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The western gate was our primary gate, so it seemed to attract the most attention. I could see the wall stretching off into the distance, with the towers every so often. We also had teams patrolling the fence on foot, horse, or cart. We constantly had eyes on every part of the fence, to make sure those things didn't break through.
                  After checking with the gate captain and being informed that no issues had been reported, I then headed out to the small farm we had, followed by the livestock farm. All seemed well with everyone, other than it was difficult to grow anything. Several small gardens spread around the base were doing ok though. That was expected of course, this ground wasn't exactly farm friendly. The chickens seemed to be doing well at least.
                  I then turned and headed back towards the ship. It was getting close to noon and I wanted to check on the progress of the loading. I also needed to get that volunteer list from Roger and see if everyone who volunteered was capable. I passed through the northern gate of the pier and made my way back towards the ship.
                  Leaving my cart near the aft elevators, I headed up to the Operations office. I walked in and Roger looked up from his reports.
                  "You managed to get quite a few volunteers yesterday. I know you were only looking for 20, but I had over 50 sign up. Here is the list, and skills sheets on everyone. Would you like to choose the ones going?" Roger asked, handing me a stack of papers.
                  "That's a lot more than I expected. How many of them are good with a sword? Ammo is going be in short supply for this mission, so they will need to be at least decent."
                  "That would be most of them actually. I have been training people as often as I can, and a few are almost as good as you or me. I think one or two might even be better." Roger said, chuckling.
                  "Good. They are going for sure then. I'll go over this list, and pick the ones going. I'll be in my office if you need me. I'll make my decision soon." I said. I headed out of his office and up to the bridge.
                  "OOD, I want the cruisers loaded today and ready for cast off at 0800 tomorrow. I will be making my decision on the volunteer list for the ground crews shortly. Please make sure all preparations are completed tonight. I'll be down in my office." I expected the orders would be passed on and everything would be set. I then headed down to my office.
                  The first thing I looked at was if any of these men had families. I checked everything from marksmanship scores, any skills they had, and sword competency from Roger. It looked like most of them would be qualified for this mission and survive easily. I spent the next 2 hours looking them over, debating, and finally chose the final 20, with five backups on each team, just in case. I called the bridge to have them paged to the conference room, and went to inform them they were going.
                  As I walked in 20 minutes later, I saw most of them there already. Another ten minutes and the last of them showed up.
                  "Now that everyone is here, let's get started. First off, I wanted to say thank you all for volunteering. This should be a fairly easy mission overall, but I want everyone to be safe. You were all picked on several criteria. First, while many of you are excellent sharpshooters, you are all also proficient with a sword. Since we don't know how strong the infected presence is up there, and ammo is going to be in short supply for you, plenty of swords will be available. I don't want anyone firing a gun if you can help it, to help keep them off of you as much as possible. Your job will be to watch and protect the engineers as they are installing the solar panels and such, and the demolition guys as