On the ground, a trio of MVN-17 armored personnel carriers with turret-mounted hardpoints move rapidly up the warped and shattered concrete of a road, led by a sixwheeled Appaloosa armed and armored scout vehicle and an Ares Citymaster armored command vehicle. Helos descend. SDF troopers deploy. Machiko directs her pilot to swing around to the rear of the massive building that gave the most definite indications of habitation to the Mistral over-flight. Two other helos swoop in to follow.