*CLICK CLICK*
"Next!"
The lady stared at me, with a I hate this job look. I mean I would to if all I did was stamp personal identification numbers on thousands of papers a week.
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See the world has changed a lot. After The Great invasion of 2456, the world leaders decided to create one centralized Government to fight our new "friends" the Cavhuons. I know y'all aren't here for a history lesson so I'll keep it short, they invaded earth we came together, cheated extinction yet again, yada yada, now we are one of the top super powers in the universe.
The UNIVERSE, I know even now with light speed travel no one can wrap their head around how big it is and yes it does eventually end. Atleast there's a huge asteroid belt that no space craft can navigate through. The Guardian Alliance even put a program together to try to bomb their way through it, I guess quadrillion of light speed square miles isn't enough room for their greediness.
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"Excuse me young man are you stoopid? I said next!"
She yelled at me, calling me out for no reason.
"No mam, just nervous" I replied.
See I'm joining the Space Marines, just like my father. Although I never got to meet him, he died before I was born. killed by a Delithigan, nasty creatures from planet forthmonth. They are 10 feet tall, lanky and have no facial features except for a mouth which was filled with sharp jagged teeth and a long tung. And as of my mother, well she died while giving birth to me.
The government placed me in a military home, where all the kids go whose parents died at war and had no one else to take care of them. It actually happened a lot since we never aren't at war. I'm convinced when the Guardian Alliance kills everything else they will eventually start killing each other.
"Here's your ticket, go wait for your shuttle over there"
[flight departure: 14:56 2635-11-15]
[flight arrival: 14:56 2635-11-16]
YAY! A whole day of warping through space!! That was sarcasm of course. I was headed to planet #15, which was a huge Space Marine training planet where I was fixing to spend the next three years of my life learning how to kill anything and everything.
My father was a Recon Marine. They went in small teams to scout out a new planet that hasn't been explored before. They are elite troops with years of training, it's one of the most dangerous jobs. You never know what kind of creatures dwell there, with new kinds of venoms or abilities we have never seen before. One wrong move and BOOM your dead. However I had an almost natural draw to be just like my father, a warrior through and through. Even though I never knew him he seemed to be an inspiring man, I want to be just like him.
"WILLIAM!! Over here come sit with me"