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Powered exoskeletons
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After dinner, washing pots and pans at Clear Creek, polishing the poles and then folding and packing them up, Lucio and Nola Franks said goodbye and put on their helmets and came out of the tent for a walk along the creek.

"That's natural, it's incumbent on you to save lives." Lucio replied as a matter of course.

After another ten meters of leading the group inward, Lucio suddenly stopped in his tracks as a deep, bottomless gully actually stopped the group in its tracks. There was no more road ahead, and they had to dangle downward into the gully. The creature was a strong climber and could go down casually, but they couldn't.

"Ensign Segovia, contact Trevino in a hurry and tell his to bring someone over." Whitney said with a stony face, opening his bracelet id as he did so, his five fingers clicking rapidly on the holo-screen, unsure of what he was doing.

Somehow this march had been quiet in the jungle, and for five or six days in a row, he hadn't even run into a single insect or pre
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