“They had both volunteered for the job, Ripper because he believed in the value of a good, secure perimeter, and Stasiak because he was glad of a chance to get away from the Investigator. He’d heard a lot of stories about the Empire’s most renowned assassins, and now that he’d met Frost he was ready to believe a lot of things he hadn’t before. Investigators were the Empire’s elite, trained to deal with situations too dangerous or too complex for ordinary troops. Their speciality lay in dealing w...ith new alien species. They would study the aliens in depth, work out how best to exploit, enslave, or destroy them, and then lead the mission that would bring the alien world into the Empire, one way or another. They were unparalleled fighters, cold and calculating strategists, unstoppable by anything but death. They were said to be as strange and inhuman as the aliens they studied, and Stasiak believed it. Just being around Frost made his skin crawl.The two marines moved slowly round the boundary of the landing pads, setting down proximity mines at regular intervals and priming them to detonate the moment anything approached within the designated distance.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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