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Scrapline Union · Vector

Gun Before Ware

He worked the cranes at the Yards. Then one of them came for him.

Panel 1 of 5. Young Vector hauls a heavy cable along a gantry walkway at the Yards, other dockworkers behind him in the rain.

The Yards, Catena. Before anyone called it a line.

Panel 2 of 5. Vector walks past a long queue of dockworkers outside a clinic with a syringe sign, a rifle over his shoulder.

Everyone in the Yards was saving for a splice.

He bought a rifle.

Panel 3 of 5. Vector fires his rifle from a braced stance as a rusted dock crane lunges at him in the rain.

VECTOR: Stance. Breathe. Again.

The Fringe.

Sound effect: KRAK

Panel 4 of 5. Recruits in union jackets copy the same braced rifle stance at a scrapyard range while Vector walks the line.

By the time he could afford the needle, half the Fringe was copying how he stood.

He never went back for it.

Panel 5 of 5. Close-up of an older Vector in the rain, goggles pushed up on his forehead, the dock lights behind him.

VECTOR: It's not my line. It's the line. Learn it.

Hundreds of Legends run the Vector line today. None of them is Vector.

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