The man who provides dairy products is right - we had an exercise, which has come to a close due to there being some blackmail that's been exposed and some unfair rigging of the exercise by opposition in the upper ranks. We're currently rounding up for a debriefing, after which we'll return to the [i]Claw[/i].
I was figuring on introducing the new characters at the debriefing, or on our return to the Landcruiser.

Aristo, no worries about your absence - I'll cover for it easily enough, and in theory you won't miss a huge amount anyway, if you're only gone for a couple of weeks. I expect a lot of it will be settling people in, and a bit of IC non-combat interaction.

MachineSoul, your sheet looks pretty good, I'll add it to the OP with Esailia's when I have a little more free time.