Roland could feel the team was more at ease after a few hours of clean flying, they were all true pilots and Roland knew better than anyone that the feeling of being in the air can raise the spirits of even those who had just been in a tragic attack on the base. Roland smirked to himself as Reggie began flooding the channel with music, and quickly opened up his intercom, trying to keep a straight face.

[i]Knock it off Jenkins, this is a flight channel! and Ava stop chewing that beef jerky so loudly, I might think we are under attack![/i]

Roland turned the intercom off to chuckle to himself and then addressed the team.

[i]Okay [b]Ms Falke[/b], that's a fair question you asked. Basically to keep a lot of years of war history short, the states in america all became independent of each other sometime in the past, and Texas tried to rule the continent with force, and it nearly succeeded until being fought to a stalemate by Canada and parts of mexico. The entire US is either barren, highly dangerous or currenly at war. The state of Nevade is unique as its the only state to repel texas and not invade anywhere else, they have sealed themselves off from the rest of the land and put all their resources into Las Vegas which is now known as New Haven because of how safe and prosperus it is. Basically New Haven is the biggest city  in the world that is completely safe, and the Albion Avengers and other independent groups are looking to migrate a large amount of skilled Europeans over to New Haven to expand the city and build a proper safe zone that will hopefully cover the south west which they will use as a starting point to start fixing the world. As you know [b]Ava[/b] western Europe is pretty divided at the moments the WEC I mentioned before is rife with infighting and many Europeans particularly in the UK want to get away before a full scale European civil war breaks out, not too different to the infighting that's going on in Japan as [b]Nishizawa [/b]will tell you.[/i]


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Roland could see the shores of Iceland coming up close, which was good as it was getting fairly dark. The landing lights of the first shore dock were about 20 mins away. They would be flying over land pretty soon. Roland let the crew know to keep an eye out and for [b]Alfonse[/b] to decrease altitude and sweep his searchlights for any sea or ground units, friendly or otherwise.