Dr. Wafel Zinraal's Diary, 17 June

We've made it through to the Grisham Badlands. Unfortunately, the Shivans have come up with some devastating new AAA, meaning we can't bring the airship any closer to deliver our precious cargo. I have our 3-person scout teams out (composed of a Flame Tech, Ley-Karma Analyst, and Deflector-General mounted on mecha-mules) trying to find a suitable route to the front, relaying their findings back via smoke signal to the observation balloon, as the vast deposits of astroballistic minerals in the area are interfering with our EM-dependent equipment.