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===Serving Onboard USS Plutonian===
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Spider’s time on the USS Plutonian was marked by constant strife on the frontier, though nothing as horrible brutal as the Xenolithe war. He spent years first as the Squad XO, then as the Squad CO, and finally as the Chief Combat Engineer of the Ship. It was a learning experience, lots of small battles on nameless planets. 

During the last year of his service on the Plutonian, he took Command Training and became the Company Second Officer; the Marine Commanding Officer took him under his wing and taught him all the ins and outs of commanding a ship full of grunts who tended to think with their emotions rather then their heads. That training served him well and his own squad-level command improved as his grasp of the greater politics of the Corps grew and strengthened. 

It was during this time that he first met and served with Then 1st Lieutenant Straton, a firebrande of a woman who was gung-ho into the Marines. They became fast friends after a couple incidents where Straton’s quick tongue rubbed Spider the wrong way, and they saved each-others lives at least a half dozen times apiece. The day she was transferred off-ship was one of Spider’s saddest, she had been an excellent officer and exceptional Marine, and one of the few people he trusted implicitly.

He was eventually tapped by the War College and Parris Island for rotation back to Earth as a part-time instructor of Combat Engineering. He accepted this move gracefully, but only because he would maintain command of the Fallen Angels. The entire squad was transferred to Mars, and Spider was given the position of CCE over all Combat Engineers tasked with defending the Utopia Planitia Fleet Shipyards.

Whereas it would mean he would be guarding a facility, rather then dealing death as was his job, it was a much needed opportunity to rest; both for him and his squad. It was also an opportunity to teach some hard-learned tactics from the fringe to Marines who aspired to be what he had become: A hardened killer.

Spider and his squad caught a ride back to Earth on a Gryphon Class Transport (A Sod Hopper) with the rest of the usual crew rotation and quickly found themselves stationed on Mars.