First Light — The Prowler Goes Operational

For weeks the Prowler sat in the hangar as a promise rather than a platform — a hull with the right shape and the wrong amount of nothing in its slots. As of this entry, that is no longer true. The build is complete, the signature is held, and the bird is cleared to operate.

Built to disappear

Every choice on this fit answers to one question: can we be where no one is looking, and gone before they realize we were? The loadout is Stealth Grade A end to end — not for show, but because a quiet approach is the whole job. Recovery first, fight only if the plan has already failed.

• Signature held to Stealth Grade A across the hull
• Tractor recovery rigged for stranded crew and cargo
• Twin Deadbolt IV mounts — deterrent, not invitation
• Cold-start approach profile rehearsed and logged

What it changes

A doctrine you cannot fly is a wish. With the Prowler operational, the unit can finally rehearse the thing it was built to do: slip into the lawless dark, find someone the rest of the verse has written off, and bring them home before a pirate claim or a failing oxygen clock closes the window.

Find. Secure. Extract.

— Raven Unit creed

One hull is not a fleet, and one operational bird does not make a unit proven. But it is a start that exists in the real — and everything that follows will be measured against it.