<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><em>Flashback</em>02 March 2032<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Moon Base Aluce Hangar/Airspace<br/><strong>With:</strong>Lt Cdr Zilkin Kaverosky, Closed<br/><hr/><br/>Max closed her eyes as the power behind her and the lack of gravity around her gave her veritech the feel of truly being free.  She'd been able to fly in on her VF-1 so it had only been about two days since the last time she'd been in space, but there was something so natural and free about flying in space.  She loved flying in general, either in space or atmosphere, it didn't matter.  But there had always been something different about flying in space.<br/><br/>She let her instincts take over, knowing Zilkin was to her left side, keeping close to her.  She simply let her thoughts control the movements of the fighter as they screamed towards the training field.  Zil's constant verbal chatter brought a grin to Max's face.  This was the big difference in their strengths as pilots.  He was logical, thorough, purposeful in his flying.  He trusted the science and the mechanics behind the machine; Max felt the controls, trusted her instincts, her intuition drove her flying.  They were almost a very curious form of Ying and Yang in the way they worked, but the trick was they worked, and worked well together.<br/><br/>Max watched Zil change from fighter to hybrid.  He was testing his control as she watched him drift dangerously close to an asteroid.  Max burned back towards Zil, a turn that likely would have made her black out in atmospheric flight.  At full power, towards the large roid Zil was dancing with, Max drew back the control which switched from fighter to Gerwalk.  The transformation completed the instant she was directly aligned with Zilkin and the asteroid.<br/><br/>Firing off a short burst of simulated rounds from her rifle at Zilkin's veritech, Max immediately pitched up her nose, throwing the control back to fighter as her feet thrusters pushed her over the top of the asteroid.  A few kilometers after she was back to fighter mode, Max threw the switch back as her nose turned down.  The veritech seemed to flip over itself as she transformed again.  Engaging the firing button on her thruster controls launched the simulated missiles towards Zilkin's fighter as her foot thrusters pushed her to the side out of position behind the missile smoke screen.<br/><br/>"AHAHAHAH....this thing's a dream, or did you forget how I got my callsign?"  Max had quickly developed a talent as a young pilot of making sure her Veritech wasn't easy to hit.  She'd gained the callsign Phade because she always seemed to not be where someone was shooting at her by the time they were able to shoot.