"Skeet?" Meir asked with great curiosity.

In reply to Meir Galinski (msg # 114):

"Yeah, he was flying around above the foliage drying to shoot the troops on the ground. On Aquitaine, actually, before we met with you."

In reply to Illiam Jones (msg # 115):

Well if you are flying the Shuttle, You won't need it...

Maybe Meir would like to go...

"And do what? I'm an explorer, not a soldier."

In reply to Meir Galinski (msg # 118):

"Can you stay hidden and report enemy movements? Scouts are vital..."

"I'm all for killing Labs, but I'm not a soldier, and I don't know this planet."
It wasn't that he didn't want to help, just that he wasn't convinced he could do more than just get in the way and become a casualty.
"Isn't this supposed to be just a quick pick up anyway? Should we really be getting involved with a ground war and risk the ship being found?"

In reply to Meir Galinski (msg # 120):

"Your problem is, the guys you are meant to be picking up are at the front lines..."

That is a major concern, as we have trained and experienced fighter pilots fighting as Infantry ... That risks the waste a lot of resources spent. They do you more good in their fighters. we need to get them back if we can.

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 122):

"I agree. As they were running low on filters, they thought they were going to die anyway. But we sent them a message you were here. There were some missile fighters that will want to reload that will probably come as soon as they get the message, but the men on the ground have no radios. "

In reply to Fate (msg # 123):

"Sir, radio chatter indicates that the second wave of missile fighters is attacking the remaining Government fleet in orbit. It also seems that the rebel ambush is using the confusion to launch their own assault, so our guys will be heading for some action soon."

What can go awry always seems to...

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 125):

"Shuttle loaded with the Labrysian contingent, sir. Anyone else coming?"

No Illiam, we'll back you up if needed, but the Boss wants our pilots back, preferably in one piece.

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 127):

"Right then sir. Departing...back in an hour."

Kat lifts off and flys out of the area back to where they need to go.

She Does?

"As I see it we've got multiple tasks to complete and a limited window to do it all in."
He ticked each point off on his fingers as he spoke.
"Firstly, there's eighty humans to rescue and take with us."
"Second, there's missile fighters to recover."
"Third, we need to find out if anything useful from the Midway was recovered by the Labs."
"Four, destroy anything we can't carry back."
"Now I'm no expert, but right now it seems to me that everyone's only focusing on the first point."

Those points are all interrelated, we need the eighty people to know what survived and to bring the fighters back, then we'll know what needs to be destroyed. .

"So the sensors picked up nothing about the fighters?"

In reply to Meir Galinski (msg # 133):

"We are on passive sensors only, and I assume they are the same. They will have to be practically on top of us before we see them! Hopefully the relay system our Labrysian friends use will have gotten them the message...but we won't know unless they reply using the same system, or arrive for a reload!"

In reply to PO Gun Da-bin (msg # 134):

About 30 minutes after Illiam departs, 8 short range missile fighters arrive and land nearby.

I gather we can only carry three? Plus the Ships boat of course...  we'll ask about the situation and possible intelligence.

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 136):

They understand from the Labrysian rebels that a particle cannon for a new class of battleship is being developed at a secret base. They hoped to capture one of the enemy vehicles to find out from their maps where it was, as it was believed that at least some of the vehicles being ambushed were based there.

Radio traffic by this time indicates that your decoy force has expended their missiles, but has succeeded in destroying all defending ships, with several crashing to the planet, before disabling the orbital station, and then nuking it.

So there are no more enemy ships at this moon and the orbiting base is destroyed? That means we pretty much are the big deal for a few hours.

Gun Da Bin, think we could locate this base if we rose up and risked active sensors?