James was lost in thought as the captain neared the room, but his body moved on instinct as the call was made, snapping to Attention with a disciplined salute following sharply after. He relaxed back against the wall as she put them at ease, understandably a little confused someone as highly ranked as a Vice Admiral could be so lax with protocol, but continued to listen to the briefing anyway, laughing a little though his nose at the brief summary of how she ran her ship.

He listened to the mission briefing carefully, taking note of anything that could be important to his particular role, as well as potential tactical decisions as a whole. As she finished the briefing, he began to process his thoughts and began to form a question, but was interrupted as the bizarre white-haired girl spoke up and he spotted the Solexus logo on her unusual armour. His expression become a mix of questioning and distaste at her outburst, although leaning more so to the latter, but refrained from commenting and instead simply rolled his eyes before standing up straight from his place on the wall and raising his hand to signal his own input.

"Two questions Ma'am. Are we sure that the unknown vessel will still in that location once we arrive, or that we can at least track it down if not? With all due respect, 5 days is plenty of time to exfil even a ship of that size, and they may have tracking countermeasures we hadn't known about."