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Aster sat silently next to the other members of the team, her rifle locking in place beside her as she herself strapped in. Picking up her own helmet for the ride through the cold void ahead of them, she gave a slight smile to Vage before the metal mask descended, hiding her face from view. The lights died out, plunging them all into darkness.

As she waited for the by-now familiar feeling of the ship lurching beneath them as its thrusters activated and it launched for the planet below, Aster mused over her teammates. DeKarthate was one of the elites from basic. She didn't know much personally of him, but she knew who he was, and his rather impressive record in training. She herself was another one of these elites, having the highest score in long range accuracy and weapons efficiency out of her entire training group. But Seriph... Seriph towered over both of them. He was practically a legend among the cadets of the Stratian Military, having ranked overall highest out of every group in the training course. He had done so well as to nearly warrant an officer's commission without so much as any actual field experience. With him on their side, Aster felt quite confident that they would succeed.

But then there was Vage. She knew he was the son of some big name amongst the Stratian command staff, but he didn't show it. She had known him since the very start of basic, and he had always been nervous, inefficient, and even a bit incompetent. He was a good person - she had realized that from the start. The problem was that just because his heart was in the right place didn't mean that his aim was. Aster was pretty confident in her own, and her squad's ability to keep Vage safe, and she knew that, in a worst case scenario, he could probably fend for himself, but she still didn't like the idea of him on the frontlines. He just didn't seem suited for it. Aster idly noticed that she seemed awfully worried about him, but wrote it off to all the time she had spent helping him through basic. If he got killed or captured, she wouldn't forgive herself for letting someone she considered a comrade down so badly.