A meeting is convened and information shared.
The following is revealed:
The relatively small power plants Freya has been plotting are likely powering lift/booster modules on the Pivot class fighters and also the Stag attack helicopters. The distribution matches an expected dispersal pattern for such aircraft and even in the short time elapsed Florence has mapped a visual image onto the energy scans in confirmation.
However, this does not explain the “masked/muted” power plants in the park bays north of the runway your stand is on. These four bays appear to be defended by a number of defensive earthworks and ringed by AA batteries.
Florence reports that she is collecting data from the ISS PMC comms but it is encrypted and agile so as to be case by case rather than cracked. There is also traffic she can not decrypt. She is picking up chatter effectively in clear from a few klicks down the runway mostly stuff in Gvegh which she can't freely translate due to dialect but she reports as
“A mix of apparently tactical comms interspersed with some “DJing” by the duty comms operator”.
Liv reports that the Startown (anti)social media is showing that the local merc market has undergone a recent period of “volatility”. A number of mercs are advertising their services based at “The Residency” - the notorious merc bar in Startown. Local Avastan businesses seem to be hiring but the market seems to be for individual “gunmen” rather than pro merc units. The names plying for hire read as something of a Who's Who of infamous 268 mercs.
Jebediah Slow and Merces “Mercy” Whitfield are available as mercs but Liv adds that they are known as bounty hunters/hitmen and don't usually hire out via “public” (albeit “dark”) fora. She adds that if they have Quiet Jones with them they're likely already on a job.
Rolf Steiner is a merc of reputation if not good repute who operates his unit as a training cadre. His subordinates Giorgio Norbiato, Johnny Erasmus, Taffy Williams, Alexander "Alec" Gay, Louis "Paddy" Malrooney, Armand Iaranelli and Johnny Korea are also listed.
Colonel Roger Faulques and Captain Yves de La Bourdonnaye of Les Chimères Noires are in town.
As for those hiring the “big money” offers for individual soldiers comes from the Utkin Group – an Avastan City based PMC.
(OOC: Back again! 
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