<strong>Yamina Kazi<br/>Blue Lance<br/>En route to Mission Point<br/>LCT-1V <em>Locust</em></strong><br/><br/>"Little Bit, checking in," she answered promptly.<br/><br/>The<em>Locust</em>moved smoothly across the terrain for all its digitigrade legs made it look ungainly.  The<em>Marauder</em>suffered from the same indignity of design, but it had a certain gravitas.  That, along with the threat of it's twin PPCs, kept anyone from laughing at it as they might the much smaller<em>Locust</em>.  An erratic boulder, dropped eons ago by a passing glacier, was directly in the path of her<em>Locust's</em>left foot.  It was big enough to put her mech in serious danger of falling if she stepped on it.  Where another pilot might have slowed and changed their path entirely, Yamina continued straight on.  As her<em>Locust's</em>foot settled atop the boulder, Yamina allowed the other one to drag, making the entire 20 ton machine pivot like a dancer, using the low friction of the metal to stone contact to spin her and keeping the weight of the machine on her well grounded leg.  Metal toes dug into the soil, stopping the spin, and she transferred momentum to swing the foot atop the boulder forward and off it, settling it neatly back on the ground.  It was a remarkable display of piloting.<br/><br/>If only her gunnery was as formidable.  Yamina once failed to hit the actual broad side of a barn in a live fire exercise, instead shredding a nearby haystack to the disgust of the gunnery officer and the merriment of her team.  It wasn't that she didn't try, or didn't possess the eyesight or hand-eye coordination, it was just that she was a terrible, horrible shot.  Leaving her in a light mech with incredible speed was best solution to the problem.<br/><br/><br/>