Araan gave a quick mental command to Eternity, a simple request for the directions to the armory and the Mindy Bay. When the information was passed on to him he gave a bow to Ise-Taisa and made his way out of the wardroom, immediately heading down to the Mindy Bay to retrieve his suit. Practice with these suits was always something he had enjoyed, and now he got to prove his mettle on the combat field. Though he stopped at the question another Santô Hei, Tanaka, had presented to the Taisa. At his question he balked for a moment before responding, first with a query to Eternity for the soldier's name. He waited a moment for her response before he spoke, though possibly out of line.
"Tanaka-Hei, the Taisa requested we pack heavy even for a recon mission, I'd assume we're to be combat ready at all times. This escort could very well turn into a massive firefight if the NMX detect our presence and present us with a front. But as infantrymen we should always be combat ready." He told the man, his voice stern, a shift of pace from how he was feeling just a few hours ago.
"We may be part of an expeditionary fleet, but our job is to protect the people on board or set on away-teams." He said calmly, before exiting the wardroom in full.
Winding his way through the halls he found himself first thinking about the mindsets he'd witnessed from his crewmates so far and then wondering more and more about the NMX threat, while he had been educated on their premise and the speculated reasoning for the current war, he wanted more information on what caused them to tick and how to effectively take down any of their troops. "Eternity, can you parse the information for me, pertaining specifically to the combat effectiveness and the strategic weak-points of our enemy's most common combatant forms?" He asked politely before he realized he had walked down into the bay already.
As he arrived he found himself searching through the bay for the different specs and weapon loadouts that the various Mindy M2-(2-3A?) models were set to handle. Finding himself less than satisfied with either of the basic payouts He requested a few swap-outs from the "Balanced Model", removal of the teleportation module and replacement with a Weapon Storage Unit, removal of the Right Shoulder Weapon Mount, to be replaced with a Ke-M2-W2906 Shoulder-Fired Missile Pod, and a change from the leg's counter-measure pod to the Ke-M2-W3002 Leg NSB Launchers. A little more bang for his buck, he figured. Parsing this command to the ship's MEGAMI he found himself sorting through the various armors that hung in their respective bays until he found the one labeled with his own name, 'Vis'thraugh, Araan', currently undergoing the minor swaps he requested, at this he visibly preened as he reached a hand up to remove the helmet from his Mindy when the machine rattled itself to a halt, having attached the specified equipment.
Removing his belt and rank patches he set them into a small interior locker beside his armor's bay, before finalizing his removal of the armor's helmet, watching as the torso slid open, then as the rest of the aperture began to open up, revealing it's soft flesh-core, to which he gently stepped forward, turning on the ball of his foot before sliding it down into the boot. Bringing the next foot to match and relaxing back into the armor he waited for it to seal before he reached down and grabbed the helmet, holding it under the right arm as he moved to retrieve his weapon he would place it in the Weapons Storage Unit at his back, as well as asking Eternity where he might, if allowed, find a Ke-M2-W2901 Aether Beam Saber-Rifle in the case of close-quarters-combat.
