Max saw the Captain come in, already starting to chat to his tech, a rather pretty looking one no less. Why didn't he get pretty girls? Bloody officers, he thought to himself, a smirk on his face as he watched from afar. He got a scared mouse of some sort, but hey, he WAS a good tech, given how spotless this thing looked. 

Max might not have had as sharp a set of ears as some, but oh, he could tell what was going on there with the Captain. Clear, concise, to the point about his weaponry though. The command module looked very cool indeed, and he could watch as Silverwind only continued to flirt.
"Honestly. Can you believe this shit?" He gently whispered to Lion Rampant with his head turned, sniggering a little as he tried to occupy himself while he watched his CO turn on the total charm. 

With a sigh, Max himself looked back at his GEAR and took his Pebble out, already going through some basic diagnostics for the Lion Rampant and basic running specs. Just like the manifest pad, everything was good here, motors were in tolerance and so was power and all electronics on board. Just what he liked to see. Looking back one more time, the paint was different to the rest he noticed, making him realise. Ah, shit. He was the kid with the newest toy and he didn't even know. Enough to put a paint job on it already. His recon lot had gotten a shipment a few months back, it was probably why they got lucky to have first-dibs on something like this. Well....keep that down, Max thought to himself. Or well, maybe don't. Possibly. 

[quote=@Silverwind Blade]
"Bastion," he called out as he caught sight of the lion. "All all right?" he said, thumbing in direction of the felines' GEAR. 
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Max looked over, nodding and giving a thumbs up, whistling a little as he looked over at Silverwind's GEAR.
"She's not bad!" Max called back, the empty hardpoints showing a rather aesthetically pleasing GEAR, even if it hadn't been painted. In that moment he just took a moment to realise....fuck, that wasn't what he was meant to say. Now saying that the GEAR he had was an object of desire was one thing.....subliminally that came across as something else. Very, very something else. Fuck it, in for a penny, in for a pound he thought, as Silverwind wondered over...

"My, my, my, Captain Blade. The absolute romantic. You two really just hit off there then, hey?" He chuckled with a toned down voice, knowing full well he was utterly stirring the pot here, and well....for that moment at least, Max wanted just one gentle dig. For what it was worth, if Silverwind was more Arvaran than a cyborg he knew the tone wouldn't come across too seriously, as Max looked back up at the Lion Rampant, and then at the vulpine.

"They're proper nice these GEARs, aren't they? Mine's called the Lion's Rampant. She served me proper back when I was on recon duty. Good agility compared to anything else I've tried before, and I've just had the latest OS update on it to bring it line with the rest here. So yeah, they certainly live up to the hype." Max said, tapping the knee of the GEAR, the brown-gold a colour scheme fitting of a feline such as him. While not as daunting as the command mech, it looked like it'd clocked up some miles, even taken a couple of low-caliber rounds in one or two plates that hadn't been changed or replaced. It was completely clean, but the overall look of it was that Max had put it through its paces. The lion looked back at the Captain, Max's look getting a little more serious and back down to reality. 

"I've currently got my standard Reconaissance package installed on it, but if you need anything changed from the Manifest sheet, let me know. I know that some officers have a different requirement for what Recon operators should do, so just keep me posted and I'll change this thing up. Oh, and on that note- I know a gal that can do some serious paintwork. She's a reservist...I can't remember where they posted her to, but I can send across her details to you if you want her to do some professional spraying on these things. If you can clear that and if you're like me, can't trust your paw with a spraycan of course." Max added, looking around at his and then back at Silverwind, hoping that even if he didn't say yes, he at least planted the idea in his mind.