<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/f3/Max_Cosarina_-_Macross.jpeg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Lt Maxine "Max" Cosinara<br/><strong>Callsign:</strong>Phade<br/><strong>Date:</strong>13 March 2032<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Moon Base Aluce / Hangar / Deep Range Patrol.<br/><strong>With:</strong>Zephorus<br/><hr/><br/>"Aluce Control, Hawk 03, ready for launch."  Max looked over the displays on her heads up display to make sure everything looked good.  The outer door opened to the blackness of space, the low horizon of Moon's grey cratered surface in the distance. On the launch control station to the side of the airlock, Max quickly saluted to the controller in the station.  Suddenly the veritech shot forward through the tube, out into space.  As soon as they were clear of the main airlock tube, Max threw the jets into afterburn and banked the fighter hard to the right.  The EW veritechs were more up to date than the single seat VF-1's but nothing like the new VF-5's and Max could feel the difference in the way the controlls responded and the G-forces that fought against her maneuvers.<br/><br/>"Aluce Control, Hawk 03 clear, beginning patrol route zeta six."<br/><br/><em>"Copy Hawk 03, good hunting."</em><br/><br/>The fighter banked again, dropping down along the moon surface as Max drew closer to the terrain.  The veritech cruised along the grey surface, making the moonscape below nothing but a blur as it streaked by, occasionally bumping up over a crater or ridgeline.  "Ok, Zeph, keep your eyes open.  Scanners on maximum.  Heat up the jammers."  Max called back as she worked the controls, getting a feel for how the veritech handled and responded to her slightest touches.<br/><br/>"I know you went through the training program to get you familiar with how the systems worked, but now we get to actually see how they work."  Max banked left around the edge of a larger mountain then banked the fighter to the right to fly along the windward edge of the mountain.  "Setting route zeta six, Two minutes out from way point 3."  Max checked her navigation charts to make sure she was tracking the changes in topography.  "So, we can go about this two ways.  Come in low and fast until we hit the target or high and fast to give our missiles more kinetic kill.  I hope this isn't too much for you."<br/><br/>