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High above the LZ's airspace, it could be safely assumed that Konstantin had spotted the disturbance and associated dust plume, on account that all six of his available cannons were trained upon what appeared to be its' epicenter. Only God above knew the specifics of what they had just dug up, both in metaphor and in the literal sense, but he couldn't help it [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l7kGPqGJ5U]if he smelled an engagement[/url]. Animal instincts were hard to shake.

[color=f26522]<<I can corroborate both. Triangulating artillery coordinates now. All yours, Voyager.>>[/color]

That said, he was still a professional first and foremost. Halting his circuit, he quickly darted his gaze across his HUD, indicating the somewhat-excavated Orbital's designation field as [color=ed1c24]TGT[/color]. [i]Merlon[/i] took over from there, transmitting the updated IFF structure to every synced orbital to quite plainly display upon their HUDs and Radar fields. Once established, the designation's position coupled with the readings of AGL-001 streamed all the aim assistance Isra could need, freezer burnt or not.

Once they got a proper grid set up for this place, then the classic "steel rain" idea would be far simpler. But you work with what you have.

So, that was quite a lot that just happened in the span of seconds. There was no great coincidence that the radiation patterns all but perfectly lined up with Oberth Reactors, then, when the team's first great discovery on this rock was that somebody was indeed here [i]first[/i]. While Harding's little slip of the tongue had far from gone unnoticed, there were more pressing matters to attend to than the relationship between Siberia and Kitezh— chiefly that which had suddenly proven to have some sort of ghost in the machine.

Could you really expect a soldier to believe in a coincidence like [i]this[/i]?

[color=f26522]<<We're digging up Orbitals, aren't we? Maybe somebody else had the same idea.>>[/color] he ventured dryly, full attention returned to the disturbance. As the de-facto AWACS and designated guinea pig for General Resources, it naturally fell to him to provide preliminary analysis on whatever the hell just woke up.

[color=f26522]<<Range to bogey: three-point-five clicks Northeast from LZ, vector 076. Visual obscured by dust plume at current resolution. Beginning scan cycle.>>[/color]

Guns still very much trained, he quickly set to work, running through all available detection filters.

[color=f26522]<<...All that said, though, I'd be fine with some kind of crab. [i]Michael[/i] could roast it and we could all stop worrying about MREs for a while.>>[/color]