<strong>Name:</strong>Rachel Black<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Frame Pilot<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Burchel Airbase<br/><strong>Date:</strong>March 3, 2052<br/><hr/>Rachel understood the decision not to use Frames on the mission, giving a brief acknowledgement to the briefing officer in reply. As she had suspected, costs, priorities and the like would make it unnecessary to have one along, especially for a run like this. Regardless, she was interested in the prototype STARS suit and its capabilities, and how it would compare to the Frames she was more used to.<br/><br/>As for the rest of the team, her thoughts were… mixed, to say the least. It wasn’t that she didn’t like scientists, it was simply that she was thinking terms of risks and liabilities, and saw her team in terms of that. Flower in particular struck her as what her father would refer to as an ‘old-style hippie’; an assessment that she would agree with.<em>I just hope that the insurgents stay off the radar,</em>she considered.<em>Otherwise she’s going to get herself killed, and possibly somebody else.</em><br/><br/>Her biggest concern was simply getting this operation over and done with, especially after she heard about what had happened to their appointed commander.<em>Somebody new in charge? A last-minute replacement? This will not end well.</em><br/>