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*A portal spirals to life in front of me, and I look it up and down in hesitation before clenching my fists and stepping through*
...
*On the other side, I step into a world seemingly dead. A ruin lies nearby, of a temple shattered to pieces as an IA ship crashed to the planet and sat in ruin where it used to stand. For as far as the eye can see, more wrecked ships and various artifacts of war litter the landscape*

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I'm not nervous. Well, maybe a little, but not mainly. I'm excited.

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That’s good to hear. I’m looking forward to having you run our mission; that’ll be great experience for both of us.

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Throwing me in the deep end a little bit by having my first crack at something be running the whole thing, no?
*Picks the envelope up and opens it in my hands*

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Any better way to learn? Although I’ll admit that pairing us is an odd choice...

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Awful, terrible, no good, stupid…
*The portal cracks like a whip as it comes to a close, and I take my first step forward, starting a trek through the graveyard of ships. I take a look down at my watch, listening for a ping that comes momentarily. I look off into the distance and continue my journey forward*

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That is what I said too. But, maybe it seems odd until we have a look at the details.
*Taps the open folder with the back of my hand twice*

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I don't know if that's true. Feel free to look into it though.

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*The first few pages of the documents outline risk details and the top-priority goal of keeping both of us away from unanticipated danger*

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Hm. Does this usually mean we need to get other people recruited to our cause?

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All of the players should be pre-determined. It would be hard to recruit every time we're assigned a mission.

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So it's basically just telling us to make sure we're careful, then?

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Sort of. These documents are for us to understand the full scope of the assignment so we can plan for whatever comes up. Imagine a situation where we get burned because of information we should have had to begin with.

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Gotcha. Just making sure I'm reading into this correctly.

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Our job should be to read through the files and prepare for the mission. You may have to do extra research, but for your first one, I'm guessing everything is already documented.

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Maybe. It doesn’t hurt to be thorough, though.

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Especially since you're running the operation. You'll need to be my eyes and ears.

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*Flip through the papers*
Is it time sensitive?

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*On first glance, the papers seem to describe an object retrieval mission*
There should be an overview page with the location, time period, and important bits like that. I haven't seen this mission before now, so it's new to both of us.

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*Looks for info on time, the object itself, and known hazards*