THE STORY SO FAR

In a curious happenstance of synchonicity, both you and the federation planned thair war-ending hammer blow operations to occur almost within hours of each other, after almost half a year of bloody stalemate.
Whilst you ran riot in Jaburo, Revil and a division of Mobile Suits plus tanks and god knows what else assault Odessa, the first location taken by Zeon, and the single largest source of resources to feed the Zeon warmachine.
After being pulled out and onto the Odessa front you've tangled with several gundams and elite MS teams in an attempt to take down overall Federation Commander: General Revil.
Revil proved too wily for you and manage to avoid you're attacks.

In the following night, he revealed his secret weapon, flying MS platform technologies, produced in such numbers as to outfit what appeared to be the entirety of his MS compliment and then blithely fly over the reinforced fortifications of Odessa and attack Odessa HQ directly.

Receiving word that if Odessa falls it's commander Rear-Admiral M'Quve is under orders to deploy nuclear weapons to deny the enemy victory make an empassioned plea to prevent the breaking of the Antarctic treaty.
In order to convince him, you have to take down no less than the Enemies Northern Salient support elements - 4 Pegasus class Assault Carriers.

>>12123540
VICTORY OR DEATH!

Oh and before I forget.
Last week somebody did a picture of how
YOU HAVE KIDNAPPED THE PRESIDENT OF COSTA-RICA'S BODY ARE YOU BAD ENOUGH DUDES TO OVERTHROW COSTA RICA?

With David and Zolomon shooped in. Does anyone have it? easymodo only saves thumbnails.

We're all gonna die.

Last week...

>You clear the enemy air battle, and the signal to prep for an attempted Achilles Assault is given.
The Wappa Crew strap themselves in, and prepare themselves for their assault. Their plan is brutal and desperate, covered by flares and cannon fire from the Outer Heaven, these troopers will daringly attempt to breach the main bridge with heavy breaching charges and take command of the Central CnC. From their they can asisst in a systematic takedown of the ship.
Failing that, they place demolition charges throughout and blow the fucker up.

>The Dodai Platforms are there to assist you should you miss the target and so you can return to the Outer Heaven.

>Now prepared to lead the assault you organise your troops, fully prepared for whatever comes next.
Still no sign of the Gaw's.

>In fact, it's only seconds before you're about to swoop in and make your attack that the Gaw's appear, a cloud of fighters in battle around both like a halo of metal and rockets, just in time.

>Beams, missiles, chaff, flares, noisemakers and all manner of other munitions fly from the ships, covering the desperate drop by your infantry.

>The second Pegasus is illuminated in lurid colours by beam fire, rockets and flak grows large in the open ventral bay.

>You take the jump.

BUT WAIT! BEFORE YOU BEGIN... WHAT IS YOU'RE TEAMS WEAPONS LOADOUT?

>>12123600
that was me
I have a slightly better version but it refuses to upload for some reason

>>12123655
damn it

>>12123623
I just sort of assumed it'd be something similar to the last time we did this. Everbody with a spare heat hawk or heat saber to stick into the body of a carrier and then step on.

David: Beam Carbine, 4-barrel MG, 2 stick renades, ammo, heat hawk, Gundam Shield
Zol: Kreiger shield, Beam lance, 2 heat hawks, ???
Jolyne: Zulu Shield, backpack beam weapon, beam rifle, beam naginata, ammo, spare heat saber.
Elaine: Zulu Shield, beam rifle, beam naginata, ammo, spare heat saber, panzerfaust(s)
Bernie: MG, bazooka, Chain mine, grenades

Calvin: MG, grenades, panzerfaust
He's staying back with Hovis right?

>>12123623
Since we are essentially engaging in a Jump on White Base maneuver I would use the same kit we used last time on Revil's ship. It seemed to work well for our operation.

Would now be a good time for one of those "It has been a pleasure serving with you all" moments or would that not give our infantry any more of a moral boost after the epic one from last thread?

CRUNCH TIME

>>12123623
Act Zaku: beam carbine, heat hawk, stickbombs, flashbangs, bullpup, Gundam shield
Krieger: beam lance, Krieger shield, grenades
HM Gelgoog: beam rifle, giant bazooka, panzerfausts, beam naginata, shield
Gelgoog C: beam rifle, shield, beam naginata, wrist rockets, grenades
Zaku Kai: MMP-80 w/launcher, Zaku bazooka, stickbombs, crackers, flashbangs, chain mine, sturmfausts, heat hawk
P Dowadge E: MMP-80 w/launcher, heat saber, stickbombs, panzerfausts.

>>12123688
Wait, we're JUMPING ONTO WHITE BASE!?
We need a Jeep. It's only proper for us to do this in a jeep.

>>12123718
Our infantry are doing it in Wappas. I believe that is close enough for a Zeon equivalent.

Calvin and Hovis usually are our artillery support; should we bring them in on this operation?

>>12123762

>Calvin and Hovis
>Calvin and Hobbes

I lol'd

>>12123762
They were going to stay back and act as a mobile AA battery was the plan last time. Not 100% sure that was agreed upon by everybody though.

>>12123775
We're a little high off the ground right now, unless the two of them are going to be pulling AA duty on top of the OH, or they've already disembarked and are supporting us from the ground (deep behind the enemy front).

>>12123797
They were going to stay behind on the ground.

>>12123762
They're on the ground. Here's to hoping Hovis can oneshot a pegasus :o

>>12123813
Maybe it's just me, but it feels like we don't integrate the two of them in with the rest of the team as much anymore.
It's probably because they're giving us artillery support from afar, rather than being in the thick of things; but arty support is so important that it can't be helped.

>>12123673

Okay then.

You leap first out of the dorsal exit bay, the still dark sky greets you. In the distance you see the faint red glow of the coming dawn.
Or possibly just distant fires from another battle elsewhere.

Bullets graze around you're team and beam's aimed haphazard flare in the dark. You see a trio of Flight Armour mounted GM's react to your attack, leaving their holding pattern for refueling and rearming inside the Carriers hanger bays and moving to intercept you. Innacurate shots from Beam Spray pistols attempt to bracket the Nachtmaren, but you and Jolyne respond with a burst from your Beam Carbine and Shoulder carbines, killing two and forcing a third to pull away.

At the last second you adjust your drop trajectory and push your boosters hard. You land heavily atop the command bridge, you hear the shattering of glass, your left foot attempts to find purchase on a simple radio strut which snaps quickly. You gun your thusters again and leap off the bridge before you become unbalanced and land atop the hanger.

Jolyne is directly in front of you, keeping enemy Air mounted MS off of the team, she has had to hold fire to prevent from hitting you.
Zolomon lands on the opposing hangar to your right and then pushes forwards towards the engine to take it out. Calvin lands heavily, the plating under him nearly buckling under his weight.

You don't see either Bernie or Elaine.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>12123821
>>12123813

Shit were they? I forgot you said that.

Uh, just ignore that line about Calvin then.
That never happened.

Sorry.

>>12123917
Bernie and Elaine know that if they missed their landing they should call for Dodais and regroup so I fell they know what to do. If they landed alright then they know their targets from last time. Trust in your team and all that jazz.

David should get out of Jol's firing range and hit the command bridge. If David smashed the command bridge when he landed on it then have him hit the secondary bridge if they have one. If not then wreck the hangars. Zol should be doing his thing in wrecking the hangars.

After the engines and bridge are gone we should wreck the hangers to stop enemy MS from coming out of them before finding new targets. Jol should keep any MS off our backs.

By the way what is Hovis doing? Waiting inside the OH MA hangar?

>>12123917
Shot to the bridge, try and dump a grenade into the hanger, then move to the engines.

>>12123935
Hi. I'm a quest lurker. Shouldn't we just blast the command bridge with as much of our stuff as possible in a quick hit-and-run, making it uncontrollable, then jump to the next one? Or, failing that, find a way to steer it/push it into another Pegasus Class carrier? That last option seems very Zeonquest.

>>as monsono

>>12123978
Zol should be doing his thing in wrecking the engines I mean.

I don't think I need to say it, but, of course, everyone who's a friendly should be firing flares and chafe and smokes and jamming and making an unholy mess of communication and coordination for the Feddies right now. The less they know about just what the hell is going on right now with Nachtmaren Unit blitzkrieging them, the better.

And ladies and gents, blitzkrieg is the word. Maintain momentum and keep the Feddies going "*CLANG* WHAT THE FUCK WAS THA- *BOOOM*"

>>Dziennik malted

>>12123917
Clear Jolyne's line of fire.
If the bridge still looks intact shoot that, the secondary bridge, the main guns then the hangers. If there's still time between shooting GM's put some fire into the main body behind the Bridge. There should be important stuff back there like reactors.

Need more Dopp support. Lots and lots of Dopp support. The more Dopps, the merrier.

>>12124031
The Dopps should be helping the Gaws and OH in their attack run of the middle Pegasus. Nachtmaren is relying more on a quick blitz.

>>12123987
That's a good question. Why AREN'T we doing that?

Blitzkrieg like nobodies business. That is all.

>>12124073
If we take out the engines the very aerodynamic Pegasus is going to fall like a rock. If we are only able to damage the engines though we could try to push it into the other Pegasus' flight path.

>>12124090
Minovsky Craft system. As long as it's online it'll be like the damn thing has Feather Fall cast on itself.

>>12124090

. . . This is very, very awesome, and I'm seriously proud my suggestion is being considered- but is it more practical and worth the risk instead of us just blasting this one, then doing our best to hop onto the next one?

Can we:
Accurately hit another Pegasus Carrier
Do it fast enough there is no warning
Do it without losing team mates?

>>12124108
Well a big enough explosion would do it but remember we would be crashing it into the Pegasus that is full of our brave infantry in the middle of a boarding action.

>>12124090
No, I mean, why not just blow up the bridge and engines and just shove the damn thing at another carrier? Minovski craft systems means it won't fall like a rock and might cause the other Pegesi to change course to avoid it. I mean, so far we landed on the bridge and then, instead of shooting and destroying it, we moved somewhere else. Why?

>>12124126
Since our infantry is currently fighting on the second Pegasus carrier, and the Mashiba Team is working the other two, I'm going to vote NO to doing a ramming attack with the carrier we're on.
Just hit the bridge, hangars, and engines.

>>12124022

You quickly dash out of the way of Jolynes line of sight and put a trio of shots into it's command bridge. A luminescant explodes erupts out of the back, you quickly put another three inside for good measure to make sure.
You turn to see the left hangar bay door's oppening up, down below you become aware of several Flying Armours angling up to presumably catch what the hangar catapult is about to launch.
From approximately the location of the ships left primary beam turret you at last receive a signal from Bernard.

"Uh hello? Can anyone come and help me out down here?"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>12124126
I believe it was because we were a second- less- from losing our balance and falling off. Which would've made accomplishing the mission that more difficult.

Though I must say-

The OH is taking down one with Calvin, Hovis, and it's own Armament

The Commandos are trying to take down one by themselves

We're likely to take down this one- if we can crash it into another, we'll have this in true rapid action Nachtmaren Blitzkrieg and with the usual Nachtmaren Flair as well.

>>12124172
Throw a grenade into the open hangar bay door, and then go and see what kind of mess Bernie got himself into THIS time.

>>12124172
HELP HIM.

>>bellind cire

Bernie is in dire danger!

>>12124172
Respond, ask what he's gotten himself into this time. Seems like Bernie has bad luck with drop assaults on carriers.

>>12124172
Toss a grenade towards the open hanger then tell the others we're moving to help out Bernie. Keep shooting.

>>12124172
Tell Bernie to fire on whatever pops out of that hanger while David tries to intercept. Jol should be trying to disrupt the flying MS from catching whatever is being thrown out. Zol should be doing his thing on the engines.

I suppose if Elaine is still up and about she should be either helping Zol or covering Bernie.

Confirm Bernie's location. Also Elains. Have her assist if she can. If not, it falls to either are artilery guys or Jolyne.

>>12124215
Why do you have Zol with Federation colours?

>>12124198
>>12124206
>>12124186

You prep a Stick-Bomb and quickly toss it over the lip of the opening bay before moving towards the side of the vessel to see what Bernies gotten himself into this time.

A somewhat muffled explossion occurs beneath you.

You see that Bernard must have missed his jump and hit the side again, this time however he had to use the magnetic clamps of his chain mine and entangle it with the portside beam cannons of this Pegasus.
One stray shot will likely detonate the entire chain mine, taking the main gun at the very least up it. Possibly Bernie as well. From the back of the ship you see the bright hot glow that Zolomon must have left with his Beam Lance, he seems intent on completely shearing off the entire engine block this time.

You're rapidly becoming behind schedule.

YOUR ORDERS?

See if Bernie can't lay down some coverfire on the inbound armors even if he can't get an angle on the suit about to launch. More details about just what he's managed to get himself into this time would be appreciated. We can’t really leave him a hanging target, but if can hold on for just a little bit we might all be able to pull him up and take out these guys at the same time.

Bernie really needs to work on sticking his landings. Didn’t something like this happen last time we tried jumping onto white base?

>>12124286
Tell Bernie to jump and hit his boosters. As long as the mine is still connected it'll act as an anchor and he'll be able to swing up and over to the top of the Carrier. Try to cover him while he does this incase anybody shoots at him.

>>12124286
Looks like we should jump off this Pegasus and move on to the next.

Have Jol and David cover Bernie as he detonates the chain mines (once everyone is clear of course) while Zol keeps on doing his thing. Then we move on to the next target.

Also is Elaine okay?

>>12124262
I wasnt aware there were set colours, i just copied and pasted
>>12124286
Use the boost to get through!

>>12124351
The Advice Revil has colours from the Federation Flag and symbology. Likewise Advice Lister has ones from the Zeonic Flag.

>>12124340
>>12124314

You tell bernie to try and use his suit thrusters to swing up to the rearmost area whilst you try to get a status report from Elaine.

"Elaine? Where the hell are you?"

"Sorry sir! I missed my jump, but I was able to get a Dodai to pick me up. Fighting underneath is pretty bad, the Dodai's say they can't negotiate the fighter combat beneath this ship to catch us if we fall off."

"You mean, fall off again."

"Sorry sir."

You see Bernies Zaku Kai swing upwards, it's boosters flaring, unexceptedly it let's go of the chain-mine handle, a fraction of a second later you see why as the mines cook off and explode. A massive secondary explosion follows in multiple directions that shakes your footing.
You see Bernard swing up and over in a haphazard, but probably successful pattern, but before he can land, you, the ship and everyone else go into free-fall.

"Shit!" Remarks Zolomon.

"I think I just hit something vital!" He understates.

The falling vessel crushes several smaller fighters as it descends. You have perhaps at best 20 seconds before it hit's the ground with a tremendous crash.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>12124442
.......so Arty, what was that about Minofski Craft system?

>>12124351
look up Zolomon on memegenerator.

Have to re-add these to meme generator every couple of months. 4chan wont let me post the link.

>>>12124442
FUCK
>the Dodai's say they can't negotiate the fighter combat beneath this ship to catch us if we fall off."

Luckily we wont be underneath the ship this time. Everybody jump again! Call the Dodais!

>>12124442
Everybody jump. At least that way we can control our descent.

Is it possible to make the leap to another Pegasus, or are we too far gone for that to be possible at this point?

>>12124442

Wait till we get to a reasonably safe altitude to jump off, then get our asses to the ground for pickup.

Also, find out exactly where the hell Zolomon hit that thing. We have a weak point to hit for the next two-three now!

(Captcha: affect shiparm- yeah, those chain mines sure did the trick..)

>>12124475
Was just parroting what apologised was said to us about why the previous 2 attempts to take out carriers on Earth hadnt dropped them like rocks.

>>12124442
Everyone abandon ship. Hop off and regroup for an assault on the next ship. On foot if we have to. Take out any Flying MS that are giving the Dodai's a hard time.

How are the OH and the wappa troops doing?

>>12124442

Why, Apologized, we're going to do what we do every night.

Jump away from an explosion.

(NARF)

>You have perhaps at best 20 seconds before it hit's the ground with a tremendous crash.

Well, that was quick. LOOKS LIKE WE'RE JUMPING OFF OF WHITE BASE! ...Preferably onto some Dodais or something, as I think we're about to add another mushroom cloud to the scorecard when this bird touches down.

>>12124442

What's going on on the ground underneath the Pegasus?

Also, seconding jumping OFF of White Base. Also, also, if Calvin and Hovis can't help us here, perhaps we could send them to support vs. the 3 other carriers coming from the other direction?

If I may ask what exactly are our Gigans doing? Overwhelmed?

Any chance we could lead the damaged Pegasus carriers into a field of AA spewing Gigans?

>>12124491
>>12124523
>>12124549

You make a priority call to any Dodai units in the area to catch you before the carrier falls, you try to arrest your rate of decent and pull away from the falling vessel you gun your thrusters, but are mindful from pushing them too hard lest they become overtaxed if you have to land.

Luckily you see four Dodai planes risk the heavy air battle furiously going on around them and push through towards your scattered team. You push your thrusters harder and make a mid air link up with a Dodai.

Behind you all of the the others manage to find their footing as well.
You take this chance to take stock of the battle.

>>12124748
Looking to your right you see the Pegasus that your infantry assault aflame from prow to stern. As you watch yet more explosions erupt from within. It is gradually sinking to the ground, a sure sign that the engines at least have been silenced, and whilst some flak turrets continue to fire, you haven't seen it launch mobile suits or fire it's beams in a while.

A check behind and on the radars reveals the Outer Heaven still in a deadly and hectic duel with numerous enemy fighters, and even a few flying mobile suits. She appears partially damaged, but ships agility appears to be taking the enemy by suprise and she's giving easily as good as she gets.
Beyond that however, you have distressing reports that a large consigment of the assault force is pulling back to try and relieve the carriers. You can't see anything in dark pre-dawn however.

On the Mashiba Team's side of things, one Gaw is descending to the ground in flames, whislt the other is badly damaged. On the far side you a see a Pegasus carrier falling to the ground cut into giant multiple chunks by repeated charges by their Gyan Marines Beam Lances. But you can only see three remaing mobile suits of the team, so it's clear that the approach has taken heavy losses (or possibly a number of them are grounded on the floor.)

That leaves one left, to which a large quantity of the displaced Mobile Suits and fighters are heading towards.

YOUR ORDERS?
BRB DINNER.

>>12124758
See if the Dodai's can't get us above the last Pegasus, and then do another drop onto the sucker.

>>12124758
Get there and kill that last Carrier before more Mobile suits can reach it. Find out from Zol what he hit on our Carrier that dropped it.

Unite all forces on the ground. Have Elaine take charge and supress enemy forces to best allow us to complete our mission.

Natcherman link up with Mashiba team. Rip and tear.

>>12124758

>>Looking to your right you see the Pegasus that your infantry assault aflame from prow to stern.

God save those brave men of Zeon, for what they do with flesh alone is equal to anything we Nachtmaren attempt.

See if we can get back to the Outer Heaven to assist in clearing that swarm off their backs. Find out what the fuck Zolomon hit to send the Pegasus up like a roman candle. We're going to need as much of our team together on finishing this, and that means getting our ride there relatively intact.

(Afterwards, I'm not sure any of us will be intact from the furball we're going into...)

>>12124758
With so many of the Pegasus carriers going down we should regroup with the OH and make the assault on the last carrier. Cima's marines should keep off any really mean looking MS from joining the battle while the Gaws support the marines.

The Wappa troops should make sure the carrier they are on is going to go down completely. Of course if things are going well enough they should help on this final assault.

oh lord, I lost track of these threads a long time ago... did we save Garma?

>>12124876
Yes.

We are trying to see if we can save Odessa or we enter into devastating thermonuclear war.

>>12124876
Yes. He is now GARma, and may or may not be sporting a bitching ponytail.
Char's attention has also been deverted, as far as I can tell.

rolled 28051 = 28051

>>12124822

I like this.

Lets do it.

>>12124898
Garma with Gato's ponytail?

rolled 34461 = 34461

>>12124955

Garto?

>>12124955
Hopefully by the time we take the war to Gihren, he'll be sporting it. Because you can't have NEW LIFE ZEON without Garma's ponytail.

I figure if we go straight for the Carrier the OH and all aboard die. If we rescue the OH then it gives the Feds time to regroup around their carrier and it takes us more time than we have to kill it.

>ficarmed cavities,
I was going to say 'Kobayashi Maru' captcha but I guess that works too.

So the post battle plan is to sue for peace and then sort out the internal shit then retire to space beach right?

rolled 10062 = 10062

>>12124822
>>12125032

How about Cimas Marines rendevous at the OH with us and we make a push for the last Pegasus?

>>12125071
If they have the time to do that then sure. I was under the assumption that time wouldn't allow that kind of coordination and we would have to bail the OH out before Cima and crew could help prep for an assault on the last carrier.

>>12125071
I don't know if they'll be able to make it. Their Gaw looks in pretty bad shape.

rolled 15998 = 15998

>>12125114

Maybe we can have Cima and crew help the outer Heaven and we begin the assault on the Pegasus.

>>12125132
This sounds good. Hopefully Cima can help support the OH and vice versa. Once they group up, they can follow us on assaulting the Carrier.

If the OH can't break away though, I think it'd be best if we ditch our Dodais once we're on the carrier and have them go back to pick up Cima and co.

>>12125132
Sounds like a good idea. A little worried about Mashiba team's ranged combat ability but it should be fine if they can link up.

>>12124822
>>12124816
>>12124920
>>12125132
>>12125071


Okay, so, like people have pointed out, if you head to relieve the Outer Heaven, it will give the forces around the last remaining Pegasus time to regroup, that said, you'd be heading through them to get to the ship anyway, it's just now they're prepared and know your coming.

You could call for the Mashiba Team to releive the OH (with or without your help) or to head in for what is (in all fairness) one of their targets anyway.

If the circumstances were different, a different, more cynical Zeon team might have pointed out that they've taken out THEIR targets, and bugger off.

Relieving the last Gaw isn't really a possibility since the last carrier is between you and it anyway.
Cima's unit could do it though, whether it will is of course up to her.

So, which way do you want to go?

>>12125212
Calvin and Hovis need to keep shit off the OH.

We need to clear away that Carrier. The OH we could take as a loss. It would suck, but it wouldn't be catastrophic.

If that carrier and a shitload of MS get through, it's game over.

>>12125212
Have Cima and the OH form up with the GAW that'll give them more firepower and air cover hopefully. Once that's dont they can try and fight their way to us.
The rest of us go straight in for the Carrier.

>>12125212
Have the Mashiba team begin the assault on the carrier while we relieve the Outer Heaven, once we've secured the OH ride in like the cavalry if they haven't finished it off yet, claim full credit for kill afterward.

>>12125231

Agreed. I propose that we try and blitz the last carrier before all the converging forces can organize a defense. If Hovis can get a point on the carrier, have Calvin support him with radar and all and see if he could lob a shot up there to disrupt it.

As for the Mashiba team, I still think it'd be best to have them try and regroup with the OH then head after us. Once we get on the carrier and don't need our dodais anymore, we can send them back to pick up the Mashiba team if the OH is too entangled.

>>12125240
Sounds good, man.

>>12125244
Sounds bad, man.

Cima makes an attack pass and relieves OH. We bring up the rear and finish off the carrier.

And Elaine needs to collect everyone and gtfo.

>>12125240
>>12125279
I agree with these. Cima's team is low on manpower, and their own aerial support is in danger.
They should try to form up with the OH, while we take care the last carrier.

>>12125240

Probably should have them stand off and bombard.

The enemy will be forced to hunker down and evade or send our units to try and eliminate them.

They'll probably try to do both and this will reduce their combat effectiveness (since they're trying to evade) and split up their forces as well.

>>12125293

I like this option. We seem to be more intact than the marines are at this point, so we may well be able to deliver more damage to that final carrier than they can. The hit-and-run on their attack pass might shake things up enough to let us finish the job.

>>12125293
Right, Elaine should regroup with the infantry guys when the carrier they took out lands.

>>12124809

>Unite all forces on the ground. Have Elaine take charge and supress enemy forces to best allow us to complete our mission.

We should probably do this one, pick up any remnants of the first gaw's MS down there, Calvin can help coordinate them probably.

rolled 6459 = 6459

>>12125322

Yep.

Also, they're honorary Nachtmaren now aren't they?

We need Nachtmaren specific Zeonic uniforms.

... I miss our Mastadon Battalion Logo honestly.

>>12125344
They're regular Nachtmaren already, dumbass.

rolled 15203 = 15203

>>12125418

Well fuck you Sally, I didn't know.

>>12125465
Fuck me for your ignorance? THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

>>12125465
It's no one's responsibility but your own to not be an ignorant fuckwit.

>>12125311

Okay, so you're going to push through to the last carrier, redirect the Mashiba Team to relieve the Outer Heaven and then follow you up to support your assault... and if there's time to save the Gaw in the process, hooray.

I'll get on with it then.

Both of you chill.

Wait, hold on

Aren't Zeon the bad guys?

rolled 64 = 64

>>12125505

I'm for it.

>>12125517

Only if you're delicious Feddy SCUM

>>12125517
If dropping a space colony on Australia is wrong I don't wanna be right.

this is war. there are no real 'bad guys'.
Except for Gihren. he's a prick

rolled 34199 = 34199

>>12125544

Well... that was incidental... not that we have anything against Australia. We were aiming at Jaburo...

... fucking Feddies...

>>12125558
Speaking of aiming for Jaburo, why did Gato change the course of the colony at the last second to not hit it?

>>12125599
Because the Great Plains were the real target from the beginning. Jaburo was a trick

>>12125599
If you're talking about 0083, Operation Stardust was just one giant clusterfuck conspiracy from the get-go, probably involving those who would be Titans. If anything, dropping it in the American heartland did more damage in the long-term.

You signal to Cima with your plan, the connection is bad due to minovsky interference but you get the message through.

You meanwhile turn to face the growing consolidating mess of enemy forces orbiting your final target. You see several Mobile Suits dismount from their flying armours onto the top of the Pegasus. The armours trail behind decendning in height, you see their pilots eject and the planes fall to the ground evidently out of fuel.

Scanning quickly you take stock of the enemy forces arrayed against you:
It appears to be somewhere of the region of 15 to 20 mobile suits (mostly basic GM's but you see some more advanced models here and there.) on flight armours or the Pegasus and at least 30 to 40 enemy fighters, in a mix of Saber Fish and FF-7s.

As well as whatever's inside the ships hangers currently (assuming that there is anything.)

The Gaw is taking a widening orbit taking it away from the enemy concentration, it's still being harassed by some fighters but it's probably not enough to down it though as the lionshare of them have moved in to support the last Pegasus.

This is going to be tough one, considering that your Gelgoogs weight is going to impact on the Dodai's maneouvability.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>12125698
Blast the shit out of them nonstop until we get in close, then try to take them out quickly in Close Combat if possible, continue shooting them as needed, take out the ship when opportunities arise.

>>12125698
I guess we'll have to use "THAT".

FUCK YEAH ZEONQUEST BUMP. Anyway, Mashiba team should relive the OH, while we go for the final carrier. Time is of the essence, people.

>>12125698
Have the gelgoogs pick off any long range mobile suits and the Pegasus's beam cannons while the closer range mobile suits (David, Zol, and Bernie) take on the GM mass. If the wappa troops are good to go then have them hit the Pegasus crew.

If Hovis and Calvin can disrupt any kind of enemy formation that would be golden.

>>12125698
Could we attempt another Achilles Maneuver using the Dodai's? Get enough altitude and then come down on the Pegasus and the Feddie suits, maybe having the Dodai's do kamikaze runs with the pilots ejecting before impact.

Alternatively, attempt a pinpoint shot at the weak point that Zolomon discovered with a beam cannon.

>>12125698
Ask Zol what part of the ship he hit. Then this:
>>12125708

Jolyne hangs back to snipe, everyone else charges in. Zolomon should have more maneuverability, so he takes point.

Get in contact with Elaine and Calvin. Try to have them rally forces to attack from below, but order them to fire for no more than 30 seconds, so they don't get caught by the enemy.

>>12125698

Enemy units are probably centered about the Trojan Horse.

Have Zolomon Fire his grenades, Dodai should also fire their missiles in a wide spread. We should catch a number before they begin to scatter.

We also form up into an assault wedge. Then CHARGE while unleashing a full barrage.

>>12125728
Attempting the Achiles maunever with all those gms on deck would be akin to suicide, even for us.

>>12125718

Just charge them, let them scatter before our sheer magnificence.

>>12125751
What, afraid of a little suicidal attack?

Though in all seriousness, we have to consider that the Dodai's manueverability are seriously compromised by carrying us. We likely won't be able to dodge incoming attacks well.
We need to get onto the carrier's surface as quickly as possible.

>>12125749

Also see if OH and the Gaw can give us a good long range barrage of covering fire on target.

Time for the GAW to kamikaze into the bridge of the carrier.

>>12125783

Well, what we could do is take out any long range suits and then somehow get our Dodai to launch us straight into the enemy like a Human Cannonball. In close combat, our suits have a definite edge and maybe with a surprise tactic like this, we'd be able to mop up quickly.

>>12125807

Watch Garma will be on that Gaw just because you said that, asshole.

>>12125726
>>12125728
>>12125735

>Have the gelgoogs pick off any long range mobile suits and the Pegasus's beam cannons while the closer range mobile suits (David, Zol, and Bernie) take on the GM mass. If the wappa troops are good to go then have them hit the Pegasus crew.

You haven't heard from the Wappa teams since the Pegasus went down.

>Could we attempt another Achilles Maneuver using the Dodai's? Get enough altitude and then come down on the Pegasus and the Feddie suits, maybe having the Dodai's do kamikaze runs with the pilots ejecting before impact.

The Achilles is going to be next to impossible with Mobile Suits already mounted on the enemy ship.
It looks like they've already come up with a good counter for that maneouver.
The Kamikaze attack might work, but there's going to be an awful lot of flak for an unmanned dodai to get through.

>Ask Zol what part of the ship he hit.

He says it was a part in the rear, just off the centre and at MOST 15 meters down. Although given that he was just scoring along from one side or another with his Beam Lance that's probably as accurate as you can get.

>>12125906
>He says it was a part in the rear, just off the centre and at MOST 15 meters down.
So, regardless of our method of getting onto the Pegasus, can everybody agree that this is what we need to concentrate on hitting?

>>12125930
Most def.

Hit that shit.

Charge recklessly forward with no plan relying on our reputation and newtypiness to carry the day.

>>12126000
I'd still like to find out what the fuck Lister's ability is.

>>12125930
That works. Approach from the rear then.

>>12126075
Main character hax

Hmm..could we try to swing around, and try to board the Pegasus from behind? Come in just high enough to not get burnt by the engines, jump on board, and while David, Bernie, and Jol keep the Feddy suits busy, Zol starts cutting into the carrier's drive sections with his beam lance.

Or we could come in just below the Carrier since a fair number of airborne GM's seem to be running out of fuel. Strafe the underside and attempt to knock out the Minovsky craft system.

>>12126153
They've still got aerial fighter cover, but you have a point about them getting low on fuel.
What are the defense batteries of a Pegasus carrier like on the ventral side versus its rearward facing defenses?

Zeon Dudes creator here.
Since my better version won't upload, here's an Imageshack link
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>>12126177
IIRC a Pegasus's rear firing arc is limited to two sets of fixed missile batteries. There are some flak turrets on the ventral parts of the engine block, but not sure about the top.

You order Jolyne and Elaine to snipe from a distance with their beam weapons, whilst the rest of your team storm in with a blitzkreig attack, to attempt to strike at Zolomons weakspot using your beam weapons whilst Bernard attempts to keep the enemy off your back.

Behind you you detect increased explosions as the Mashiba Team meets with the Outer Heaven and engages the forces against it.

Sporadic missile fire falls around you, but at this distance Bazooka's are inaccurate, and slow enough for you to dodge when they come your way. You're still out of range of the Beam Spray Gun, but you keep you're eyes peeled for enemies with longer ranged beam guns.

Speaking of which, at this point Jolyne and Elaine break left from the rest of you, after a few seconds you see a trio of yellow beams lance out.
Explosions follow.

"Here goes nothing" you mumble to yourself as you begin your attack run.

>>12126197
I think we should chance coming in from below, then. If we can weaken enemy fighter cover and take out the ventral flak cannons while we close in, the mobile suits up top will be worthless once we get underneath the carrier.

>>12126206
Alright, guess we going to take that carrier from behind.

Nachtmaren, raping Federation forces all throughout the One Year War.

you mean Zolomon, raping more battle ships then the rest of the unit combine the whole war.

>>12126206

All three of you open up with a heavy barrage of suppressing fire on the rightmost portion of the orbiting defenders, the hope is to take enough down and force those surviving out of position to hit you at close range with massed Beam Spray fire.

A mixture of beams, Panzerfausts, bullets and missiles craze through the area, hitting targets and forcing others to break formation like a disrupted flock of birds.
Taking advantage of this momentary confusion the three of you surge through the opening, you see Bernie pump a grenade from his launcher at the enemy mobile suits mounted on top of the ship, a GM takes it on his shield but the explosion and smoke hides you from them for a few seconds and their shots largely go wild, although Bernie takes some damage to the left shoulder.

You fire before clearing the front superstructure, trying to guestimate the location of Zolomons spot and whilst three shots from your beam carbine stabe into the heard of the vessel, none of them seem to have hit it.
Zolomon joins in with his shield beamguns, but they are if anything even less powerful than yours and even though he fires a rapid barrage, non make the shot.

You have a fraction of a second as you pass over the bridge, flak, bullets, rockets and beams flying about you to direct a second burst from behind but again no joy. Zolomon lashes out with his Beam Lance, but his timing a fraction off, and he instead scores a mighty gash on it's portside engine block. The bright lights of it's fusion drive go dim.

Well at least you scored some damage.

You scream towards the rearmost defenders, you toss a flashbang into their midst, and take advantage of their momentary blindness to escape outwards.

>>12126396
Time remaining?

>>12126396
You take stock. Both your's and Bernards Dodai have taken damage, in Bernards lost an engine (out of 4) and you've lost a control surface. Bernards Zaku Kai has taken beam damage to the left shoulder and right lower leg, as well as several points of armour badly damaged by bullets and missiles on the upper torso and forearm.
Your shield has deflected the worst of it, and aside from some minor bullet damage the Act-Zaku appear undamaged.
Zolomon's Gyan Krieger already had a partially damaged left arm from when the Pegasus blew up in face almost, but judicious use of his thrusters and verniers have kept the worst off in this assault, a couple of areas are scored by bullets or blackened by explosives, but nothing that appears to have greatly troubled the armour plating.
Jolyne and Elaine continue to plink away.

The defences are disorganized by your blitzkrieg assault, but will quickly reform back into a decent escort pattern.
However, the Mashiba team and the OH are still finishing off it's pursuers and won't be able to assist you in your second pass if you charge now.

The Gaw is looping around to face your direction, but it's a good 2 to 3 minutes out at best.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>12126416

7 Miuntes 53 seconds.

>>12126419
With the damage to the engine we have dealt we could probably head back to support the OH and Cima's marines. With the Pegasus slowed down with the damage we've dealt we could probably regroup with the OH and marines and hit so hard that even with escorts the Feds couldn't handle it.

Engage the disorganized defenders just outside their effective range constantly pulling back but keeping up the pressure to prevent them from organizing into an effective order of battle to stall for time for support.

The more damage we do now the less our backup will have to do when they arrive.

Charge back into the fray. The ship must go down.

More flashbangs. More grenades.

Frankly, throw one into that big gash zolomon made. That should fuck up the engine completely.

Make for another pass, throw up a smokescreen and at the last instant, Lister and Bernie take a higher attack route while Zolomon comes from below the carrier. There are no gun between the the Pegasus' "Legs", so it should be easy pickings for him.

This would be the perfect time for Zol to throw his heat hawks!

>>12126519

At least don't charge alone though.

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>>12126548

Throw heat hawks, one veers off into orbit.

Days later we learn that Ghiren has been killed by an errant Heat Hawk.

Zol smiles.

too much red dwarf

Have our Dodai's crew eject/bail out.

On our next pass, we launch it at either the Pegasus' bridge or any GM on the deck. Dynamic Entry another GM off the deck and proceed to fight like bastard we are. Bernie and Zol either support from range or make additional passes while we wreck things on the deck.

Failure is not an option.

>>12126467
>>12126533

You prepare a mixture of smoke and flashbangs for another pass, and urge the rest to do the same. You tightly turn around and head back into the swirling mass of the enemy.
You toss the munitions, a sound not unlike a succession of firecracker is hear and light and smoke stobe in the fading darkness.
Firing on full auto you dive in for another round.

Disrupted as they are, or perhaps because of it, the fire is heavier and harder to dodge, it seems like everybody is firing in your general direction in the hopes of getting you, they must be racking up the friendly fire kills by doing this surely?

>>12126720
Zolomon and Bernie score the rear area with firepower as they go over the top. Explosions obscure the true extent of the damage and then you pass under it, scoring the underside of the vessel with your beam carbine, looking for Zolomon's point. All the while having to make tortuous acrobatic manouvers to keep yourself alive.
A heavy salvo of rockets hit's you in the back, and alarm warnings sound, alerting you to your rear thrusters taking damage. They still look operational for now, but their tolerances will probably suffer, the magnetic clamps groan as you invert yourself and fire another burst behind you, scoring a trio of fighter kills and forcing the rest to pull off before righting yourself.

Above you, you hear Zolomon swear and Bernard yelp in suprise.
"Boss! My Dodai's took heavy damage, and Bernie just lost an arm! I can push her with my own thrusters back to the Outer Heaven, but I don't know if me and Bernie can push through their fighter shield!"

"Hold on! We'll move in to open a door for you!" Jolyne responds. You see the rate of fire from the support beams increase and Zolomon also adds his own firepower to this. Of Bernard there is no sign, it looks like he lost his rifle arm.

Ahead of you, you can see the Outer Heaven finally moving to support you, but it's still out of range for about a minute, maybe less.

TIME REMAINING 7 MINUTES 8 SECONDS
YOUR ORDERS?

seconding the "throw nades into the open gash in the engines" ploy.

maybe we have our dodai pilots eject, and then grab the dodais and use them as throw-away shields to cover our charge.
When we get close, toss exploding dodai's at GM's, toss nades at the engines, and proceed to ruin everyone's shit.

We don't need dodai's where we're going, gentlemen.

>>12126738
This. A MILLION TIMES THIS

>>12126728

Zol and Bernie return to the OH. Zol can switch to Bernie's dodai and bernie is done for the fight, likely.

Then David does >>12126587

>>12126738
Do it.

>trounch you've
Oh we'll trounch them alright, Captcha.

>>12126587
>>12126738
>>12126751
>>12126761
While this does sound awesome I'm not sure David could survive long enough for our backup to save our asses. Still, if we could hit something vital then HANO jump off the carrier when we're done it'd be worth it.

Hmm. We've got a dead spot, methinks- right behind where we just burned out that Pegasus's right engine. Can we get in close on that side and start putting shots into the left from there?

>>12126817
>I'm not sure David could survive long enough

Do you doubt the mettle of Lister? Do you seek to undermine the faith and determination of his allies?

You sir, are lower than treacherous feddy scum.

Oh, mark my words, David will survive. David will survie because he has to, because he is the last, best hope for freedom in the galaxy, because he has met no foe of his equal.
But mostly, because he is David Lister.

>>12126761

You order Bernie and Zolomon to get the hell out before they get shot down, you see the two of them punch their way through the enemy with Jolyne and Elaine's help. You then order the Dodai pilot to bail, he ejects, hopefully in the dark nobody will spot him, and he'll make it down okay.
You twist hard upwards darting through the space between the two hangar blocks, the GM's are taken by suprise at this manouver and they don't even have time to fire at you.
If you're last manouver took them by suprise, you can only imagine how this one is going to take them.
Using your own thrusters and a pre-programmed flight program you disconnect the magnetic clamps and the dodai flies like a rocket in the bridge section, already burning from a previous attack.
A massive explosion results.
For a moment you are illuminated.
You feather your verniers downwards, and beams and bullets lance through the empty air you had occupied.

You land on the portside hangar block, a fresh E-Clip in your Beam Carbine at the ready.

>>12126861
Not to mention we have yet to seduce anyone successfully. That would be unacceptable.

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>>12126893

>Suddenly remember that scene from Star Wars and smile.

>>12126893
Fucking Classy.

>>12126893
Since we're here it's time to shield punch some motherfuckers! In between shooting everywhere and everything that is.

>>12126904

Wait.FUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

>>12126893

And so your dark work begins.

The first trio of beam shots kill the nearest GM without setting off it's reactor, you push forwards, using it's corpse as a shield against the enemies in front of you as you spray at those on the adjacent hangar block, your fire takes out two before they have the time to fire back at you, and the beam shot of the third (a GM command) scorches through the location where your feet were moments ago as you leap forwards ramming yourself, your shield and the dead GM into the one behind it.
The pilot must be relatively skilled as he pushes the ruined GM to the side, off into the night, hoping to take you with-it. Still mid-air you pulse verniers and thrusters into a horizontal spin, rolling with his proverbial punch, El Muerto Grande's foot lashes out in a mid-air roundhouse kick. It catches the enemy cleanly on the head and knocks the entire enemy mobile suit off the side and out of this fight.
The last one on this side is charging towards you his beam saber ignited, his head vulcans firing.
You accerate your downwards motion with more vernier use and land awkwardly, none-the-less your innacurate beam shots manage to land one good shot on it's leg, forcing it to fall face first onto the deck. You leap over the prone mobile suit, more to avoid the GM commands fire than anything, and put a finishing 3 shots into the GM as you go overhead. The explosion carriers you up slightly and you manage to finish the leaping dodge manouver in cover behind some ruined remains of the bridge and your Dodai. With the Orbiting forces currently unwilling to target you for fear of downing the carrier.

>>12126893

Hmm. I wonder what would happen if we got inside the hangar and started tearing the ship apart from there? Is there easy access?

If not, priority IMHO is:

1) Destruction of the now-likely-damaged bridge
2) Destroy the undamaged engine
3) Dump a pile of explosives into the gaping hole in the damaged engine and see if we can't just crack this thing open like a ripe melon.
4) Getting out of this with a chance of living through the impact with the ground.

Oddly enough, the crowd on the deck is our best defense. Going through them may well mean they shoot up the ship and each other trying to hit us, while we have no such problem...

>>12126989
WE ARE EL MUERTO GRANDE. WE ARE DEATH.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

>>12127017
We should keep trying to hit the part of the central aft section that Zol told us about. With only 1 engine block it wont have enough thrust to stay in the air without the craft system.

>>12127017
The bridge is toast already. If we can manage to just finish off the already-damaged engine block, then we can probably consider this carrier mission killed. Even if it can somehow miraculously stay aloft, it'll be a giant target for fresh defenders.

>>12127071

We've ripped that area a new one- though I don't have problems about donating some more if we can get a few grenades into the inner workings. Shooting up that functioning engine will drop it to a crawling speed at best.

Although we have the small problem of every Feddie wanting a revenge kill if we successfully down this carrier ourselves before anyone can save US...

>>12127078

Yeah, I hadn't expected KamiDodaize to be quite THAT good.

>>12126989

You turn to finish the remaining enemy.
There is a flash of blue, a shower of sparks, and n explosion, the enemy is gone, a massive glowing gouge in the hanger bay and like some kind of blue fireball, the shape has rocketted off, colliding with another enemy out in the orbiting zone destroying it utterly ricocheting off it towards another target like some kind of demonic pinball and all you can hear through your radio is a subsonic whine like a thousand souls wailing in unending torment and agony.

You really need to have that looked at.

You quickly take stock, it looks like the Mashiba Team has finally joined battle, and those heavy beam cannon shots can only be from the Outer Heaven. You catch movement above you and you fire your beams upwards, catching one of the enemy Desert GM's and it explodes. The others land successfully on the now noticibly tilting carrier and dive towards you, beam saber's drawn.

>>12127153
Your Carbine's out of charge, and you just had time to replace it with your Heat Hawk, as the five GM's (2 more Desert types, a Land Combat model and a pair of GM Cold Climate types) leap at you. Your first slash disembowels one, the attack of another is deflected thanks to your Gundam Shield (the techs told you it *could* do it, but damn if you weren't keen to find out.) You leap up and hit another GM with a spinning back-kick before it can finish it's own leap, knocking it against the side of the port hangar block and down below.
Yet more sparks fly from gouge carved in it by (what you assume to be) Cima's machine.

You backstep away from the fifth's downwards slash, and then notice the Beam Pistol in the 4ths hands. A pair of brilliant yellow lines slice cleanly through both and Jolyne, her Gelgoog Cannon moving almost impossibly fast. So fast that there are moments it's just a blur even to you, and with her shoulder beam cannon firing so fast it's muzzle is visibly white hot, lands beside you.

"Can we finish this fight now?" Jolyne asks.
He question is punctuated by Cima making another lighting speed pass, slamming into the rear superstructure, there is another great plume of sparks and flame as she ricochets off.

>>12127122

To be honest, it probably wouldn't have been that effective if the south side of the bridge hadn't had the fuck blown out of it on your way in, plus it's one of those tricks that would only work at close range.

Plus you'd need to be a fairly good pilot to pull it off so it'd have any force hitting the target.

>>12127153
>>12127185
Sweet Jesus...

>>12127153
>>12127185
Is the BD Gyan creating a sort of artificial Newtype Pressure which Jolyne is reacting to? She did manage to GTFO of the way pritty quick when being charged my Amuro that one time.

>>12127185

The ship is currently aflame and with huge holes in it. At least one engine has been taken out, it's got some kind of demented pinball of doom whacking into it in a faster and faster pace (which explains what happened to the first Pegasus the Mashiba Team targeted) and the Bridge sections has been basically blown apart.

A third strike from Cima hit's close to where she took the GM Command out eariler, and there is a grotesque sound of shearing metal as the entire port hangar block shears away from the ship and falls to the ground below.
The ship is now practically rolling in all directions trying to keep itself afloat and failing.

With nothing left at this pount but to put the ship out of it's misery you have Jolyne keep them off you, whilst you bundle up every single grenade you have on you, set the timer and toss into the gaping smoking hole left by your Dodai.

"Time to leave." you order and both of you leap off the side. A massive explosion blooms overhead. Just at this moment Cima slams into the underside of the ship directly underneath the explosion. Another spray of flame and sparks jet's out, and as she bounces off, it becomes evident as secondary explosions start to wrack the ship, that that last attack has tore the ship in half. It begins to fall at a normal rate, flaming wreckage falling off of it.

STOP THE CLOCK!
TIME REMAINING: 5 MINUTES 44.

NORTHERN SUPPORT SHIPS DESTROYED IN 9 MINUTES 26 SECONDS!

"...does this count as your kill or hers sir?" Jolyne asks.

"Let's call it... a collaborative project."

>>12127361
If Zakus had sensor goggle equipment that would have been the time to don them.

While the various Nachtmaren infantry chant YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAH in the background.

>>12127361
Flirt with Cima, tell her she showed up right on time.

>>12127361
>STOP THE CLOCK!

YES! GET ON THE HORN TO GARMA!

Also that EXAM suit seems more than a little hax. Even more than Amuro's newtype skills.

>>12127407
There will probably be a HORRIBLE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID for its use.

You are currently in free-fall, heading towards the earth at a decent pace. Not wanting to land to close to where the falling carrier (well, pieces of) are going to hit you push your thrusters to move you away.
There's an unwholsome sensation from behind you, the thrusters on your back sputter ineffectively and red malfunction lights begin screaming at you as your primary thrusters fail.

"I have a problem here. My primary backpack thrusters have failed, I can't make a safe unassisted landing, can anyone assist?"

"Jolyne here, I lost my Dodai on the way into the defence area, and I can barely land safely with just my own weight here. Suggest you bail out."

"Not a problem, but if anyone has a better suggestion I'm all ears."

On the rear-view sensors you catch sight of a couple of fighters coming your way, possibly spotting your thurster problems. You've got a flight arrestor jetpack in the cockpit, but you don't fancy your chances outside, and you'd rather save the Act Zaku if you could...

You load a fresh E-Clip into the Carbine, using your maneouver thursters only turn and take out the encroaching trio of fighters. It's got them off your back for now, but those beam shots will atract attention.

"Good morning sir! I hear you're in need of a little lift?" comes a fair to sprightly signal to your left as a Dodai, weathering the firefight sails through to you.

"Ensign Ringo said you needed us more than he did, so he stepped off. He was probably close enough to leap back aboard the Outer Heaven anyway."

Silently praising Zolomon Ringo, you align and dock with your ride home. You then open the general Zeon Combat frequency.

"This is Commander David Lister, mission is complete, repeat, to all local units and to Zeon GHQ Odessa, mission is complete all support units on the northern salient have been taken down. All friendly units in the local area, disengage and return to the nearest MS carrier for extraction... I guess that'll be the Outer Heaven for all of us. I'm pretty sure we have the room for the Mashiba team as well. Jolyne, try to make it back to base as quickly as you can, don't get caught behind enemy lines."

A chorus of affirmatives and rogers follow.
Presently Garma's signal through the laser-comm link appears.

"Thank you Commander, I knew I could rely on you to do the impossible. The entire northern force is either retreating or dismounting. It's going to be a ground war again commander, but get yourself out of the way of the retreating units, they're certain to be out for blo... " a new flashing item on his HUD catches his attention.
"Excuse me for a minute would you commander?"

You lose the signal.
Then Captain Mauser calls.
"Never mind watch out for retreating units, the fuckers are already here!" as if to punctuate his statement a console behind him explodes behind him.
"You're going to have to dock at high speed, we can't stay level and stable or we'll get picked off!"

Honestly, it's just one thing after another...

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>"Excuse me for a minute would you commander?"

Its because those are last minute prepraations for the surprise party for us, right?

... I mean, didn't anyone remember our birthday? D:

I guess we need to get back to the OH, or at least get out of the way of the Feddie retreat. That said, which would seem to be easier? We're on a damaged Dodai and our main thrusters are dead, would we do better to just get to the ground?

We have to get the fuck out of here.

You manage to somewhat haphazardly land inside the hangar bays scraping along the sides with your Dodai in some parts. You quickly put your suit into the hanger repair rack, and are promptly swarmed by techs to try and fix your thruster problems. To your left you see Zolomon getting some work done on his left shoulder, and across the hanger, Bernards Zaku Kai is getting a new arm fitted.

About a minute later Elaine joins you, she lands awkwardly inside though and skids across the luckily cleard hangar area. Otherwise her suit seems fine though.

The Outer Heaven rocks again, and some of the lighting flickers momentarily.

"What's that status out there Anita?" you ask as you remount the Act Zaku to use the comms system.

"We're under heavy fire, and we're having difficulty picking up the last of the Mashiba team! It's not looking good sir, even we hit full thrust we might not make it out alive! I don't know what even Captain Mauser can... oh my god! It's the second Gaw!"

You would later learn than the other Gaw, now dying, passed over the top of the Outer Heaven passing as close a 1.5 meters, providing your ship with vital cover and then screaming like some mad bull in the pamplona run into the mass of assembled enemy mobile suits before it eventually carved a burning gouge 3 kilometers long into the earth. Finishing just outside the perimeter of Odessa HQ.

You of course only knew at the time that something had happened that had allowed the Outer Heaven to pick up the third Mashiba Team member and hit the burners.

After about 2 minutes. Garma resumes his link with you.
"Commander. I have the worst of news..."

Get to the OH. Can the Dodai still fly fast enough to get us aboard?

>>12127668
MQuve is dead and we're in charge here now?

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>>12127668

... we were not able to get all the balloons ready for your victory celebration? D:

>>12127668
If it's the fucking nuke launching get Elaine on top of the ship and snipe that fucking missile with her beam rifle.

If Char is dead well... it's bad but the nuke would be worse.

>>12127668

Mom and Dad mysterious developed a fatal allergy to tea?

It's just that Mauser is dead.

"Please tell me it's just that you forgot my birthday or something sir."

"...it's not is it?"

"No sir, that's on the... wait, it IS the 23rd isn't it? Oh hell. Officially the worst birthday ever."

"Yes. Quite so in fact. I need your unit to redirect to Mountain 112 North-West of Odessa HQ."

"Why?"

"Because Sub-Commander Hajj of Odessa HQ command has revealed himself to be a Loyalist Zeon operative, who managed to smuggle a fourth nuke into Odessa and then fake enough command missives to make it look like it was supposed to be there. He then stocked the launching facility for that nuke with his own cadre of loyalist troop. He's preparing for launch."

"It may be the sleep depirvation, but isn't that a really retarded thing to do?"

"From what we've pieced together after the fact, until know, we've kept the true extent of the civil war secret from the federation to present a strong front. When the nuke hits, Gihren plans to openly reveal the seperation between the two factions and claim the attack to be the act of Legitimacy Zeonists, and then sue for a ceasefire which he will then use to trap both the Legitimacy and any non-loyalist Zeon forces between his own and the federation. Afterwards, there are some worrying remarks about Solar Ray and Operation British II on how he'll then defeat the Federation."

"No offence sir, but you're brother's a dick."

"You're teams talent for understatement continues to be undiminished I see. Go to Mountain 112, and flatten it commander, I wan't that Nuke destroyed before it can launch."

YOUR ORDERS?

>>12127800

If there is a non-explosive solution for this I will be highly impressed.

Nothing can go wron... FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Well let's destroy that mountain.

>>12127800
Make best speed for Mountain 112 & press repairs to go as fast as possible. Lend a hand if necessary.

It's a shame we can't whistle up a Feddie ship & go "Hey, let us through so we can stop a retarded traitor from launching a nuke, please."

>If there is a non-explosive solution for this I will be highly impressed.

I REALLY DO SECOND THE NON-EXPLOSIVE SOLUTION IN THIS CASE.

Unless we can get a bnuch of those old Zakus which were build to shoot atomic bombs.

Well, time for Dwarf Fortress.

>>12127800

For fuck's sake, Gihren.

Voting for getting the Rhino on top with anything else that can get a stable firing solution and blowing the top clean off that mountain, then hopping in said mountain to see if liberal application of a beam weapon turns our Hajj into Hajj-podge.

Trying to blow through solid rock won't work. Ask Garma for intel on the mountain. We need to know where there's a silo he could launch it from or something like that. Then we enter through there and fuck shit up.

>>12127800
Ironically the best solution my be to use a nuclear scale explosion to collapse the facility.

>Next time on Zeonquest...

On a side note, is there someway we can send Ghiren a message calling him out on all his dickery? Like can we mail him a "DUDE, WHAT THE FUCK, NOT COOL." postcard?

>>12127432
You mean aside from the fact that it's powered by the soul of a murdered Newtype, flayed until the EXAM system could contain it? And that it tends to drive the pilot insane as a result?

>>12127847
We probably can. It may not be the best long term idea though.

Call White Base, warn them about this one.

We both have an interest in not getting nuked, after all.

>>12127800
Well now. I'm pretty sure nukes don't explode when you shoot them unless you ignite the explosive in them(which is, quite sensibly, not easy at all).

Of course, I have no idea if a beam shot can set off a stable explosive.

Evil idea: nuke the launch site, officially claim it was a horrible accident, unofficially make it clear it was to prevent the launch.

>Ask Garma for intel on the mountain.

ALL THE INTEL.

Meaning, where is it, where are the exits ALL EXITS large enough for either the missile or MS and what's in there that will shoot at us, what's in there that could potentially dig itself out? I'm not too keen on going in and finding out that the've loaded the missiles on one of those digger carrieres. It would be nice to know what's in there that will not shoot at us too. Oh, and what plattform they're gonna launch the missile from.

Also anything we need to put the place under lockdown. There must be some means to hack the fucking controlls and just lock everything but two or three exits/entrances.

I also third the NOT COOL message to Ghiren.

How about when we shut down his nuke plans we send him a U MAD pic.

>>12127867

A call to GHQ reveals that whilst Calvin and Hovis have been massively helpful insupporting their friendly troops with timely fire support where needed, they can probably now spare them for the time being. Both are being loaded aboard a heavy transport train that leads into the Mountains you want.

Hell, it's probably the same train that the nuke was sent up there in the first place.
It's a fairly fast train, and can arrive more or less at the same time you can.

Use beam weapon to shoot down the missile as soon as it leaves the silo. It should be easy given that the beam is much faster and the missile still has lots of explosive fuel at that point.

>>12127947
Bad idea. Using any nuke could lead to a very, very, very bad result. All mankind dying off, in fact.

Besides, Char's plot armor would prevent it from happening. You just know Char is helping with this so he can get close to Gihren and betray him.

>>12127966
Why not "LEGITIMACY SOON FELLOW ZEON"?

>Besides, Char's plot armor would prevent it from happening. You just know Char is helping with this so he can get close to Gihren and betray him.

A Char is fine too, if we send him in on the short way and we take the long one. We don't want to end up acting as his ablative armour.

>>12127971
Who all is aboard the OH, and is the ship going to hold together? It's been taking a beating.

>>12128002
He's going to be helping the nuke launchers so Gihren will trust him. Even Char can't use his enemies as ablative armor.

. . . Can he?

Give Zol an MS-sized bucket full of Heat Hawks, tell him to start chucking them as soon as the missile starts to leave the silo and don't stop until he takes the missile down.

>>12128026

You know...if that would not be meta as hell, I'd say yeah, that's extremely likely.

We should really keep that in mind.

>>12128073
It's not meta as hell, however, to note that every single one of his wingmen has died, and try to avoid putting ourselves in anything like that position.

Then again, Char's wingman's job is probably to divert a hot mom so Char can hit on her teenage daughter, so it might still be worth it.

I wonder how the wappa troops fared...

Wait, why don't we ask for a commando team as well? They could stand a chance at stopping the launch and keep the whole affair on the down-low. Or, at least capturing the loyalists after the fact.

>It's a fairly fast train, and can arrive more or less at the same time you can.

Can they rearm and act as PANTRAIN?

>>12128188
I'm sure Zeon Trains are equipped like that standard since the Arizona Incident(s).

>>12128160
"What happened to your other team?"

>>12128160
>>12128236
Good point. Let's ask GHQ if they can spare a commando team to hitch a ride with Calvin and Hovis over to the mountain.
Also, let's get a map of the installation there, and any command codes we may need to close off doors.

You push on, working doubltime on trying to get as many as your suits and the Mashiba Team's up to working order.
Bombarding from the Outer Heaven is mostly out, as she expended all of her munitions earlier.
Repairs on the Mashiba Team are slow due to the fact that the MA pod isn't the best place for it.

You clear around the enemy forces, now beginning to dig in, using foritications meant to keep them out for protection. The nondescript build of mountain 112 raises up, your target illuminated by your tactical HUD.

"Okay gentlemen here's the plan, we don't know what sort of timetable we've got to work with here, so we can't stop and wait for anything. We're going to hit the site at top speed and make a LANO drop directly ontop of them. You see an open launch bay door, you toss every damn grenade you have down there and run like hell you hear me? Also, signal it's location back to Hovis, and he'll follow up with a continous button-hole barrage to make sure. If your suit isn't ready, you go as you are. You have 3 minutes to get everything ready, or in a state you can do this in.
Enemy MS troops haven't reached that area, and we don't think the Loyalist Zeons have any mobile suits. But don't take that for granted and keep your eyes peeled. Got it?"

Everyone responds, greatly aware at just what's at stake.

Within minutes the time's up.

"I did what I could, you should make a LANO drop, but don't push them too hard or they'll just melt away. Use the Verniers like you've been doing and you'll go further!" Ookawara tells you.

You thank him and drop onto the mountain. You legs take most of the strain of the fall.

"Calvin, report!"

"I haven't got any suspicious heat sources or Sonar contacts from the mountain, I'm moving in for a closer look. Don't we have any intel on the bases location?"

"No, we know it's layout and configuration but all we know is that it's definately on the mountain!"

You know, with all this talk about birthdays...... it's probably getting close to Zeonquest's one year anniversary, isn't it?

inb4 this is it and that's what people meant when they were talking about a birthday.

Frantically you all search for the launch bay. You push forwards towards the peak, constantly scanning the topographical map for viable spots.

"Heat contact! Just ahead from you!"

You look up, and see steam venting from the cavernous and unseen recess between an opening pair of giant swing bay doors. You call for the rest of the team to get here on the double, and relay the position to Hovis redundantly as he';s already firing.
You scramble upwards but at a crucial moment your feet push against loose rocks and slip, as your mobile suit crashes against the side of the rockface you hear cries from the rest of the team, and know that the missile has been launched.

You push yourself up, servo's complaining at their rough treatment. You fire a heavy salvo off at the rapidly climbing missile, but your carbine's accuracy is poor, and the shots just go wide, scorching the missile.

"SOMEBODY SHOOT DOWN THAT MISSILE!" You howl on the open frequencies to anything that can hear.

>>12128367
You see shots from the Outer Heaven, still trailing smoke from it's previous battle rain around it, but the Heavy anti-capital ship cannons are unsuited for taking down the small target. It flies towards the missile like a bullet, and for a second you think it intends to ram it, but it slides away and around at the last minute avoiding it, it's fire still not taking the missile down.

You're getting desperate now, and Elaine takes a couple of shots behind you, but they fall just wide.

"Elaine, give me your gun."

"What?"

"DO IT."

Cowed by your command, she tosses you the beam rifle. Your computer logs in the new weapon, and sychonises the power flow.
You zoom in to the missile.
You aim the weapon.
You carefully adjust your aim.
You exhale
You pull the trigger.

At that point, not one, but 4 lances of beam fire pierced the nuclear weapon, from three completely different directions.
Two of them were the distinctive purple of federation beam weapons as well.
A massive nuclear explosion resulted that blinded your sensors momentarily, and the caused several of your non-key systems to go down due to EMP.

It's fucking on, chaps.

>>12128349
2009-10-04

Pretty close.

>>12128283

>purple beam
I won't say it I can't say it or we'll all die.

>>12128376
>Two of them were the distinctive purple of federation beam weapons as well.
How the Hell did the Feddy's know about the launch?
We'll need to investigate later, if we survive.

>>12128404
Same way Amuro knew about M'Quve's launch in canon?

>>12128380
Indeed.

And the loyalist inside need to be captured immediately.

Not to mention the obvious damage-control that's going to need doing regarding the Federation.

When the artifical sun has finally gone away, you open contact with the rest of your team.

"All fine here sir, radiation protection reports nothing reaching hazardous levels."

"Outer Heaven here, we had to deal with some turbulence, but otherwise were a-ok."

You have the Outer Heaven link in with Odessa HQ.

"The missile has been taken down, can anyone give me a status report?"

Garma appears.

"That EMP took out several unsheilded components in the command network. Our Gigan AA forces against the western salient were cut off from each other, and the enemy has managed to destroy them with minimal losses, they have already crossed Odessa, and are making combat drops into the HQ! We've also lost contact with about 50% of our other forces, and with the attack, we don't have time to repair the damage! Furthermore we have just confirmed it, Federation forces were able to push back our space assets sufficiently to orbitally land another MS battalion, we believe them to be aces from Jaburo."

"Shit."

"I'm afraid that Rear-Admiral M'Quve has given the order to evacuate Odessa. Luckily, I've pursuaded him not to use the nukes. But every friendly unit is to retreat from the battlefield and back to safe zones in Africa, China, America, or space at best speed and possibility. M'Quve and myself will be launching in the Lili Marleen in 20 minutes, I suggest you follow in the Outer Heaven."

"But sir!"

"Odessa is lost Commander, but thanks to you, it's JUST Odessa that we lost today, and your work on the Northern Salient will go down in history, regardless of this outcome. Now get out of here commander, there's nothing more even you can do here..."

TO BE CONTINUED.

>>12128425
>damage-control

We signal the Federation forces, specifically Revil, and indicate that this was infact an attack by the Loyalist forces. It doesnt matter if they believe us on that point. What they do have to believe is that those of us fighting here on Earth are going to grind each other into dust until the madman now ruling Side 3 kill all of us. The Federation no longer has the capacity to win the war. We do.
Cease fire and begin negotiations to end the war so that we can go and kill Girhen while there's still time.

>difficulties expokes
Fuck your shit captcha.

>>12128458
D:

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>>12128458

GOD DAMMIT GHIREN.

>>12128458
Fucking Girhen. His forces basically handed Odessa over to the Federation, just as we were about to achieve victory.
Now, the Federation will have access to all of the resources of Odessa as well as the production facilities at Jaburo.

Fuck, we need an omake.

You know, I want a chance for a face-to-face with Ghiren, just so we can tell him off personally.

Ghiren out gambitted us on this one.
We'll have to get back at him somehow

I wonder when we'll get some R&R.

If we were not main characters, we would be shellshocked like nobody's business and look like we've just been released from Mauthausen.

Ghiren has done more to ensure the final defeat of Zeon than Amuro and the White Base.
We need to use this to try to get Loyalists to desert his faction.

>>12128527
>Implying that they care about facts rather than simply support Ghiren because he's...well fuck, he ain't even the oldest son, is he?

Ghiren, you cunt.

>>12128458
Is it too much for Gihren to die of massive douchebaggery?

Omake

"NUCLEAR LAUNCH DETECTED"

There were three words that above all else Wyatt Bandit had never wished to see or hear again in lifetime.
Evidently Zeon had gotten desperate, and had made an unthinkable decision.

He wondered if he could fault them. If Operation Odessa had been scheduled a week or maybe even a day later, would it have been his side, terrified at the prospect of losing Jaburo who would have pushed the button?

He didn't know, and frankly he had more pressing things to worry about right now. He opened his link to the HLV crew.

"Open my door. Now."

"But..."

"Now."

The crewman flustered for what might be crucial seconds and then popped the hatches, the other 2 mobile suits left the pod as he did, but he was focused on the bright star of the nuclear missiles single stage thrusters.

"Good luck" Karen bids him from her Guncannon.

He doesn't answer, he's concentating on other things.

his mobile suit seems to float through free-fall, it's alignment ruthless kept with judicious use of leg controlled verniers.

Wyatt zoomed in further until he could make out the black mass of the missile amidst the gradually coming dawn.
The missile reaches it's apex.

The G-3 Gundam takes the shot.

>>12128612
>"NUCLEAR LAUNCH DETECTED"
So many Command & Conquer flashbacks...

>>12128688
Glad I wasnt the only one.

Now the real question is will we get an Omake on the other shots.

OMAKE 2

Elaine dashed along the MS scale trenchwork intended for a siege that never came.
She took out some of the disordered GM's to her left with shot from her beam rifle. Ammo was getting low, she was going to have to start using the Naginta soon.

She was getting sporadic radio messages and reports, nothing was sounding good.
She'd seen the Outer Heaven taking off, and heard enough to know that things had taken a turn for the worse.

She was heading in that general direction, hoping to avoid detection or running into any main federation forces on the way.

She took out a second GM as she continued.

Presently she realised that evidently time was up, as she spotted through her Long Range optics the distinctive heat flare of a nuclear missile launch from the distant mountains.
She mentally rechecked the supposed maximum range of her beam cannon mounted on the shoulder. In THEORY she could probably only reach about half the distance, before atmospheric attenuation reduced the beam to "non-lethal" levels and made the beam begin to curve away. Of course "Non-Lethal" for a Mobile Suits is different to "Non-Lethal" for a small missile.
In order to hit the missile you would have to literlly work out how to arc a beam into it by taking gravity and atmopheric effects into account.

Jolyne stopped moving. Aimed. Time seemed to slow as she focused closer and closer on the problem, magentic field variations, seismic micro-tremors, wind speed, air density, ambient temperature bands, the state of her Beam Cannon, she bagan compiling every tiny scrap of information her suit could afford her.
Presently she became aware of an enemy behind her.

"You can either shoot me now, or wait for me to shoot this nuclear missile down and shoot me then."

Luckily, he did.

She pressed the trigger.

>>12128728
>Elaine
>Jolyne
You seem to be doing this a lot.

>>12128728
You kinda switched from Elaine to Jolyne halfway through Apologized. Which one was it?

With any luck, though, we're making it out of Odessa in slightly better shape than canon, and the Feddies in worse shape. The more capable we are of a fighting retreat off Earth, the better.

>>12128728

Omake 2 (part b)

In the brilliant light that followed, the enemy GM Sniper II pulled the trigger at effective point blank.
He didn't have time to think anything witty or even show suprise before Jolyne melted a two meter hole clean through where the cockpit used to be with her beam rifle.

He simply had not, or rather could not, see her move at the speed that she did to avoid the shot, turn and fire.

"This is beginning to get easier..." Jolyne remarked to herself.
She dodged the combined fire from a pair of Cold Climates, armed only with Machine Guns, she buried her beam Najinta deep into the chest of one, pulled away and precisely parried five more bullets with the blade before finishing the other with her shoulder cannon.

An alarm politely sounded to tell her she was down to 20 shots from the Beam Cannon.

It was she concluded, time to stop showing off and go home.

>>12128739

Jolyne, the one who fell off the Pegasus and had to walk home.

I think it happens more the more tired and late into the night it gets.
It's like 2:30 over here. and I'm going to bed.

As for the last beam shot. That was, as it was in canon, the Gundam.

I want to know how the feds were affected by the nuke, personally.

>>12128728
>>12128789
TOKI WO TOMARE!

Then good night and good morning to you, apologize, whichever you prefer.

And thank you for your time.

OMAKE 3

"... Revils reaction to the destruction of the nuclear weapon by no less than 4 directions, some of them Zeonic was of the usual rhetoric that he was well known for. Commenting that "At the very least, there some within Zeon who still retained their honour and their concience." All of this was of course after the fact, and after the the Federation took stock of the missiles effects. In the short term, reserve MS units and the fresh Jaburo Elite Corps had to rescue the now disabled conventional tank forces of the north eastern salient before the Zeon forces could mount a devestating counter-attack. A counter-attack that would never come, as the enemy retreated into the night, heeding the call to abandon Odessa. Although not before dealing a heavy toll on what Tanks they could reach..."

- The One Year War, a Perspective, by Gregor Zamza, of Aberdeen, Scotland UC 0085

Not that I doubt Sayla's piloting skills but wouldnt she be a little green still to make a shot like that?

>>12127800
>"No sir, that's on the... wait, it IS the 23rd isn't it? Oh hell. Officially the worst birthday ever."

Dont worry David. It's only sunrise of the 16th of November. You've got a few days still.

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>>12128893

I love these sorts of Omake's especially. Great Jong Apologized.

>>12129138
>Great Jong Apologized

So does that make South Britain, aka England... Best Britain?

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>>12129138
>>12129156

Bwahahahahaha.

I need to type more carefully when drinking.

We should probably ask for a truce with the Federation so we can give them details about how and why this happened. Make sure to mention the fact that Gihren is planning a second colony drop.
Make it clear that Gihren is a mad dog that must be put down for everyone's benefit.

>>12129453
That's true. If Zeon can get a truce and armistice from a position of strength, it could go a long way in maintaining a stable after-war peace.

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>>12129453
>>12129476

Is there a way we can blame all the bad things that have happened on the war on Ghiren?

Lost your father? Ghiren.
Razed Crops? Ghiren.
Ate your babies? Ghiren.

>>12129493

Stop right there before this becomes a meme.

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>>12129531

Oh, hey we're winning?

adviceghiren.jpg

Nuke your own troops.

>>12129550

Great. Now I have ideas in my head. Asshole.

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>>12129579

I apologize and thusly offer this token asian as a gift.

Gihren has just signed his own death warrant.

Fight Gihren, we lose against the Federation. Don't fight Gihren, he makes sure we lose against the Federation.

Enough of that. Leave the planet, find him, stick him in a one-legged Zaku and make him be Char's wingman against the Feddie invasion.

Absorbing incoming fire is all that madman is good for.

Actually, fuck the Zaku. Strap him to the front of Char's ride, his ego ought to make decent ablative armor.

Loyalist Zeon is Best Zeon. Gihren Jong Zabi is Dear Leader of all Zeonic peoples.

>>12129493
Given that we can truthfully blame the fact that the war started at all on Gihren?

YES.

The one thing we really cant blame on him is the first colony drop simply because so much of the Zeon military was involved. Dozle for instance was the one who carried them out in the one week war and I'm sure none of us want him tried for War Crimes.

>>12129966
We could always say it was his idea, and HE was the one who convinced everyone.

It seemed like such a good idea at the time...

>>12130695

It WAS a good idea, Zeon had the Federation at the negotiating table BEGGING for a ceasefire agreement that would have left pretty much everything in space aside from Von Braun, Side 6, Luna 2 and Side 7 under Zeon control.

Then Revil hijacks the television screen and gives his Zeon Is Exhausted speech.
And that is where the Antarctica Treaty came from.

Fucking Revil.