Previously on RANB:
The team, Mjolnir, and most of Macross have apparently been transported across space. Where, exactly, is still a mystery although some have theories.Icarus is currently mobile on the island's surface, looking for a bounty of sorts.
Mac and Trout are flying recon and on their way to rendezvous with Icarus. Trout has an interesting theory as to where they are: "Fenris, Trout... that's either Pluto or Charon that's rising up over Macross' horizon."
The Doc is currently performing triage in his shelter, making do with what little is on hand. SAR Team Five better get there soon or things are going to start getting messy. One nursing mother has offered her pumping apparatus in response to Doc's musings about needing suction of some sort.
Along with planetrise came a large thermal signature which is not the planet itself ....
As Icarus makes his way through the unnaturally still city, he can make out a body floating near the island ... near being a relative term. Given the apparent size and based on the perceived distance, it's likely to be an enemy ground soldier. He must have been bounced off the island's surface as he's quite easily broken out of the minute gravity provided by the island's mass. Reaching him will require leaving the island's surface - he's several hundred meters "above" the ground and slowly heading for the planet's greater gravity.
The thermal signature is giving the computers some issues. Both Icarus and Trout's systems (and Mac's, shortly after) can't decide if it's a ship or heated debris from the island. Whatever it is, it's currently in a degrading retrograde orbit around the planet - current estimates put the "splash" in about two hours.
