<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/68/Soifon.jpeg)</div><strong>Date</strong>: May 3025<br/><strong>Location</strong>: Siege Perilous: Planetfall<br/><strong>Tagging</strong>: Open<br/><strong>Content</strong>: Arrival<br/><hr/><br/>“Throttle up +20%; maintain decent speed Mach 4.” Kurumi’s eyes instinctively flicked over to the Captain. Members of the crew repeating his order, other voices relaying information other orders as the crew worked together with a practiced calm to bring the Union class dropship into the planet's spaceport.<br/>Her hands squeezed the rail just a bit tighter as a steady rumble thrummed through the massive craft as it  streaked through the planet's atmosphere the sound more felt than heard, she could feel it in her hands even the soles of her feet the faint vibrations increasing as the fusion drives of the dropship roared. the sound would be defining outside the craft as tons of reactant being were dumped into the engines, vaporized in an instant to slow the spherical shaped craft as it burned through the atmosphere.<br/>She seemed just a bit out of place as he watched the bridge crew from her elevated position. The crew were dressed in the DCMS duty uniforms she however was dressed in a black umanori hakama over a black long sleeved Kimino, or to the uneducated in the ways of proper Kurita culture, Samuri Robes. A yellow Obi circled her waist and a white full length samurai haori completed her dress. The Long white coat adorned with seven narrow black diamonds around the hem as well as the Kurita Crest in black on the center back of the coat, a black square diamond surrounding the crest with four smaller crests for her family, her father, her sensei and unit.<br/><br/>The controlled ‘standard’ landing seeming to take forever compared to a combat drop. The Asian woman half smiling as she leaned on the railing, her eyes flicking to the various view screens before fixing on the one that showed another streak burning through the atmosphere the Davion dropship that was making to the same planet. perhaps this really is a combat drop. Her eyes moving to the screen that showed the green planet below and the unnatural splotch that was the planetary capital, Percival.<br/><br/>Almost no one called the place by its full name, the more apt ‘Perilous’ usually sufficing for the world. Which seemed quite fitting as it was one of the few ‘shared’ planets and systems among the great houses. The planet was known to be a nefarious hive of intrigue, and deceit, rumored to be even more conspiratorial and dangerous than the imperial city on Luthien, as dangerous as the seat for which it was named. If that was true then this world would seem to be aptly named. Regardless she was a Shogun, a Duchess of Kurita, of the Dragon. Sworn to serve and protect the combine and the Coordinator. This is where her duty had led her and here she would fulfill her duty and honor to her family and her House.<br/><br/>Her attention was pulled from her revelry as the Captain's voice called out again.<br/>“Begin landing cycle stage two, prepare for landing strut deployment.”<br/><br/>The dropship would be touching down shortly. There was already a feast scheduled for their arrival that she was obligated to attend. Arranged perhaps as a test, a pitfall to weed out the unwary.  The ship rocked gently as the landing struts deployed; Kurumi glancing over to the main monitor, the city sprawled out around the starport. This may prove to be an interesting assignment.<br/><br/>