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Meridian Combine · Captain Hale

Sixty Percent

The only Meridian officer who ever sounds tired.

Panel 1 of 5. Hale, grey-haired, in white-and-gold armour, leads a Meridian Security squad down a ruined street toward a glowing crack in the ground.

Meridian Security, the purge years.

Hale ran the squad that cleaned up after Legends.

Panel 2 of 5. Hale stands alone at the edge of a breach scar, red light spilling up from the crack, his squad blurred behind him.

Then he looked directly at what a breach scar actually holds.

Panel 3 of 5. Hale slides a file across a boardroom table to silhouetted executives, the city in the rain behind them.

HALE: Register them and they live. Purge them and we all go down faster.

He came back down and argued for licenses instead of bullets.

Panel 4 of 5. At a checkpoint under a scanner arch, Hale hands a card to a young woman while officers watch from a booth.

HALE: Keep it renewed. Keep breathing.

Panel 5 of 5. Hale alone on a balcony high above the city at night, tired, a handheld scanner at his side.

He tells sixty percent of what he knows. Always.

He carries the other forty alone.

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