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Catastrophe Unlimited

Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without

written permission from the publisher.

Catastrophe Unlimited is produced by Harebrained Schemes.

www.harebrained-schemes.com

Cover art by Marco Mazzoni.

Licensing by Microsoft.

Catastrophe Unlimited

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MICHAEL STACKPOLE

Catastrophe Unlimited

Chapter One

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Fallville, Solaris VII (The Game World)

Rahneshire, Lyran Commonwealth

28 April 3001

“Spurs,

cut left.

Locust

on your

six.”

Walter de Mesnil wrenched his COM-3A

Commando

around to his left. He let the golden crosshairs drift over the

Locust’s

bird-legged silhouette, but it came fast and he had trouble tracking it. After

what seemed like forever, the dot at the heart of the aiming reticle blinked

boldly, and he squeezed his triggers.

The short-range missile launcher in the middle of his humanoid

’Mech’s

chest launched a salvo of six missiles. Two of them hit, blasting the armor off

the

Locust’s

left-wing weapon pod. A second salvo, from the SRM in the

Commando’s

right arm, hit full on, peppering explosions across the

Locust’s

center and right torso. A wave of heat washed up through

Walter’s

cockpit as

the

Commando’s

medium laser turned armor on the

Locust’s

right wing into slag.

The angry scarlet light carried on through the evaporating armor and sparked

a red glow in the

Locust’s

ferro-titanium bones, but left its weaponry intact.

Sorry, Spurs.

The

Locust

sported small and medium lasers in its pods, and it trained all

of them on

Spurs’s

Wasp.

Red beams flashed out. A medium and a small laser

melted the armor on the right side of the

Wasp’s

chest, though they burned

through to the interior without destroying anything vital. The other medium

laser sliced away all the

Wasp’s

armor on its left leg. The last small laser carved

a black crescent on the

Wasp’s

right shoulder.

The damage done

hadn’t

been enough to seriously hamper the

Wasp,

but

the pilot

wasn’t

experienced enough to handle all the flashing lights and

warning sounds echoing in the cockpit. Still, the

Wasp

brought its weapons in

line with the

Locust

and fired back. Spurs missed wide with the medium laser,

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