"Kapten Bjornsen, we've got a message coming in from Ice Queen. She has news of the mission," Sgt. Tsuginori stated, poking his head in through the doorway into Bjornsen's office.
Marius looked up from his computer screen and nodded to Sato. "Put her through." He picked up he handset to his right, and sighed. "Ice Queen, what's the word? How went the mission?"
Ice queen responded, "Kapten, we have a bit of an odd situation. The enemies were Smoke Jag remnants in a Shadow Hawk IIC and something we later identified as a Kyudo. It's an old style mech that wasn't even in the ID database. Anyway, we took down the Hawk and damaged the Kyudo. However, when I offered the pilot of the shadow hawk terms of surrender, both he and Kyudo pilot accepted. We're on our way back to base... with two bondsmen, salvage and a repairable mech. Anything exciting happen at base while we were out?"
Kapten Bjornsen, blinks and puts Ice Queen on mute. "Sato, did I just hear her right? We've got clan warriors coming here as Bondsmen? Gods be damned. Only she could have pulled that off." He hits the mute button again, "Just make sure you get everyone back here safe, Reina. We have some new units and troopers I need to introduce you to. They are former members of the Second and Fourth Kavalerri that broke loose to join us. Got some good things happening. See you when you return. Bjornsen out."
"Sato, get me Quist up here as soon as she gets back. We need to get some trading going for the salvage Icy is bringing." He then gazed off into the distance out his window, a clouded look on his face.