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The P-3 Orion ascended to 10 thousand feet and maintained cruising altitude. Within minutes they will be within visual range on the billowing smoke they've spotted.

The decades old plane the came out in the factory in the late 80's is one of the primary Maritime Patrol Aircraft of the Kingdom of Cardonia Air Force. Anti-Submarine Warfare is it's strongest point, and for decades have the defended the seas of the Kingdom. Now the few planes left are being tasked to scout ahead. Because of the unknown radio interference, the High Command decided to used manned planes rather than unmanned ones.

Thus the crew aboard the P-3's are technically the first one's to venture out onto the new world, a mysterious and dangerous one it seems.

All the while they are gathering data on the new terrain. The geography have changed a lot. Their geographic maps of France are basically useless if they are going to use this as their navigation aide. They are flying without GPS, so they only have their Compass