Coming through double translation, Mason wasn’t sure he was getting the gist of all of it, but from what he could tell the number of militants had doubled since the initial offer had been made that had prompted the Lieutenant to come out to Tieor. They were set up in a confiscated complex that had originally been a livestock processing plant, but had killed off the surrounding herds and were using it for their headquarters while they raped and pillaged, literally, the surrounding cities. The local defense force had been killed earlier, having gone up against the militants and been beaten badly over four years ago. With no resolution to the matter and the militants gradually reaching out to more and more distant cities, the locals had put together a fund to hire someone to come in and clean up the mess before it got any worse. Those mercs they hired, which were on the very low end of the respectability ladder, took their money and ran. It had been another two years since that point, with the militant base expanding and setting up the planet as a haven for more and more offworlders to come to, escalating to the point where they were running rough shot over most of the planet.
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