{"id":582,"date":"2013-10-07T22:51:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T04:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winter-publishing.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2013-10-07T22:52:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T04:52:26","slug":"582","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/2013\/10\/07\/582\/","title":{"rendered":"Commander Zal&#8217;rak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be a player on the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic. I still miss all my friends on there and how much fun we had. In honor of those times, I post this, from Zal&#8217;s, my republic trooper&#8217;s, point-of-view.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The weight of the heavy weapon rested against her armored back. The gun was nearly as big as her\u2014and that was saying something. The trooper clad in white armor stepped a few steps forward, the snow crunching beneath armored boots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll fit right in here, Commander.\u201d spoke her lieutenant, covered in oddly painted armor. Both had helmets pulled over their faces, the Commander\u2019s holding a visor over the blue screen over her eyes and splitting like a T with roots by her mouth. The emotionless mask turned to her lieutenant, a smile hidden beneath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll just follow the brilliantly painted trooper, Lieutenant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lieutenant let out a soft laugh and the Commander turned back to gaze over the endless white.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I fall through the snow, Lieutenant, please save me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, Commander.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood. Let\u2019s go, Lieutenant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommander, if I may.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt ease, Lieutenant.\u201d The Commander started walking through the snow, the heavy blaster weighing the Commander down along with the heavy amount of armor. Zal&#8217;rak sunk significantly lower than the Lieutenant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, Sir, you have that new group you\u2019ve joined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorrect, Lieutenant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSir, well, where will that put the rest of your squad?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will continue to lead them, Lieutenant. I won\u2019t abandon the other boys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, Commander. But, well, Sir, will we be brought into this company as well?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot unless you wish to be part of it, Lieutenant. But you and the other boys are my responsibility. I am loyal to you first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommander, I didn\u2019t mean\u2014Commander!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSave the gun first, Lieutenant,\u201d the Commander grumbled as the weight of muscle forced the snow to the armpits of the armor. Zal&#8217;rak pulled the gun off its place of rest on the back armor plate and lifted it up. It made the snow rise up further to the shoulder-plates of the armor,\u00a0 but keeping the gun as clean as possible was the first concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be a player on the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic. I still miss all my friends on there and how much fun we had. In honor of those times, I post this, from Zal&#8217;s, my republic trooper&#8217;s, point-of-view. &nbsp; The weight of the heavy weapon rested&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[116,12,117,120,98,9,119,118,115],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s27tjX-582","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}