<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/MWIrUP2.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Jacob Cole<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Fleuka/City<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open<br/><strong>Doing:</strong>Trying to get out of the City, Mountains = Safety<br/><br/>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>Towards the city center, a new Apartment complex was being put together via prefabricated modules that were being delivered from A Galran factory that used to make the warships that struck fear into the hearts of the galaxy. Yet, before these modules the land still needed to be cleared, and leveled, before the modules could be erected. In an enormous bulldozer (https://i.imgur.com/MWIrUP2.jpg), a human man sat at the controls pushing to clear the spot of property. Pushing the excess dirt, and rocks towards the Northwest corner where Power shovels would load the refuse onto Hover dump trucks to be hauled out of the city. The ancient guitar riffs of the Rolling Stones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wCUlPNlQuA) playing away in pair of wireless earbuds. His head bobbing lightly to the rhythm of the song. All in all, a peaceful day in the city.<br/><br/>Jacob Cole arrived here about six Earth months prior in search of work closer to the less "Civilized" frontier. Hoping being so far away would make construction work easier to find as contractors won't have the availability to Automatons to do the work. So far he was able to scrape by and send some credits home to his family. But living in a dingy studio apartment certainly didn't appeal to the ladies.<br/><br/>All hell had suddenly broken loose when the City defenses went on High Alert. People began to scramble as defensive turrets began to raise up from their stowed positions to fire upon the Altean Medium Cruiser that just exited FTL space. Many of the citizens were rushing towards shelters, or gathering what material wealth they could scrounge before they themselves escaped. Others took the opportunity to loot, and pillage. Using the chaos of the descending drones, and their Altean overlords to distract from their petty criminal activity.<br/><br/>"The fuck!?" Jacob barked as the ground quaked with the concussion of heavy missiles that struck about a block away. Leaning out of the Cab of the dozer, he saw the sky filled with Altean fighters, and landers descending on large comet trails of fire. "Sheet." He hissed as he heard the screams from the civilians as they started to run down the street away from the landers, and fighters. Sure there were several brave souls that tried to stand and fight, but they were cut down all too quickly by the drones that poured out of the landers.<br/><br/>Jacob's mind raced as he thought on what to do. if he stayed there, he would be captured or worse, killed. Yet just running was looking less, and less like an option as the Alteans seemed to take glee in cutting down innocent Civilians. Though the scene that spurred him into action was a small group of civilians huddling in an alcove. Mothers clutching children, several men trying to put up a brave front, but there was little they could do cause of intense fire coming down the road.<br/><br/>Jacob's body seemed to move before he even willed it. He pulled on the transmission lever into first, thick black clouds of suit broiled out of the stacks as the catapillar tracks clawed into the earth, pulling the nearly 200 ton earth mover forward. Jacob raised the blade to prevent it from catching on anything and slowing him down. The large engine roared defiantly as he charged forward.<br/><br/>The group cried out in fear though an enormous shadow bloated out the sun. One of the Mothers looked up to see the enormous construction equipment moving between them, and the approaching Altean drones. The Drone's lasers striking against the massive blade of the Dozer unit. The group heard shouting, and saw a human male from the cab yelling at them, and pointing back behind the dozer. He was pointing towards the mountains.<br/><br/>"HURRY! GET TO THE MOUNTAINS! I'LL COVER YOUR ESCAPE!" Jacob shouted. He didn't know why, but every fiber of his being screamed that the mountains were a safe haven. though he never could recall noticing the mountains before.<br/><br/>The group didn't have to be told twice. They ducked out of the Alcove, and started to run down the street. Quickly others that Jacob had not seen hiding began to duck out all under the cover of the Dozer's thick hide. He would wait till they got about a hundred feet behind him before he started to back up the bulldozer to cover their retreat. The blade held high enough to prevent the myriad of Laser blasts from getting past into the group of Civilians fleeing from behind.