As an aside, my military experience may or may not show through in this game... a lot.<br/><br/>A tour usually means being deployed to combat. 'Three active tours' would mean maybe a year and a half in a combat zone. More or less could be accurate- since the Mandalorians and Republic's first battle was two years ago in Vanquo, at 3964 BY.<br/><br/>Can't think of a term for four years' service unless you just mean enlistments in general. As I imagined it, the Republic is rapidly moving from a disparate 'local militia' style military where sectors are essentially autonomously responsible for their own defense... into a highly centralized machine similar to the WWII-era US. A draft is likely being repeatedly brought to the senate floor, but has been voted down every time.<br/><br/>Pg. 80 of the Galaxy at War book has a silly little list of military jargon, mostly for the clone wars. My favorite is 'Blue Milk Run' and 'Party favors'...<br/><br/>Also, add your armor bonus to Fort.  ;)<br/><br/>Also, also; Merryn's pink-ish, not blue. :P<br/><br/>Also also also, I added one small paragraph because I realized late last night that I neglected to mention anything really about their surroundings. I've suddenly gotten quite sick, so I'm calling johns though I still feel bad for not giving Nory a proper que.. x_x<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">They were in a public park, a place of artificial beauty surrounded by lanes of speeder traffic. A few people were milling around around them, but this was supposed to be an out-of-the-way meeting place.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>