<div align="center">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/99/SNBattletech.jpg)</div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Prologue “Calm before the storm”</span></div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *</span></div><br/><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/cf/SNBurn.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Michelle Gardner  (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=283333.msg13938150#msg13938150)<br/><strong>Vehicle:</strong>-<br/><strong>Location and time:</strong>Outreach, embarking day<br/><strong>Warning:</strong>-<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Open<br/><hr/><br/>Vixen's Raiders may not be the largest of mercenary units, or the most famous. But in these days anyone willing to hop into a cockpit and risk life and limb is needed, even a unit as battered and struggling to rebuild as the Raiders. The unit began some 70 years ago, the name coming from the mascot that is painted on the mechs. A bushy tailed female holding a rifle in one hand and saluting with the other, while clad only in a helmet and an ammo belt. While the current commander would like to spend more time getting the new guys integrated into the unit she knows that they also need money and there is no better time than now to earn some money with the Clans tearing their way into the Inner Sphere.<br/><br/>The Raiders are loading up into the dropship that will take them to their next assignment, the heavy mechs are already stowed safely only the light mechs and the last pallets of missiles and cannon rounds that will be stacked around the legs of the lighter mechs. They will use the time in transit to move it around so when they do touch down the light mechs can move out and secure the landing without having all the supplies in the way.<br/><br/>Michelle is standing off to the side of the loading ramp watching the men and women under her command load the mechs onboard. Not for the first time she checks the cargo list, but no matter how much she stares the numbers won't change. They are still short on munitions, specifically long range missiles. But thankfully the mission isn't expected to be all that difficult, a quick hit and run something that the Raiders would do well in. With so a strong recon focus she is confident the heavy mechs will have a good idea of what they are facing before they have to wade into a hopefully already weakened enemy.<br/><br/>With a frown she tucks the list back into a pocket in her uniform and crosses her arms behind her back to avoid scratching her scarred face. The horrific injuries still itch something fierce, but she doesn't want the troops to see her fidget like some rookie so instead she stands to attention as they finish up the loading. Even the lighter mechs shaking the ground with their heavy thread.<br/><br/>“I so hope I haven't missed anything, well too late to worry now. Why am I so nervous? Oh yeah because I have to sit back and do nothing.”