Part 812: Let's Read: D.R.T. - Part 4
Lets Read: D.R.T. Part 4: What a bitchThis chapter opens with a picture.
Well, ok, last chapter ended with this picture but it belongs in Chapter 6 so whatever.
Chapter 6
Nadir Jump Point, Luthien
Draconis Combine
16 February, 3057
Welcome back guys, its been a long four months.
Apparently the trip to Luthien was uneventful, which apparently was quietly dreaded. By whom? Jeremiah Rose of course.
Anyway, because House Kurita is trying to hide whos going to Wolcott from the Smoke Jaguars (who I guarantee dont give a shit), Rose and company arent allowed to talk with anyone outside their mercenary company / Captain McClouds dropship crew. Now, the logical person might assume that this isnt a problem since nobody in the Black Thorns have any family except Jeremiah Rose (and the only family he cares about is right there with him), but for some reason the lack of contact with the outside world has everyone grumpy.
And by everyone I mean Jeremiah Rose is annoyed that he cant gloat at the Highlanders. Everyone else pretty much keeps busy and oh shit. Riannon is the viewpoint character. Goddamn it.
Ok, nevermind, the scene shifts to Jeremiahs perspective and he spergs out for three pages about Luthiens recharge station and how rare those are. We then learn that Reannon wont arrive for another fourteen hours so not only did we unexpectedly shift perspectives we jumped thirty light years to do it.
They dock, and the senior staff are invited. That means Rose, McCloud, and someone else pretty much at random. I kinda want them to bring Badicus OShea, but the huge angry scottsman from Samurai Jack hasnt gotten any face-time so far. No, Im calling it now, Rose is going to bring Antioch Bell. Meanwhile, Riannon will dock alongside them in bay Rhoku.
Rhoku? I think you mean Roku, book. At least Roku is Japanese for six. Sometimes.
Anyway, turns out I was wrong, only Rose and McCloud are going. Rose thought about bringing Antioch, but believe me going without him would be just the same as going with him since he has less personality than a cardboard standee.
So Rose spends a lot of time thinking about McCloud and their on again, off again relationship. You declared your lover for each other in the last book and there havent been any rocks you havent put there yourself, Jeremiah. Stop being a condescending douchebag andoh. Great.
D.R.T. posted:
Do you think Im under-dressed? McClouds question brought Rose out of his reverie.
Under-dressed? No, I dont think so. Unlike Rose, Rachel McCloud had no formal dress uniform. She normally wore spacer coveralls or very casual attire. Rose smiled to himself, thinking that the formal wear she did own would have raised every eye on the station, as well as the blood pressure of all the males.
Ok, blatant oversexualization? Check. I can kinda forgive it since they are in a relationship, but honestly its just pandering. And second
The Black Thorns have a dress uniform?
WHY DO THE BLACK THORNS HAVE A DRESS UNIFORM?!
Ok, thread challenge for fifty bonus points: Design the Black Thorns Dress Uniform. Make it as Space 90s as possible.
Right, the book. Sorry, Im getting distracted because this chapter is boring as hell. Anyway, were introduced to Uroshi, a Kurita character who exists solely to lead people through the station because the hallways are all identical and therere no signs or markings because
Im sorry, getting potential rescue crews lost in your space station is a terrible idea. The Clans know those stations, the Clans have a dozen of them. The Clans can build more.
THEY are not going to get lost, Theodore. Your soldiers? Some of the most inept in the Inner Sphere. Theyll certainly get lost. So yes, I refuse to believe this is actually a security feature. Most likely, House Kurita just has crews painting this part of the station and Jeremiah Rose is just a gullible idiot.
Even Rose is so bored of this chapter hes thinking about other things right now. Mostly hes thinking about his future with Captain McCloud, which will be especially poignant when he gets trapped behind enemy lines in twenty chapters and has to
Anyway, Rose is slightly miffed to find out that the two people here to hand him his marching orders are both Chu-sa rank or, quoth Jeremiah, roughly equivalent to a light colonel in the Davion system.
Anyway, Chu-sa Langley and Vaynes start talking and Rose immediately suspects a problem. We then find out that the Smoke Jaguars are spawn camping Wolcott and killing anyone who pops into the system, so theyre using pirate points and extreme security measures and is this chapter over yet? Anyway, Rose listens but
Ahahahahahaha!
Jeremiah Fucking Rose doesnt know what a pirate point is, so Captain McCloud has to explain it to him in
If that isnt proof enough of Riannons uselessness, nothing is.
Chapter 7
Nadir Jump Point, Luthien
Draconis Combine
16 February, 3057
McCloud is pissed. Jeremiah tries to explain things to her, but since hes a simpleton it doesnt go well. McCloud is so pissed shes turning purple and veiny, which of course Jeremiah notices but politely refuses to comment on I guess? Anyway, Jeremiah gradually calms her down and she accepts an ISF crew since theyre mostly gunners except for the guy whos going to sit on the bridge ready
Anyway, McCloud storms off and Jeremiah then apologizes for her being a complete bitch, even though her reaction is pretty understandable while Rose is a sociopath. Fortunately, House Kuritas colonels are sociopaths too so they chuckle. We then find out that McCloud basically has the ISF agents sleep at the gun stations, which they seem perfectly ok with.
Rose then conducts a staff meeting and tells everyone to go sit in their `Mechs for the jump just incase the dropship gets hit so, yknow. They can die slowly over the course of multiple days of drifting in deep space rather than in a few minutes when they suffocate on hard vacuum. Then the chapter ends.
And yknow what, goons? Aside from this and the last chapter, the books been moving at a pretty quick pace so far. Next chapter well even be on Wolcott!
So remind me again why Im reading this when itll take us until Chapter 19 to get to anything somewhat interesting?