Commander Casella Ingvar suffered a profound stroke of bad luck this time.
The Golden Skull Alliance chose to initiate a fight against an alien fleet just before the Minerva Project was scheduled to be completed.
If the expeditionary forces decided to wait three or so weeks before starting a battle, the Larkinson Clan's latest expert pilot would have been able to debut on the battlefield with a fantastic new expert mech!
Unfortunately, that wasn't the case and she was stuck piloting the Bright Warrior that had been temporarily assigned to her. Though there was nothing wrong with the mech, her newfound expert pilot capabilities were so constrained by it that she constantly had to hold herself back from pushing the machine past its limits!
If she issued a request to allow her to pilot the Quint for this battle, General Verle would probably approve of her request. The masterwork mech had undergone enough upgrades for her to exert a considerably greater influence on the battle.
