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I can see how this fits directly into A Lonely Machine. Should the two be combined? The difference is that this Roger doesn't seem to know that he is a machine.

If you are going to have this as the beginnings of an android soldier universe, you may want to consider having this incident not being Roger and Elliot. It could be any two ground pounders, or for that matter any two soldiers. I'd be tempted to have the inhumanly driving and pushing platoon leader be actually not human. Just an idea, kind of a backwards twist. Usually we think of the line soldiers as being the expendable piece of high tech, but really isn't it the human lives that end up being tossed away? Each infantry soldier is what, about $75,000 from walking into Basic to getting deployed? That's around $3,000,000 for a platoon. Having one super leader to push them beyond what would be considered possible and always give exactly the right orders at all times might be worth it.