13 |CONSOLIDATION|

"Welcome back Tanker, heard you had a rough day."

"Rough day my ass Mason."

Tanker, along with the rescue group, reunited with the carrier with no problems. Much to the distress of Tanker. In front of him was Mason, the lead analyzer on the carrier.

"Take care of this and do whatever you guys do with it, I'm headed to medbay." Throwing a data chip at Mason, Tanker went off to the medbay with the support of the pilots from Greth group.

"What a trooper, trying to keep that tough guy image up in front of the young pilots." Mason chuckled to himself.

"Tanker, don't forget to file the after op report! Once you are done with the checkup, the OO wants a in person debrief of everything that happened once you separated from Rage 1!"

Yelling at the group trudging off, Tanker waved his hand indicating that he knew what to do before collapsing onto a stretcher.

|Command Room|CS Zephyr|

Deep inside the carrier, a meeting was called to discuss the next move to take in this new, unknown world. Attending this meeting all the leaders of the various departments present on the carrier.

"So, I've decided that we are not going to initiate contact with the people here." Vardan declared. "The preliminary analysis of the data that Rage 2 shows that they are hostile to unknown entities."

Pulling up a map of the mega city created by the analysis team, Vardan's gaze grew more solemn. He turned to the XO, a tall lean man of Asian descent with greying hair.

"Alan, what has Lighthouse told you?"

"The computer has analyzed their alphabet, but there is also a chance that we are missing parts of it and apart from that, it's having a hard time translating any of our languages to the one observed in the data chip Tanker brought back."

Alan then moved the map aside and pulled up multiple pictures of people, animals, and images of strategic importance.

"We can infer that their technological standards are much much poorer than ours. Their main mode of transport appears to be hand pulled carts, some animal driven carriages similar to ones developed during tin era."

"However, there are also buildings that exist that shouldn't if they truly rely on their current technological level. These towers that surround the cities almost reach a height of 1500 meters."

Sighing, Alan then enlarged a certain photo. A photo of the dragon, and a close up photo of the person riding the dragon.

"Which brings me to this." Alan massages his temple. "I am 100% sure you all know what this is."

"It's either a dragon or a wyvern."

"More importantly it looks like the modern dragons."

"*AHEM*"

Getting everyone attention, Alan resumes reading off the report.

"We can leave the discussion of its actual identity for a later time, what is more important is the information this photo and video recording gives us. The recording was captured by Rage 2 during his impromptu decision to split away from Rage 1 to give her time to escape

"A full combat simulation and analysis will be released in the near future. Do any of you have anything to say?" As Alan finished reading what was on the report, he sent a copy to everyone in the room to study on their own. "Admiral, what do you think our next action should be?"

Passing the ball back to Vardan's court, Alan turns off the display of photos and videos on the main screen.

"...We wait." Vardan declares to the room, to no one's surprise. "We have information that there is intelligent life in this unexplainable world. At the same time, our fleet is crippled. All we have is this single carrier and no where to retreat to."

"Flight Master, anything to report?"

"Nothing has been detected aside from Rage team discovered. All other teams have reported that there is nothing but water surrounding us."

"Sonar, what does the sea below us look like?"

"A deep... abyss... deeper... than the... Mariana trench."

A girl next to Head Sonar Officer Kitakaze, stands up to provide more information.

"Admiral, in addition to the seas being extremely deep, the light sonar has yet to detect any signs of life moving about. We request for authorization use of the heavy duty active sonar."

"Granted, we don't have any submarines out and about."

Nodding to the girl, Vardan turns his attention to the whole room.

"From this moment on, set alert setting to 'Yellow'. Establish rotational curfew for everyone, restrict movement between combat and non combat areas. Quarter Master, set a 4 point rotation for men to be active.

"When you ladies at sonar find solid ground below us, notify me and Chauncy over by the R&D department. Thankfully, we have the ability to procure our own materials from sea floor below us. Until then, we are going to be extremely frugal in regards to our ammunition."

"Lt Paulina, work with Lt Piff to send out scouts to the land and have them establish a beachhead on the coast and scout the forest, village, and city."

"Wilco/Roger"

"That is all for now, consolidate with your departments. The next meeting will be held in 5 days, Dismissed."