ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Qwepir]

Faw volunteers for the recovery mission immediately, looking to be one of the boots on the ground.

Walter heads over to the SAR team to inquire if they need any help, hoping he can get to walk around on the ground again for once.

Bell decides to go since Gus is one of the squadron's underlings.

Tippy volunteers for the recovery team

Jaakko, despite being irritated and tired, volunteers to either go on the ground or fly cover, whichever positions are needed most.

Lorens himself volunteers to fly escort, feeling more confident in his skills after his performance in defending the sky fleet.

: Done and done. Oh, and have any of you seen the robot that works on your planes? Sky Marshal wants that to go along as well, says it could be useful.

Gus quietly slips around out of sight, checking to see if a door is unlocked or a window open on the three story office building's first floor.

The doors are locked and the windows shut. It appears that the buildings owners weren't in that much of a rush to evacuate.

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[Gojira]

Markus readies up for copilot duties.

[CypherX]

Gus looks around for any alternative entrances to the office building or other surrounding buildings.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Bell decides to go since Gus is one of the squadron's precious underlings. She sees Jakko waiting around.

: Are you sure you want to go? Flying and commanding is tough work, you should let Tippy go, she's a better shot than most of us.

Jaakko takes stock of the people going. He sees almost all of the squadron's highest ranking members are going.

"You think I should sit out in the case something bad happens?" he asks quietly.

[Qwepir]

Gus looks around for any alternative entrances to the office building or other surrounding buildings.

There is a sizable loose chunk of sidewalk by your feet. Across the street, there is a laundromat with the glass front doors already smashed.

[Operator¹]

: Yeah, which is why you should stay behind. Someone needs to do the paperwork.

[CypherX]

Gus peeks around the corner slowly, observing the capsule in the street.

[Qwepir]

Gus peeks around the corner slowly, observing the capsule in the street.

The capsule remains motionless, just as you saw it before.

[Mr. Hurricane]

"I can't shake the feeling the it would be irresponsible for me to sit it out, but I understand, seeing as how all of our leadership is going," he replies quietly, "I'm sure you'll handle it better than I handled the last two sorties."

He approaches the carrier staff to inform them of the change.

[CypherX]

Gus stays behind the building and gets back on comms.

"AWACs, I've located the Helian capsule. No activity."

[Qwepir]

Gus stays behind the building and gets back on comms.

"AWACs, I've located the Helian capsule. No activity."

: Could you describe the capsule for us? We need to know what you're looking at here.

[CypherX]

"Looks to be about two meters long. Bulky. Has lots of what I assume are cameras on the outside. Can't tell you much more, I don't want to expose myself. But I don't think it has any external weapons and it hasn't moved since I got within eyesight of it."

[Qwepir]

"Looks to be about two meters long. Bulky. Has lots of what I assume are cameras on the outside. Can't tell you much more, I don't want to expose myself. But I don't think it has any external weapons and it hasn't moved since I got within eyesight of it."

: Understood. Try to keep us posted, but get out of there if you suspect that thing might be dangerous.

[CypherX]

"Got it."

Gus looks around for other good vantage points or places to stay out of sight. He listens intently for movement.

[Qwepir]

"Got it."

Gus looks around for other good vantage points or places to stay out of sight. He listens intently for movement.

You spot a fire escape leading down/up a nearby building. There are no sounds of movement from the capsule.