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[Amy West]

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Crowe,
fuck it, Everyone,

You know I'm not good with the soft shit, so I'll level: I owe each of you fuckin' loads for yesterday. Seeing my baby in dock outside my office felt like taking five years of stress off my back, and that's something I can't easily pay back. You can say 'you'd do this for any Legionnaire', and I believe you, but it won't cut it either. You've each given me my baby back, and I love you all for it.

Now, against my better judgement, I spent half the night when I should've been sleeping literally melting and hammering these out, and making them as good as I could with the excess I had available. Tungsten cores, electrum lining on the rims; They look fuckin' gorgeous, and I'm gonna feel it all through next week, but I don't care.

In light of exemplary performance, the following awards go out to:

---Lieutenant Yukiko Kikushima Hideyoshi is awarded the Veil of Steel and the Ven'Gyr's Wake. Drilled into each and every target in the area. You left your mark, both on their skulls and my heart. You're also elevated to Commander. Beautiful work. Fucking beautiful.
---Major Jan Levenko is awarded the Veil of Steel. You also seemed very fond of that rock given the combat footage I got to look over, so I asked one of the runners to grab me a chunk of it to fasten into your medal. Wear it well, Major.
---Major Bellamy Crowe is awarded the Veil of Steel, the Golden Halo, and the Phoenix's Tears. You've made me so god damn proud, kid, and each strike of the hammer hit like the gunshots you pumped into those bastards yesterday. On top of that, I've also got one last thing sitting in my office when you find the time and strength to come and pick it up. It doesn't have legs, so don't stress yourself, Bell.

I'm also buying a night's worth drinks for each of you that responded to the call yesterday, all proudly paid for by some random dork who won't be getting his fat corpo paycheck this week.
I'm so damn proud of all of you.

Libera te ex Infernis.

West, out.

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