New IC is up, with tasks for everyone to do. Non-combat ones, sure, but they'll give you all a chance to speak and work with each other, and to use your GEARs for something else. And, in the case of Ken and Dane, to do something a bit different and explore the base.
I'll deal with each of the separate 'threads' on a one-to-one basis, making NPC posts as necessary to keep things moving once you've all posted. Once the tasks are all dealt with, I'll bring things all back together for a time-skip covering us all working up things together, and then going ahead to the briefing revealing everything, and propelling us off on our next mission.