The joint deployment assignment came through official channels three days after Mara's breakthrough.
MANDATORY SHROUD DEPLOYMENT - TIER 2 BREACH
Location: Eastern Border, Sector 7-Delta
Duration: 5 Hours
Objective: Breach Containment and Crawler Elimination
Mara read the notification on her academy bracelet twice, feeling the familiar pre-deployment tension coil in her stomach.
This time it was a joint deployment with Sparkshire, solhaven and Ashmar students working together.
This would be her first mission since integrating Phase Strike. Her first opportunity to test the core's capabilities in actual combat rather than controlled training.
And it would be under observation by foreign students who'd spent weeks establishing dominance over Republic recruits through Johnmark's challenge spree and countless smaller confrontations.
Perfect.
She'd been wanting to demonstrate that outpost recruits weren't inferior.
Now she'd have an audience.
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