26th May 3034
Galatea City, Galatea
New mechs!!! Come with daddy. Today we met the other mercenary unit that we will join. I understand why we are joining them. They are a bunch of Kuritas. Yeah, as you hear it. Some Anduriens joining up with Dracs. Even I, being quite impervious to political affiliations can see the complication here.
It seems it is about this new state everybody talks about, the Free Rasalhague Republic. Free as long as its neighbors allow it, at least. The Vikings are taking it seriously in any case. Apparently the Kuritas were ordered to stand down, surrender their equipment to the KungsArmee and become Rasalhagians themselves. And then you have a lot of ex-DCMS units not agreeing and a civil war in the area. And defections as well. I would have defected as well.
Our new circumstantial colleagues belong to the latter group. They were unwilling to surrender their equipment but also to join their unit in becoming Ronin, so they decided to head for Galatea and become mercenaries. The Girl seems unhappy to collaborate with them since she is a Rasalhagian product herself, but so far she has not done anything drastic.
They were close mouthed, but we got a description of their available resources. The human interfaces are called, Masami Shirow and Hiromi Otomo. They are Stinger LAM pilots. The techs and I went to meet with them and meet their own tech team.
The 3 Stingers have long and convoluted drac names, but the boys and I call them Macross, Starscream, and Arbalest. Much easier to remember. Their Astechs don’t like it, but when I tried to pronounce “Snow-covered peach tree” in Japanese (a name I do not like to start with) it sounded like “turd-drenched grass” according to the Astechs. So we decided to call them by the codenames Macross, Starscream and Arbalest for our convenience. Arbalest is in very bad condition, so we have decided to agree to their decision to disassemble her for parts. They have no pilot for her since she died protecting the dropship in Rasalhagian space. Their 6 Astechs seem almost as stiff as the pilots, but at least we can talk technical specs with them to have some common ground. Alessia has been the most active of us in making inroads with them, but the working relationship is still being sorted out.
The dropship is a modified Fury dropship. Unable to fight like a leopard, but with better cargo capacity than the Leopard family. It has been modified to carry 2 ASF and 2 mechs as well as 6 light vehicles and 2 infantry platoons. It has a cargo capacity of 297 extra tons. The cargo and infantry spaces seem to have been modified hastily to accommodate the ASF cubicles, and would need some repairs.
The Dracs are bringing a few components with them, but there is enough space to accommodate our forces inside their dropship. We are leaving for New Kyoto in 5 days.