They weren’t big on life skills at Manticore. Survival skills, sure. Take any resident of Terminal city and drop them in the middle of the desert with a compass and a knife and they’d come through fine. Except the arctic ops, anyway.

The first time was after the tentative truce that ended the siege of Terminal City. The National Guard performed the simple act of turning around, the act that took them from keeping the transgenics in Terminal City to keeping the rest of the world out wh