SEVERUSMAX
Benevolent Master
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Sergeant Major Bill Slater of the Republican Front Militia had just taken the hundredth steel mill in the industrial district of Pittsburgh, PA. He was exhausted from days and weeks of street-to-street, house-to-house fighting. His platoon was down to 75% of its former strength and he was the commander now, even though he wasn't even an officer.
The latest group of Reds, however, showed just how desperate the Communists had gotten in their fight to hold onto the manufacturing powerhouse that was Pittsburgh. Most of the unit was composed of green, female conscripts who really didn't want to be fighting in the first place. They were local women, too.
Their commander and political officer were men, of course. The Communists, for all of their egalitarian talk, were no less chauvinistic about war than the other factions vying for control of the now divided and chaotic America.
The orders were clear. The entire unit was to be taken prisoner at once, until the future menace levels presented by each combatant had been classified and reported. They also had to be interrogated about the strength of the Army of the People's Republic of Pennsylvania.
One of the women looked particularly frightened, of course. Perhaps it was the propaganda that the Red had used to convince people that female soldiers were going to be raped if captured. Such misinformation was a calculated attempt to discourage women in the Red camp from surrendering to the Republican Front. First Secretary Kurt Wagner and his comrades knew well that the bulk of his female troops wanted to be elsewhere. Hell, that was true of most of his male troops, too, these days.
"Alright, we'll start with you, soldier. Name, rank, and serial number," Slater demanded, still following the formalities of the Geneva Convention, even if there were no longer global bodies to enforce them.
The latest group of Reds, however, showed just how desperate the Communists had gotten in their fight to hold onto the manufacturing powerhouse that was Pittsburgh. Most of the unit was composed of green, female conscripts who really didn't want to be fighting in the first place. They were local women, too.
Their commander and political officer were men, of course. The Communists, for all of their egalitarian talk, were no less chauvinistic about war than the other factions vying for control of the now divided and chaotic America.
The orders were clear. The entire unit was to be taken prisoner at once, until the future menace levels presented by each combatant had been classified and reported. They also had to be interrogated about the strength of the Army of the People's Republic of Pennsylvania.
One of the women looked particularly frightened, of course. Perhaps it was the propaganda that the Red had used to convince people that female soldiers were going to be raped if captured. Such misinformation was a calculated attempt to discourage women in the Red camp from surrendering to the Republican Front. First Secretary Kurt Wagner and his comrades knew well that the bulk of his female troops wanted to be elsewhere. Hell, that was true of most of his male troops, too, these days.
"Alright, we'll start with you, soldier. Name, rank, and serial number," Slater demanded, still following the formalities of the Geneva Convention, even if there were no longer global bodies to enforce them.
