As the stealth shuttle quietly circles across the Duqaste System in order to reach the Ghirard Assault Fleet's staging point in this war zone, General Ark continued to check up on the other expert pilots in order to confirm they were ready for the upcoming challenge.
His most recent talk with Patriarch Reginald reassured the head of the 77th Warborn that the only ace pilot among them could be relied upon to stall the phase lord known as the Tireless Engine.
Though Reginald sounded more than confident in his ability to fight and even defeat the nunser warlord, General Ark did not completely dare to assume that the enemy phase lord would not be able to interfere with the operation.
Every phase lord was different. Just like ace pilots and their eclectic ace mechs, phase lords tended to come from all sorts of backgrounds.