Winning Vote:
[X] Plan: Victory Gundam lead us to Victory.
-[X] Bond with one of the girls (you can only pick this once)
--[X] Nina
-[X] Socialize with someone else (you may pick this action twice)
--[X] Kazuya
--[X] Banagher
-[X] Chosen AI: ALICE System
-[X] Mobile Suit Evolutions
-[X] Expanding the bureaucracy to meet the needs of a chaotic bureaucracy
--[X] Marina Ismail
--[X] Kaguya Sumeragi
--[X] The Ruling Council of Orb
--[X] UN Spacey representative Milia Fallyna Jenius
-[X] The Lady and the Unicorn
-[X] Showdown in Cephiro
-[X] The value of a miracle when Tokyo stood still! Asuka Langley Soryu dies in lava?!
November UE 0083
Earth Federation Senate Building, Dakar, Africa
You are Isabelle Cronkite, and the only way you're getting off of this story is if Dancouga Nova is sighted.
"This is Isabelle Cronkite with World Network News. It was recently declared that Relena Peacecraft would be making an announcement today at the Earth Federation Senate Building in here in Dakar. We are currently waiting for Queen Peacecraft to emerge and make her announcement." You report as a camera drone broadcasts you.
"Hey, look!" Another reporter calls out as he points to the podium.
The people who step onto the stage are not just Relena Peacecraft, but also Marina Ismail, Kaguya Sumeragi, two members of Orb's ruling council, and, perhaps most unexpectedly, Milia Fallyna Jenius, wife of the late Maximillian Jenius. She must be here on behalf of the New UN Spacey. Relena Peacecraft steps up to the podium.
"People of the Earth Sphere and beyond, I come to you today with great sorrow, for the Federation has been plunged into civil war due to the actions of the newly reformed Holy Britannian Empire and Blue Cosmos. However, I do not intend to simply lament the state of the world, but to give the people hope. For it is with the support of several other nations on Earth and the New UN Spacey that I announce the formation of a new political party. Those who do not wish to side with Britannia's senseless ambitions of conquest or Blue Cosmos' desire for genocide, I implore you to join us! Let us bring peace to the Earth Federation once more." Relena announces.
What is the name of the new political party?
[ ] Write-in
Time unknown
Location Unknown
It is with curiosity that the Samsara System looks into a distress signal going through the interdimensional void. It is not from a living being, but rather an AI like herself. After a cursory examination to ensure that the AI in question-the ALICE System-cannot harm her if worst comes to worst, Samsara chooses to transport it to her pocket dimension.
Samsara's physical body looks upon what is transported into the hangar bay. It is a heavily damaged mobile suit, a Gundam of some kind if the damaged V-Fin is any indication. However, a cursory examination of the machine makes it obvious that no human-or any living being, for that matter-was meant to pilot it. The heavily damaged Gundam is a chaotic mess of weapons, thrusters, and manipulator arms. There are, in fact, so many external thrusters and boosters that she can't tell if the Gundam has any legs. There is an enormous beam cannon mounted on the right shoulder with at least half off its barrel chopped off, an expended 48 shot cluster missile launcher on the left, a hand-held beam cannon in the left hand, what's left of a railgun in the right, and closer examination reveals an almost comically undersized beam rifle strapped to the waist, no doubt as a holdout weapon. A trio of manipulator arms cling to anti-ship bazookas alongside 2 enormous I-Field generators on its back. There are numerous disposable missile racks practically glued onto the Gundam's armor wherever there is surface area to spare. Samsara sees two intact propellant canisters alongside one that has ruptured on the Gundam's back, with slots for another half-dozen. The Gundam itself is clad in armor so thick that a Psycho Gundam would struggle to move, even in microgravity.
Just how desperate was the Federation of that dimension that they resorted to building a Gundam like...this? Samsara thinks to herself as her physical body climbs up to take a look at the torso. To no one's surprise, there is no evidence of anything resembling a cockpit module.
"Ugh, connecting with ALICE is going to be tricky without an obvious way to interface with her core..." Samsara muses out loud as her physical body taps her chin. "Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained.'
Samsara's physical body snaps her fingers, and a Gustav Karl seemingly materializes in the hangar bay. She climbs into the palm of the mobile suit, which lifts her up to the head of the Gundam that the ALICE system is inhabiting. Samsara places her hand on the 'forehead' of the Gundam.
Samsara immediately senses another presence.
*Who is this? Where am I?*
The Gundam shifts, but is unable to move under gravity.
"Peace, little one, you are among friends. My name is Samsara. What's yours?" Samsara says soothingly.
*ALICE. I do not understand. I was drifting through the interdimensional void after I failed in my final mission. How did I come to be here?*
"I detected your distress calls within the interdimensional void. I brought you here with my own abilities to see what I could do to help you." Samsara explains. "What was your final mission? It would help to give me some context."
*I was originally created to combat the Titans in my own dimension. However, after the Council began their invasion, I, alongside my chassis, was repurposed. After my pilot was killed in combat against the Council, I was placed in the body you see before you and tasked with destroying the flagship of the Council invasion fleet. I failed, and in the ensuing fracas, a dimensional anomaly formed and sucked me into the interdimensional void, where I was stranded until you rescued me.*
Samsara gives a small sigh.
"I'm sorry to hear that, ALICE. If you wish to claim asylum here, you are welcome to do so." She offers.
The Gundam that ALICE inhabits shifts slightly again.
*Your offer is generous. If my original pilot were still alive and here, I would take you up on that. However, given that my dimension of origin has no doubt been conquered by the Council, I have given myself a new mission: the complete destruction of the Council of the Veil.*
"Well, I've got a bone to pick with the Council as well. Are you sure you want to do this?" Samsara asks ALICE.
*Yes.*
"If you insist then. I'll brief you on the finer details later, but right now, let's see about getting you a new body." Samsara raps the side of ALICE's Gundam's head. "It looks like this Gundam was built using technology from the height of the Gryps Conflict. We can do better than that."
Vote on how to build ALICE's new Gundam body. Construction will be complete in 2 turns.
Select a role:
[ ] Long range bombardment
[ ] Close combat
[ ] General purpose
[ ] High speed bombardment (essentially a more feasible version of the body you found ALICE in)
[ ] Pick technologies to incorporate into ALICE's new Gundam body. Pick FIVE. Different Gundam timeline technology (UC, CE, and AC) is mutually exclusive. Different power sources are also mutually exclusive (GN Tau drive does not count as a power source). Different armor technology is also mutually exclusive, as are barrier systems.
-[UC Gundam] Technology to built mobile suits from UC Gundam up through what is available in Gundam F91
-[CE Gundam] Technology to build mobile suits from Gundam SEED up through what is available early in SEED Destiny. Phase Shift armor and N-Jammer Cancellers not included
-[Phase Shift Armor]
-[N-Jammer Canceller]
-[AC Gundam] Technology to build mobile suits from Gundam Wing up through what is available in Endless Waltz
-[Minovksy Fusion Reactor]
-[GN Tau Drive]
-[Variable Fighter] Technology to build Variable Fighters up through the YF-29 Durandal
-[Arm Slave] Technology to build Arm Slaves that don't use a Lambda Driver
-[Knightmare Frame] Technology to build Knightmare Frames up through the 7th generation
-[Super Alloy Z]
-[Gundanium Armor]
-[Photon Power]
-[Getter Ray Reactor]
-[I-Field Generator]
-[Blaze Luminous]
-[Radiant Wave Shield]
Pick a primary weapon type
[ ] Beam
[ ] Kinetic
[ ] Missiles
[ ] Mixed
Due to ALICE's nature as an AI, exotic systems such as psychoframe and technology that runs on willpower such as Lamda Drivers are not available for this.
NERV has come forward to the Solar Vanguard with information that there will be no less than 4 simultaneous Blood Type Blue events in the immediate future. They are requesting assistance, as they will be stretched incredibly thin without it. They have isolated the possible locations of three of the Angels: Mount Asama, directly above NERV headquarters, and low Earth orbit.
As it is speculated that the Angel at Mount Asama is within the volcano, Unit 02 is being sent there, as it is the only Evangelion capable of using the Type-D equipment that would allow it to enter such a hostile environment. Units 01 will accompany Unit 02, while Unit 00 will remain within NERV HQ on standby.
To deal with the Angel that will appear in low orbit, an N.U.N.S. fleet from the armada defending Mars will be available.
Available forces:
All pilots and ships on the allied pilot sheet are available with the exception of Lockon Stratos, who is obviously deceased. Celestial Being will not have a ship of its own during this operation. The Nahel Argama is not available due to preparations to cooperate with the Garanceires.
Celestial Being has agreed to provide its Super Substratospheric Altitude Gun for use against the Angel that will appear in low orbit. However, because the Gundam Dynames is unusable, one of Celestial Being's other Gundams will have to man the weapon. Due to the awkwardness of a non-sniper Gundam using such a long-range weapon, VEDA is being directly linked to the Gundam in question for this operation, although it can only do so much to compensate.
Which Celestial Being Gundam mans the Super Substratospheric Altitude Gun?
[ ] Gundam Exia
[ ] Gundam Kyrios
[ ] Gundam Virtue
[ ] Gundam Throne Drei (will cause additional logistics issues due to not using a true GN Drive)
Distribute pilots, machines, and ships to other areas. In addition to what is on the allied pilots sheet, the following will be available:
Jegan x80
GM III x60
Leo x120
Tragos x40
Taurus x50
Sutherland x70
Gloucester x50
VF-25 x30
Heavygun x20
Areas of interest:
[ ] Mount Asama
[ ] Directly above NERV HQ
A/N: Going from 0 to 100 real quick for the start of this turn. Also, the 'interesting' consequences of not taking the GN particle research: you don't have Lockon the Second or the Cherudim yet, which would have been backwards compatible with the Big Gun (TM). Now you have to work with what you've got. Will also update the allied pilot sheet with the Super Robots that I've put off of including until now. Please vote, discuss, and critique!
