<i>"To be honest with you son, you will most likely have to do this mission on your own and do your own planning, in 4 days over 200 U.E.N tanks, 150 Planes and 200 Walkers will be crossing the border in Saudi Arabia and we can't keep helping you for long when your out there so you will most likely have to judge your own course of action."</i>
<span style='color:chartreuse'>"About freaking time, now about this payment. Is this streetwork part of a greater job, or will you pay just to get the info? Also, this job is likely to take a few bucks up front, since information usually isn't free"</span>
<i>"We have payed him in advance so no need to pay him, we will transfer 1200 into your accounts when we get the information from him, once you get the info we will decide what you should do then. We are sending so many of you because the mech ranch can be a very dangerous place, if you all stick together then you should all be safe, besides they are use to G.A.C mech pilots in there, just watch out for local gangs."</i>
<span style='color:chartreuse'>"You got to be kidding me. What you're doing is to tell us who to contact, how to contact them and not to pay them. And on top of that, you're asking us to go into the ranch as a full group to protect ourselves from the socalled gangs. This is mental, pure mental. Listen kid, from what I have heard, it sounds like a know a great deal more about that place than you do. Give us some money and the name of your informant, and I'll get you your info, but don't freaking tell me to take a group into the ranch to "protect" myself. So, just let us decide how to do our job and I might even bring back the whole squad this time"
"And get me some money, I'm going to need them if I'm to bring you the info you need"</span>
<i>"Need i remind you that your license may be terminated at any time and your account closed and all cash in it will be returned to the Walker.Corp. They will NOT need paying as we have already paid him, we just need you to meet him, get the info of him and get back, thats it. You will go in as off duty G.A.C pilots so you won't raise any suspicon, no more money will be added, any futher trouble from you and your shall be terminated from the Walker.Corp, any further questions ?"</i>
<span style='color:chartreuse'>"We will go into the ranch as off-duty G.A.C. pilots, so we won't raise suspision? Tell me, do you really believe in that? Going as a group is deadly, going with a freaking tag showing us to be part of a full army will be one way to be damn sure we're going to have to shoot our way in there and back again. I sure as hell am NOT going in there with a tagged group without some serious payment on the other end."</span>
<i>"Well first off, you gotta be freaking dumb to go into a mech ranch with dog tags, secondly the mech ranch is use to pilots going in as off duty so that wont raise ANY suspicon do i make myself clear ? And if you don't agree pack your bags and get the hell out of here."</i>
<span style='color:purple'>"Where exactly are we going to meet this guy?"</span>
<i>"He refuses to tell us which is understandable, he says he will contact you in a bar called 'The seven sisters.'"</i>
<span style='color:chartreuse'>"Oh well, if you really want this to happen by having a band of warriors do a simple info pickup, then so be it. Is it allright if we go by the slightly less obvious method and go by two or three groups, just keeping withing line of sight, or is it a mission requirement to be obvious about it?"</span>
<span style='color:chocolate'> "Sir, could we at <i>least</i> get a map of this mech ranch? We should at least know where we are and be able to plan contingencies."
*Glancing over at the team leader, Zero notices his frustration.* </span>
<i>"Listen i don't care how you go to the mech ranch, i don't care if you walk in wearing pink tutus, just go to the friggin' mech ranch and ge the freaking intel, do you understand ? You decide how you all get there okay ? Intel is pulling maps up now." It's obvious this guy is about to blow.</i>
<span style='color:chartreuse'>*Picks up his stuff and starts leaving*
"Well, you seriously need to consider anger management. A little bit of advise. When you're dealing with death and war, and trying to make someone work for you, do try to look calm. People who are about to blow just because the ones working for them don't follow their orders without question soon find themselves lacking the respect of their subordinates. And that's not where you want to be when there's so many people who want you in the wrong end of the gun, because you need the full potential of your warriors out there."</span>
<i>"Calm ? CALM ! We are about to be fuckign swarmed with UEN forces and we have to do and dont need a bunch of fecking morons bitching about simple instructions."</i>
<span style='color:purple'>"Guys we should really be going.....i'm hungry."</span>
<span style='color:chartreuse'>"Oh my freaking god. Of cause you'll be swarmed with U.E.N. forces if you let them take what you refuse to have: skilled warriors. Some day you might understand. There's two parts of respect for a leader, looking up to the leader and feeling the spirit of the leader. If you keep acting like we're your subordinates, you'll miss out on the second. Why do you think those U.E.N. dogs keep owning you? They do because when your people go to war, they say "yes sir sir", while their people go to war FEELING the "freakin' 'a boss". Oh well, waste of time, I'll get your info and leave it to your superior school-perfect brain to take care of the planning. As long as you pay me."</span>
<span style='color:gray'><u>*taps xect on the shoulder* "We should really get going.... We're gonna get payed anyways..." *starts getting stuff* "Hungry too Spark... let's get some food"</u></span>
<i>A door opens behind you all, a elderly man enters with many decorations on his chest, he nods to the officer who leaves the room. "I do apologise for him, he isn't living down here with us lot so i'll do the de-briefing for you. First off we have a man inside the local mech ranch who we have paid to inflitrate the UEN, he has reports on the seismic tank and where they are coming from, however we need you or some of you to go meet him you all work this out amongst yourselves, he will meet you at the bar called 'The seven sisters' damn good service there....... sorry, he will approach you with the phrase , 'The winter is better in the South.' he will then give you the info and documents, as you can see from the map, 1 represents the meet up point, 2 are hotels where you can stay, 3 is a run down old mech storage facility, the rouch part of town if you will, 4 is a mech shop and you may park your mechs there aswell, the paying rate will be 1500, 300 above the standard rate." "Once you have completed the objectives then you will wait by for further orders regarding the situation, you may of course plan the operation yourself, you decide who stays and who goes, how you go in, when you go in, well probably please get there by tomorrow morning you may now appoint a team leader for this operation."</i>
<span style='color:chartreuse'>"Guess you're right, not worth the trouble. How about we go now, I feel like a mech ride"
*starts walking out of the room*
{whispers}"Besides, I have some business that I'd like to do at the mech ranch. Since those smarta***s here believe in several days of duty, I guess I'm going to have to do it now that I have the chance"</span>
<span style='color:green'>*Follows Xect out of the room* "Look, getting angry about his stupidity isn't going to help. Its just we've got to work around that type of officer... Times like this I wish I was back in the armoured corps, though."</span>
<span style='color:chocolate'>*Follows the squad out of the room. On the way out, he overhears what Bill said to Xect*
"We too unprofessional for you Bill? I don't mind it though. I'm not here to win any professionalism awards or anything. Just wanted to skip jail ya know." </span>
<span style='color:green'>"Too unprofessional? Nah... Just got some problems with the remfs. Armoured corps didn't have many and I knew alternative sources for the ones that were like 'im" *Points over his shoulder at the debreifing building* "Best way of dealing with the trouble is to just bypass them as much as possible."</span>
<span style='color:green'>"I guess I'm ready to go now. I'd of liked a chance to talk to the slime, set up an alternative source of info, but that can wait." *Follows Xect to the hanger*</span> <b>'Slime' aka 'Green Slime' is Cold War era slang for the Intellegence Corp</b>
<span style='color:chartreuse'>"Well, we're not being paid to get the info, we're being paid to walk to this here mole and hear what he has to say, and then pass that on to the top dogs. There's a considerable difference"
*Walks to his mech, climbs into it and starts warming up the engines.*</span>
<span style='color:green'>"I mean an alterantive source of info for planning for future missions, expecially useful if we get messed around by that pompus jerk again" *Climbs in and starts up his mech*</span>
<span style='color:chartreuse'>"Well, I don't really care much. Almost feel sorry for the guy though, he's bound to lose anything he touches. Trust me, I've seen that type, and I've seen them fall."
*Begins moving mech*
"By the way, as I said I have some business to do at the ranch. How about we split up. You go to this mole, I ask around and see what I can dig up. Perhaps I might even find some additional info that we can sell. Sounds allright with you?"</span>
<span style='color:green'>"Yeah... Might do a bit of shopping as well, strictly as a cover for meet, you know <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> " *Moves out, following Xect*</span>
<span style='color:chartreuse'>"Oh, on another note, how many of you have been to the ranch before? I say we go by a few groups, with the new guys being the largest groups. It might even be a good idea for me to walk with someone for a while, but I'm gonna have to go in alone if I'm to have any chance of getting some information out of the people there. They don't like talking to strangers, not about that sort of info at least."</span>
<span style='color:purple'>"I've been to other ones before but never this one." He picks up power in the mech and goes behind the others. "Well hopefully i can blow some hard earn cash there and buy some stuff. So who has been here before ?"</span>
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*Raising his hand, Zero asks the officer a question*
"Uhhh sir... isn't sending the whole caboodle of us to an intel mission a bit questionable? A whole group would kinda stick out like a sore thumb."
*In his private thoughts, Zero questions whether the whole point of this squad is to get killed*
Mumbling, Zero says, "First mission and already we have a man down"</span>
We are sending so many of you because the mech ranch can be a very dangerous place, if you all stick together then you should all be safe, besides they are use to G.A.C mech pilots in there, just watch out for local gangs."</i>
"And get me some money, I'm going to need them if I'm to bring you the info you need"</span>
*I add, in a whisper only loud enough to carry to the squad "Sir, three bloody bags full sir."*</span>
<span style='color:purple'>"Where exactly are we going to meet this guy?"</span>
<i>"He refuses to tell us which is understandable, he says he will contact you in a bar called 'The seven sisters.'"</i>
"Sir, could we at <i>least</i> get a map of this mech ranch? We should at least know where we are and be able to plan contingencies."
*Glancing over at the team leader, Zero notices his frustration.*
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It's obvious this guy is about to blow.</i>
"Well, you seriously need to consider anger management. A little bit of advise. When you're dealing with death and war, and trying to make someone work for you, do try to look calm. People who are about to blow just because the ones working for them don't follow their orders without question soon find themselves lacking the respect of their subordinates. And that's not where you want to be when there's so many people who want you in the wrong end of the gun, because you need the full potential of your warriors out there."</span>
<span style='color:purple'>"Guys we should really be going.....i'm hungry."</span>
"We should really get going.... We're gonna get payed anyways..."
*starts getting stuff*
"Hungry too Spark... let's get some food"</u></span>
"I do apologise for him, he isn't living down here with us lot so i'll do the de-briefing for you. First off we have a man inside the local mech ranch who we have paid to inflitrate the UEN, he has reports on the seismic tank and where they are coming from, however we need you or some of you to go meet him you all work this out amongst yourselves, he will meet you at the bar called 'The seven sisters' damn good service there....... sorry, he will approach you with the phrase , 'The winter is better in the South.' he will then give you the info and documents, as you can see from the map, 1 represents the meet up point, 2 are hotels where you can stay, 3 is a run down old mech storage facility, the rouch part of town if you will, 4 is a mech shop and you may park your mechs there aswell, the paying rate will be 1500, 300 above the standard rate."
"Once you have completed the objectives then you will wait by for further orders regarding the situation, you may of course plan the operation yourself, you decide who stays and who goes, how you go in, when you go in, well probably please get there by tomorrow morning you may now appoint a team leader for this operation."</i>
*starts walking out of the room*
{whispers}"Besides, I have some business that I'd like to do at the mech ranch. Since those smarta***s here believe in several days of duty, I guess I'm going to have to do it now that I have the chance"</span>
"Look, getting angry about his stupidity isn't going to help. Its just we've got to work around that type of officer... Times like this I wish I was back in the armoured corps, though."</span>
"We too unprofessional for you Bill? I don't mind it though. I'm not here to win any professionalism awards or anything. Just wanted to skip jail ya know."
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*Points over his shoulder at the debreifing building*
"Best way of dealing with the trouble is to just bypass them as much as possible."</span>
<span style='color:chartreuse'>"Well, that was better. Now let's get going. Are you people ready to leave?"
*Starts walking towards the mech hanger.*</span>
*Follows Xect to the hanger*</span>
<b>'Slime' aka 'Green Slime' is Cold War era slang for the Intellegence Corp</b>
*Walks to his mech, climbs into it and starts warming up the engines.*</span>
*hops into his mech and starts engines*</span>
*Climbs in and starts up his mech*</span>
*Begins moving mech*
"By the way, as I said I have some business to do at the ranch. How about we split up. You go to this mole, I ask around and see what I can dig up. Perhaps I might even find some additional info that we can sell. Sounds allright with you?"</span>
*Moves out, following Xect*</span>
He picks up power in the mech and goes behind the others.
"Well hopefully i can blow some hard earn cash there and buy some stuff. So who has been here before ?"</span>