"Thanks for the warning," Roger says. "I'll keep it in mind- I've dealt with evangelical types before."

He has no idea exactly how fervent a Space Marine can get, mind. He'll have to find out the hard way.

"This is the part of Earth I was living in before the ship picked me up," he says. "This was a desert even before the atomic war my world had twenty years ago. It's the southwestern part of the country I used to live in. The Brotherhood of Steel takes our initiates out here for basic training missions before we move them on to the hard stuff. It used to be different in other places, though." He glances over the Tau armor. "That'd be desert gear you've got on, I'm guessing?"