Chapter 5 – The SLICE Mark 4
“Hurry up, Fielding.”
“Get that thing on.”
“You're slowing us down.”
The other men of the platoon—many of whom were sixteen-year-old boys fresh out of Space Camp—similarly chided him.
Jerry moved faster, trying to get his gravpack on. It seemed like everyone in the infantry airlock was watching him now. It wasn't entirely fair. He'd never trained on the Mark 4, and now he was trying to figure it out on the fly.
The first spaceborne Agrarian soldiers had worn conventional spacesuits to which was attached a sort of backpack containing a small grav engine. Those backpacks were called gravpacks. Over the years, more advanced fighting suits had been developed, and the gravpack had been incorporated into the suit itself, making it all one piece. The name “gravp
