Grandma Carter returned to America in time to join the campaign that dealt with the Islamic State of Detroit. She doesn’t like to talk about that much. What she saw there. It always ends up going to how that should never have been allowed to happen on American soil when she does. We should have known better. Most of us DID know better. To which she would usually add a lesson about the sins of allowing small injustices to flourish. She always told me to do something if I saw something. Not to just say something and wait for someone else to get around to doing something. Do what I had to do. Right then. Be the change I had to be to. Because its up to all of us to keep another Detroit from happening. I’ve tried to live up to those words.
Grandma Carter was a genuine celebrity in the Republic of Texas after the Drug Wars ended. They sent her across the new Republic where she convinced local citizens to buy war bonds and help bring much needed money to the Texas government. And after the Convention of States reformed the federal government, they picked her to be part of the Texas contingent of America’s response to the Islamic Jihad raging in Europe and Africa. They sent her to Ethiopia, where she and her strike team fought the Islamic Brotherhood forces across Ethiopia and the Islamic State of Sudan. They were a true wrecking crew, and made real good friends with the Ethiopians as they helped drive the bad guys out. Some of those friendships still hold to today.
Grandma Carter is one of the small number of American military veterans who have purposefully and deliberately shot down fellow Americans in order to protect her fellow Americans. When the survivors of Cannon Air Force Base’s brief but bloody civil war officially declared their alignment with the Republic of Texas, she had the highest number of combat kills of any Osprey pilot on the Old Mexican-American border. That made her a top pick to join the Texas offensive against the Mexican Drug Lords, where she racked up more aerial kills. She gunned down a lot of defense drones while delivering strike teams to some of the hottest landing zones in Old Mexico. And she shot down more than one drug runner making for the old border before all was said and done.
Grandma Carter only had three kids, making her a bit of an underperformer compared to the rest of the family. It was about the ONLY way she underperformed. She joined the Air Force back when it was still a thing and flew Ospreys transporting Special Forces teams throughout the brushfire wars that paved the way for the Second Great Depression. She was on Ready Five when the Second Civil War came for Cannon Air Force Base, and she took to the air rather quicker than five minutes. That was a good thing since the “black helicopter” team coming for her base commander was hot to trot and ready to shoot without warning. She took down eight “enemy” Ospreys in fifteen minutes and saved a lot of good people. That was not the end of her service.
I will be demoing BattleTech Alpha Strike this coming Friday, 5PM, at Gamez and More in Rochester Minnesota, on the west end of River Center Plaza across from Silver Lake Shopping Center on North Broadway. Come on over if you want to play a quick game or two of Alpha Strike. I bring everything needed to play, so just bring yourself.

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