<strong>Lcpl. Roman "Rome" Beneke</strong><br/><br/>Rome spotted a sign as they were nearing the complex announcing the name of the Weyland-Yutani colony,<em>‘Jackie’s Hope’.</em>He smirked and shook his head with a derisive grin. He had a thought to convey regarding the colony's name but the order had been given to maintain radio silence until further notice so he filed the thought away to comment on later.<br/><br/>He vigilantly covered their left flank as Widow carefully surveyed the area directly ahead. Feeling comfortable it was safe to proceed, Widow attracted Rome's attention with a wave of her hand followed by a couple of other quick gestures. Rome quickly interpreted her hand signals<em>'on me. proceeding forward. wedge formation'</em>and replied with a thumbs up before relaying the signals to the rest of the team behind him. Bravo team progressed cautiously as they moved inside the colony’s blast wall. Rome flipped the recently installed thumb toggle and his motion tracker barked and strobed at him rhythmically, hungrily scanning the area ahead for movement. It was reading better now than it had at ingress, though it still mostly just showed up as a mess of garbled static. The place looked deserted, like a ghost town, giving Rome an uneasy feeling, like some unseen presence was watching them. Most of the vehicles typically found within a colony at this stage of operation were missing. Creeping eastward, bravo team made a full sweep of the perimeter of the colony's main structure. Nearing the point where they had entered past the blast wall, they passed a small building jutting out from the main building. The neon light which hung above the smaller building's entrance simply read,<em>BAR</em>. As the passed the building, the neon flickered and hummed at them, casting an eerie, dim red glow across their faces and reflecting off of their shinier pieces of gear.