Exosquad Saga 2 Note: This story will be chaulk full of spelling/grammar errors...so please overlook them and try to give the story a chance. I will be going out on a limb on this line of story telling of the Exosquad story. These new stories of the Exsquad Saga ignore the events just right after the retaking of Earth from the Neosapiens and Phaeton's opressive regime(As much as I hate to say it, but the alien ship looked kind of corny....looking like fish w/ no style at all. This new version is fast-fowarded 35 yrs after the 'Terran-Neosapien War'(In the story it will be refered to as 'The War')which cost over a billion Terran and Neo lives. The Exofleet has disentagrated into a military force that has many disturbing secrets and involves itself in many 'black box' operations(Remind you of the CIA). Definitely not the knight in shining armor it was during The War. Here are some events happening simutaniously in the setting. -Revolutionaries are fighting the oppressive Martian Confederacy. The Rebels are looked at as 'terrorists' by the other Homeworlds, but the Conderacy seems to have some secrets of their own. -The terra forming of Mercury for a new Neosapien gov't not connected to the Empire of The War. It's pretty much the same as Venus, except w/ a stronger ozone layer to protect it from the sun. -Newly 'Japanimation' like e-frame designed for space conflict are replacing the older ones that won The War. Cast of Characters Marko Jax-son of Nara Burns Jax, the war hero on Venus. Leader of Able Squad Born an invilid, he didn't start speaking until the age of 9. He's another born leader(like someone else we know) from his experinces in the Jump Troop department even though he's 27 yrs. At the beginning of the Saga he's on trial for disobeying orders in order to save children on Mars from certain death. In the process 2 others w/ him got killed in the attempt. More details are to be provided later. Alice Norretti-taken from The War, her premature death was a yr into The War while on a mission w/ Marsh, De Leon, and Marsala to earth to adquire data on the GRAF shield; her chute didn't open and her pod crash landed on the ground. 2 yrs later her DNA from the crash site was used to create a Neo female w/ a human shell. She was sent to Venus to assasinate Adm Winfield. Her frame was destroyed w/ her in it. Instead she bailed and fearing for her life went deep into the Ventian forest lands. Due to her Neo organs, Norretti is 35 yrs old and still retains the same apperance as when she was first interducted in the first series. More detail to be provided later. Bradley Erikson- from Mercury. A humorous guy for every situation, included the not-so-good situations. His expertise is the genius ability to fix and repair virtually anything, and in some cases make it even better. His humor shines through w/ the happyface on the right shoulder of his frame. Singh Mummad(name subject to change)-from India she is the first Middle Eastern woman to be assign a sargents position in Exofleet history, especially at the are of 25 yrs. She very defensive about her culture since she had to have her hair cut in order to avoid having it interfere in combat. She is very cool underfire. Larcen Maddax-a fully blooded pirate by birth, as seen be the tatoo of a skull on his left bicep administered to him at birth. He has vicious mood swings and can barely be tolerated by is own Able Squad. As later it is learned that this behavior is not pertained to the pirate's stereotypical actions back on planet Chaos. More details to be provided later in the Saga. Praxis-a Neo cloned just to be a soldier at the tail end when earth was retaken. After The War the cloning of Neos ended(a crime now punishable by death) after the last brood was produced w/ the ability to bear children. He joined the Exofleet Reserves full time in order to have something to do. When thrown into this conflict down in the story he as some deep dark secrets that are uncovered. Dimitri Maximoff-Russian, though w/ an accent, can speak English. Also he can speak Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and ten other foreign langauges fluently as the intelligence officer of Able Squad. He is very apprehinsive about his opinions about how his comrades think of him since Russia, even centuries later, is still politically unstable. Jenna Rengard-an orphan all her life, all she has is her name and a DNA scan that tells her she's approx. 22yrs. She's rough, tough, and ready to go in combat. She's very edgy, especially when talking about the 'terrorists' from Mars after losing her fellow cadets in a terrorist attack. More detail will be provided later. One more is certain to join....But that's later in the story. Expect the Saga 2 to begin in September 1998! Be sure and give it a chance! Email responses to magneto47@hotmail.com