With the Paladin parked once more in cat mode where it was before, the hatch lowered and Dren stepped out to see guards haul the prisoner off, being sure to let him get a good look before he was out of sight.<br/><br/>He was barely able to sigh when he heard a scuffle around where Angela and Jared's mech had parked. He ran over and pushed through the crowd after tossing his helmet into his cockpit.<br/><br/>It was the first time he saw Mankinds fight. Angela was a sight to see and was living up to the warrior name. He found himself staring as they fought, then considered stopping them but didn't know the social protocol for something like this in their culture.<br/><br/>It wasn't long before the Captain arrived and guards shot them both with what he assumed were to stun them. Still Dren stood shocked that their own would shoot them. When the Captain told him he could see her when she woke up, he relaxed, the situation now making sense. The rest of her orders finally came through his shock and he simply nodded, turning to look at the damaged mechs.<br/><br/>The one that wasn't in the current fight was being worked on by it's pilot who seemed to have his hands full with it. The rest of the repair crew were lazily moving back to their jobs. Yuri's projection appeared on his shoulder again. The mech's pilot beside him, another augmented Mankind shot him a dry remark.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">â€œIâ€™ll needâ€™a listâ€™a parts â€˜at need ta be re-machined, Dren.â€</span>he said. He had an obvious accent that his translator had an issue translating for him, but he got the gist of what he said and nodded again.<br/><br/>"<Dren, you look terrible.>" Yuri said. Dren turned to stare up at the still broken Stalking Cat, then the other two that Angela and Jared had brought in. He felt terrible. He hadn't had much sleep in the last day or so, but he was sure people were running on less. As for food, one meal after a week without food wasn't doing him much good either.<br/><br/>"<Connect me to the speakers.>" he said. Yuri used her connection to the ship's system to route his translator to the Mech Bay PA system. Straightening up, he cleared his throat which was amplified through the speakers, making everyone look up from what they were doing.<br/><br/>"Today was a great Victory for your people, but it does not end the war. We have to be ready for anything so I'm asking you to keep giving it your all and work with me to protect this ship. To protect your ideals. To protect your Future." he paused for a moment, not used to making such public announcements, "Please let's get our minds on the task at hand and in return, I'll share what I know to help you all in your cause."<br/><br/>Yuri cut the connection to the PA system and the hangar crews went back to work, one particular man approached him carrying a large pad.<br/><br/>"So the Captain put you in charge?" he asked, "Here's our staff and their individual specialties. Where do you want them?" Dren picked up the pad and sighed. Again Yuri caught on and interfaced, putting Nekan text next to the English, the Hangar crew captain didn't seem impressed.<br/><br/>"The Paladin can be left alone. I'll work on the Stalking Cat and the rest of the mechs can be split evenly with the engineers. Put the welding specialists on the stock mech to repair the arm and give Mr. Marks whomever he needs to help him. We need full scans of all mechs except the Paladin and I want to know the damage to them. Get me a list of parts we need to make to make the repairs and give the list to Mr. Marks as well."<br/><br/>"And this hunk of junk?" he asked, motioning towards the damaged Mech in the middle of the hangar foor. The mech belonging to the Children.<br/><br/>"Take a few engineers and scan it. Take apart what you need to find out how all of it's systems work. But before that, pull the data core if it has one and get some people hacking it for Comms channel frequencies and other useful data."<br/><br/>"Good idea. Never thought of that. We would have just scrapped the whole thing to study it." he said.<br/><br/>"Just be careful and don't connect it to the ship's computer for everything. Use stand alone consoles for it. Better be safe than sorry. Yuri can give you a hand with it if you find anything hard to crack. Use that blue orb in the cockpit of the Paladin. Just ask her for whatever."<br/><br/>"Yes, sir." he said, taking the pad back and he turned to issue his orders. Dren felt odd like he had done something he shouldn't have. He had been in charge of a platoon before in his military career but he had only come aboard here a day ago, and already he was giving orders. He felt he was intruding or taking the opportunity from someone more deserving.<br/><br/>Clipping his antigrav unit to his belt he flipped it on and turned to the Stalking cat once more.<br/><br/>"<Yuri, send a message to the captain. Tell her I want to talk to her when it's convenient.>" he said.<br/><br/>"<Done.>" she replied. With that, he pushed off the floor and resumed his repairs on the mech before him.