A Second introduction

[ugyuuya]

[1]

[After his last rather disastrous mission in Russia Yuuya had been re-routed to the Yukon base with Lt. Takamura, argos support staff, and the remains of the Shiranui Second. The consoles at UG bases are all tuned to the special reveal of the just what had been happening during that time frame.

With much pomp and ceremony the Shiranui Second Phase Two has been revealed. Tarisa is piloting the unit for the ceremony while Yuuya watches with Vincent from inside the hangar.]

[2]

[Upon return to Alhambra there are two of the newly revealed units, one with the rather blatant ceremonial paint job and the other with a much darker blue/black paint job. Exiting the brighter one Yuuya stretches and yawns as he disembarks.]

"Man, after all that mess in Russia and the rapid rebuild into phase 2 I'm glad to be back. Never thought things would be more relaxing at a front line combat base than a testing facility."

Comments

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[majestic_keiki]

I'm not sure that's true.

But it's good to have you back, is the whole flight returning or just you?

[ugyuuya]

Tarisa's in the second test unit for the Shiranui Second and VG and Stella's transport should be down shortly with their ACTVs and the extra f-15s we brought.

As for being more relaxing here I just finished a stint of 18 hour days rushing through the refit and upgrade of the unit so I'm looking forward to a bit of down time until the next mission comes up.

[majestic_keiki]

Okay...That does sound more stressful. And I imagine the commanders might give you some time to recover before sending you on any further missions.

[ugyuuya]

Well we'll just have to see what the mission rotation brings then, I'm not going to shirk if I get called for a mission but I am glad to be back here. Yukon is nice but the facilities here are better. Really missed the beds, they have much nicer mattresses here, probably nothing compared to Star Rose though.

[majestic_keiki]

Unity Group's bases are quite impressive compared to what I was expecting. [Star Rose practically had them live in hotel rooms, after all.]

And I wasn't thinking you'd shirk your duties, just that you might be given some time off from missions to settle back in.

[ugyuuya]

Sorry, I guess I'm a bit more tired than I thought. I never could sleep on planes and it's not exactly a short flight back when we're not using the shuttles.

As for settling in I was able to get clothes when they sent a runner for them and aside from that there isn't much more to need for me to worry about settling in too much. I don't really have much of a home outside the service anymore and there aren't any mementos to worry about keeping so most everything can be replaced with general issue supplies and a quick run to the PX.

[majestic_keiki]

I meant calming down, recovering from the flight and such...

[There's probably a bit more to it than just being misunderstood.]

[ugyuuya]

It's just about down shift now. I'm about to go get a good night's rest on a nice mattress and then wake up showered and clean in the morning which is a LOT nicer than some things I've had to do. TSFs may be well designed and meant for extended operations but they get awfully uncomfortable in endurance trials.

[majestic_keiki]

I can imagine. The AHSMBs might be cutting edge experimental units, but I wouldn't want to stay in Purple-2 for hours or days on end...I imagine it would be the same with TSFs or any other military vehicle.

[ugyuuya]

Actually I found some of the APCs that were used in basic to be fairly nice vehicles to ride in. Completely useless in the current conflicts outside of evacuation tools, but comfortable.

[majestic_keiki]

I see. I've never driven one, we mostly stuck to mecha of various kinds in my training and helicopters and the like for moving around on Earth. I can imagine sitting in an APC where you can move a bit and have a proper seat would be more comfortable.