Another Fine Mess

[srwjunker]

[1] Unity Group Base Hanger some weeks ago.

Russel looked up up at the newly arrived test machines from the Halloween Project. The new mark of the Gespenst's were impressive he could see the hard points for the various load outs the personal troopers could use and watched some the techs continue to unload the crates carrying the new mode parts. The amount of flexibility this would the machine was high he thought. Even more importantly it would save money given all the rolls it could fill with it's modular load-outs.

"Quite the bit of work. The real question now is the field testing ... with these new Gespensts."

[2] Just after the Announcement

Russel was in the mess-hall going over paper work while he munched on his lunch. Given his experience as a pilot already he often was in on reviewing some of the data on candidates for the Unity group. Given his experience in the Divine war it was useful for some of his superiors to have him help with eyeballing possible recruits for the growing organization. Even if the were elites they would also need others who could hold ground or cover more ground. Numbers always factored into things eventually.

"Lets see here, so we're officially in business now? Well this is certainly going to be a change of pace."

Comments

[srwjunker]

"It has, a new reactor, modular hard point to let the load outs be swapped, it's quite the bit of work. It's seeming to be going well so far. The real testing will be when I get it into the field for the first time and into some live combat. Also good to meet you, I'm Russel Bagman."

[a_linear_mind]

I'll look forward to seeing it in action then...oh right uh Willis Clades.

[He offers a hand.]

I used to pilot a Gespenst way back in the day. I'm glad the line is still going.

[srwjunker]

"It's a good machine, I still have more faith in the old model than a lot of newer machines. You need something you can rely on. High performance is not going to save you if it's a maintenance pig and you run out of parts. Or something breaks."

[a_linear_mind]

There's nothing wrong with giving up a bit of maintenance ease for higher performance. You just gotta make sure the right pilot is in that machine.

[srwjunker]

"The problem is when your deployed and you end up without access to the newer parts and need to pick through wrecks from both sides to make repairs. I'm more thinking the logistics issues for long term operations."

[a_linear_mind]

You're a very grounded man, most people wouldn't think that far ahead or for situations like that.

[srwjunker]

"It's more from hard life lessons during my history before the Union Group. I used to be stuck in an old Messer aircraft after all. The one up side besides how fast it could get around was parts were not often an issue for it. Still it's an example of taking it too far. So you doing all right here with the Unity Group?"

[a_linear_mind]

Wonderfully, this is the first time in years that I've been able to eat three meals a day.

[srwjunker]

"It sounds like you had it rough. It's odd to not have to be eating food that came from the lowest bidder as one might put it. A army moves on it's stomach so they say. Good food does wonders for moral."