Chapter 10 - A Titanic Mandate
Recap & Disposition
Team Titan
Kayla grips the viewscreen of her tablet tightly with one hand, the fingers of her other dancing across it as her eyes narrow in concentration. The screen flickers, and her persistence is rewarded by an explosion of colors and sound effects.
"Gotcha!" she laughs, shaking an errant strand of hair from her eyes with jubilation. "I told you spawn-camping would be the death of you."
Barachiel, seated nearby and glued to a tablet of his own, merely shakes his head.
"Death is just a shot at a new beginning," he says stiffly. "Perhaps I should be thanking you for the opportunity."
You've experienced 6 such opportunities thus far, to your opponent's 0. I recommend applying the lessons you've learned in reverse.
The words appear in the chat box unbidden, the work of Kayla's bracer-bound AI, Madisyn. The font is somewhat different than what she had been used to, but with Dynamis ostensibly still locked away with Persephone and its remaining crew on Venus along with Gestalt, Susan Darling, and Wendy Tyndall, she'd learned to live with it for the time being.
Rebecca and Fiernas are on hand, as well, though they are supposed to be preparing for their first official stint in the research lab the next morning. Fiernas's cyberpups lounge nearby, eager for a thorough petting from anyone willing to do so.
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Team Kamikaze
Faust's old flagship, Goethe, is en route to Titan under the command of his second, Captain Vasquez. It contains two particularly important passengers: a Roshak and a Lith. Their estimated arrival is still about a month away, barring any unforeseen complications.
Billy and Xander , working in tandem with Viceroy and the SAGE commander Dr. Pryor, successfully constructed an experimental plasma drive and installed it onto a SAGE transport. They now stand aboard this new vessel, accompanied by two SAGE employees: Bradford, a mechanic, and Whitney, a technician. Together, this four-person crew is completing its final preparations for leaving Martian airspace behind.
Dr. Pryor's flagship, the Dichotomy, and Viceroy's Factory vessel are standing by. While Dr. Pryor will not be able to keep up with the transport if the engine works as planned, the Factory's engine parameters remain a closely held mystery.
An important-looking crystal rests in one of Billy's many pockets. It calls itself Muse, and has expressed strong opinions regarding the use of jump rings to anyone willing to listen.
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