"Squads A and B, and all of their support staff, report to debriefing immediately for assignment!" Barked over the loudspeaker. Two months ago squad A had recruited replacements for several gaps in their team. Since then nothing has happened, just waiting around on base for a mission.

In the debriefing room 24 men are seated 12 on each side, squads A and B. In front of the holo-board (an interactive hologram simulator) stands each squads respective captains.
"Alright everyone be seated and be silent!" Barked Captain Simmons. "Here's the situation. As you all know it has long be rumored that representative Cairn from Fool's Gambit and Sanders of the respective system have close ties with the Carseti crime syndicate, that the two of them are nothing more than puppets. Fool's Gambit feels it is underrepresented because it only has one planet in its system, and I know half of you didn't pay attention in school so for the slow ones that means they only have two representatives total. Recently a undercover colonial agent has uncovered evidence linking Cairn and Sanders to the Carseti. Fearing communication taps the agent was instructed to deliver the Intel via hologram directly to the central agency on Dawn. A cargo ship stocked with CDF soldiers was to pick up the agent and hologram and deliver it to a military base when they stopped to sell produce on world. The soldiers were instructed to give our base a report every two hours. Two days ago it missed check in and all attempts to hail the ship have failed. No attack was called in or even a sighting of another ship in the entire week, but we still expect a Carseti hit squad."

The captain pushed a button on the holo-board and a model of the cargo ship named "Camels Hump" appeared. Simmons continued "Command has chosen us and all our 'skill' to investigate. There are two points of access on the the ship here in the lower cargo bay, and here were the attack fighters are found. (think star war style space combat) I will take squad A into the cargo bay, and Ajax will lead squad B though the fighter bay. Our primary objectives are to locate survivors, eliminate any hostiles and most importantly secure the hologram. Ajax will secure the ship barracks and sweep through the upper levels of the ship while my team will search the cargo bay, and lower levels. Any questions?"

Gia stood in a corner of the room, she was passivley listening. Her computer stored the infomation for later. She was actively & secretly hacking the ship as a test run for when she got to their destination. She's still not sure why they wanted an assassin for this mission, but they were offering double her usual rate without negotiating. The fact they offered double made her suspicious. The last time she got suspicious was when she slaughtered everyone but Handler at her former employer. Her hacking while a test run, was also to find out as much information on the mission they weren't telling as well as everyone on the ship just in case she needed to kill them all.

"Seeing as there are no question report to the armory for equipment check, husel up people we leave in an hour!" Barked Captain Simmons.

Vonsuer heard the crackling of his ear piece, sighed for a moment until his sighing turned to coughing, and coughing turned to wheezing "Late....Again!" It was kind enough that Captain Simmons installed the com link in his re-breather for him as donning his life supporting suit often took time leaving him little chance to ever make it to mission debriefs, perhaps it was for the best as his presence was often a distraction and by distraction a sight that threw many off guard or downright horrified them and this was with his helmet on! He turned and made his way for equipment check.