Hired guns, briefly

Usage examples of mercs.

What if the mercs just run off and leave us to the untender mercies of the ISC?

It was found on the course the mercs told us to check, right where the ship should have been.

The other is with the mercs, for carrying the passengers they assigned her, the officers of the other ships they interned temporarily.

Add three minutes to the time the mercs had already spent in Slime Zone and what you got was torpor, fading rapidly into death.

The mercs and their hostage would be either facedown on the concrete, having succumbed to the lethal effects of the agrobacteria, or they would be visible, easy targets running up the tunnel ahead.

There's no way they could bring off the sort of things the mercs done.

I may notve run a Council House barely truebut I dont guess its a lot different from a company of mercs.

Among mercs, the Lady Renaeka was notorious for her parsimony, a hardfistedness which didn't seem to extend to her dresses—the pounced green silk that made her stand out from the soberly dressed Councilors like a peacock among ravens must have cost seventy gold pieces, several times what one of the dyers in her employ would have made in his life.

Most mercs got along, as Pritchard did, with muscle-powered come-alongs for their hold baggage.

And while he'd learned as a boy to stand on his hands, and even walk on them, the mercs kipped up and planched into handstands on horizontal and parallel bars.