<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/92/BridgeBunniesAvatarMacross2032.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Lt. Porter, Ens. McMillan, Lt. Morgenstern<br/><strong>Date:</strong>March 15, 2032<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Space Traffic Control<br/><strong>With:</strong>Kyclia, Open<br/><hr/><br/>The Space Traffic Control Center, or STCC, sometimes pronounced spat-see, was the heart of fighter operations for the Aluce base. Here, at the center of flight operations, situated between the launch bay and recovery bay, all fighter deployments were coordinated and controlled. Large windows allowed a good look at the airless lunar surface and the craft leaving and approaching the base, but half the windows were barely visible behind displays projected into the air that showed radar images, computer projections of the space surrounding the moon, and camera shots of the hangar bays. On a raised platform the commander of the base's fighter wings, the CAG, had a seat, together with the squadron commanders who found the time in their busy schedules to attend the launch procedures. Below that platform three sides of the large room where taken up by the duty stations of radar and communications operators, technicians, and all the other people necessary to ensure smooth operations of the base's fighter deployments.<br/><br/>It was on this lower level of the STCC that pilots found themselves when assigned a shift in flight operations, where they were supposed to learn what happened behind the scenes, how their own flight operations were directed, what problems could come up, and how those problems were solved. In addition to that, those pilots were also at hand to lend advice. For that each one had a complete manual for the various craft the base used at hand and was expected to answer any of the numerous questions they had been trained to deal with in countless sessions of training.<br/><br/>The Control Center was also the place where the officers of Base Operations frequently worked, to gain their own lessons in how flight operations were directed. In a major crisis they would work in the Operations Center , the 'bridge' of Aluce base, coordinating base operations with the ships assigned to the defense of the moon. But to do that they had to have a firm understanding of how the base's own operations worked.<br/><br/>"Snake Eyes Oh-Three and Oh-Four are airborne," Trixie Porter reported. "That's the last of this launch." She stretched in her seat, her arms spread wide.<br/><br/>Behind her Hitomi Morgenstern rose from the seat in the center of the lower level, below the CAG's elevated position. "The Ready Fives spotted in the launch bays?" she asked, which an enlisted man at one of the monitoring stations confirmed. "Alright then. Trixie, hold the fort for me for five minutes?"<br/><br/>"Sure," the younger officer replied with a wide smile.<br/><br/>Hitomi Morgenstern made her way to the back of the room, heading towards the corridor that led to the rest rooms. She could afford a small break, after an hour of shuffling planes around the launch deck, receiving reports of weapons status and flight readiness, watching the fighters head out to take their assigned positions. The previous patrol shift was now on its way back home, but it would be another twenty minutes before the first ones arrived and got ready to land. She was still thinking about that while she passed the group of pilots gathered at the rear of the room and it took her a moment to recognize a familiar face among them that she had only seen from quite a different angle before. She paused a second and gave the Meltrandi a brief nod. "Lieutenant."