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Highguard Lancers

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Disciplined, trained, rigorously adhering to principles of duty

Alert, focused, swiftly completing the task at hand

Sharp, neat, uniforms pressed and crisp

Courageous, brave, following their Captain into battle

Lances at the ready, armored, standing at attention

Form ranks! In a phalanx were the battalion

The Enemy's coming! Chitinous beasts with faces like monsters

Gauss rifles and plasma guns bearing down

Force lances returning fire from under cover

Slowly wearing the enemy down, shrieking as they fall

Calderans, ugly beasts like lizards or maybe bugs

Another wave bears down on their flanks

And the lancers bravely return fire

A Vedran, but not the empress, makes herself known

Phasing in and out and weaving through the battlefield

Taking out key positions and rallying the troops

Advance! Scatter their forces!

The assault is over, the enemy routed.

Another victorious day for the lancers.

All hail the High Guard!


"They died like highguard lancers, with their faces to the fire."
- author unknown

Nemo
02-01-2013
Hmm.... maybe not finished yet - needs a little more at the end maybe? What do you guys think?

This is my tribute to the best sci fi evar, Andromeda.
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I like it as it is, but I would love to see what you improve upon it with. :clap: