Life in the expeditionary fleet returned to a routine.
The aftermath of the Battle of the Boryan Belt had already passed. Many damaged mechs had been restored to satisfactory condition while replacement mechs already made up for the ones that got destroyed.
The mech pilots that got killed by the alien pirates were much more painful to replace, but life had to go on. The Larkinson Army maintained an ample reserve of replacements. Enough of them seamlessly slotted into the understrength mech units.
It would probably take months for the different mech squads and mech companies to regain their high degree of coordination and synergy.
No one was sure whether another battle would erupt before the mech pilots could reach that level again, but no one was willing to bet that they would be left alone.
Either an enemy would bump into them and force them into a fight, or their clan patriarch would proactively lead them into a preventable battle.
