Mech Warrior Log - Brody.J - A cooling off period

Med Bay

Thornton was being treated for the wounds he had suffered on their Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol, that raised more than a few eyebrows on its own but along with some questions about why the two of them went off in a single 'Mech... Questions that increased in heat and volume when nothing further was heard from Shirinov and Conrad. When she could put it off no longer Ferguson came calling.

She was understandably concerned that the Blackshields were looking at a potential loss of three pilots with the death of Rebollar and Shirinov and Conrad M.I.A. She called on Thornton, Jakari and I all separately... Of course I had the ace in the hole as I had been on base all the while they were away but guilt has a way of spreading out a bit like a kid's first colouring book... boundaries are guidelines rather than actual boundaries.

I am not sure exactly what Jakari said to Ferguson but after she had spoken to him, and given the fact that she had no real evidence to back up her suspicions and after reading Hausa's After Action Report and seeing that he was the catalyst behind all of the Blackshields current woes she calmed the fuck down and just asked if Conrad and Shirinov were going to bring any more of their shit to our door. Jakari's response was almost philosophical... who would have thought he had it in him? he told her that the worst regret you can have in life is not for the things that you have done which are wrong but rather for the things that perhaps you should have done but didn't.

Thornton's response was more considered but along the same lines. He told Branka that he was tired of being ill used in other people's power games and suggested that Rosalina should be returned home along with the evidence that those responsible had been given the ultimate punishment. He also suggested that Jakari and I should go out and attempt to recover the Warhammer and find out what evidence, if any, could be found about Shirinov and Conrad's whereabouts.

I too had a meeting with the Colonel and told her that I had raised my objections several times about the deviations from our intended mission and about how mysteriously Hausa's illness had come and gone. I told her that I suspected Shirinov of being more than just a run of the mill MechWarrior and that I suspected him of being an agent for some other power, the Marian Hegemony perhaps? That I'd spent a lot more time with Kaja and Rosilina and our Canopian pilot shared her wish that Rosilina should be returned home but that our other, perhaps less aware brethren could only see just how many c-bills she might be worth in ransom I agreed with Kaja's assessment... Sending Rosalina back was the right thing to do.

Branka basically agreed that we needed to find a way to get Rosalina back to Thraxa with a minimum of fuss and as much of an apology as we could manage. She also suggested that we could buy some goodwill by trying to find out just who it was that has been raiding their planets and have a crack at them... you never know it might work? She also agreed with Thornton... We should go and see if we could find out just what had happened to our missing comrades...