Ghost Star Fortress [NK-X1-02] Docking Bay One
Nataria
YSS Artemis
Deck 6 - VR Chamber
As the sun set, the muck and mud of the simulated environment dragging on the Infantry, slowing things down a touch but not enough to prevent the beginning of defensive fighting positions around the "camp" and it's vital equipment. This included a quick fire to build for the defenders a firing line, while also creating a vulnerability intended to lure the Rangers in. As they finished this prep, the hour was up, and night had officially fallen. So while the cleared area around the camp was now easier to observe, the residual heat would do much to hamper thermal optics.
Deck 6 - Lower Armory
Elenor closed the top of her Star Army Rifle, Type 41b, before pulling the charging handle back to get the nice clear metal on metal sound of the weapon being cleared. The weapon was one she'd helped test and experiment with prior to her assignment on the Hana, same with the Power Armor Automatic Rifle, Type 40. Now she was getting to use them live, and in this particular case, with the much smaller and more manageable YIRS-T for it. She'd opted to have the stock replaced with a skeletal folding stock, and having the top sight removed for a lower rail that had a basic iron sight mounted onto it, and finally, the handguard and barrel was shorter, giving it a much more compact weapon. Technically speaking, it was, since the configuration was an acknowledge variant of the weapon.
Looking up, her face obscured by the new Type 41 helmet, she focused her gaze on Lucas. Yes, she was still in love with him. But right now, he was the senior-most person in the room as they got ready to raid the Infantry. "Fireteam Echo is green." She reported, being the senior enlisted Ranger on her fireteam in the third Ranger squad on the ship, nicknamed "Shikra". She wasn't sure what that was, beyond it apparently being a bird of some kind. All that remained was for Lucas to give the go and they'd enter the VR chamber and see what the Infantry had set up to stop them with.