"Meghan's life story surprisingly have quite uninteresting beginning, she was the the only daughter of a powerful lord from the Undying Forge satellite cities, her father is the legendary Lord Agamemnon Ashdown, a veteran commander of 32 wars for the Undying Forge and his own city, renowed by his skill and bitternes on battle and remarkable chivalrous behavior on social life,Agamemnon was an always harsh with his sons, teaching them from early age the virtues of a true warrior and the correct behavior for a gentleman, but he was completely different with his only daughter, he was sweet and caring ,spoiling her with all kinds of gifts and toys a rich girl can dream of, her brothers once reached the proper age where all trained on the art of mech fight, a quite commom practice on the Forge's noble families, while Meghan was merely introduced to the practice, she received a necromechanical implant on her neck to be able to interface with complex machines but she was never suposed to fight, her father would never risk his precious little girl on a battlefild filled with abominations like the ones he was used to fight.
While her brothers were fighting bitter wars against the demonic Brass Lords or the disgusting bug menace getting horrible wounds and having limbs torn apart, Meghan was having a bohemian high life on Valencia where she fell in love with a musician wich who she married and had 5 children, she eventually returned to her home in the Forge and continued with festive and artistic routine easily maintained by her family's whealth...But that was about to end...on a fatidic day her father and brothers were summoned to war once again, a call that they proudly and euphorically honored, at first she didn't cared, she was aware of her family prowes for battle, as the only able lady on the family she did the rituals of blessing the warmachines and wished good luck on their campain. while they were out she took care of the administrative particularities of their hold,everything was looking perfectly fine, until a week later when on airship returned to the hold, bringing Agamemnon grievously wounded, the family patriarch was defeated in battle, his already heavyly augmented body was in tatters, the entire city was in shock, their most skilled defender was now in bed struggling to survive, no one knew how to react, meghan was also in shock, but she had to break the spell she was the only noble in charge and she had to act, she immedialy ordered everyone to return to their duties and her father's warmachine to be repaired, she claimed that her brothers would won the war even without their father, so everything would be fine.
Her predictions were sadly wrong...week after week the radio brough news about their brothers falling in battle, her last brother to fall was the older one, his last transmission to home before being surrounded and devoured alive by the bugs was "TOGETHER WE HOLD!" their family warcry, even in grief Meghan tried to keep her ground and maintain order in the city, she tried to contact the Undying Forge for reinfocemnts, but their comunications were sabotaged by political enemies, her city was isolated, then she went to her husband to urge him to unite the city and fight as the only male in conditions to do so, he being an absolute coward ran away from the city with his mistress, a burlesque dancer wich he was having an affair for months already.
Meghan finally broke,she was betrayed, alone and desperate, in few days the bug horde would march over her city and devour everything she knew and loved, her children, her familiars and friends would all be consumed by the mindless devourers, she hide on a corner and cried like when she was a little girl, in this hopless moment her cry atracted the atention of a unexpected savior...Victor her youngest son, a 7 year old boy full of energy and enthusiasm, an avid fan of the great warmachines, found her crying in the corner and questioned her:
"Mom? why are you there?why are you crying? the bugs are coming! mom we have to get the machines and crush the bugs! let's go do like grandpa did!we get the big mech and we stomp that cockroaches!lets go mom!"
At first she wanted him to keep quiet and leave her alone, but soon that naive enthusiasm touched her, seeing her little son being so eager to fight brought back her fight spirit,and the fortitude to defend her family, she rose from her corner and immedilay ran to the mech hangars and ordered to all the egineers to load and arm every single warmachine avayable, then she ordered to all the all wall mounted guns to prepared and crewed and in the end she asked her bravest pilot to fly a plane and locate the bug horde,the daredevil pilot returned soon with the location of the bug horde, they had around 15 hours before their arrival,The city's morale was restored, the battle cry "together we hold!" was exalted in every street, with the spirits high one by one the huge warmachines left their hangar bays marching outside the walls, the last one and the largest one to leave the hangar was Brutus, Agamemnon favourite mech, now piloted by Meghan, the mechanical monster was positioned in front of all the other warmachines like king ready to lead his army.
soon the disgusting bug foe showed their faces, flooding from the horizon like a plague of locusts, eager to eat everything on their path, the valiant pilots of the air force made the vanguard, droping bombs over the horde and engaging and destroying the winged bugs on the skies, then was time for artilhery, raining death obliterating the thick hides of the bugs ,soon the simphony of wall guns joined the fray with their song of lasers , canons and gauss weapons, and by the last the monstruous squads of mechs opened fire upon the bugs,Meghan didn't know very well what she was doing, since she was not well trained to fight especially with such complex and huge machine, but she was doing her best, she was remembering the war stories her father used to told her, the painfully detailed descriptions of his actions that once bored her where now vital advice on how to survive.
The battle took half a day, in the end the walls suffered only a small breach, all the planes were lost, a third of the wall guns melted of overuse and from the initial 28 mechs only 13 survived, betewen them was Brutus, Meghan was alive and joyous with their victory but she was exausted, almost 12 hours of battle was too much for that middle aged bohemian mother, when she was marching back to the city she was aborded by a journalist who wanted to take a glorious picture of their triumphant victory, a proud lady like her wouldnt let the world see her in such poor conditions, so she cleaned herself as best a shw could and called her young son Victor to take a picture with her, they posed in front of a mech with the flag of their city flying high and stomping in the head of dead bug.
That picture become so famous that it reached all corners of the civilized world,Meghan the bug crusher became a legendary figure in the minds of the people, in Valencia she became a simbol of female power and independence, she became a adventure book character and theres alredy 2 movies featuring her story,in the Undying forge she became a symbol for the fight against the bugs, her face is in posters and recruitment propaganda, hundreds of ladies tried their luck to become mech pilots like her, they all want to be like Meghan, and her astonishing beauty also brought many young lads to the fray,in the end her effort and courage not just saved her city and her family but also motivated many to do the same." (The Traveler)
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this one took a while to finish, and tsill theres o many details to fix xwx
please not me about any grammatical errors on the text
While her brothers were fighting bitter wars against the demonic Brass Lords or the disgusting bug menace getting horrible wounds and having limbs torn apart, Meghan was having a bohemian high life on Valencia where she fell in love with a musician wich who she married and had 5 children, she eventually returned to her home in the Forge and continued with festive and artistic routine easily maintained by her family's whealth...But that was about to end...on a fatidic day her father and brothers were summoned to war once again, a call that they proudly and euphorically honored, at first she didn't cared, she was aware of her family prowes for battle, as the only able lady on the family she did the rituals of blessing the warmachines and wished good luck on their campain. while they were out she took care of the administrative particularities of their hold,everything was looking perfectly fine, until a week later when on airship returned to the hold, bringing Agamemnon grievously wounded, the family patriarch was defeated in battle, his already heavyly augmented body was in tatters, the entire city was in shock, their most skilled defender was now in bed struggling to survive, no one knew how to react, meghan was also in shock, but she had to break the spell she was the only noble in charge and she had to act, she immedialy ordered everyone to return to their duties and her father's warmachine to be repaired, she claimed that her brothers would won the war even without their father, so everything would be fine.
Her predictions were sadly wrong...week after week the radio brough news about their brothers falling in battle, her last brother to fall was the older one, his last transmission to home before being surrounded and devoured alive by the bugs was "TOGETHER WE HOLD!" their family warcry, even in grief Meghan tried to keep her ground and maintain order in the city, she tried to contact the Undying Forge for reinfocemnts, but their comunications were sabotaged by political enemies, her city was isolated, then she went to her husband to urge him to unite the city and fight as the only male in conditions to do so, he being an absolute coward ran away from the city with his mistress, a burlesque dancer wich he was having an affair for months already.
Meghan finally broke,she was betrayed, alone and desperate, in few days the bug horde would march over her city and devour everything she knew and loved, her children, her familiars and friends would all be consumed by the mindless devourers, she hide on a corner and cried like when she was a little girl, in this hopless moment her cry atracted the atention of a unexpected savior...Victor her youngest son, a 7 year old boy full of energy and enthusiasm, an avid fan of the great warmachines, found her crying in the corner and questioned her:
"Mom? why are you there?why are you crying? the bugs are coming! mom we have to get the machines and crush the bugs! let's go do like grandpa did!we get the big mech and we stomp that cockroaches!lets go mom!"
At first she wanted him to keep quiet and leave her alone, but soon that naive enthusiasm touched her, seeing her little son being so eager to fight brought back her fight spirit,and the fortitude to defend her family, she rose from her corner and immedilay ran to the mech hangars and ordered to all the egineers to load and arm every single warmachine avayable, then she ordered to all the all wall mounted guns to prepared and crewed and in the end she asked her bravest pilot to fly a plane and locate the bug horde,the daredevil pilot returned soon with the location of the bug horde, they had around 15 hours before their arrival,The city's morale was restored, the battle cry "together we hold!" was exalted in every street, with the spirits high one by one the huge warmachines left their hangar bays marching outside the walls, the last one and the largest one to leave the hangar was Brutus, Agamemnon favourite mech, now piloted by Meghan, the mechanical monster was positioned in front of all the other warmachines like king ready to lead his army.
soon the disgusting bug foe showed their faces, flooding from the horizon like a plague of locusts, eager to eat everything on their path, the valiant pilots of the air force made the vanguard, droping bombs over the horde and engaging and destroying the winged bugs on the skies, then was time for artilhery, raining death obliterating the thick hides of the bugs ,soon the simphony of wall guns joined the fray with their song of lasers , canons and gauss weapons, and by the last the monstruous squads of mechs opened fire upon the bugs,Meghan didn't know very well what she was doing, since she was not well trained to fight especially with such complex and huge machine, but she was doing her best, she was remembering the war stories her father used to told her, the painfully detailed descriptions of his actions that once bored her where now vital advice on how to survive.
The battle took half a day, in the end the walls suffered only a small breach, all the planes were lost, a third of the wall guns melted of overuse and from the initial 28 mechs only 13 survived, betewen them was Brutus, Meghan was alive and joyous with their victory but she was exausted, almost 12 hours of battle was too much for that middle aged bohemian mother, when she was marching back to the city she was aborded by a journalist who wanted to take a glorious picture of their triumphant victory, a proud lady like her wouldnt let the world see her in such poor conditions, so she cleaned herself as best a shw could and called her young son Victor to take a picture with her, they posed in front of a mech with the flag of their city flying high and stomping in the head of dead bug.
That picture become so famous that it reached all corners of the civilized world,Meghan the bug crusher became a legendary figure in the minds of the people, in Valencia she became a simbol of female power and independence, she became a adventure book character and theres alredy 2 movies featuring her story,in the Undying forge she became a symbol for the fight against the bugs, her face is in posters and recruitment propaganda, hundreds of ladies tried their luck to become mech pilots like her, they all want to be like Meghan, and her astonishing beauty also brought many young lads to the fray,in the end her effort and courage not just saved her city and her family but also motivated many to do the same." (The Traveler)
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this one took a while to finish, and tsill theres o many details to fix xwx
please not me about any grammatical errors on the text
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