Wilhelm's Rebirth

[Xeno Alliance]

He visibly braces for a moment, facing forwards and deeply absorbed into the process of tearing this Eagle through the thin atmosphere, the buffeting is far from mild despite this fact and it puts the ship's resistances to the test, one that it passes albeit with a blackened belly and scorch marks across the wings. It was right about that point that her NeuralNet link would just crash without explanation, she was off the grid now and truly cut off from everything. "Camp Gore control, this is XA-P.6, requesting clearance and hangar space. Inductee aboard." For a moment it must have been confusing how he was able to communicate with a control tower despite the absence of the NeuralNet communications network here, but then it became apparent that a relatively short-range radio system was being used to enable localized clearances. She wouldn't hear a response, only a few crackles and a garbled echo from the corners of his helmet.

Rapidly approaching, yet in the distance nonetheless was what must have originally been a surface-side campsite for a DSE Expeditionary effort mounted years ago to prospect this backwater of a world, the prospectors had no doubt been evicted with lethal force, but the camp remained and had been expanded upon in crude fashion, sealed off from the searing temperature and unforgiving terrain, it didn't look the slightest bit inviting and seemed more like a prison than a base of operations.

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