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If the update's size is going to be a constant from now on, It's probably be better to chop it into smaller updates. Engineering, Science,
SCIENCE!!!!
Super Robot Quest G
- Thread starter Basarin
- Start date
- Original Sci-Fi
- Location
- USA
Based on feedback, I'll be doing the updates by chunks now. I also unexpectedly had a little bit of time fall into my lap, so here goes.
I will be doing this update by chunks. This includes the dice rolls, and the narrative explanations. I have just enough time to do the dice rolls along with a brief explanation of what happened. This does make it easier on me to get you updates a little more consistently.
As a reminder: these are not necessarily pass/fail this time under the new system. This just determines severity of success and how ridiculous the narrative gets/allows me to get wild with. So...
The Defense Force rolls are a little on the short side.
This will be made up for with the Engineering. I've already done a bit of dice rolling ahead of time - and what I'm seeing already lets me explore some fun narrative angles!
I will be doing this update by chunks. This includes the dice rolls, and the narrative explanations. I have just enough time to do the dice rolls along with a brief explanation of what happened. This does make it easier on me to get you updates a little more consistently.
As a reminder: these are not necessarily pass/fail this time under the new system. This just determines severity of success and how ridiculous the narrative gets/allows me to get wild with. So...
Defense Force
- Reaction Force Monitoring: Westphalians
- Adrianna
- Reaction Force Monitoring: Free Brothers Kausen
- Diana
- Reaction Force Monitoring: Kaiju
- Diana
- Liaison: Captain Dana Candler/NDF
- Using the Sergey Gorshkov to transport Thunderbolt and more units if possible to help with the Westphalian op
- Captain Haruko Sasaki
- Using the Sergey Gorshkov to transport Thunderbolt and more units if possible to help with the Westphalian op
- Liaison: Colonel Bernard/MEF
- 25th Air Wing Evaluation and Possibility for more Seeker Formations
- Captain Haruko Sasaki
- 25th Air Wing Evaluation and Possibility for more Seeker Formations
- Liaison: Mander/MSS
- Working Together in the Australia op to take down the Westphalian
- Adrianna
- Working Together in the Australia op to take down the Westphalian
- Australia - The Weird and the West(phalian)
- Thunderbolt
- Argonauts
- Ocular
Reaction Force Monitoring (Westphalian) w/Adrianna: 1, 1, 5
Reaction Force Monitoring (Free Brothers) w/Diana: 3, 6, 6
Reaction Force Monitoring (Kaiju) w/Diana: 4, 6, 4
Adrianna doesn't find terribly much with the Westphalians. Diana, however, has proven paranoid about the kaiju after her previous experience - and instead found something far more interesting about the strange signal pinging at the edges of the DFRI.
Liaison (Dana Candler, Sergey Gorshkov) w/Sasaki: 5, 5, 2
Liaison (Colonel Bernard, MEF) w/Sasaki: 5, 2, 2
Liaison (Mander, MSS): 4, 2, 1
Sasaki's efforts to court a favor with the giant floating supercarrier goes quite well, all things considered - Captain Candler is onboard with carting over our team. It seems the Naval officers involved in the previous kerfluffle would rather there be some good PR over the reason their carrier is flying for a change.
Colonel Bernard was somewhat noncommittal about handing over more Air Wings. But the evaluation of his pilots - along with your own nominations of awards for the bravest of them - goes very well, and he's quite happy to keep them with the DFRI 'for the indefinite future.'
Meanwhile, it seems that Erika and Patrick aren't quite sure what to make of Adrianna yet. The general feedback from Erika is 'I don't drive people this batty, do I?' But she's doing a good job of paving the way for the inbound Super Robot team and keeping Valiant from stepping into an ambush.
Reaction Force Monitoring (Free Brothers) w/Diana: 3, 6, 6
Reaction Force Monitoring (Kaiju) w/Diana: 4, 6, 4
Adrianna doesn't find terribly much with the Westphalians. Diana, however, has proven paranoid about the kaiju after her previous experience - and instead found something far more interesting about the strange signal pinging at the edges of the DFRI.
Liaison (Dana Candler, Sergey Gorshkov) w/Sasaki: 5, 5, 2
Liaison (Colonel Bernard, MEF) w/Sasaki: 5, 2, 2
Liaison (Mander, MSS): 4, 2, 1
Sasaki's efforts to court a favor with the giant floating supercarrier goes quite well, all things considered - Captain Candler is onboard with carting over our team. It seems the Naval officers involved in the previous kerfluffle would rather there be some good PR over the reason their carrier is flying for a change.
Colonel Bernard was somewhat noncommittal about handing over more Air Wings. But the evaluation of his pilots - along with your own nominations of awards for the bravest of them - goes very well, and he's quite happy to keep them with the DFRI 'for the indefinite future.'
Meanwhile, it seems that Erika and Patrick aren't quite sure what to make of Adrianna yet. The general feedback from Erika is 'I don't drive people this batty, do I?' But she's doing a good job of paving the way for the inbound Super Robot team and keeping Valiant from stepping into an ambush.
The Defense Force rolls are a little on the short side.
This will be made up for with the Engineering. I've already done a bit of dice rolling ahead of time - and what I'm seeing already lets me explore some fun narrative angles!
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Progress in general all around, plus we now have a transportation option while the Pegasus is down
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worse case is that it's both. Hopefully not since Sheol doesn't have any reason to suspect that the DFRI has taken over a location he already smashed.
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- A place
With our luck maybe it is another threat?
Well there is that Enemy that attacked the world that the alien crystal came from
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
*shrug* All I see is "our AI found something." Whether that's a more in-depth look at threats we already know about, or discovering one that's trying to sneak up on us, depends on what there is to find.
So... your assumption seems kind of premature to me, really. Not necessarily wrong, just premature.
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- A place
And the possibility that there is another Kaiju making threat like Sheol out there
You never know there might be a connection between all of them or there eis another Alien threat.
Or there is another terrorist organization? Or a crime ring
Or EsP technology might be out there n the wild.
You never know there might be a connection between all of them or there eis another Alien threat.
Or there is another terrorist organization? Or a crime ring
Or EsP technology might be out there n the wild.
- Location
- A place
What if we put Ichiro in the Centurion, give it he full super robot treatment, and thenmake it transformable into a gun emplacement that is capable of linking with any of our Siuper Robots?
Or if our Next Super Robot is a Centurion modified to combine with Perseus For A Taller and omore firepower oriented Rovot?
Do V33 have pilots?
Or if our Next Super Robot is a Centurion modified to combine with Perseus For A Taller and omore firepower oriented Rovot?
Do V33 have pilots?
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Thors_Alumni
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Who's Ichigo, Are you talking about Ichiro Banner, He has the same chassis that Galbinus does If I remember correctly and it's a Tank Chassis.
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- A place
Yes I was talking about Ichiro.
Another possibility is to put the Argonauts in V33 all super robot upped adding more power and weapon variety to the Beowulf.
Another possibility is to put the Argonauts in V33 all super robot upped adding more power and weapon variety to the Beowulf.
Ichiro is already a SR Coreunit class Centurion.
The V33 is piloted during normal operations, the FoxHound specific one is not.
The V33 is piloted during normal operations, the FoxHound specific one is not.
I still say we should give the Perseus the Timberwolf treatment with one of those superheavy dump trucks, with the dump hopper serving as a shield. Among other things to make it our aquatic fighter.
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The Argonauts already have their base forms and don't need to be transferring into a whole different chassis at this late date right when they are about to be deployed for the first time.
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Was it ever mentioned that they had to stick with JAckals?
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The Trio are not going in Jackels. They each have their own base form. I will link you to the relevant post. And The two of them are mine. the third is Veekies which I used with permission.
Super Robot Quest Original - Sci-Fi
I really didn't like the three Anime stereotypes option that was provided earlier. They come across as trying too hard and it doesn't work for me. So against my better judgement I will submit a trio of my own for consideration. Edit: I updated Charlie and Frankie's descriptions and decided to...
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Charlie - Phalanx
Franky - Shade
Iris - Steed - Iris is Veekies.
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December, Year Three - Defense Force Results
- Location
- USA
Reaction Force Results
Adrianna is slightly hyper in the leadup to the mission supporting MSS and Valiant.
Just slightly.
You ultimately decided to give the human operators manning the stations half-shifts, as Adrianna is constantly flitting around the consoles doing her damndest to try and find something, anything to nail down further potential Westphalian activity. Understandably, she's quite specifically looking around the Oceania District, and she's even been trying to cross reference the submarine traffic lanes she identified the other month ago. Without you asking, even. Katarina couldn't stop beaming in happy pride at that.
But unfortunately, despite her best efforts, she's found nothing beyond what your analysts have already nailed down. There is a Westphalian cell operating on the Australian coast, and there is enough evidence pointing to the fact that a cell of kaiju infiltrators similar to the ones the Pegasus and Perseus teams fought off in Japan are present. Which suggests that there possibly might be another 'officer' type independent enough running negotiations on Sheol's behalf, but that is just guesswork based on existing knowledge.
Diana, however, has had more interesting results. Her recent experiences have left her somewhat hyper focused in regards to the kaiju - and that was something you simply couldn't blame her for. With a newfound appreciation for the many different angles Sheol's creations were now displaying, Diana lent her processing power to Adrianna's efforts to try and find anything kaiju-related. Her efforts on that front were unsuccessful - after having expended that many resources against the Yukimura Institute, it seems that relatively small-scale operations like the Westphalian meetup are all Sheol willing to commit to.
Logistics: Which leads you to wonder just what Sheol's resource intake and expenditure must look like. Your own methods to refine K-Class materials are hardly the 'original article' as it were, but it takes you a good long while to get anything out of them. And this is after Sam and the Biotechnology team have more or less figured out the 'right' way to process and refine kaiju samples into K-Class - it's the work of months. In between everything else, one note manages to remain noticeable in your notebook - keep closer tabs on kaiju cells. Easier said than done, but it's something.
Diana, however, has had an interesting ping. The strange signal that seems to have been bouncing along the very edges of the defense outposts' perimeters seems to be honing in from the northeast, from the relative direction of Mt. Saint Helens. Diana has finally managed to isolate the signal - it is vaguely Kausen in nature, but it does not match any of the SAI personalities in the DFRI, and Patch had confirmed in a conference call that it was not any of the Legion's.
What's more worrying, however, is the fact that seismic activity is now being mentioned in the same breath as the signals. The perimeter outposts have started to mention vague tremors, enough to send various flocks of birds flying into the air and even sending some packs of ground wildlife running - but nothing literally earth splitting yet.
Diana, however, is confident that if the DFRI headquarters is hit, it would be accidental. She's fairly sure that it's after another target further north:
The Legion Enclave.
Liaison Results
"I wasn't expecting another house call."
Haruko just raised an eyebrow at Dana Candler, who in turn just returned the most gormless grin she had ever seen anyone make - and that was from both biological and mechanical lifeforms.
Candler raised her hands in appeasement. "Sasaki, learn to relax a little," she jabbed. "Your own advice even, or something along those lines." She glanced out the window of her office overseeing the flight deck of the Sergey Gorshkov - and as Haruko followed suit, a raw sense of satisfaction crossed her mind.
Various men and women, all in engineering jumpsuits, were crisscrossing the flight deck in what her superior would call 'organized chaos.' People were constantly getting in each other's way, reassessing work, losing things, finding them, promptly losing them again only to realize it was mostly where it needed to go. Pallets of ammunition skated across the deck on forklifts, while V-33 units - interestingly repurposed for cargo hauling duties in their VTOL form - were lowering tanks of AVGAS aviation fuel.
"The Naval Board finally decided to let me have an independent command." Haruko turned her attention back to Candler, who had a strained smile on her face - albeit one that was far more relaxed than the one she saw right after the launch ceremony. "The Unity Station inquiry reviews were starting to get to them, I think. I gave the suggestion of letting me try and literally write the rough draft on supercarrier doctrine - I think they wanted good progress so they could brief that to the Unity Station offices for a change."
"I'm glad to hear it, ma'am." And Haruko was being absolutely sincere. Between Major Devin and Major Jenkins, she had seen what having freedom of movement being constricted was like, to say nothing of having someone micromanaging you right at your shoulders even from a distance. "To that end, I have an opportunity to help you with that, and a favor to ask."
"Name it." Candler leaned forward, a curious expression on her face.
"Our own dropship was recently damaged last month," Haruko started.
"Yukimura?"
"Yes."
"Heard about that." Haruko would notice, for the first time in the conversation, that the wall behind Candler's desk was now populated with various mementos of her career. A plaque emblazoned with the Kanji for Yokosuka Naval Base was placed towards the top. "I didn't envy whoever had that job, but it sounds like the junior officer you sent had it pretty well handled."
Haruko decided to let that description of Diana stand. Candler wasn't wrong, per se. "She more than earned her victory," she opted to say instead. "The Marines too - my superior put some of them in for commendations. But that leads me to my point - we are about to follow up on a lead against a Westphalian operation in Australia, and we need a method of transport."
Candler 'hummed' at that, and her eyes momentarily went blank. Haruko recognized that look - the sign of a person whose focus was firmly on mental math. Her attention immediately snapped back. "As long as you don't mind us making a pitstop at Fleet Base East on the way back, I don't see why not," she allowed. "Manifest?"
Haruko brought up her data pad, and slid a copy of the data to Candler's. "One Super Robot and a support team," she replied, simply lumping Ocular along with the Argonauts for now. "Along with maintenance personnel."
Candler looked at the manifest herself - and nodded. "Send me your timelines when we're done," Candler said. "Time to let the old bastard fly."
Haruko's other appointment that month was not quite as successful as she had hoped.
Colonel Bernard Henri, formerly of France before being seconded full-time to the Marine Expeditionary Forces, expressed his regret that he couldn't spare more pilots to form another Wing as Major Devin had hoped. However, he was quite pleased to hear that in their first combat engagement with the new Seeker models - against the kaiju, whom he wasn't aware even had aerial assets like the Pterawings - had not only not lost a single pilot, but had performed superbly.
"I am, however, noticing a slight pattern here," Henri commented dryly. Haruko made a questioning gesture, and the colonel read off the citations. The glow of the datapad highlighted his weathered face, skin dried from years of exposure to the sun in field conditions contrasting heavily with the sharp and precise cut of the Troupes de Marine - itself a French Army formation technically, but Haruko was willing to bet Henri had seen off all potential attacks on his credentials long before today.
"'For suicidal bravery.' 'For reckless gallantry in the face of the enemy.' 'For displaying ingenuity via ground vehicular combat at high altitude conditions.'" Henri just lowered his datapad - and then snorted. "God help me if that doesn't sound like my pilots." Despite his clear bemusement, there was a touch of pride in his voice, even if it didn't show on the man's face. "I cannot spare you more men - but I can keep the Twenty-Fifth with you. For the indefinite future."
Haruko nodded in appreciation. Not quite what they wanted, but more than they dreaded. She would take it.
"I don't drive people this batty. Do I?"
Patrick remained dutifully silent. Erika's eyebrow twitched slightly at the insinuation - even when she knew Patrick didn't actually say anything. But the air of amusement around her old friend and mentor said volumes more than any amount of words could.
Erika just shot a withering glare at Patrick, and just huffed when he continued to stoically remain unwithered.
That digital girl - Adrianna. If no one had told her that she was AI, she would have thought her to be an incredibly young - and slightly annoying - woman who consumed far more sugar than was healthy for anyone. Hell, if they'd told her she was an AI anyway, she might have just dismissed the claim.
That was harder to do when she personally met one. And she was still slightly peeved that she hadn't caught on earlier.
'But I'm right here' indeed.
That said, she couldn't deny that Adrianna was incredibly helpful. Erika and Patrick had already started to isolate a few of the operatives of this cell from one another - and Adrianna, mostly unbidden, but timely nonetheless - had already foiled a few counter ambushes before they could even take place. Mostly by infiltrating their own databases and effectively neutralizing them in a feedback loop - 'Blue Screen of Death!' in her own words, whatever that meant - but it made their first few forays successful-
"Hello~!"
"Think of the devil and she'll appear, apparently." Erika had long since stopped jumping whenever Adrianna appeared, and just raised an eyebrow. "Morning, Adrianna. What've you got for us?"
"Good news - my boss is sending backup!" Adrianna looked and sounded incredibly pleased, whether it was with herself for delivering the news, or the news itself Erika just wasn't sure. "They're coming by soon, and I'll be facilitating the linkup!"
"Most excellent news, miss," Patrick stated, neatly cutting off Erika's snarky reply. "Have you had any success in penetrating the main cell's networks?"
"Eeehhhhh~no." The sunny disposition faded to mild annoyance. "After the first few times, I think they just ripped themselves out of the airwaves entirely and went analog. They're still emitting signals, nothing'll stop that, but aside from this-"
The image of the last remaining warehouse they had yet to attack was displayed, all with various vehicles 'parked' around it.
"-I've got nothing. Pretty sure they're circling the wagons now, though. You didn't even need to break out Valiant!"
"Considering what they're probably hiding in there?" Erika commented. She glanced outside, where Valiant laid dormant in the support vehicle covered in tarp. "Probably not going to last terribly long."
"We do have a run of bad luck with covert operations," Patrick commented. "Something to do with the fact that both sides' first method of resort tends to be giant robots."
"...when it's all you've got, I mean, why not?"
This time, Patrick had the decency to look sheepish alongside Adrianna as Erika glared at them. "This," she complained, "this is why we never get the covert bonus from Mander!"
Deployment Preparations
"Allll riiiiight!" Jessica just sighed in amusement at Charlie's cheers all the way to the drop ramp of the supercarrier. "Our first mission! Oh man, ohmanohmanohman this is gonna be great!"
"You don't have to be so loud." Iris's voice was much softer than Charlie's yet it carried all the further as a result. Her form was hilariously lopsided compared to the looming form that was Charlie - all three of them had just recently conducted a change to their new bodies. The slender, more agile form of Iris in its mecha configuration from the Steed chassis had to walk just slightly faster than normal to keep up with the idle, but large steps that Charlie's Phalanx chassis carried him in his enthusiasm. "And what did we say about being overconfident?"
"Slow and insidious." Frankie was adjusting his arms and shoulders - he was still getting used to the Shade's configurations. His particular form had been rigged for engineering - various tools, earthmover outlets, and more replaced the sensitive sensor suites that the Intelligence packages tended to have. "We haven't even trained with these yet. We were just in Jackals last month!"
"Guys, we'll be fine." Jessica stood on the gantries alongside the massive loading bay of the Sergey Gorshkov. "I'm nervous too, alright? I'm barely getting used to all of this." The C-Crystal hung along her neck, glowing faintly in the bay's lights. "And Charlie, try to calm down a bit? You're not supposed to advertise that-"
"-that I'm SAI-04, I know." Charlie thankfully reduced the boisterous body language a little, but he was still visibly shaking in excitement. "But, c'mon, Jessica! This is what we were made to do, y'know? I mean-"
A burst of sound and static interrupted Charlie's speech as Ocular landed on his shoulder. The beaked form of the mini-Kaus's head poked at Charlie's head before what sounded like record scratches and corrupted recordings emitted from his beak.
"Whoah, Ocular, chill," Frankie called from behind. "We get it, we understand." Another chirp of communication shot back. "N-no, but-"
"We will do our best." Iris's voice seemed to cut through again. "Jessica and Ocular will also do their best. So will Valiant and Adri. That's all there is to it."
Jessica just smiled as she saw Ocular and the Argonaut siblings bicker with each other. It was a different dynamic from the Legion's, but it had a familiar, comfortable feeling to it as well. She grasped at the C-Crystal as she glanced at the Thunderbolt, still being tied down by support crew in its gunship form to the loading elevator. "Let's do our best," she whispered to herself.
The C-Crystal glowed faintly.
Adrianna is slightly hyper in the leadup to the mission supporting MSS and Valiant.
Just slightly.
You ultimately decided to give the human operators manning the stations half-shifts, as Adrianna is constantly flitting around the consoles doing her damndest to try and find something, anything to nail down further potential Westphalian activity. Understandably, she's quite specifically looking around the Oceania District, and she's even been trying to cross reference the submarine traffic lanes she identified the other month ago. Without you asking, even. Katarina couldn't stop beaming in happy pride at that.
But unfortunately, despite her best efforts, she's found nothing beyond what your analysts have already nailed down. There is a Westphalian cell operating on the Australian coast, and there is enough evidence pointing to the fact that a cell of kaiju infiltrators similar to the ones the Pegasus and Perseus teams fought off in Japan are present. Which suggests that there possibly might be another 'officer' type independent enough running negotiations on Sheol's behalf, but that is just guesswork based on existing knowledge.
Diana, however, has had more interesting results. Her recent experiences have left her somewhat hyper focused in regards to the kaiju - and that was something you simply couldn't blame her for. With a newfound appreciation for the many different angles Sheol's creations were now displaying, Diana lent her processing power to Adrianna's efforts to try and find anything kaiju-related. Her efforts on that front were unsuccessful - after having expended that many resources against the Yukimura Institute, it seems that relatively small-scale operations like the Westphalian meetup are all Sheol willing to commit to.
Logistics: Which leads you to wonder just what Sheol's resource intake and expenditure must look like. Your own methods to refine K-Class materials are hardly the 'original article' as it were, but it takes you a good long while to get anything out of them. And this is after Sam and the Biotechnology team have more or less figured out the 'right' way to process and refine kaiju samples into K-Class - it's the work of months. In between everything else, one note manages to remain noticeable in your notebook - keep closer tabs on kaiju cells. Easier said than done, but it's something.
Diana, however, has had an interesting ping. The strange signal that seems to have been bouncing along the very edges of the defense outposts' perimeters seems to be honing in from the northeast, from the relative direction of Mt. Saint Helens. Diana has finally managed to isolate the signal - it is vaguely Kausen in nature, but it does not match any of the SAI personalities in the DFRI, and Patch had confirmed in a conference call that it was not any of the Legion's.
What's more worrying, however, is the fact that seismic activity is now being mentioned in the same breath as the signals. The perimeter outposts have started to mention vague tremors, enough to send various flocks of birds flying into the air and even sending some packs of ground wildlife running - but nothing literally earth splitting yet.
Diana, however, is confident that if the DFRI headquarters is hit, it would be accidental. She's fairly sure that it's after another target further north:
The Legion Enclave.
Liaison Results
"I wasn't expecting another house call."
Haruko just raised an eyebrow at Dana Candler, who in turn just returned the most gormless grin she had ever seen anyone make - and that was from both biological and mechanical lifeforms.
Candler raised her hands in appeasement. "Sasaki, learn to relax a little," she jabbed. "Your own advice even, or something along those lines." She glanced out the window of her office overseeing the flight deck of the Sergey Gorshkov - and as Haruko followed suit, a raw sense of satisfaction crossed her mind.
Various men and women, all in engineering jumpsuits, were crisscrossing the flight deck in what her superior would call 'organized chaos.' People were constantly getting in each other's way, reassessing work, losing things, finding them, promptly losing them again only to realize it was mostly where it needed to go. Pallets of ammunition skated across the deck on forklifts, while V-33 units - interestingly repurposed for cargo hauling duties in their VTOL form - were lowering tanks of AVGAS aviation fuel.
"The Naval Board finally decided to let me have an independent command." Haruko turned her attention back to Candler, who had a strained smile on her face - albeit one that was far more relaxed than the one she saw right after the launch ceremony. "The Unity Station inquiry reviews were starting to get to them, I think. I gave the suggestion of letting me try and literally write the rough draft on supercarrier doctrine - I think they wanted good progress so they could brief that to the Unity Station offices for a change."
"I'm glad to hear it, ma'am." And Haruko was being absolutely sincere. Between Major Devin and Major Jenkins, she had seen what having freedom of movement being constricted was like, to say nothing of having someone micromanaging you right at your shoulders even from a distance. "To that end, I have an opportunity to help you with that, and a favor to ask."
"Name it." Candler leaned forward, a curious expression on her face.
"Our own dropship was recently damaged last month," Haruko started.
"Yukimura?"
"Yes."
"Heard about that." Haruko would notice, for the first time in the conversation, that the wall behind Candler's desk was now populated with various mementos of her career. A plaque emblazoned with the Kanji for Yokosuka Naval Base was placed towards the top. "I didn't envy whoever had that job, but it sounds like the junior officer you sent had it pretty well handled."
Haruko decided to let that description of Diana stand. Candler wasn't wrong, per se. "She more than earned her victory," she opted to say instead. "The Marines too - my superior put some of them in for commendations. But that leads me to my point - we are about to follow up on a lead against a Westphalian operation in Australia, and we need a method of transport."
Candler 'hummed' at that, and her eyes momentarily went blank. Haruko recognized that look - the sign of a person whose focus was firmly on mental math. Her attention immediately snapped back. "As long as you don't mind us making a pitstop at Fleet Base East on the way back, I don't see why not," she allowed. "Manifest?"
Haruko brought up her data pad, and slid a copy of the data to Candler's. "One Super Robot and a support team," she replied, simply lumping Ocular along with the Argonauts for now. "Along with maintenance personnel."
Candler looked at the manifest herself - and nodded. "Send me your timelines when we're done," Candler said. "Time to let the old bastard fly."
Haruko's other appointment that month was not quite as successful as she had hoped.
Colonel Bernard Henri, formerly of France before being seconded full-time to the Marine Expeditionary Forces, expressed his regret that he couldn't spare more pilots to form another Wing as Major Devin had hoped. However, he was quite pleased to hear that in their first combat engagement with the new Seeker models - against the kaiju, whom he wasn't aware even had aerial assets like the Pterawings - had not only not lost a single pilot, but had performed superbly.
"I am, however, noticing a slight pattern here," Henri commented dryly. Haruko made a questioning gesture, and the colonel read off the citations. The glow of the datapad highlighted his weathered face, skin dried from years of exposure to the sun in field conditions contrasting heavily with the sharp and precise cut of the Troupes de Marine - itself a French Army formation technically, but Haruko was willing to bet Henri had seen off all potential attacks on his credentials long before today.
"'For suicidal bravery.' 'For reckless gallantry in the face of the enemy.' 'For displaying ingenuity via ground vehicular combat at high altitude conditions.'" Henri just lowered his datapad - and then snorted. "God help me if that doesn't sound like my pilots." Despite his clear bemusement, there was a touch of pride in his voice, even if it didn't show on the man's face. "I cannot spare you more men - but I can keep the Twenty-Fifth with you. For the indefinite future."
Haruko nodded in appreciation. Not quite what they wanted, but more than they dreaded. She would take it.
"I don't drive people this batty. Do I?"
Patrick remained dutifully silent. Erika's eyebrow twitched slightly at the insinuation - even when she knew Patrick didn't actually say anything. But the air of amusement around her old friend and mentor said volumes more than any amount of words could.
Erika just shot a withering glare at Patrick, and just huffed when he continued to stoically remain unwithered.
That digital girl - Adrianna. If no one had told her that she was AI, she would have thought her to be an incredibly young - and slightly annoying - woman who consumed far more sugar than was healthy for anyone. Hell, if they'd told her she was an AI anyway, she might have just dismissed the claim.
That was harder to do when she personally met one. And she was still slightly peeved that she hadn't caught on earlier.
'But I'm right here' indeed.
That said, she couldn't deny that Adrianna was incredibly helpful. Erika and Patrick had already started to isolate a few of the operatives of this cell from one another - and Adrianna, mostly unbidden, but timely nonetheless - had already foiled a few counter ambushes before they could even take place. Mostly by infiltrating their own databases and effectively neutralizing them in a feedback loop - 'Blue Screen of Death!' in her own words, whatever that meant - but it made their first few forays successful-
"Hello~!"
"Think of the devil and she'll appear, apparently." Erika had long since stopped jumping whenever Adrianna appeared, and just raised an eyebrow. "Morning, Adrianna. What've you got for us?"
"Good news - my boss is sending backup!" Adrianna looked and sounded incredibly pleased, whether it was with herself for delivering the news, or the news itself Erika just wasn't sure. "They're coming by soon, and I'll be facilitating the linkup!"
"Most excellent news, miss," Patrick stated, neatly cutting off Erika's snarky reply. "Have you had any success in penetrating the main cell's networks?"
"Eeehhhhh~no." The sunny disposition faded to mild annoyance. "After the first few times, I think they just ripped themselves out of the airwaves entirely and went analog. They're still emitting signals, nothing'll stop that, but aside from this-"
The image of the last remaining warehouse they had yet to attack was displayed, all with various vehicles 'parked' around it.
"-I've got nothing. Pretty sure they're circling the wagons now, though. You didn't even need to break out Valiant!"
"Considering what they're probably hiding in there?" Erika commented. She glanced outside, where Valiant laid dormant in the support vehicle covered in tarp. "Probably not going to last terribly long."
"We do have a run of bad luck with covert operations," Patrick commented. "Something to do with the fact that both sides' first method of resort tends to be giant robots."
"...when it's all you've got, I mean, why not?"
This time, Patrick had the decency to look sheepish alongside Adrianna as Erika glared at them. "This," she complained, "this is why we never get the covert bonus from Mander!"
Deployment Preparations
"Allll riiiiight!" Jessica just sighed in amusement at Charlie's cheers all the way to the drop ramp of the supercarrier. "Our first mission! Oh man, ohmanohmanohman this is gonna be great!"
"You don't have to be so loud." Iris's voice was much softer than Charlie's yet it carried all the further as a result. Her form was hilariously lopsided compared to the looming form that was Charlie - all three of them had just recently conducted a change to their new bodies. The slender, more agile form of Iris in its mecha configuration from the Steed chassis had to walk just slightly faster than normal to keep up with the idle, but large steps that Charlie's Phalanx chassis carried him in his enthusiasm. "And what did we say about being overconfident?"
"Slow and insidious." Frankie was adjusting his arms and shoulders - he was still getting used to the Shade's configurations. His particular form had been rigged for engineering - various tools, earthmover outlets, and more replaced the sensitive sensor suites that the Intelligence packages tended to have. "We haven't even trained with these yet. We were just in Jackals last month!"
"Guys, we'll be fine." Jessica stood on the gantries alongside the massive loading bay of the Sergey Gorshkov. "I'm nervous too, alright? I'm barely getting used to all of this." The C-Crystal hung along her neck, glowing faintly in the bay's lights. "And Charlie, try to calm down a bit? You're not supposed to advertise that-"
"-that I'm SAI-04, I know." Charlie thankfully reduced the boisterous body language a little, but he was still visibly shaking in excitement. "But, c'mon, Jessica! This is what we were made to do, y'know? I mean-"
A burst of sound and static interrupted Charlie's speech as Ocular landed on his shoulder. The beaked form of the mini-Kaus's head poked at Charlie's head before what sounded like record scratches and corrupted recordings emitted from his beak.
"Whoah, Ocular, chill," Frankie called from behind. "We get it, we understand." Another chirp of communication shot back. "N-no, but-"
"We will do our best." Iris's voice seemed to cut through again. "Jessica and Ocular will also do their best. So will Valiant and Adri. That's all there is to it."
Jessica just smiled as she saw Ocular and the Argonaut siblings bicker with each other. It was a different dynamic from the Legion's, but it had a familiar, comfortable feeling to it as well. She grasped at the C-Crystal as she glanced at the Thunderbolt, still being tied down by support crew in its gunship form to the loading elevator. "Let's do our best," she whispered to herself.
The C-Crystal glowed faintly.
Yeah, I think I'll keep the update results bite sized like this. This is already clocking almost 2.5k words!
Engineering rolls are just about done, but I will post those tomorrow.
Engineering rolls are just about done, but I will post those tomorrow.
Hmm, so next turn we should liaison with the Legion to support them from a probable Free Brother raid?
(Also, there goes my assumption that the Free Brothers don't know where the Legion base is which I though was implied in one of the Free Brother interludes. I guess I misunderstood and the Legion's primary base isn't in the Enclave itself?)
(Also also, why does Erika cares about Mander's cover bonus? She is already independently wealthy)
(Also, there goes my assumption that the Free Brothers don't know where the Legion base is which I though was implied in one of the Free Brother interludes. I guess I misunderstood and the Legion's primary base isn't in the Enclave itself?)
(Also also, why does Erika cares about Mander's cover bonus? She is already independently wealthy)
- Location
- USA
I'll add it by the Engineering update. I just didn't have time earlier, and I won't until later today.
- Location
- USA
It's the principle of the thing. Some people want that optional objective!
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
Definitely. Remind me: When's Beowulf due to be ready again?
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
In all probability this is the Free Brothers attempting to rescue Bandit. They must somehow have learned where he is being held. Only thing is that they don't know that
1. Galbinus and crew now know that the the Free Brothers are coming.
2. The Legion Enclave is literally next door to the Primary DFRI research base that is developing the Super Robots.
3. This news gives the Legion and the DFRI a good chance to launch an ambush on the attackers. and military proverb is whoever has the element of surprise wins.
4. If we can get Beowulf repaired fast enough we might be able to help lay down the pain and take some of them out.
1. Galbinus and crew now know that the the Free Brothers are coming.
2. The Legion Enclave is literally next door to the Primary DFRI research base that is developing the Super Robots.
3. This news gives the Legion and the DFRI a good chance to launch an ambush on the attackers. and military proverb is whoever has the element of surprise wins.
4. If we can get Beowulf repaired fast enough we might be able to help lay down the pain and take some of them out.