Talk:United Aerospace Command/@comment-10905876-20150302171707

-New Carthage jungle-

SPARTAN II Biggs 157 has just completed one of the various high risk training missions used to keep the SPARTAN IIs sharp and battle ready. This time however, the mission is not over. Where he usually finds a waiting transport back to base, he finds nothing. Then his radio crackles with these instructions: "Activate your homing beacon in exactly thirty seconds from this mark. Three, two, one, mark." He works quickly to activate the beacon, and soon hears the roar of an approaching aircraft. He readies his MA-5B in anticipation of trouble, but instead of being shot at, he sees a T-22 Rapier land in the clearing near him. The cockpit opens, and Lt. Commander Antilles shouts to him, "Get in quick! We've got hostilely inbound and I don't want to be caught groundside!" He quickly climbs in to the waiting fighter, and finds the screen in front of him lighting up as it activates. He is then told to man the weapons, and that hostile F-99s are inbound. Before he can reply, he is pressed into his seat as the fighter turns into a high speed Immelmann turn, after which the fighter banks into a steep spiral before leveling off inverted above the treetops. As Antilles maneuvers the fighter, he informs Biggs-157 to use the ventral cannon, which he uses to down some of the wombats before an aileron roll brings the fighter back up from inverted flight. Lancet missiles finish off the last wombats, and the fighter climbs up to a waiting Spear of Saturn class battlecruiser. As soon as they are landed, the ship enters slipspace, returning to Ceres. Upon returning, Biggs-157 is informed that his mission was successful, and that he demonstrated that Rapiers can be used for SPARTAN II extractions.