learning to migraine inducing levels. Pain is an excellent motivator though because it makes you remember. The General wasn’t trying to cause harm but he had priorities.
On top of that, my workouts with Robert went from twice a week to twice a day. He had been holding back on me, and I was starting to feel the increased regiment by workout number three. If not for the nanites I would have been constantly bruised and bloodied. Even with them, it took a couple of weeks to get past the soreness of the new enhanced workout routine. I think he was pushing them to the upper limits while the General did the same to my mind.
Once the General was satisfied I had my head wrapped around global logistics to a passable level, he shipped me off to the DLF training facility near Tycho Crater. The DLF or Defense of Luna Force was the police on Luna. Not as though one was needed, not like on most planets. Looneys do not call for help preferring to take care of things themselves. The DLF dealt with the possibility of someone thinking invasion was a good idea. Anybody thinking so was in for a bad time. Looneys had no problem hunkering down, venting a dome, and then picking off anyone stupid enough to try one by one until they ran out of air, water, or food.
But the DLF was a sort of a first and last line of defense. They maintained the defensive arrays and were able to go head to head in land-based combat if they ever had to. Their mission was different, but the training was directly comparable to the Legion. No one really attacked the moon, though, so most of the DLF’s time was spent as something more akin to beat cops. They were part of the community and maintained a sort of brand awareness. The best kind of policing is being visible. The vast majority of criminals fall under the stupid or lazy category. By having the DLF cops seen, Luna avoided a megatonne of problems. Additionally, when everyone and their cousin was invested in the well-being of the domes, most issues don’t happen. Not to say Luna didn’t have its own share of turmoil, but Looneys took a direct view of handling it.
Most of their members were militia, reserve types. Luna has a two-year mandatory service requirement. It didn’t have to be military as service could be done in almost any sector, and many folks knocked it out doing janitorial before they reached their majority at eighteen. Looneys viewed Citizenship as coming with obligations, including a payback for education, training, and just breathing. People like the General had completed theirs through the Diplomatic Corps. It turned out Lysha was a qualified ship mechanic and others opted for the DLF, mainly because they offer genemod.
Genemod or genetic modification is where the scientists tweak the DNA sequences a bit. It gives us humans a few advantages. The big one people are familiar with is gravity acclimation. The human body adapted to grow in Terra’s gravity, what most people refer to as normal grav. That’s 9.81 m/s², but someone spending their entire life in 1.62 m/s², like the moon, and they aren't really fit to travel anywhere else.
With the right kind of genemod and intensive training, a person ends up insanely strong, fast, and able to travel anywhere without having to worry about it. This is something Terrans take for granted, but Looneys have to think about. Folks like the General didn’t need same types of acclimation, so visiting anywhere with more gravity than Luna became a huge issue. Lysha had gone through some of it during her payback because mechanics need to have a good amount of physical strength even in low-g. But Luna treated the process as an investment as a strong Citizenry is a strong Nation. For others gravity isn’t really a big deal most of the time. Tech helps and all, but something as simple as wanting to go on vacation becomes infinitely more complex for folks from low-g worlds.
On top of acclimation are immunities. Some humans have a predisposition towards
On top of that, my workouts with Robert went from twice a week to twice a day. He had been holding back on me, and I was starting to feel the increased regiment by workout number three. If not for the nanites I would have been constantly bruised and bloodied. Even with them, it took a couple of weeks to get past the soreness of the new enhanced workout routine. I think he was pushing them to the upper limits while the General did the same to my mind.
Once the General was satisfied I had my head wrapped around global logistics to a passable level, he shipped me off to the DLF training facility near Tycho Crater. The DLF or Defense of Luna Force was the police on Luna. Not as though one was needed, not like on most planets. Looneys do not call for help preferring to take care of things themselves. The DLF dealt with the possibility of someone thinking invasion was a good idea. Anybody thinking so was in for a bad time. Looneys had no problem hunkering down, venting a dome, and then picking off anyone stupid enough to try one by one until they ran out of air, water, or food.
But the DLF was a sort of a first and last line of defense. They maintained the defensive arrays and were able to go head to head in land-based combat if they ever had to. Their mission was different, but the training was directly comparable to the Legion. No one really attacked the moon, though, so most of the DLF’s time was spent as something more akin to beat cops. They were part of the community and maintained a sort of brand awareness. The best kind of policing is being visible. The vast majority of criminals fall under the stupid or lazy category. By having the DLF cops seen, Luna avoided a megatonne of problems. Additionally, when everyone and their cousin was invested in the well-being of the domes, most issues don’t happen. Not to say Luna didn’t have its own share of turmoil, but Looneys took a direct view of handling it.
Most of their members were militia, reserve types. Luna has a two-year mandatory service requirement. It didn’t have to be military as service could be done in almost any sector, and many folks knocked it out doing janitorial before they reached their majority at eighteen. Looneys viewed Citizenship as coming with obligations, including a payback for education, training, and just breathing. People like the General had completed theirs through the Diplomatic Corps. It turned out Lysha was a qualified ship mechanic and others opted for the DLF, mainly because they offer genemod.
Genemod or genetic modification is where the scientists tweak the DNA sequences a bit. It gives us humans a few advantages. The big one people are familiar with is gravity acclimation. The human body adapted to grow in Terra’s gravity, what most people refer to as normal grav. That’s 9.81 m/s², but someone spending their entire life in 1.62 m/s², like the moon, and they aren't really fit to travel anywhere else.
With the right kind of genemod and intensive training, a person ends up insanely strong, fast, and able to travel anywhere without having to worry about it. This is something Terrans take for granted, but Looneys have to think about. Folks like the General didn’t need same types of acclimation, so visiting anywhere with more gravity than Luna became a huge issue. Lysha had gone through some of it during her payback because mechanics need to have a good amount of physical strength even in low-g. But Luna treated the process as an investment as a strong Citizenry is a strong Nation. For others gravity isn’t really a big deal most of the time. Tech helps and all, but something as simple as wanting to go on vacation becomes infinitely more complex for folks from low-g worlds.
On top of acclimation are immunities. Some humans have a predisposition towards
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