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Down on his luck [[mercenary]] Quarrel Hamilton is approached on Galatea by a smartly dressed and rake thin grifter with a walking stick. Offering the name Mykaellie, they note Hamilton as being recommended as having the right mix of skills and ethical flexibility to assist them with a "shotgun divorce". Directing him to clean-up before meeting their potential employer, Mykaellie provides Hamilton with a uniform which he instantly recognizes as being a cheap [[Capellan Confederation|Capellan]] Halloween knock-off of the [[Kell Hounds]] dress uniform, but they evasively states its just part of a ploy to mislead their employer into believing Hamilton has a history with that famous but destroyed command.
 
Down on his luck [[mercenary]] Quarrel Hamilton is approached on Galatea by a smartly dressed and rake thin grifter with a walking stick. Offering the name Mykaellie, they note Hamilton as being recommended as having the right mix of skills and ethical flexibility to assist them with a "shotgun divorce". Directing him to clean-up before meeting their potential employer, Mykaellie provides Hamilton with a uniform which he instantly recognizes as being a cheap [[Capellan Confederation|Capellan]] Halloween knock-off of the [[Kell Hounds]] dress uniform, but they evasively states its just part of a ploy to mislead their employer into believing Hamilton has a history with that famous but destroyed command.
  
Accompanying Mykaellie to the bar of the Nova Royale hotel, Hamilton meets with Ephram Wheeler of agrobusiness [[Wheeler Systems Limited]] who explains that his idealistic 17-year old daughter Chloe has run off with an itinerant AgroMech piloting farmhand and has need of Hamilton's supposed unit, who Mkyaellie dubs the "Red Death" but Hamilton quickly renames the "[[Death Kangaroos]]" in response to the poor rendering of the hound on the knock-off Kell Hound uniform's insignia. With Mykaellie steering the conversation back on topic Hamilton agrees to quietly deal with the corrupt Wheeler's little problem without getting the authorities involved. As the pair split up, Hamilton meets with his streetwise companion Savannah and asks her to dig a little into the much larger con Mykaellie is surely running.
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Accompanying Mykaellie to the bar of the Nova Royale hotel, Hamilton meets with Ephram Wheeler of agrobusiness [[Wheelers Systems Limited]] who explains that his idealistic 17-year old daughter Chloe has run off with an itinerant AgroMech piloting farmhand and has need of Hamilton's supposed unit, who Mkyaellie dubs the "Red Death" but Hamilton quickly renames the "[[Death Kangaroos]]" in response to the poor rendering of the hound on the knock-off Kell Hound uniform's insignia. With Mykaellie steering the conversation back on topic Hamilton agrees to quietly deal with the corrupt Wheeler's little problem without getting the authorities involved. As the pair split up, Hamilton meets with his streetwise companion Savannah and asks her to dig a little into the much larger con Mykaellie is surely running.
  
 
Hamilton and Mykaellie meet the next morning to agree upon a plan, Hamilton to distract and overcome the AgroMechs guarding Wheeler's captured lake-side cabin while Mykaellie spirits the young Chloe away. Spotting Hamilton just enough money to fix his ''Commando'''s disintegrating hip joint, he completes the required repairs to meet with Mykaellie that evening. Announcing his approach to the Wheeler's "cabin", in truth a palatial estate, Hamilton also discovers that seeded among the [[FrankenMech|ramshackle]] AgroMechs is a ''Hatchetman'' with its signature [[hatchet]] converted into a sickle. Though able to defeat the other AgroMechs while Mykaellie is able to flee with Chloe, the outmatched Hamilton desperately plays cat and mouse with his heavier opponent until the ''Hatchetman'' walks through the cabin and unexpectedly puts its right foot through the floor into Wheeler's whisky cellar, snapping its leg off and trapping the 'Mech.
 
Hamilton and Mykaellie meet the next morning to agree upon a plan, Hamilton to distract and overcome the AgroMechs guarding Wheeler's captured lake-side cabin while Mykaellie spirits the young Chloe away. Spotting Hamilton just enough money to fix his ''Commando'''s disintegrating hip joint, he completes the required repairs to meet with Mykaellie that evening. Announcing his approach to the Wheeler's "cabin", in truth a palatial estate, Hamilton also discovers that seeded among the [[FrankenMech|ramshackle]] AgroMechs is a ''Hatchetman'' with its signature [[hatchet]] converted into a sickle. Though able to defeat the other AgroMechs while Mykaellie is able to flee with Chloe, the outmatched Hamilton desperately plays cat and mouse with his heavier opponent until the ''Hatchetman'' walks through the cabin and unexpectedly puts its right foot through the floor into Wheeler's whisky cellar, snapping its leg off and trapping the 'Mech.

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