Turn, Turn and Turn [A]gain! (Turn A Gundam Quest)
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Weeks 45-48 Part 2
[X] Ride in the ship with the others.
The ships carrying the former LRAMDC and most of your Mobile Suits set sail from Hughes, a port city in Tejan Albam, at the end of the week. The key word is 'most': The White Doll doesn't need fuel or maintenance, so to save the Tejans the effort of preparing another ship you simply set your Mobile Suit to follow the flotilla from below the water's surface. Sochie's Qubeley and the other Suits have been loaded onto the ships, though Corin and Arisa's Leos have the advantage of being easily disassembled, making them easy to accommodate.
You and the others ride in a Tejan cruiser, considered cutting-edge before the discovery and proliferation of Dark History technology. According to the captain of the vessel it has been discussed in the upper echelons of the Tejan Militia if it is feasible to place BuCUE weapons on warships, but with the Ghingham Fleet invasion all such plans have been shelved in favor of the immediately practical.
Sochie's Pressure greets you long before she comes up on deck, so there is no surprise when she puts her arms around you from behind. "Hey, Loran. What are you thinking about?"
You lean back into her embrace. "Just that the war doesn't seem to be going anywhere. The Ghingham Fleet will attack, I'll fight the Turn A, and then we do the same the next week." You sigh. "It just feels like I am not doing anything while Junno's forces are fighting all over the world…"
She gives you a light squeeze. "I know how you feel, all of us do. We've just been sitting around since the war started, remember?"
"Yeah…" You mumble in agreement. They are likely to see some action soon: If the Abruzzians really found a mass driver the Ghingham Fleet will have to attack. No matter how many ships the Earth digs out of the Mountain Cycles, they won't amount to anything if they can't leave Earth's gravity. For Junno to be defeated, the Anti-Junno Coalition must get enough ships into space to challenge the Ghingham Fleet in space.
*
A storm forces the flotilla to make port on the northwestern tip of the island that makes up a full third of Abruzzo's territory, meaning that you will be delayed for at least a day depending on how long the weather intends to work against you. Mind, the White Doll could probably make the trip, but that would mean leaving the flotilla more or less undefended. If the Ghingham Fleet attacks while you are away, the defenders will not have time to get their Mobile Suits out of the cargo holds.
As such you stay put, spending the night as guests of a local nobleman, one Antonio Gaetano, who generously paid for the lodgings of the crew of the Tejan flotilla while they are staying in his city. The man has enough favor at court to warrant a group of four Abruzzian Mobile Suits guarding his mansion, and to the surprise of everyone your brought with you they are Leos.
There is even one designed for space operations.
Corin is over the moon at the revelation, but it leaves you asking yourself if you should share data on the units with the Abruzzians. Or rather, if you should tell Lord Antonio early and if you should ask for Lord Guin's permission first.
[] Give Lord Antonio the Leo data.
--[] Ask Lord Guin for permission.
--[] Do not ask Lord Guin for permission.
[] He can wait until you have gotten into contact with the Abruzzian government.
The ships carrying the former LRAMDC and most of your Mobile Suits set sail from Hughes, a port city in Tejan Albam, at the end of the week. The key word is 'most': The White Doll doesn't need fuel or maintenance, so to save the Tejans the effort of preparing another ship you simply set your Mobile Suit to follow the flotilla from below the water's surface. Sochie's Qubeley and the other Suits have been loaded onto the ships, though Corin and Arisa's Leos have the advantage of being easily disassembled, making them easy to accommodate.
You and the others ride in a Tejan cruiser, considered cutting-edge before the discovery and proliferation of Dark History technology. According to the captain of the vessel it has been discussed in the upper echelons of the Tejan Militia if it is feasible to place BuCUE weapons on warships, but with the Ghingham Fleet invasion all such plans have been shelved in favor of the immediately practical.
Sochie's Pressure greets you long before she comes up on deck, so there is no surprise when she puts her arms around you from behind. "Hey, Loran. What are you thinking about?"
You lean back into her embrace. "Just that the war doesn't seem to be going anywhere. The Ghingham Fleet will attack, I'll fight the Turn A, and then we do the same the next week." You sigh. "It just feels like I am not doing anything while Junno's forces are fighting all over the world…"
She gives you a light squeeze. "I know how you feel, all of us do. We've just been sitting around since the war started, remember?"
"Yeah…" You mumble in agreement. They are likely to see some action soon: If the Abruzzians really found a mass driver the Ghingham Fleet will have to attack. No matter how many ships the Earth digs out of the Mountain Cycles, they won't amount to anything if they can't leave Earth's gravity. For Junno to be defeated, the Anti-Junno Coalition must get enough ships into space to challenge the Ghingham Fleet in space.
*
A storm forces the flotilla to make port on the northwestern tip of the island that makes up a full third of Abruzzo's territory, meaning that you will be delayed for at least a day depending on how long the weather intends to work against you. Mind, the White Doll could probably make the trip, but that would mean leaving the flotilla more or less undefended. If the Ghingham Fleet attacks while you are away, the defenders will not have time to get their Mobile Suits out of the cargo holds.
As such you stay put, spending the night as guests of a local nobleman, one Antonio Gaetano, who generously paid for the lodgings of the crew of the Tejan flotilla while they are staying in his city. The man has enough favor at court to warrant a group of four Abruzzian Mobile Suits guarding his mansion, and to the surprise of everyone your brought with you they are Leos.
There is even one designed for space operations.
Corin is over the moon at the revelation, but it leaves you asking yourself if you should share data on the units with the Abruzzians. Or rather, if you should tell Lord Antonio early and if you should ask for Lord Guin's permission first.
[] Give Lord Antonio the Leo data.
--[] Ask Lord Guin for permission.
--[] Do not ask Lord Guin for permission.
[] He can wait until you have gotten into contact with the Abruzzian government.
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Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
[X] Give Lord Antonio the Leo data.
--[X] Do not ask Lord Guin for permission.
As I have said before. I don't trust Lord Guin or Lady Lily. So I think its time to start looking for that third option and distance ourselves from those two.
--[X] Do not ask Lord Guin for permission.
As I have said before. I don't trust Lord Guin or Lady Lily. So I think its time to start looking for that third option and distance ourselves from those two.
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Weeks 45-48 Part 3
[X] Give Lord Antonio the Leo data.
--[X] Do not ask Lord Guin for permission.
The time after dinner is spent giving Lord Antonio and his Mobile Suit pilots a lecture on Leos, and from how excited Corin is about it you cannot help but wonder if it qualifies as post-meal exercise. The Abruzzian nobleman does lay a good table though, you'll give him that.
Corin does most of the work with the immediately practical information, but his long speech on the even longer history of the Leo is far more extensive that the short 'history' section in the White Doll's database.
On some level you feel bad for going behind Lord Guin's back like this, even for something so little, but you shrug it off. They would have gotten their hands on the data in a week at most.
*
When the storm clears the next day it is time for you to complete your journey to the Abruzzian Mountain Cycle, flying the White Doll ahead of the others to assess the situation. This close the White Doll's sensors can tell that there is indeed a mass driver underneath the mountain even with the buried piece of infrastructure inactive, not that the huge, camouflaged Abruzzian camp wasn't a glaring hint on its own.
The Abruzzian nerves are calmed when you land and introduce yourself, the general in command personally leading you to the massive underground hangar connected to the mass driver facility to show you the ships they found. He takes you to the vault like doors unearthed by the tireless efforts of the Abruzzian army, and you follow him to get an eyeful of the twelve space warships stored there. They are about as big as a Gendarme-Class, but are much slimmer and seem to lack the Gendarme's iconic engine power. They do, however, appear to be much more heavily armed.
The White Doll identifies the ships as Salamis Kai-Class Cruisers, noting that they are painted in AEUG colors. You will have to look up the AEUG later if you remember, for now you have to focus on helping the Abruzzians get the largest fleet the space-worthy vessels the Earth has into working condition.
You do quietly wonder if there is such a hangar near Manupitch as well, but you dismiss the idea after some thought: That mass driver was part of a civilian spaceport and wouldn't have any dedicated warship storage nearby. This one here in Abruzzo must be a military one.
All Systems gain +10 Condition!
It will take weeks to get the fleet operational even with your help and that of your team, so you hurry to set the White Doll's Priority Repair System before going to work. No time like the present and all that.
[] Keep working on the Lightwave Main Propulsion (Voiture Lumiere). 96/200 (Damaged)
[] Reassign the Priority Repair to another System.
--[] Write in.
--[X] Do not ask Lord Guin for permission.
The time after dinner is spent giving Lord Antonio and his Mobile Suit pilots a lecture on Leos, and from how excited Corin is about it you cannot help but wonder if it qualifies as post-meal exercise. The Abruzzian nobleman does lay a good table though, you'll give him that.
Corin does most of the work with the immediately practical information, but his long speech on the even longer history of the Leo is far more extensive that the short 'history' section in the White Doll's database.
On some level you feel bad for going behind Lord Guin's back like this, even for something so little, but you shrug it off. They would have gotten their hands on the data in a week at most.
*
When the storm clears the next day it is time for you to complete your journey to the Abruzzian Mountain Cycle, flying the White Doll ahead of the others to assess the situation. This close the White Doll's sensors can tell that there is indeed a mass driver underneath the mountain even with the buried piece of infrastructure inactive, not that the huge, camouflaged Abruzzian camp wasn't a glaring hint on its own.
The Abruzzian nerves are calmed when you land and introduce yourself, the general in command personally leading you to the massive underground hangar connected to the mass driver facility to show you the ships they found. He takes you to the vault like doors unearthed by the tireless efforts of the Abruzzian army, and you follow him to get an eyeful of the twelve space warships stored there. They are about as big as a Gendarme-Class, but are much slimmer and seem to lack the Gendarme's iconic engine power. They do, however, appear to be much more heavily armed.
The White Doll identifies the ships as Salamis Kai-Class Cruisers, noting that they are painted in AEUG colors. You will have to look up the AEUG later if you remember, for now you have to focus on helping the Abruzzians get the largest fleet the space-worthy vessels the Earth has into working condition.
You do quietly wonder if there is such a hangar near Manupitch as well, but you dismiss the idea after some thought: That mass driver was part of a civilian spaceport and wouldn't have any dedicated warship storage nearby. This one here in Abruzzo must be a military one.
All Systems gain +10 Condition!
It will take weeks to get the fleet operational even with your help and that of your team, so you hurry to set the White Doll's Priority Repair System before going to work. No time like the present and all that.
[] Keep working on the Lightwave Main Propulsion (Voiture Lumiere). 96/200 (Damaged)
[] Reassign the Priority Repair to another System.
--[] Write in.
Weapons
Type-TX Beam Pistol 265/500 (Heavily Damaged. Ranged)
Attacks Per Turn: 1d2
Damage: 2
Critical Hit: On Critical Success.
Special:
-Penetration 1: +1 to target's Armor Save DC.
-Unreliable: Unusable for one Turn on Major Failure. Unusable for all following Turns in a Scene(Update) upon Critical Failure.
Fleche Lumiere Point Defense Lasers. (Sleep Mode)
Attacks: 8d1
Damage: 1
Base AP: 1
Critical Hit: On Critical Success.
Special:
-Point Defense: Automatically Attacks missiles, rockets, Remote Weapons, and targets with the Mobile Pod Special Rule.
-Laser: -40 to Hit DC.
-Integrated Weapon: Does not count towards the carried weapon cap.
Wire Launchers. 101/500 (Heavily Damaged)
Attacks: 1d1
Damage: 0
Base AP: 0
Critical Hit: No.
Special:
-Wires: Inflicts Hindered, Burdened, Trapped, or Immobile depending on how many Wires hit.
-Short Range Weapon: Unusable beyond Medium Range.
-Integrated Weapon: Does not count towards the carried weapon cap.
Defensive Systems.
Turn-Type Armor (Non-Combat Mode).
Armor Grade: 6
Armor Save: 1+
Special:
-Beam Resistant 1: Beams that hit this unit lose one level of Penetration vs Armor.
-Nano Lamination 2: Damage from non-Penetrating Kinetic and Explosive attacks is reduced by 2 (to a minimum of 1). Nullifies damage from Point Defense Weapons.
Left Arm Lightwave Shield (Non-Combat)
Shield Grade: 4
Shield Size: Medium.
Shield Save: 3+
Shield Integrity: 6
Special:
-Lightwave Shield: Does not block lasers.
-Regenerate 2: Regains 2 Integrity at the end of each Turn.
I-Field. (Sleep Mode)
Field Density: 4
Dissipation Save: 3+
Field Integrity: 12
Special:
-I-Field: Barrier against Ranged Beam Attacks only. Immune to Beam Penetration.
-Dampening: Whichever Ranged Beam Attack breaks through the I-Field has its Damage reduced by remaining Field Integrity.
-Wide Guard: Expands the I-Field to cover a large area, cutting its Integrity in half in exchange for shielding everyone within close range of the White Doll.
-Regenerate 4: Regains 4 Integrity at the end of each Turn.
Mobility Systems.
Landskimmers. (Sleep Mode)
-Speed+: -20 modifier to speed DC while on the ground.
-Gale: Melee Attacks while on the ground gain -20 Charge Modifier to Hit Rolls.
Lightwave Maneuvering Thrusters (Flight Mode).
-Flight+: Unit can fly. Terrain modifiers ignored. Hidden -20 Modifier to Speed rolls while flying.
-Lightwave Propulsion: This system requires no fuel, only energy.
Lightwave Main Propulsion (Voiture Lumiere). 106/200 (Damaged)
-Extreme Speed: -45 modifier to speed DC while in the air or in space.
-Demanding: +30 to Condition DC after three Turns or one Engagement of usage with Pilot Skill below 4.
-Lightwave Propulsion: This system requires no fuel, only energy.
PSI Systems.
Psycommu System.
-Psyco-Control: Pilot Level may not go below 1. May control the White Doll while outside the cockpit at NT-Level 3.
-Requirement: Requires NT Level 2 to use.
Psychoframe.
-NT-Amp: Allows the usage of MS scale NT powers.
-Requires NT Level 2 to use.
NT-D Mode.
-NT+: Allows the usage of NT power one level above that of the user's Level.
-Demanding: +100 to Condition DC after three Turns or end of Engagement if the user is not NT Level 4 or above.
-Exclusive: Cannot be used at the same time as Bloody Siege Mode.
Bloody Siege Mode.
-Mode Change: Splits the mobile suit into pieces, nine in total (ten with backpack). Each piece (except backpack) has its own I-Field. Can be used within gravity.
-Requirement: Requires Pilot Level 4 and NT Level 4.
-Excusive: Cannot be used as the same time as NT-D Mode.
Stealth Systems.
Invisible Umbrella (Sleep Mode)
-Cloaking: May hide in plain sight at the end of any Turn where you are not restrained in some fashion. Automatic Ambush on the first turn if initiating combat. Does nothing against Mind Targeting.
Holo-Decoy 80/200 (Damaged)
-Holo Decoy 2: Enemies of a lower Piloting Level than yourself suffer from additional base DC increase per Level. Has no effect against pilots with NT Level 2 or above and Mind Targeted Attacks.
Misc Systems.
LUNA Energy Transference Module (Sleep Mode)
-Universal Compatibility: The White Doll can use most types of equipment by wirelessly transferring power to them.
-Energy Assist: Allies within range gain a 2x damage to all weapons with the Reactor-Fed Special Rule. Allied Energy Weapons with Recharge Cooldowns can fire every turn as long as they are powered only by the Mobile Weapon carrying them.
-Fire Bringer: Normal Energy Weapons carried by Allies within range double their number of Attacks for the first Turn of Combat every update.
-Extreme Range: Targets anything within sensor range.
Power Drainer. 126/500 (Heavily Damaged)
-Weak Power Drain: Can prevent a single Mobile Suit from using Remote Weapons.
Carapace Backpack.
-Armory Backpack 5: Can store 5 weapons for later use.
-Adaptive workings: Will alter itself to carry MS weapons no matter their shape. Within limits.
-Flight Mode: Can fly.
-Armory Drone: Can be assigned to detach from the White Doll and act as a remote weapon carrying a designated Ranged Weapon. The White Doll may not retrieve or return weapon from a detached Armory Drone. This function is automatically activated during Bloody Siege Mode.
-Carapace I-Field 116/500 (Heavily Damaged)
Type-TX Beam Pistol 265/500 (Heavily Damaged. Ranged)
Attacks Per Turn: 1d2
Damage: 2
Critical Hit: On Critical Success.
Special:
-Penetration 1: +1 to target's Armor Save DC.
-Unreliable: Unusable for one Turn on Major Failure. Unusable for all following Turns in a Scene(Update) upon Critical Failure.
Fleche Lumiere Point Defense Lasers. (Sleep Mode)
Attacks: 8d1
Damage: 1
Base AP: 1
Critical Hit: On Critical Success.
Special:
-Point Defense: Automatically Attacks missiles, rockets, Remote Weapons, and targets with the Mobile Pod Special Rule.
-Laser: -40 to Hit DC.
-Integrated Weapon: Does not count towards the carried weapon cap.
Wire Launchers. 101/500 (Heavily Damaged)
Attacks: 1d1
Damage: 0
Base AP: 0
Critical Hit: No.
Special:
-Wires: Inflicts Hindered, Burdened, Trapped, or Immobile depending on how many Wires hit.
-Short Range Weapon: Unusable beyond Medium Range.
-Integrated Weapon: Does not count towards the carried weapon cap.
Defensive Systems.
Turn-Type Armor (Non-Combat Mode).
Armor Grade: 6
Armor Save: 1+
Special:
-Beam Resistant 1: Beams that hit this unit lose one level of Penetration vs Armor.
-Nano Lamination 2: Damage from non-Penetrating Kinetic and Explosive attacks is reduced by 2 (to a minimum of 1). Nullifies damage from Point Defense Weapons.
Left Arm Lightwave Shield (Non-Combat)
Shield Grade: 4
Shield Size: Medium.
Shield Save: 3+
Shield Integrity: 6
Special:
-Lightwave Shield: Does not block lasers.
-Regenerate 2: Regains 2 Integrity at the end of each Turn.
I-Field. (Sleep Mode)
Field Density: 4
Dissipation Save: 3+
Field Integrity: 12
Special:
-I-Field: Barrier against Ranged Beam Attacks only. Immune to Beam Penetration.
-Dampening: Whichever Ranged Beam Attack breaks through the I-Field has its Damage reduced by remaining Field Integrity.
-Wide Guard: Expands the I-Field to cover a large area, cutting its Integrity in half in exchange for shielding everyone within close range of the White Doll.
-Regenerate 4: Regains 4 Integrity at the end of each Turn.
Mobility Systems.
Landskimmers. (Sleep Mode)
-Speed+: -20 modifier to speed DC while on the ground.
-Gale: Melee Attacks while on the ground gain -20 Charge Modifier to Hit Rolls.
Lightwave Maneuvering Thrusters (Flight Mode).
-Flight+: Unit can fly. Terrain modifiers ignored. Hidden -20 Modifier to Speed rolls while flying.
-Lightwave Propulsion: This system requires no fuel, only energy.
Lightwave Main Propulsion (Voiture Lumiere). 106/200 (Damaged)
-Extreme Speed: -45 modifier to speed DC while in the air or in space.
-Demanding: +30 to Condition DC after three Turns or one Engagement of usage with Pilot Skill below 4.
-Lightwave Propulsion: This system requires no fuel, only energy.
PSI Systems.
Psycommu System.
-Psyco-Control: Pilot Level may not go below 1. May control the White Doll while outside the cockpit at NT-Level 3.
-Requirement: Requires NT Level 2 to use.
Psychoframe.
-NT-Amp: Allows the usage of MS scale NT powers.
-Requires NT Level 2 to use.
NT-D Mode.
-NT+: Allows the usage of NT power one level above that of the user's Level.
-Demanding: +100 to Condition DC after three Turns or end of Engagement if the user is not NT Level 4 or above.
-Exclusive: Cannot be used at the same time as Bloody Siege Mode.
Bloody Siege Mode.
-Mode Change: Splits the mobile suit into pieces, nine in total (ten with backpack). Each piece (except backpack) has its own I-Field. Can be used within gravity.
-Requirement: Requires Pilot Level 4 and NT Level 4.
-Excusive: Cannot be used as the same time as NT-D Mode.
Stealth Systems.
Invisible Umbrella (Sleep Mode)
-Cloaking: May hide in plain sight at the end of any Turn where you are not restrained in some fashion. Automatic Ambush on the first turn if initiating combat. Does nothing against Mind Targeting.
Holo-Decoy 80/200 (Damaged)
-Holo Decoy 2: Enemies of a lower Piloting Level than yourself suffer from additional base DC increase per Level. Has no effect against pilots with NT Level 2 or above and Mind Targeted Attacks.
Misc Systems.
LUNA Energy Transference Module (Sleep Mode)
-Universal Compatibility: The White Doll can use most types of equipment by wirelessly transferring power to them.
-Energy Assist: Allies within range gain a 2x damage to all weapons with the Reactor-Fed Special Rule. Allied Energy Weapons with Recharge Cooldowns can fire every turn as long as they are powered only by the Mobile Weapon carrying them.
-Fire Bringer: Normal Energy Weapons carried by Allies within range double their number of Attacks for the first Turn of Combat every update.
-Extreme Range: Targets anything within sensor range.
Power Drainer. 126/500 (Heavily Damaged)
-Weak Power Drain: Can prevent a single Mobile Suit from using Remote Weapons.
Carapace Backpack.
-Armory Backpack 5: Can store 5 weapons for later use.
-Adaptive workings: Will alter itself to carry MS weapons no matter their shape. Within limits.
-Flight Mode: Can fly.
-Armory Drone: Can be assigned to detach from the White Doll and act as a remote weapon carrying a designated Ranged Weapon. The White Doll may not retrieve or return weapon from a detached Armory Drone. This function is automatically activated during Bloody Siege Mode.
-Carapace I-Field 116/500 (Heavily Damaged)
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Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
[X] Keep working on the Lightwave Main Propulsion (Voiture Lumiere). 96/200 (Damaged)
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Completely worth it
[X] Keep working on the Lightwave Main Propulsion (Voiture Lumiere). 96/200 (Damaged)
I'm going to be kind of pissed if considering how much we've utterly ruined Turn A's shit over the past two battles he doesn't have to deal with some form a negative modifier to repairs.
That being to get a leg up on this lunatic is there any chance we could use Channeling to get lessons from the greatest Mobile Suit Pilots in human history?
I'm going to be kind of pissed if considering how much we've utterly ruined Turn A's shit over the past two battles he doesn't have to deal with some form a negative modifier to repairs.
That being to get a leg up on this lunatic is there any chance we could use Channeling to get lessons from the greatest Mobile Suit Pilots in human history?
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Weeks 45-48 Part 4: Timeskip
[X] Keep working on the Lightwave Main Propulsion (Voiture Lumiere). 96/200 (Damaged)
The room is dark, barely lit by one single lamp and empty but for the lone, comfortable chair near the back wall. Closer inspection reveals it to be a projector screen. Sochie Heim enters the room from behind a curtain. She looks despondent as she walks forward to sit down in the chair.
"None of us expected how many spaceships the Abruzzians has found, and as such our time was spent teaching them about their new war machines instead of helping them militarily. Sometimes Loran went to fight with Junno's White Doll, but the rest of us didn't see any action for weeks."
The screen behind her light up, displaying a map of Evropa, the continent across the Atlantic Ocean from America. The Kingdom of Abruzzo is highlighted, as is the Pater States of Romagna to the north, but the third highlighted state is the United Kingdom of Gauria, the empire of the Carolingian people.
"But everything changed when Gauria, the great enemy of the Second Amerian Empire, submitted to Queen Junno. With such a massive allied area the Ghingham Fleet and the normal Moon Army could land as many forces as they wanted, and the surrounding states were either overrun or begging for help within the week. We entered the war together, all of us fighting side by side for the first time since the time we went to the Moon."
Her face twists. "Meanwhile, Dianna's space forces were growing, and not just from the normal navy."
"The same loophole that has allowed Junno to wrest control of the Ghingham Fleet from Dianna allowed for a few members of the Ghingham Fleet to defect back to her. A ship here, a few Mechanical Dolls there…as the war went on they began to trickle towards the Dianna Counter fleet above Ameria. I don't know if Gym Ghingham was surprised by the defections, or if he just let them go, but the fact remains that some of his comrades were rejecting Junno's authority, no matter how good it felt to finally be called to war."
She sighs. "There were a lot of battles, and as the war intensified…we lost something that couldn't be replaced."
[] "Arisa defeated Gadget in a duel among the peaks of the Alps, but Ghingham intervened to save his subordinate."
[] "Corin stopped one of the huge Gundam Mechanical Dolls with a Dainsleif harpoon gun he took from a downed enemy, killing it even as it blasted his Leo into dust."
[] "As our allies' lines collapsed, Ivory and Fuun Saiki stalled the Ghingham Fleet on their own until their position was struck by orbital strikes."
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I will be honest with those of you still interested in participating: I cannot continue this quest as it has been played until this point. Between work, other projects, and plain old burnout I just do not have the energy anymore. As such, the time between Loran and the gang arriving in Abruzzo and the final battle will be filled by these Xenogears-inspired timeskips so that this quest will have an actual ending rather that just die off like my last two attempts.
The room is dark, barely lit by one single lamp and empty but for the lone, comfortable chair near the back wall. Closer inspection reveals it to be a projector screen. Sochie Heim enters the room from behind a curtain. She looks despondent as she walks forward to sit down in the chair.
"None of us expected how many spaceships the Abruzzians has found, and as such our time was spent teaching them about their new war machines instead of helping them militarily. Sometimes Loran went to fight with Junno's White Doll, but the rest of us didn't see any action for weeks."
The screen behind her light up, displaying a map of Evropa, the continent across the Atlantic Ocean from America. The Kingdom of Abruzzo is highlighted, as is the Pater States of Romagna to the north, but the third highlighted state is the United Kingdom of Gauria, the empire of the Carolingian people.
"But everything changed when Gauria, the great enemy of the Second Amerian Empire, submitted to Queen Junno. With such a massive allied area the Ghingham Fleet and the normal Moon Army could land as many forces as they wanted, and the surrounding states were either overrun or begging for help within the week. We entered the war together, all of us fighting side by side for the first time since the time we went to the Moon."
Her face twists. "Meanwhile, Dianna's space forces were growing, and not just from the normal navy."
"The same loophole that has allowed Junno to wrest control of the Ghingham Fleet from Dianna allowed for a few members of the Ghingham Fleet to defect back to her. A ship here, a few Mechanical Dolls there…as the war went on they began to trickle towards the Dianna Counter fleet above Ameria. I don't know if Gym Ghingham was surprised by the defections, or if he just let them go, but the fact remains that some of his comrades were rejecting Junno's authority, no matter how good it felt to finally be called to war."
She sighs. "There were a lot of battles, and as the war intensified…we lost something that couldn't be replaced."
[] "Arisa defeated Gadget in a duel among the peaks of the Alps, but Ghingham intervened to save his subordinate."
[] "Corin stopped one of the huge Gundam Mechanical Dolls with a Dainsleif harpoon gun he took from a downed enemy, killing it even as it blasted his Leo into dust."
[] "As our allies' lines collapsed, Ivory and Fuun Saiki stalled the Ghingham Fleet on their own until their position was struck by orbital strikes."
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I will be honest with those of you still interested in participating: I cannot continue this quest as it has been played until this point. Between work, other projects, and plain old burnout I just do not have the energy anymore. As such, the time between Loran and the gang arriving in Abruzzo and the final battle will be filled by these Xenogears-inspired timeskips so that this quest will have an actual ending rather that just die off like my last two attempts.
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
[X] "Corin stopped one of the huge Gundam Mechanical Dolls with a Dainsleif harpoon gun he took from a downed enemy, killing it even as it blasted his Leo into dust."
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[X] "Corin stopped one of the huge Gundam Mechanical Dolls with a Dainsleif harpoon gun he took from a downed enemy, killing it even as it blasted his Leo into dust."
[X] "Corin stopped one of the huge Gundam Mechanical Dolls with a Dainsleif harpoon gun he took from a downed enemy, killing it even as it blasted his Leo into dust."
Weeks 45-48 Part 5: Timeskip 2
[X] "Corin stopped one of the huge Gundam Mechanical Dolls with a Dainsleif harpoon gun he took from a downed enemy, killing it even as it blasted his Leo into dust."
Sochie gestures to the silver screen behind her. "Corin stopped one of the huge Gundam Mechanical Dolls with a Dainsleif harpoon gun he took from a downed enemy, killing it even as it blasted his Leo into dust."
A projector somewhere in the dark in front of her starts up, and an image of a battlefield among the farmlands of northwestern Romagna appears on the screen behind Sochie. At first it is just a still image of a Leo Flight Type Custom delivering the final blow to a Dainsleif-armed Mahiroo with a Vibroblade, but after a few seconds the scene starts to play.
*
Corin's hands gripped the controls, making his Leo drive the stolen Vibroblade through the cockpit of the Mahiroo, the pilot's Psychic aura winking out as the blade pierced the Mobile Suit's back armor. He kept the enemy unit lodged onto his blade for a second, using it as a shield should anyone try to shoot him while he was looking around. A few railgun slugs, fired from his front and from his left, passed through the air around him, but some quick leveraging of the Mahiroo let him hide behind both it and its toroidal shield.
The Gaurian Enacts keep firing, forcing him to hide behind his improvised cover until they suddenly let up and scattered into the air. The shaking earth revealed the reason: A Destroy Gundam, half again as tall as a WaDom and much bulkier, strode out of the smoke and light of the battlefield. A slight Pressure, along with a warning wail from sensors registering target locks, told him that it was focused on his Leo.
If he ran, this colossus would be free to rampage through Romagna. There was no one else close enough to help the Romagnans and the Abruzzians take on a properly supported Destroy Gundam.
He let go of his appropriated weapon, letting the dead Mahiroo take a barrage of beam fire while his custom Leo dove for the weapon the enemy had dropped in the melee: A Dainsleif. The ground around him erupted into great gouts of soil as the Enacts added the weight of their fire to that of their massive ally, perforating his Leo's Flight Unit but failing to prevent him from readying the harpoon railgun.
Kneeling, he brought the weapon to bear on the Ghingham Fleet Gundam and fired at the same time as it opened up with its chest beams, rewarding him with the sight of the blue wave of charged particles momentarily splitting in two before it all became LIGHT.
*
The view on the silver screen cuts off. Sochie is gone, a door to her left snapping shut behind her. Arisa Gunhale walks out from behind a curtain. She takes the now vacant chair for herself and sighs with anger and resignation.
"Corin was the last one, the only one of us who hadn't died before he became a Dark History Veteran. Sir Kreis found him in the cycle before this one, and put him in a stasis capsule after telling him everything."
She shakes her head. "We all felt him die, heard him as he crossed over." A laugh. "He seemed more surprised than anything, like he couldn't believe what was happening…"
"Whatever, we won. The Gaurians were pushed back with massive losses once the Ghingham Fleet withdrew instead of risking more of their heavy units, but they were not out of the war just yet. Gauria might smaller than the Amerian Sunbelt Region, but it is much more densely populated and has a ton of industry, giving them everything they needed to replace their losses."
A map of the world appears on the silver screen, projected onto it by an unseen source.
"And let's not forget the rest of the world. Junno is winning, even with us running around to force her forces into a stalemate in one theater or other, but that was not the only kind of war that is being fought: We spent a few weeks more fighting in the mountains that make up the Gaurian-Romagnan border when Loran suddenly got recalled to Luzipurch."
The map disappears, replaced by portraits of Guin Sard Rhineford and Lily Borjarno.
"Things were coming to a head in the Congress of the Amerias. Both Lord Guin and Lady Lily had finished their preparations, leaving only Loran and the Turn X as wildcards."
"I don't know the exact details of what happened when Guin's Monarchists and Lily's Federalists confronted each other with Loran in the middle, but to hear it from the kid he-"
[] "-Sided with Lily Borjarno, uniting America as a federal constitutional monarchy with her as the head of state."
[] "-Still felt like he owed Guin, but not enough to start a civil war on his behalf, so he forced him into a compromise with Lily Borjarno: Lily's plan for a united America would become reality, but with Guin Sard Rhineford as Emperor to her Empress."
[] "-Tried to force them to bury the hatchet until after the war with Junno, kicking the can down the road."
[] "-Washed his hands off it and let the factions sort it out themselves, for better and for worse."
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Sorry about the long wait. I had planned to write this over a month ago, but between work, the urge to start Let's Playing a Pokemon fangame, and rediscovering the Shadow Hearts series I just couldn't find the time.
Sochie gestures to the silver screen behind her. "Corin stopped one of the huge Gundam Mechanical Dolls with a Dainsleif harpoon gun he took from a downed enemy, killing it even as it blasted his Leo into dust."
A projector somewhere in the dark in front of her starts up, and an image of a battlefield among the farmlands of northwestern Romagna appears on the screen behind Sochie. At first it is just a still image of a Leo Flight Type Custom delivering the final blow to a Dainsleif-armed Mahiroo with a Vibroblade, but after a few seconds the scene starts to play.
*
Corin's hands gripped the controls, making his Leo drive the stolen Vibroblade through the cockpit of the Mahiroo, the pilot's Psychic aura winking out as the blade pierced the Mobile Suit's back armor. He kept the enemy unit lodged onto his blade for a second, using it as a shield should anyone try to shoot him while he was looking around. A few railgun slugs, fired from his front and from his left, passed through the air around him, but some quick leveraging of the Mahiroo let him hide behind both it and its toroidal shield.
The Gaurian Enacts keep firing, forcing him to hide behind his improvised cover until they suddenly let up and scattered into the air. The shaking earth revealed the reason: A Destroy Gundam, half again as tall as a WaDom and much bulkier, strode out of the smoke and light of the battlefield. A slight Pressure, along with a warning wail from sensors registering target locks, told him that it was focused on his Leo.
If he ran, this colossus would be free to rampage through Romagna. There was no one else close enough to help the Romagnans and the Abruzzians take on a properly supported Destroy Gundam.
He let go of his appropriated weapon, letting the dead Mahiroo take a barrage of beam fire while his custom Leo dove for the weapon the enemy had dropped in the melee: A Dainsleif. The ground around him erupted into great gouts of soil as the Enacts added the weight of their fire to that of their massive ally, perforating his Leo's Flight Unit but failing to prevent him from readying the harpoon railgun.
Kneeling, he brought the weapon to bear on the Ghingham Fleet Gundam and fired at the same time as it opened up with its chest beams, rewarding him with the sight of the blue wave of charged particles momentarily splitting in two before it all became LIGHT.
*
The view on the silver screen cuts off. Sochie is gone, a door to her left snapping shut behind her. Arisa Gunhale walks out from behind a curtain. She takes the now vacant chair for herself and sighs with anger and resignation.
"Corin was the last one, the only one of us who hadn't died before he became a Dark History Veteran. Sir Kreis found him in the cycle before this one, and put him in a stasis capsule after telling him everything."
She shakes her head. "We all felt him die, heard him as he crossed over." A laugh. "He seemed more surprised than anything, like he couldn't believe what was happening…"
"Whatever, we won. The Gaurians were pushed back with massive losses once the Ghingham Fleet withdrew instead of risking more of their heavy units, but they were not out of the war just yet. Gauria might smaller than the Amerian Sunbelt Region, but it is much more densely populated and has a ton of industry, giving them everything they needed to replace their losses."
A map of the world appears on the silver screen, projected onto it by an unseen source.
"And let's not forget the rest of the world. Junno is winning, even with us running around to force her forces into a stalemate in one theater or other, but that was not the only kind of war that is being fought: We spent a few weeks more fighting in the mountains that make up the Gaurian-Romagnan border when Loran suddenly got recalled to Luzipurch."
The map disappears, replaced by portraits of Guin Sard Rhineford and Lily Borjarno.
"Things were coming to a head in the Congress of the Amerias. Both Lord Guin and Lady Lily had finished their preparations, leaving only Loran and the Turn X as wildcards."
"I don't know the exact details of what happened when Guin's Monarchists and Lily's Federalists confronted each other with Loran in the middle, but to hear it from the kid he-"
[] "-Sided with Lily Borjarno, uniting America as a federal constitutional monarchy with her as the head of state."
[] "-Still felt like he owed Guin, but not enough to start a civil war on his behalf, so he forced him into a compromise with Lily Borjarno: Lily's plan for a united America would become reality, but with Guin Sard Rhineford as Emperor to her Empress."
[] "-Tried to force them to bury the hatchet until after the war with Junno, kicking the can down the road."
[] "-Washed his hands off it and let the factions sort it out themselves, for better and for worse."
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Sorry about the long wait. I had planned to write this over a month ago, but between work, the urge to start Let's Playing a Pokemon fangame, and rediscovering the Shadow Hearts series I just couldn't find the time.
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
[X] "-Washed his hands off it and let the factions sort it out themselves, for better and for worse."
sometimes its just best to leave in disgust over the political infighting instead of kicking the can down the road.
sometimes its just best to leave in disgust over the political infighting instead of kicking the can down the road.
[X] "-Still felt like he owed Guin, but not enough to start a civil war on his behalf, so he forced him into a compromise with Lily Borjarno: Lily's plan for a united America would become reality, but with Guin Sard Rhineford as Emperor to her Empress."
[X] "-Still felt like he owed Guin, but not enough to start a civil war on his behalf, so he forced him into a compromise with Lily Borjarno: Lily's plan for a united America would become reality, but with Guin Sard Rhineford as Emperor to her Empress."
Weeks 49-52 Part 1: Timeskip 3
[X] "-Still felt like he owed Guin, but not enough to start a civil war on his behalf, so he forced him into a compromise with Lily Borjarno: Lily's plan for a united America would become reality, but with Guin Sard Rhineford as Emperor to her Empress."
Arisa waves over her shoulder at the silver screen. "-he still felt like he owed Guin, but not enough to start a civil war on his behalf, so he forced him into a compromise with Lily Borjarno: Lily's plan for a united America would become reality, but with Guin Sard Rhineford as Emperor to her Empress."
The projector shuts off before starting up again, replacing the pictures of Loran and the Turn X with a recording of a parade through the city of Luzipurch. It is in color and in high definition, so one can infer the use of Moonrace cameras. The Turn X strides at the center of the parade, right behind the float carrying the newlywed Royal Couple of Inglessa. The ancient Mobile Suit is carrying a banner decorated with a crowned bald eagle, the flags of the Amerian states scattered across the feathers of its spread wings.
Arisa watches is silence as the parade reaches the plaza before the old Luziannan Diet building, the site where the negotiations of the Pan-Amerian Congress have taken place for the past months. Guin Sard Rhineford and Lily Rhineford nee Borjarno step off the float to meet the finely-dressed crowd gathered outside the great hall's doors. As they draw near the kings, princes, dukes and presidents all display the symbols of their offices. Ancestral swords, decorated scepters, bourgeoisie medallions… all presented to the couple as the gathered heads of state together pronounce them emperor and empress of a united Ameria.
"Heh." Arisa chuckles. "It is funny how the United States always shows up in some form, but that's Memory Relationships for you."
She quietly laughs to herself as she leaves, even as the recording of the coronation is replaces with pictures.
*
The projector turns off as Loran Cehack enters the room. Silently, he sits down in the chair that Arisa just vacated.
"Lord-" He catches himself. "Emperor Guin was not happy when I refused to join him, even less when I started to pressure him to take Empress Lily's offer." A hand plays with his immaculate white hair as he looks down.
"He doesn't trust me anymore. I don't think he will again."
The projector lights up once more, bathing the silver screen in light as a map of the world appears above Loran.
"The weeks after coronation ceremony saw the war intensify as Queen Junno and the Ghingham Fleet redoubled their efforts to conquer Earth. With the formation of the first official Amerian armies in centuries, we were able to keep them away from the Adeskan mass driver and Ameria proper, with Dianna Counter help of course. Still, more and more of Colombia south of Ameria fell to Junno's forces."
Loran pauses, considering, before he telekinetically gathers the dust off the floor, constructing a crude pointer. The rod hovers motionlessly for an instant before it shoots closer to the screen, drawing circles in the air around Gauria.
"My team were still fighting Gauria and the main Ghingham Fleet push, and the Turn A mostly operated there as well when it was not leading operations in the Babel Region or in the USX."
The rod goes south to Abruzzo.
"Our main objective, beyond keeping Gauria and their Ghingham Fleet masters out of the Stivalia Peninsula, was to ensure that the Abruzzian Salamis cruisers made it into orbit to join Queen Dianna's fleet above Ameria. While they might not be as powerful as an Almaiya or an Aspite, they should be sufficient as support vessels for the proper battleships."
A telekinetic shift brings the rod back to the Romanga, where it taps the screen and trails off into Gauria.
"The others and I ended up spearheading an offensive, breaking through the Gaurian lines and forcing the Ghingham Fleet to commit, preventing them from interrupting the cruisers from taking off from the Abruzzian mass driver. I had to teleport back to stop an ocean assault from Ghingham Fleet elements based in the Babel Region, but the operation was a complete success."
Loran waves his hand and the rod crumbles to dust.
"But… we couldn't stay to help the Abruzzians or the Romangans after that. New Mountain Cycles were found all over the Earth, and both Junno and the Earth's forces were racing to claim them for themselves."
He stands up and points to the map.
"Sochie, Arisa, Ivory, Fuun-Saiki and I packed our things and headed to-"
[] "-Africa, to seize Mountain Cycles containing thermonuclear missiles before Junno's collaborator states could get a hold of them."
[] "-Asia, to keep the Ghingham Fleet away from a newly-discovered Mass Driver."
[] "-the Babel Region, to ensure that the spaceships of the Sultanate of Medina stayed out of Junno's hands."
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This also took longer than it needed to, but I will finish this quest.
Arisa waves over her shoulder at the silver screen. "-he still felt like he owed Guin, but not enough to start a civil war on his behalf, so he forced him into a compromise with Lily Borjarno: Lily's plan for a united America would become reality, but with Guin Sard Rhineford as Emperor to her Empress."
The projector shuts off before starting up again, replacing the pictures of Loran and the Turn X with a recording of a parade through the city of Luzipurch. It is in color and in high definition, so one can infer the use of Moonrace cameras. The Turn X strides at the center of the parade, right behind the float carrying the newlywed Royal Couple of Inglessa. The ancient Mobile Suit is carrying a banner decorated with a crowned bald eagle, the flags of the Amerian states scattered across the feathers of its spread wings.
Arisa watches is silence as the parade reaches the plaza before the old Luziannan Diet building, the site where the negotiations of the Pan-Amerian Congress have taken place for the past months. Guin Sard Rhineford and Lily Rhineford nee Borjarno step off the float to meet the finely-dressed crowd gathered outside the great hall's doors. As they draw near the kings, princes, dukes and presidents all display the symbols of their offices. Ancestral swords, decorated scepters, bourgeoisie medallions… all presented to the couple as the gathered heads of state together pronounce them emperor and empress of a united Ameria.
"Heh." Arisa chuckles. "It is funny how the United States always shows up in some form, but that's Memory Relationships for you."
She quietly laughs to herself as she leaves, even as the recording of the coronation is replaces with pictures.
*
The projector turns off as Loran Cehack enters the room. Silently, he sits down in the chair that Arisa just vacated.
"Lord-" He catches himself. "Emperor Guin was not happy when I refused to join him, even less when I started to pressure him to take Empress Lily's offer." A hand plays with his immaculate white hair as he looks down.
"He doesn't trust me anymore. I don't think he will again."
The projector lights up once more, bathing the silver screen in light as a map of the world appears above Loran.
"The weeks after coronation ceremony saw the war intensify as Queen Junno and the Ghingham Fleet redoubled their efforts to conquer Earth. With the formation of the first official Amerian armies in centuries, we were able to keep them away from the Adeskan mass driver and Ameria proper, with Dianna Counter help of course. Still, more and more of Colombia south of Ameria fell to Junno's forces."
Loran pauses, considering, before he telekinetically gathers the dust off the floor, constructing a crude pointer. The rod hovers motionlessly for an instant before it shoots closer to the screen, drawing circles in the air around Gauria.
"My team were still fighting Gauria and the main Ghingham Fleet push, and the Turn A mostly operated there as well when it was not leading operations in the Babel Region or in the USX."
The rod goes south to Abruzzo.
"Our main objective, beyond keeping Gauria and their Ghingham Fleet masters out of the Stivalia Peninsula, was to ensure that the Abruzzian Salamis cruisers made it into orbit to join Queen Dianna's fleet above Ameria. While they might not be as powerful as an Almaiya or an Aspite, they should be sufficient as support vessels for the proper battleships."
A telekinetic shift brings the rod back to the Romanga, where it taps the screen and trails off into Gauria.
"The others and I ended up spearheading an offensive, breaking through the Gaurian lines and forcing the Ghingham Fleet to commit, preventing them from interrupting the cruisers from taking off from the Abruzzian mass driver. I had to teleport back to stop an ocean assault from Ghingham Fleet elements based in the Babel Region, but the operation was a complete success."
Loran waves his hand and the rod crumbles to dust.
"But… we couldn't stay to help the Abruzzians or the Romangans after that. New Mountain Cycles were found all over the Earth, and both Junno and the Earth's forces were racing to claim them for themselves."
He stands up and points to the map.
"Sochie, Arisa, Ivory, Fuun-Saiki and I packed our things and headed to-"
[] "-Africa, to seize Mountain Cycles containing thermonuclear missiles before Junno's collaborator states could get a hold of them."
[] "-Asia, to keep the Ghingham Fleet away from a newly-discovered Mass Driver."
[] "-the Babel Region, to ensure that the spaceships of the Sultanate of Medina stayed out of Junno's hands."
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This also took longer than it needed to, but I will finish this quest.
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
[X] "-the Babel Region, to ensure that the spaceships of the Sultanate of Medina stayed out of Junno's hands."
The Nukes are a problem yes but ones we can deal with. Its the Spaceships that are more important in the long run. Don't let the Nukes influence your decisions. Look at the other two and think about them. The new Mass driver is also irrelevant since we already have one and don't really need another one.
The Nukes are a problem yes but ones we can deal with. Its the Spaceships that are more important in the long run. Don't let the Nukes influence your decisions. Look at the other two and think about them. The new Mass driver is also irrelevant since we already have one and don't really need another one.
[X] "-the Babel Region, to ensure that the spaceships of the Sultanate of Medina stayed out of Junno's hands."