Fleet. Emperor Hsian felt that the Empire’s continued existence depended on free access to the resources of the Terran League. Unless the League was part of the Empire, the Emperor felt that there was a possibility that the Terrans would close their borders to the Empire. —

‘The Emperor did not wish to launch a full-scale invasion, how- ever. “The Empire,” he said, “is a benevolent one.” The Em- pire was also desperately trying to stop the Second Dreknor Inva- sion, as it was called. The Em- pire’s generals suggested a raid,

perhaps on one of the Terran bor- der worlds, to demonstrate the Emperor’s displeasure at the Ter- rans’ answer. The Emperor liked the idea, but he thought that the Terrans should be witness to a larger demonstration of Impe- rial might than a raid on a bor- der world. The Emperor se- lected Terra to be the target for the proposed raid. A company of Imperial Marines was tasked with conducting the raid. A month was spent studying what data was available on the Sol sys- tem. Preparations complete, the marines boarded a scoutship and began the dangerous journey to Terra.

Four tense weeks later, the Imperial scoutship Surveyor ar- rived at the Sol system after mak- ing a series of jumps to uninhab- ited star systems. Immediately upon arrival, the Surveyor acti- vated its force-screens, making it invisible to the Terrans’ detec- tion apparatus. After refueling from Sol’s gas giant, the Surveyor dispatched her three shuttlecraft carrying the marines to Terra.

Utilizing sophisticated jam- ming equipment installed for this mission, the shuttlecraft made an undetected approach. Landing in remote areas, the shuttlecraft debarked their troops and pro- ceeded to hide at the bottom of one of Terra’s oceans. :

So it was that Kryor found himself on a planet that, in his opinion, had too much water on its surface and in its atmo- sphere. Kryor’s homeworld was more desert and rock than any- thing else. Only ten percent of its surface was water. Enough day- dreaming, he thought. Back to the mission.

He looked to his left and saw that Yres was finishing the equipment check. I'll just have barely enough time to complete

my own. Kryor told his suit’s mini-computer to run a systems check while he began a manual check, just to be sure. After an incident that occurred on the Dreknor front a year and a half ago, Kryor always performed a manual check. In that incident,

a marine relied solely on his com- puter to do a systems check be- fore going into battle and paid for it. A faulty logic circuit re- ported all systems green when in reality his power pack was run- ning low. In the midst of bat- tle, his suit ran out of power and froze. Before the marine even had a chance to try and force his way out manually, a Dreknor Shock- Trooper ripped his suit open and killed him.

Kryor’s armour was standard- issue Imperial Battle Armour. Two meters tall and one and a half times as wide as the aver- age human, the PAB-V3 was the latest in battlefield technology. Powered by a small, highly effi- cient energy pack, this humanoid shaped armour was capable of three hundred hours of contin- uous operations in any environ- ment. The soldier inside was pro- tected by several centimeters of dual-layer armour. The first layer was semi-reflective and was de- signed to partially deflect incom- ing fire from energy weapons, as well as to absorb some of the ki- netic energy from these weapons. The second layer was designed to stop projectile weapons and to act as a backup for the first layer, even though it was not reflective.

The front torso came equipped with magnetic mounts to secure the soldier’s personal weapon when the terrain required both hands to be free, as well as numerous places for a variety of things from extra power packs for the soldier’s pulse rifle to medical supplies or rations.

The helmet had a visor made of hyper-polarized transparent armour. This allowed the sol- dier to observe his surroundings visually as well as by sensors, and protected him from the in- tensity of laser-light. The in- side of the helmet was padded to absorb shock and was equipped’ with neural sensors. These sen- sors were tied directly to the mini-computer and allowed the armour to function as if it were part of the soldier’s body; all the soldier had to do was to move a muscle, and the armour would respond the same way a human body would. Another feature of the helmet was that it projected a Heads-Up Display on the visor.

An anti-gravity thruster pack was mounted in the center of the rear torso. The thruster pack al- lowed the armour to“float” one foot above the ground. It drew power from its own power pack, and was capable of attaining a cruising speed of 20 km/h for three hundred hours, and a max- imum speed of 40 km/h for half as long. In extreme emergencies, it could attain a top speed of 60 km/h, but this had the result of

burning out the field generators

in one to two hours, rendering the thruster pack useless.

“Check complete, sir,” Yres said. “Everything’s fine.”

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weapons: section in the middle, third squad on the flanks.”

“Right, sir. Alright people you heard the man, move it!” Un- der Yres’ not too gentle urging, the platoon deployed in record time. No one wanted to incur the sergeant’s wrath.

When they had finished .de- ploying, Kryor signalled them for- ward. The marines, visible only as black hulks in the darkness, floated silently north across the field towards their target, one hundred kilometers away.

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University of P.E.1. Equivalent courses

201 & 202 Accounting

102 Macroeconomies

101 Microeconomics &

221 Statistics

221 Statistics &

252 Quantitative Methods

301 & 302 Accounting

300 Accounting

411 Cost Accounting I &

412 Cost Accounting II

331 Financial Management I & 332 Financial Management II 101 Introduction to Computers 202 Information Systems

400 Auditing

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