Crown and her squad had finished gearing up and were now ready for deployment whenever the order was given. Her HUD said that there was enough for a handful of shots before the Galileo would need to be recharged. A pity, the thing was more powerful than most ship mounted weapons, but had that damn battery pack that drained so quickly. Not that she was going to complain anymore than that, the thing was too good to leave behind for her set-up and squad composition.
"We were just discussing before you joined us."
The squad moseyed over to where a few other ODST marines were situated, talking about something. There really wasn't much to discuss, but these guys looked like they'd just been thawed, and she'd been in the freezer a few times before to know about that experience. Maybe with this new tech, if Leppy was to be believed, they'd be a thing of the past. She was a soldier, he was one of the smartest guys she'd ever met, and would've been shoved into intelligence years ago if he hadn't proven himself to be completely useless behind a desk.
"Lieutenant Sierra Crown, Sergeant. Two years ODST, got a transfer after a Scarab incident and I've been here since. As for what we're doing here, something about a weird jump in our drive got us here. There's more races on a single colony than in the entirety of the Covenant, from what me and my squad could gather, there's still humans, but then there's the guys looking like they've got steel for skin, that's the Turians, big military nuts apparently, and the guys with the Jackel build? Salarians, supposed to be pretty smart and,"She glanced at Chagerben, who had begun again making eyes at one of them,"Nevermind. Last you've got the blue squid-heads, Asari, all-female race, kinda weird if you ask me."
Her face scrunched up as she recalled the Geth aboard,"Oh, and there's also these robot guys around, they creep the hell out of me, supposed to be true AI, and they don't have a time limit before they go pitooey. There's one around here that came on board as soon as we got here, calls himself Alpha. I guess he's their leader or something?"
Leppy interrupted before she could continue,"Lt, the Geth are suppos' to be connected at all times, so there's some kind of individual in there,bud' if you talk to one of 'em, you're talking to all of 'em, or sommat, the files on the Citadel weren't that clear 'boud it. The only sure thing is that they jus' got out of a war with their Creators a few months ago that's been going on for centuries. Sure glad that didn't happen with the Covs."
"Thanks Leppy. So Sergeant, what's your story? I guess I should probably ask if your squad's out of the freeze too yet? We could always use another sniper, Gaffer here's got the highest marks the academy saw in five years before the Chief went missing and the War pretty much ended. Got shipped off just in time to arrive for the memorial the Admiral had in Africa, so he's still completely green, no combat experience beyond simulations, and we can't exactly get him up to speed here, so another man'd be great. You too, Anderson."
