It had been a long several hours after the Jade Falcon advance had been blunted - pilots recovered and repairs begun. Kronwall had passed along an instruction from one of the unit logistics admins to Alakoz - "Please do not get brand new equipment destroyed in its first trip out" - Alakoz response, which was "Get bent, I was the one out here getting shot it" was sure to involve an HR admin in short order and several sessions of "How to not cause problems between departments - by Colonel Aaron Saultier, co-authored w/James Bean and John Walker."
Four technical teams from Skaraborg lance came to meet the convoy - they got the wounded out of cockpits and bought their 'Mechs home. With Skaraborg being the only technical experts on Clan hardware on world, Bobrovosky and Vaslivesky went over the salvage to report it to the CO - Part of their punishment for Grant Theft Birb was salvage triage for the forseeable future.
On approach, a Wolverine with Crusher Lance insignia challenged them for proper identification - apparently obviously dead Clan 'Mechs were still a major threat that needed to be neutralized. Even if one one of them was half a little thing being carried over a shoulder like a burlap sack.
At the gates, they were met by Grasshopper marked as Brights and a Highlander bearing Skaraborg colors "Must be Calvert" thought Kronwall, the only assault rated pilot the unit had available - and the kid from Somerset wasn't wasn't getting to use the Highlander any time soon anyway. The Turkina was downchecked as one of the Gauss rifles had developed a fault and was being pulled for repairs. Also, the diagnostic diplays were apparently in a dead, useless language and all the displays read "Bonjour!"
After verifiying that Oduyas Awesome was in its repair rack and was in good hands, and noting that the small suits of man sized armor were actually playing tic-tac-toe on the back armor plating of the Awesome - he was being flagged over by one of Bobrovoskys astechs - one, he noted, who actually spoke English, handing over a tablet with several technical specs on it, who promptly scurried away. Flipping through the report, out slipped a "Oh holy shit." and proceeded to find the CO, who for once would hopefully be happy to see him for once, vs the usual thrown desk ornament.
"Kato - You didn't request this, but my techs were bored on the way back and decided to be useful for a change instead of finding ways to build myomer exoskeletons for squirrels." The look on Katos face at that moment went to one that resembled when one had been hit in the back of the head with a shovel, but recovered about 15 seconds later. "When we salvaged the Turkina, there was nothing left in the original warbook because the gauss round went through it. The 'Mechs we bought back with us today, two of them had mostly intact data cores with them, and they've been extracted already. I figured FedCom intel would probably want these. If you're okay with it, I'd like to send a copy of this to the FRR as well."
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Topic: 18 September, 3050 (Read 4311 times)