[quote=Silverwind Blade]
That works for me, although obviously you'll both need to be defeated for our mission to progress :P You could turn up at the end of the exercise as 'unexpected reinforcements' to add an air of surprise and to test our ability to adapt on the fly... or something. Or come in earlier, as that would mean you can join right in. Whichever you choose is fine with me. We can hash it out here, as everyone's input would be good.
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Who said we'd be winning? It has already been mentioned a number of times that there are a lot of people who love to see us fail. I kind of like the idea of having someone doing some last minutes adjustments to the difficulty level of the excercise as part of some inter political struggle. In the last minute some academy protegé and an experiance gear pilot where added with their military grade GEARs to the bandits :P