vain to smoke a fire into existence. Her mother stared in silence at the burning ash that used to be their home. | ||