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Budget Minions

(First posted on a Google+ SF Nanofic community for a competition.) The green army stretched into the distance, three feet tall. “You see the problem?” “You wanta greenjack-fab, you gotta. By them, works, innit?” “And you don’t see any flaws here?” “Works. More ‘an, not part of the deal.

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Surrounded By These

The guards were greenjacks. For those of you, gentle readers, who aren’t familiar with the term, it’s a gutter-Trade form of the Eldraeic tragrían jaqef (“plant servile”). They’re bioroids, a rough bipedal form hacked together out of freelibs and bootleg genetic sequences hung off a carbon-composite frame,