Cee Dee gulped as his brows furrowed with concern, finned bandits? Beneath the ice?! Nervously the kid could scarcely feel his sergeant's hand on his shoulder. Still, he heard the order and sat up straight after clearing his throat. No, no finned bandit or whatever was gonna get him or his crew that was for sure or his name wasn't Callis Deastris! Right? Right. He steeled himself and took a deep breath and exhaled, he could hear the gun rotate as he shifted it left and then right. The bucketheads outside were still shoveling and walking, markers were laid down and scanners went to work once again.
The Kuunga River supposedly wasn't too wide up ahead, it narrowed, which was both good and bad. Good because it would make finding people easier or so Cee Dee thought, but bad because it was also where the mountains were at their steepest and it was easier to cause an avalanche this way. Things began to get quiet around the tank and Cee Dee found that it had grown a little too quiet. "Sarge?" He said as a question rathern than addressing the man in charge. "It's... it's quiet."
Nothing on his scanners and the sounds of the Snowtroopers had been drowned out by the whipping winds that now blitzed by the tank and on occasion seemed to tip it ever so slightly one direction then another. Cee Dee had a bad feeling about this.
Confirm and repeat, Niance went to work and relayed the information once she confirmed it. :: Sensors up, data feed is now live :: She felt easier once both hands were back on the controls. Silently she too was grateful for their squadron leader's foresight, the winds were horrendous and it was hard enough to maintain control of the eyeball in the middle of this storm. :: Copy, Black Two, I think the Watchbeast might be easier than this :: it didn't sit well that her squadmate wasn't getting the same readings. Maybe the ice had clogged up on the bird's equipment, or maybe she thought to herself, the magnetic pole wasn't too far away and in that case, it could be messing with her systems.
:: Bird's doing well, but I think ice has got my equipment clogged or something, Black One ::
She was sure it was nothing more than that. Visibility was crap all she could see was a bright sheet of white at best. Indicators for her position within their squadron helped a lot and for once the color of their birds also seemed to help them stand out against the storm. Everything else seemed relatively normal as the data began to stream back, albeit most likely with a degraded integrity thanks in part to the storm and in other parts due to the fact that their birds weren't cut out for this kind of weather.
"No, actually, I was hoping I'd get to meet with you - you're Moff Westaway right?" Ostell inquired as she shouted to be heard while urging both the Moff and her aide toward the bunkers behind her. "There's something I need to talk to you about, let's get inside."
Cape Velikaya had gone silent, the last known contact had been with a Captain Aetos who along with Major Caceres had been in charge of the rescue efforts there. The storm was beginning to settle over the Cape and the only other way to the cape would be by boat, but the waters surrounding this stretch of Needan were completely frozen over. Add to that that the valley had quickly become a death trap for those who had escaped the storm's initial onslaught. Ostell had talked to a few of the Ursidaans who remained in Anishina, who pointed out a few caves along the valley that might hold people waiting for rescue.
Once inside the bunker, Ostell took a moment to catch her breath. "Moff Westaway, allow me to introduce myself I'm Ilannaq Ostell with Camden Broadcasting. I was in contact with Captain Vir Aetos of the Army and Major Dantae Caceres with the Stormtroopers, but they've gone silent. I don't have anything on radar or sensors the entire capital is just ... gone, from radio at least." She brought Moff Westaway toward the station where a small make-shift operations center had come together.
Not too far were the men and women who had evacuated Cape Velikaya with residents of Anishina. "The storm blew out one of our main towers, we've got a team out in the city trying to get the backup tower going, is there any way you can help direct some eyes over toward the cape?"
