Glasgow, Scotland, Abandoned Shipyard on the Clyde River
Rain beats against the rusty steel plates.
This dockyard, once the site where Empire warships were built, is now the secret training grounds for the "Scottish Self-Defense Army."
More than twenty former Highland Freedom Army members, former British Army Scottish soldiers, and three silent Mexican "advisors" are practicing in rain and mud on operating the "Javelin" man-portable air-defense missile—equipment provided at a "friendly price" by Mexico, claimed to be an improved version of the U.S.-made "Stinger."
Moira stands in an observation post, converted from a container, watching the clumsy figures below.
A young guy almost pointed the launch tube at his own people and was kicked into the mud by a Mexican advisor.
"It's still not working." She says into her headset, "Discipline is too loose. They're used to guerrilla warfare in the mountains and can't stand the regular army's way."
