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Mecha Merc

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The war has been a veritable feast for independent human and alien mercenaries. Not only are they hired by the military to combat personnel and force projection shortages, but the war has led to a number of minor conflicts springing up across local space as everyone with a grudge realizes that the "big boys" are otherwise occupied. Mercenary armies have found employment in planetary defense, fighting proxy wars, as military advisors and in special forces roles for worlds who have their own robust military. Some do their jobs as they're supposed to, but in far too many cases, the mercenaries hired to defend a world realize that they can make a far better profit turning on the very world that hired them and stripping it clean...
These unscrupulous military groups are often referred to as vultures, due to their tendency to pick the bones of already beleagered worlds clean.
Some of these groups turn small colonies into virtual slave camps, forcing the population into laborers, prostitutes, suppliers (especially of food and raw materials) and even using them as conscripts to bolster their numbers.
Sadly, the use of these tactics means that quite often the Vultures are the strongest mercenaries money can buy, and colonies have felt forced to hire them anyway, knowing their reputations, just in case their enemies hire someone equally strong. Those desperate colonies can only hope that these vultures fed well enough on their last prey to honor their contracts and leave them in peace when the job is done.
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She looks like a very nasty piece of work, this girl :lol: !

I wouldn't want to get on her bad side. It's a nice angle on this, looking up at the mech :)