Alroy had been brooding in his quarters when the call from Walter came out over the comm systems. He'd been reading up on field refits that the Great Houses had been coming up with to try and claw an edge out of the curbstomp battles with the Clan invasion forces, and the King Crab had been at the top of the list with a twin gauss combination that turned the venerable design from a fisticuffs-range brawler to a precision sniper. But he'd made a promise, long ago, and it took Walter's words to shake him out of his reverie.<br/><br/>Miyoko was hurt? They were on Outreach, one of the safest planets around short of a House capital world. That meant internal trouble, and that probably meant the Dragoons, which would put their battered little band in a world of hurt. He slid off his bunk and headed for the communal areas to see what was happening, and possibly find some answers.<br/><br/>-------------------------<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Walking to the dropship, he noticed Ranna arriving at the same time as him, though she was on the far side of the ship's open 'Mechbay. A few moments later, his deep, booming voice echoed through the bay. "Now, what the hell is going on this time?"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Well Sir, see this mech came stomping in here with that Janos fella at the helm. Apparently he had the crazy Kuritan girl with him and she was wounded badly. is all we know really, medics got them both into the infirmary. From what I can tell the mech was in a brief firefight, the missile defense system has been fired and it has soot on the outer armor from a fire most probably. We should have the gun camera footage to you within a few minutes when we can wash the last blood out to find the controls. They are all in that darn language only one of us can read, want us to deliver it to you when we got it?"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>He came up behind the pair as he caught the end of the conversation.<br/><br/>"I can read Chinese, and I know how the Capellan's lay out their 'Mech cockpits - Ravens are a Capellan design even when the labels are in a different language. If you need help finding the camera uplink, I can tell you where to plug in."<br/>