[quote]Okay, team. Good job. Ken, take off and set up a holding pattern while we deploy. Everyone else, here's the skinny - Warlock, take Bell, Stone and Kelsea as your scouting team. Maxwell, position yourself so you're able to relay comms between the recon team and the main unit, as well as providing tactical fire support if necessary, and targeting for Kradis or any of the rest of us for long-range support to cover the recon units' retreat. Everyone who ain't in the recon unit is wi' me. Our job will be to move up behind the recon team and spread out to provide flanking cover at a medium distance, and to secure the rear area of the battlefield, and prevent them from bein' outmanoeuvred. First things first, we gotta move away from the ship. On the double, move out.[/quote] .

"Understood!" Shona replied over the coms, checking the IFF tags on her HUD to mark out her teammates in the recon group as the first machines in the formation moved out. The bright sun and gentle green plains filled the cockpit with light, enough for Shona to bump down the display gamma a little. She did her best to ignore the picturesque scenery and focus on scanning for contacts, checking the data coming in from her sensors and trying to keep her nerves under control. She succeeded, mostly, a substantial adrenalin rush helping take the edge off her worries. 

A new com channel popped into being on her HUD - Oliver had set up a dedicated line for the recon team. Good idea. Shona tapped in. "Bell to Oliver, scout group, roger that. Want me to set up a telemetry-sharing channel and link us in?" Her Rapier's computers were faster than most of the rest of the unit's, and this was the sort of thing its designers had in mind when they layed down the specs.