Oct 16, 2019 7:35 pm
It's been four long, gruelling years of training and examination. Half of all the trainees had washed out, they themselves having been the top 250 prospects in the nation. You've all been pushed to your limits and even beyond them, reaching heights in your skills you never could have imagined. The fundamentals have all been forced down your throats until they were instinctive. You've had countless simulation hours alongside many more in mechs of your own design. However, today, the results of the most dreaded part of the process for most were released. The mere mention of this stage never failed to make at least several trainees go pale. This section was:
The theory test.
Any second now, messages would come through to any current trainees who were all gathered into a hall barely big enough to fit them all to confirm or deny them graduation, as well as their squads for the trial period as fully instated lancers. A tangible anxious energy filled the room, joined with a few pockets of confidence, bordering on arrogance, caused by the typical, flawless rich kids you get in every school, including the Lancer Program. No system is perfect, despite what the heads of any given institution would tell you, and the worst kept secret about the Program was the bribery to influence the admissions, though it was limited by the quick washing out of anyone not talented enough to be there so the money only afforded the rich kids better living conditions and better resources to give them an advantage in the examinations.
You are among the crowd, nothing special or distinguished yet, though that may well change, especially after events soon to come, ones that no one could have predicted...
The theory test.
Any second now, messages would come through to any current trainees who were all gathered into a hall barely big enough to fit them all to confirm or deny them graduation, as well as their squads for the trial period as fully instated lancers. A tangible anxious energy filled the room, joined with a few pockets of confidence, bordering on arrogance, caused by the typical, flawless rich kids you get in every school, including the Lancer Program. No system is perfect, despite what the heads of any given institution would tell you, and the worst kept secret about the Program was the bribery to influence the admissions, though it was limited by the quick washing out of anyone not talented enough to be there so the money only afforded the rich kids better living conditions and better resources to give them an advantage in the examinations.
You are among the crowd, nothing special or distinguished yet, though that may well change, especially after events soon to come, ones that no one could have predicted...
OOC:
Introduce your characters and how they are preparing for the results of the test