HomebodiesChapter 4
It was 2145 hours local time, 119 minutes past the late summer sunset, when an AVTOL-60 from CVS flew over the ruins of Sacramento at an altitude of five hundred meters and a speed of eighty meters per second. Inside were the ten marines of fire team C of second platoon, commanded by Sergeant Ixican Vladco, or Ix, as he was known. With the marines were two mechanical engineers, two electrical engineers, and, because CVS protocol dictated that a medic be attached to an assignment of this...