Too Old To Fight
Ves and many other people serving in the expanded Bluejay Fleet grew increasingly more nervous.
The spacers and mech pilots all knew what they had in store. Their superiors did not dare to keep them in the dark about the extremely high possibility of encountering an ambush along the way.
Though the scouts sent ahead of the Bluejay Fleet had not yet discovered the passage of any fleet of obviously hostile enemies, it was only a matter of time before an incident would occur.
All of the warships raised their alert level to yellow or whatever local equivalent they used. This forced the crew members to maintain a higher state of combat readiness than normal and constantly be on the lookout for enemies lurking in the vicinity.
The mechs residing inside their combat carriers all began to load up on ammunition, fully charged energy cells and other essential supplies, all to ensure they could instantly deploy into the field in their peak conditions.