âConfirmed One Niner Actual -- standby for the clear skies.â
Onboard the NG-3394, a Globewalker AER craft, klaxons sounded as the flight personnel were rushing to their positions after the most recent exchange of orders: though it was patrolling the arctic wastes of northern Terra it would now be the first-responder to the most recent development, another spat in Hafirjan. Though the crew of the NG, or the
Naggie Gertrude as she was known to her sailors, had served on Terra with distinction in the years prior the Gertrude had always been a tertiary platform.
âSatchmo Actual is a launch, we are on vector for mission.â
Through the translucent panelling the Gertrude disappeared in the stormcloud it had been ahead of on its approach to Hafirjan, a spiderweb of raindrops streaking off the skin of the M/D-91. The Trodaire as it was called was a nimble but aggressively built fighter-bomber and interceptor, capable of not only attacking ground targets (more than effectively) but also defending other craft from interception and destruction. As the ghost of the Globewalker faded, the patrol of eight craft were only minutes from making landfall over Hafirjan when the commanding flight sergeant activated the comms.
âOne Niner Actual this is Satchmo on-station. High altitude strike, close munitions and cluster-weapons on the platform over. Ready for your targets.â