Stella... You're streaking beneath the flak cloud of the Clan cruiser, strafing everything that looks like a weapon, your hand cramping from holding the flight channel open with your thumb and the trigger down with your index finger. You've been firing your main...
As the enemy fleet jumps in and forms up, a number of events take place on Agamemnon. First, Stella discovers that Flannery, newly promoted to Lieutenant Junior-Grade, is imitating her in many ways. Stella let's out a battle cry in the launch bay, inspiring the...
Later that week, Colonel Becker holds a funeral and honors ceremony, during which she recognizes the boarding party with Silver Stars and issues several promotions - including elevating Janks to Command Sergeant Major and Mitch to Major with a commission to command...
After the surge, the lights flicker off again, but it's apparent that several systems are now operational. After some work, Mitch finds that the glasses are part of an augmented reality system, and pulls the ship's floor plan. Pvt. Buck doesn't respond to Janks'...
As the team moves aft, they lose contact with Agamemnon, but remain in contact with Cpl. Davis and Pvt. Spears in the Cheyenne - the skin of the Normandy appears to absorb emissions and no signal appears to be able to leave the craft. Janks gets a flash of danger and...
Agamemnon makes her way to the edge of the system, followed at a safe distance by a Clan destroyer. The members of the team who need medical attention are treated on the way. After jumping to Quantraine and meeting with Alabama, then again with the jump to...
The Alabama's shakedown cruise reveals two critical pieces of technology - the first is a quantum entanglement communication system, presumably connecting many - if not all - of the Clan vessels. Becker orders the system disassembled and duplicated. The second is...
Barret, Faro, Flannery, Gizmo, and Hotdog enter the CIC and lay out a set of surveillance photos of the area around the listening post. Barret points out the battlemech hidden among the peaks that was responsible for shooting down Mitch, and gives Flannery credit...
Aboard Agamemnon, there's a small cheer from the CIC crew as the IFF transmitter on Alabama is set to its original Star League designation. Captain Anderson has a surprise for Becker - he had managed to track one of the Clan gunships that hadn't been completely...