Unsure if Biff’s response is truly due to poor memory rather than just not wanting to talk about his past, Ludo gives him privacy and turns his attention to Caliburn as the printer finishes off building Lupo’s mech.

When they realise that Lupo is a knight, or at least ex-knight, many people expected him to pilot a hulking armoured chassis with a sword and shield like something out of an old history. Instead the frame that was printed was the sleek and thoroughly modern shape of the GMS Chomolungma, packed full of the most sophisticated e-warfare equipment known to man. True, his was a little personalised with some etchings related to the Eumat philosophy, but the mech wouldn’t look out of place in any modern military.

Opening up the cockpit, Lupo jumps in side and is happy to see that the printer has recreated it just how he likes it from his personalised settings, even down to the little bobble head of Saint Jerome. kissing his fingers then tapping the bobble head to set it bobbing, Lupo closes up the chassis’s cockpit around him.

“This is Dust,” he says through the comms, reusing his old callsign for the first time in years, “Everything is green my end, ready to roll out.”