At the briefing room of the Petropavlovsk Class Aircraft Carrier, fighter pilots and dive bomber pilots were filling up the leather seats as the commanding officer in charge of the squadron was pinning a map on the board, preparing for his debriefing,
Notes and pens were on the hands of the pilots as they tensely watched the commanding officer of the squadron finish up his work on the board.
Some even engaged in a brief conversation, regaling how their days went or how they miss being on the ground after a long month's voyage. Much to their disappointment or dismay, a war broke out between the Ruthenian Empire and the Yamato Empire, thus effectively making them a component of the war that needed to serve their motherland.
What could've been a vacation in the Far East, doing simulated battle exercises turned out to be a deployment in a real war.