"Last time I checked it sure as heck was," says the Engineer. "Might be one of the isolated patches, but it's still Earth anyway."
"Oh, we're just a harmless ol' firm that does a heck of a lot of infrastructure work in places other companies won't go, and if you believe that then I've got a couple of salt caves on McIlhenny Island to sell you." He flashes a crooked little smile. "We work in war zones, is the point. And, well, sometimes we're doing the work, and sometimes we're doing the war. Today we're doing the war. We've got about fifteen minutes before the folks over at Reliable Excavation Demolition HQ start comin' over the bridge looking to relieve us of our locally gathered, correlated, and analyzed intelligence data."
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Date: 2008-12-08 08:43 pm (UTC)"Oh, we're just a harmless ol' firm that does a heck of a lot of infrastructure work in places other companies won't go, and if you believe that then I've got a couple of salt caves on McIlhenny Island to sell you." He flashes a crooked little smile. "We work in war zones, is the point. And, well, sometimes we're doing the work, and sometimes we're doing the war. Today we're doing the war. We've got about fifteen minutes before the folks over at Reliable Excavation Demolition HQ start comin' over the bridge looking to relieve us of our locally gathered, correlated, and analyzed intelligence data."