Atlas 0.25 - Caterpillar [Short Story] - Isaac Hooke

Category: Adults, Sci-Fi
Language: EnglishKeywords: Mech Wars
Written by Isaac Hooke
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged
My name’s Mason. I don’t have a callsign, not yet. I’m just a caterpillar. A baby moth.
I joined up because, well, I’ve always wanted to pilot an ATLAS mech. What can I say? We’re talking three meters of pure, mobile destructive power here. A thousand hydraulically actuated joints. Head-mounted sensor package with built in LIDAR, night vision, flash vision, zoom. Crash protection. Jump jets. Active protection countermeasures. Swappable weaponry. Deployable ballistic shield.
Sound like the war machine of your dreams?
It is.
I finally got my chance to pilot one of these babies on a little deployment out in Mongolia.
Under a rather unusual set of circumstances…
My name’s Mason. I don’t have a callsign, not yet. I’m just a caterpillar. A baby moth.

I joined up because, well, I’ve always wanted to pilot an ATLAS mech. What can I say? We’re talking three meters of pure, mobile destructive power here. A thousand hydraulically actuated joints. Head-mounted sensor package with built in LIDAR, night vision, flash vision, zoom. Crash protection. Jump jets. Active protection countermeasures. Swappable weaponry. Deployable ballistic shield.

Sound like the war machine of your dreams?

It is.

I finally got my chance to pilot one of these babies on a little deployment out in Mongolia.

Under a rather unusual set of circumstances…