Jack of Harts

New Manhattan was the first time myself, Rosalie, and Rosalind hooked up after the Shang brought Yosemite Station down on us. We’d helped stop the bombardments, but there was still all kinds of damage all over. We helped in the cleanup, and we worked together to deal with some individuals who wanted to profit from the whole affair through less-than-legal means. It got a bit complicated, but we rolled the bad guys real good. Just like always. Those girls were amazing. I offered them a spot in the Cowboys right then and there. I wanted them on my team again real bad. They didn’t say yes, but they also didn’t say no. You could say they left me wanting more, but they promised to think about it. And they always followed through on a promise like that.

You need to understand that Rosalie and Rosalind really were identical twins. Some twins work hard to be different, to be individuals. Create different hairstyles. Study different subjects. Those two girls did not. Oh, Rosalind was a blue jean and t-shirt girl, while Rosalie went for pinks and blacks, but that was more for defensive coloration. I can’t tell you how many times one dressed up as the other to do something the other was supposed to do. Seriously. Can’t tell you. Even I had trouble telling them apart when they decided to get tricksie like that. And sometimes they went all black just to really confuse people. That’s how the name Rosa happened. It was short, at least one of them always answered to it, and when I had one, I had them both.

We Cowboys had been scattered all over the Core Worlds after the New Washington Winter Contingency, trying to stop more Shang bombardments from wiping us out. I came into the New New York system on the German cruiser Dresden in time to help defend that system. Myself, Rosalie, and Rosalind absolutely did not fight together, but we hooked up on New Manhattan after the Shang tucked their tails and ran. I started the whole affair by hugging Rosalie. Rosalind was dead and I wasn’t certain how to handle the cyber standing in her place, doncha know. Those two girls did not have an ounce of uncertainty though, and they put me in my place real quick. They were always good at that, and I loved them for it.