219 Rae 3

[All Personnel are advised, that the first round of drops to the Rae 3 Construction Zone will begin in precisely 6 hours.] The announcement startled almost everyone who was still awake and off duty.

None of them intended to be awake at this particular hour, as it didn't fit with the schedule of either school of thought relating to Drop Preparations. One group maintained that dropping in the middle of your shift was best, so you could finalize any issues before the drop and have the soldiers awake long enough to establish their base of operations. The second, which Max preferred, was to sleep late and begin his shift an hour before the drop so that the unit was fresh and had more energy for whatever was waiting for them on the surface.

The second group made up most of the first wave forces, and those used to being on the front line, who understood that setting up a base is no easy feat when you are the first forces on the ground.