Goodbye LJ...
Feb. 20th, 2006 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This is just to make it official for those who don't know, but I'm leaving LJ completely. For the rest of this week at least. Tomorrow is the Bar Exam and it runs for three days, so don't expect to see me about at all until Thursday night. Or even until the weekend since I plan on spending Thursday after the Bar drunk and crying. No online time for me at all. *whines* It will be hard, but I know I can do it.
So, because I'm a total h0r like that, I am declaring this to be a spam post. Go ahead. Run wild! Give me fics, give me links, give me pics, just babble to your heart's content and rape my inbox so I have something to see when I finally DO come back to the wonderful world of LJ. I don't even care if you write me a drabble and post it one word at a time. XD;
Though, I've tried to make a spam post before and it failed a bit miserably, so I don't have very high expectations this time around. Feel free to prove me wrong though!
♥
So, because I'm a total h0r like that, I am declaring this to be a spam post. Go ahead. Run wild! Give me fics, give me links, give me pics, just babble to your heart's content and rape my inbox so I have something to see when I finally DO come back to the wonderful world of LJ. I don't even care if you write me a drabble and post it one word at a time. XD;
Though, I've tried to make a spam post before and it failed a bit miserably, so I don't have very high expectations this time around. Feel free to prove me wrong though!
♥
Re: Spoil of War, prologue
Date: 2006-02-27 11:13 pm (UTC)In some ways, the aftermath of a battle was chaos even more than the battle itself. The soldiers stayed in formation and fought with the crystal-clear knowledge of what to do and when to do it; Heero Yuy would allow no less under his division. But that iron-clad discipline vanished as soon as the last of the fighting died down, and a victory was even worse than a defeat. After a defeat the army could regroup and recover; after a victory, the ordered troops dissolved into teeming anarchy as the soldiers chose from among the goods their army claimed as rightful plunder. Senior officers chose before junior officers, and no-one could dispute that right, but squabbles and fights often broke out among soldiers of the same rank.
As General Chang’s second-in-command and the third highest ranking man in the army, Heero Yuy could have had his pick of the arms and armor, jewelry, and women that could be found in the defeated army’s encampment. It was plunder more than wages that paid a soldier’s way, and Heero Yuy could have been quite a rich man by now if he’d chosen to take advantage of it.