<div class="floatleft">(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j77/wulfjaeger/___protector_of_time____by_vincentxyooj-d5lw1gq_zps59496fa9.png)</div><strong>Allia Rowe<br/>Dropship Black Sun, Dalton<br/>Dalton System<br/>Duchy of Oriente<br/>5 February 3145</strong><br/><br/><em>""Gheistwulf, Ronin.  The rest of Recon is on the line.  Starting patrol.  Ronin will be on point.  Shinigami will be right behind Ronin on overwatch.  The rest will keep us in their ECM bubbles and set the picket lines.  Let's do this.  The sooner we move, the sooner we get some.  Movement to the- Never mind.  Just a herd.  Looks like gazelles."</em><br/><br/>The landing was going as smoothly as she could have hoped.  Everyone was on the ground and they had made a nice show of their arrival.  Keying a signal, she told the Dropship pilot that they were all disembarked allowing the dropship to launch the fighters and head for the base they would set up shop.  Allia looked over her display, the warmth of the planet already seeping into her cockpit.  It wasn't anything they couldn't handle, but it would make a long drawn out fight difficult at best.  Her tactical display showed recon taking up positions around the main body of the company, spread out more than a kilometer, plenty of space to pick up anything headed their way.<br/><br/>"Bear, you're with me, Butterfly and S'Hot take the left flank.  No more than seven hundred meters from Command.  Everyone move towards way point one and report contacts."  It was strange being on Strike, but being the one giving orders to the troops.  She brought Samson with her because they had worked well together in the past, his Gauntlet working well to augment her capabilities and Samson knew how to keep his distance from Gheistwulf so she could use her Stealth armor to good effect.  She gave Moshe some room to breath, understanding that she'd been riding him fairly heavily over the past few weeks to get him comfortable with his new weapons and his new roles.  It would be tough, but he was showing signs of life.<br/><br/>Allia pulled away from Samson about two hundred meters, letting the ridgeline along where they patrolled to provide some cover for her.  She wasn't even sure that they would find anything on the first patrol, but a show of presence was necessary both for the pirates and for the population.<br/><br/>As they moved past the first waypoint and started towards the second point to the north east of the Volcano in the distance a momentary blip on the screen caught Allia's attention, then it was gone.  "Shinigami, possible contact three kilometers north east of you, verify and track.