These days, although Ally was nominally Loken's assistant, there was actually nothing she needed to do. She simply passed the time, clocking in and occasionally going to the Tenth Company's workshop to help the bored mechanics tinker with the custom suit of Power Armour Loken had said he would give her.
To be honest, Ally didn't like the patchwork armour the mechanics were putting together from the old Canopy Star CMC Powered Combat Suit and the latest Mark IV Power Armour. It looked mismatched and was hideously ugly!
So she'd repeatedly suggested that they stop tinkering and just find her a complete, properly adjusted standard CMC Powered Combat Suit from the Hero Federation in the Koprulu Sector of Canopy Star. She liked those just fine.
Unfortunately, those stubborn, technically inept mechanics loved to tinker and refused to listen. They were determined to see if they could combine the two types of armour and cobble together a new "CMC-MK" suit suitable for ordinary soldiers.
Ally obviously had no faith in that idea.
She'd never believed that mechanics who hadn't even mastered the basic principles behind the CMC Powered Combat Suit could make anything worthwhile by simply welding the outer plates of Mark-pattern Power Armour onto it!
But since they wouldn't listen, and she had nothing better to do, she let them get on with it for now. When she had time, she did her best to cooperate.
She also took care of her own affairs when she had a spare moment. For instance, she could openly use her position as Captain Loken's assistant to secretly make arrangements for the resistance fighters and their families who were lying low within her organization. She also did what she could to make their lives as comfortable and convenient as possible—in short, she made the