Max climbed back into the simulator, hanging his lab coat over the back of the machine, and powered up the virtual reality program. It brought him to the cockpit of an orbital insertion fighter inside a simulated hangar in a drop ship, the standard launching point for the experimental fighters.
[Launch in T minus fifteen seconds. Please remember structural limits exist within the simulation.] A robotic voice informed him and Max chuckled at the warning that was very clearly for Nico.
The countdown commenced and the bay doors opened, showing that he was facing straight down towards a yellowish orange planet. A Sulphur Waste if Max's guess was correct. They weren't often human habitable but were often hotly contested due to the abundance of resources that formed inside them.