is Zeonquest the longest running quest or does it just feel that way?

>>12771329

So, to return to the last episode:

>"It won't be FoDonScray, it's too obvious, plus they aren't allowed to keep assets in the Expanse anymore because of the shit they pulled. There was also a full investigation into all of their holdings as well, they can't be sure they aren't still under surveillance. Arclight now seem might suspicious, what with them moving their offices outside of Von Braun, plus I'm pretty sure they still have a few cargo satellites up in the expanse. With all of the supposed confusion going on, it'd be the perfect cover for some food and supplies to go missing without be noticed. Problem is, Arclight don't have any transport shuttles, they've always used third party couriers... No way you'd trust something like that with these kind of stakes... Ah HA! Okay, two days ago, Arclight lost a lunar transport out in the sea, I remember it because Lowe came to salvage it, which Is odd because, like I said, they usually just stick to the Expanse these days. Okay, so, the supplies to the... guys... are in the "broken" transport, which are picked up by the Lowe Salvage vessel, and then transferred from there to the Expanse! Find that transport, and you'll have you're destination!"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>12771338
I think it's tied with Frost Giant quest now for most parts. (for a /tg/ quest) There's supposed to be one on /m/ that's been going longer I believe.

>>12771338
I'm pretty sure Frost Giant quest pipped me when I switched to once a week instead of ALL WEEKEND AND FRIDAYS.

>>12771366

Lies. SRWQ has not been going for longer than Zeonquest.
Has it?

It does appear to have gone to some very strange places though.

>>12771391
I have no idea I dodnt really pay attention to the quests on /m/ just people keep saying one from there is/was longer.

>YOUR ORDERS?
Go see Ramba Ral. Oh and tell our friend to try and keep quiet about this all.
Wait, does the city have an equivilant to air raid sirens and bomb shelters? If they could activate those and evacuate people when/if the attack starts if could save some lives.

>>12771360
>ORDERS?
See Ramba Ral, that we've got a lead on where to start looking.
Can our Dad's old friend give us any more info on weird stuff that Lowe has been doing recently, any areas of strange activity in the Expanse?

These are our options the way I see it. Thoughts?

Plan A: Catch it before it launches. Capture or destroy.
Plan B: High speed intercept. David & Co borrow something from the Flanagain Institute or pickup some Kamphers in Grenada.
Plan C: Intercept while it's approaching Von Braun. We'd want someone who's a good shot and/or the Madagascar for this.

>>12771425
>>12771466

>Can our Dad's old friend give us any more info on weird stuff that Lowe has been doing recently, any areas of strange activity in the Expanse?

"Nothing strange really springs to mind, they do a lot of work in the Expanse, it's pretty big and they're often in demand."

>See Ramba Ral, that we've got a lead on where to start looking.

You thank Mr Grickory for his help, you tell him that it'd be best if he kept everything under his hat, as they don't want to be alarmed early... Understandibly he agrees, but says that he's probably going to take the next week off somewhere safe.
Like Jupiter.

You meet back up with Ramba Ral and tell him of what you discovered.

"Hmm, I think you might be onto something. Now all we have to do is figure out a way to get access to the shuttle they used to transfer the supplies to the Assault Team..."

"Would they have transferred the supplies from one shuttle to another?" Another of his team asks.

"Possibly, we'll need any surveillance videos from the vehicle hanger at Lowes to try and determine that."

"Great. How?"

ANY IDEAS?

>>12771536
I'd say go with option 2. First one requires us to cover a -lot- of ground, and if we mobilize too many forces for it we'll tip our hand. Kaempfers would be our best option for interception, with their high speed and reliance on solid ammunition.

If we can second Nell and the Braw Bro, all the better. Ideally we can station her in orbit over Von Braun where her remote weapons can intercept the warheads, and the Kaempfers are sent out as probes. Handwave it as an equipment or training exercise on Flanagan's part.

>>12771568
Did we know any hackers back when we used to live here? Or for that matter hasnt Zol said a couple of times that he's good at programming? That was always his excuse for being able to throw Heat Hawks.

>>12771568
Um, have some of the guys go in disguised as safety inspectors or something? Collect and view all their transport's tapes to keep up the ruse, but only really pay attention to the one that we're interested in?

>>12771568
Do we know if they use an internal IT or maintenance team, or do they outsource?
If outsourced, we might be able to get an agent in to check the video records.

>>12771607
Does Luna have a transportation regulatory board or an equivilant to the NTSB? Because if we could hack them to give us false credentials that could work.

>BIOMETRIC Recheted
I'm sure we wont have to worry about Biometrics captcha, that'd be going overboard for a gundam setting.

>>12771607
>Does Luna have a transportation regulatory board or an equivilant to the NTSB? Because if we could hack them to give us false credentials that could work.

Yes as a matter of fact, they're pretty stringent about it to after a couple of bad mining accidents about 50 years ago. It's why most mining corporations do their actual mining fairly far away from Von Braun and it's inspectors roving eyes.

>>12771710
>have some of the guys go in disguised as safety inspectors or something? Collect and view all their transport's tapes to keep up the ruse, but only really pay attention to the one that we're interested in?

You bring up the plan. Ramba Ral indicates it may be possible to get some false Inspector ID's and uniforms, it'll be costly on short notice, but luckily he's still got the onboard gold reserve for such things.
He asks to give him a couple of hours and to meet him back at the hotel, as he'll hopefully have everything ready by then.

You have a couple of hours free it seems,

ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO?

>>12771736
I can't think of anything else, except perhaps check in with Zol's sister and see how the family's been doing.

>>12771736
I forget if we've done this already or not, but advise our sister to take a vacation to somewhere else. And do the same with any of our other living relatives.

>>12771757

This, plus go over our gear, make sure our most concealable of firearms is in good shape and such.

>>12771795
>our most concealable of firearms

>>12771795

With nothing better to do, you decide to return home to the pub.
Namaah is busy serving customers, although it looks like things are relatively quiet. They don't really get busy until the evenings.

Seeing that you have way too much free time, she ropes you into helping serve behind the bar.
You spend the next two hours pulling pints for unemployed miners who luckily don't seem to recognise you.

After you manage to escape, you meet up with Ramba Ral.

"Well, we've managed to insert five fake ID's into their database, it's pretty rough and ready, but it should be enough for our purposes."

He hands you a pair of workmans overalls, and tells you to get changed.
You take the time to check in your bag, you shift the weapons from their concealed bottom to the top of the bag, for easier access if called for. Luckily, your duffel bag looks like it could also double as a tool bag so there's no need to go looking for a new bag.

>>12771944
As he fits a fake beard around his mustache, Ramba Ral continues to brief you all.

"We've managed to get the ID of the vehicle they used to attend to the Arclight Luna transport, so we know which one were looking for, you'll go with Amistad who will do a detailed check on the vessel's hard-drive. Meanwhile Charefe and I will keep an eye on any Lowe Staff nearby whilst Phellips downloads their hangar surveillance tapes. We don't want to linger anymore than we have to, the less time they have to get suspicious of us, the better."

You (with some difficulty) fit on a workmans hat over your prestigious 'fro and give him a nod of understanding.
Seeing as everybody is ready, you all make way to the nearby transport pod.

"What's the Journey time?" Phellips asks.
"Lowe are based inside Von Braun spacedock 15, it's a smaller dock they largely have to themselves."

"Won't that be a little close for them if the Loyalists pull this off?"

"Working theory is that only certain elements of Lowe Salvage has been compromised, not the entire organisation. With a bit of luck, those agents will already have pulled out by the time we arrive..."

>>12771944
>>12771952

I've been reading everything Ramba Ral has been saying in his voice from Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 the last few threads. I have no idea why but it's making me pretty happy.

>>12771391

Ok, to clarify what I think was being thrown about, SRWQ started well after Zeonquest, in late january of this year. Zeonquest is the elder, and its 90% of the inspiration for me starting SRWQ in the first place. However, there was a breif period a few months ago where there were more SRWQ threads than total Zeonquest thread. There are 45 threads in the first 'disc' and 36 in the current story uber-arc, as of right now. This is because /m/ is a lot slower than /tg/ and I can run quest threads non-stop, posting every couple of hours and leaving them to sit in the lower pages overnight. This means each thread can last a week or two until I finally let it fall off page 15 or it hits autosage.

It also helps that I'm an obsessive with no life.

You arrive at Space Dock 15 fairly quickly. Transport pods have certainly got a lot quicker and efficient in recent years.
You remember when they used to travel at a fixed 20mph, and their pathfinding protocols were only about as intelligent as a New York Taxicab drivers.

Anyway. You reach the somewhat rundown looking offices of Lowe Salvage, and work your way around to the loading docks on the back. The main shutters are closed, and whilst the light on in the back implies that they're open, they don't appear to be doing anything.

Ramba Ral prepares his fake ID and knocks on the back door. There is a short delay before he's finally answered by someone who wont even open the door properly.

"Whaddya want?" He asks.

Unpeturbed, Ramba Ral shows him his ID.

"We're here for a suprise safety inspection can you let us in?"

There is a pause.
"What? Come on? Today? Can't you come back tommorow."

"No, because that's why it's called a suprise safety inspection."

"Uh, hold on." he says again.

Ramba Ral frowns some more.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>12772001

Oh good, I was worried I wasn't doing him right.

>>12772045

>It also helps that I'm an obsessive with no life.

[brofist]

>>12772089
I'm off to get my tea.

BRB Dinner.

>>12772060

This seems like the sort of thing we'd be best leaving to Ramba. There don't seem to be any applications where a thrown heat hawk would come in handy.

Failing that, use our super Zolomon fasttalking powers to come up with something about being levied with fines if they don't let us in.

Look around to see if anyone else is coming.
Try to come up with something to say if the guy tries to turn us away again.

Accuse them of Drug trafficking even.

>>12772125

No, no. That's too heavy handed. And probably not something an inspector would say. Go with the "Are you aware that by failing to provide access to authorized safety inspectors of the Von Braun Transport Authority without reasonable cause, your company may be subject to fines of up to [#bignum]?"

I have no idea what the currency is in Von Braun. Moon dollars? Also, if this guy is just a regular dude, this'll scare him, 'cause if there *is* a fine, guess whose ass is gonna get blamed?

>>12772193
Yes, do this. If there's anything last night's King of the Hill episode taught me, it's that anyone will cave if you shout enough big names and numbers at them.

>>12772193
Seconding this if the guy tries to give us the runaround.
Either that, or demand to speak with his manager and get his employee ID number. Make a big show of writing down his name, number, and what he says.

>>12772045
Weren't you here a while back asking about a crossover? Also, is SRWQ archived anywhere for prospective new readers?

>>12772060
Look to Ral for what to do next. He's in charge here.

>>12772264
>Weren't you here a while back asking about a crossover?

I remember that. I gave the go ahead if I recall, but I told you to give me a PM or something so that we could discuss it further, and then nothing happened.

>>12772193

... Actually, what *is* the currency in UC Gundam?

The man who's been talking with you returns after a short while, and opens the door more fully this time.

"Are you sure you couldn't perhaps be... more reasonable about this?" he says, there happens to be a wad of Credits in his hands.

Ramba Ral smiles, leans forwards, and then headbutts the man, knocking him cold. He then tosses him aside.

"That was a Zircon agent, I remember him from the counter-federal guerrilla missions from the beginning of war. He went by the codename of Hylas back then. Ready your guns, it looks like the agents are still in there, and they're probably cleaning house before pulling out. If we can stop them before they erase the records of their activities, we'll have the best chance of finding the Ghost."

YOUR ORDERS?

>>12772264
Easymodo covers /m/ threads, but there was a huge crash a while back, so it might not have some of the first half of threads. Suffice it to say, SM Katina is a crazy child molester who can't quite handle big personal changes very easily.

>>12772524
Break out our guns. Do they have suppressors? If so, attach them.
It's time to rock.

>>12772524
Ready our guns and prepare to go kill some traitors. Try not to shoot any innocents.

Ready our weapons, but don't shoot to kill, assuming we could interrogate any of these guys.

>>12772524

Make sure the one we KO'ed isn't going to get to bite down on a suicide pill or the like when he wakes up. Having a live one to squeeze will be helpful in dealing with whatever intel we get here.

>>12772621

Second. Handcuff him to a drainpipe or something, check his mouth for false teeth, wipe our hands off, check him for concealed weapons, and nick any small innocuous looking items of jewellery or watches he might have on him (The man's a spy. Can't be too careful. Never know where he might have a concealed lockpick or miniature laser or something stupid like that).

Also, take his wallet.

>>12772684
>nick any small innocuous looking items of jewellery or watches he might have on him (The man's a spy. Can't be too careful. Never know where he might have a concealed lockpick or miniature laser or something stupid like that).

And, you know, those might fetch a good price at a pawn shop somewhere too >.>

>>12772709

Never mind that. The easy way to get all those cool spy toys. Have Ramba Ral headbutt them and steal them (once they're checked for nasty side effects).

Lister does it all the time, only it's Mobile Suit shields. Why not us?

>>12772757
Well, because if they manage to get a message off before we subdue all of them, then the JG might catch on that the mission's been discovered, and then BAD THINGS (tm) will happen. So, yeah. But after we've gotten them all tied up and shit, yeah. Loot away.

>>12772264
It wasn't so much a Crossover, as that I was looking for permission to feature some of the Nachtmaren in the Patchwork, a dimension made of shattered worlds that is the main setting for part 2. I eventually decided on something different: http://musouquest.pastebin.com/ZtZz1cQD

>>12772541

No, they're all there last I checked. Google a blog called 'Team Phantom Tiger', there are lists of the different parts in the sidebar.

>>12772779

Okay, fine. But still, handcuff him to something. If he wakes up and gets away before we're done, we're still screwed.

>>12772785
>link to a site that has all the SRWQ threads

Thank you so much!

>ZQ descendants in the pastebin

Glorious.

>>12772814
Second. We have to make sure that he can't get away, or otherwise signal that their cover's been blown.

>>12772684

You pull out your SMG, and attatch a silencer to it after making sure the guy Ramba Ral knocked out won't be going anywhere soon. The others are doing the same.

"Hey what's the hold u-" comes the call from inside the office, cut off as Ramba Rall puts a bullet from his silenced sidearm through his skull.

The rest of you move inside. Watching the exits on the way.
The reception area is unmanned and the door to the hangar is still open, despite health and safety warnings to keep it closed clearly visible around it. The guy next to you rolls his eyes.
"Well, they'd be marked down for that for a start." he remarks quietly.

You peer inside. It's a small hangar bay with two shuttles. Only one has it's doors open, and a toolkit beside it. You can't see anybody else, but you assume they must be there.
If you remember the Von Braun Small Hangar configuration correctly, the security room should be accessable via the close door to your left, which will be adjacent to the offices, and will have windows overlookind the hangar.
The Hangar itself should be quite small, and looks somewhat cramped as is with two shuttles inside, it's really only designed for one.
Going straight for the shuttle is probably going to cause alarm, but from the looks of things, they're deleting vital evidence as we speak.
However, the same is probably also true of the security room...

>>12772918

Split up. We have a couple of Ramba's Commando/Spy types with us, right?

We take the security room, and can provide covering fire to Ramba and his chaps through the window as he goes for the shuttle. Once we've cleared it out, anyway.

Security room suggests Security Cameras though, so they're probably expecting us. We got flashbangs?

>>12772918

Split the team.

Zol leads one half, Ramba Ral the other.

Zol should go for the shuttle due to newtype hax. He has a better chance of making it they come under fire.

Ramba Ral's element should expedite their move on the security room.

Zeonquest on Friday again! Fuck yeah.

>>12773010

That works too!

If we get to the shuttles, disable them so no one can escape from us.

>>12773010
Seonded. Thought it doesnt really matter to me what each team goes for just that they move fast.

>>12773010
That's true; Zol's Newtype powers can't be discounted.
Supporting this.

>>12773004
>>12773010

No. You don't have flashbangs or smoke grenades. Just ordinary ones.

You and Cherefe prepare your weapons, you and him will make a dash for the shuttle, but you'll be giving Ramba Ral's team a good five second headstart first, to try and maximise the chances of him taking out any guards in the security office.

He opens the door and him and the three others dash down. You then check left and right one more time, and make your dash.
A hidden guard between the two shuttles reacts in suprise at you, you send a burst of bullets at him before he can return fire with his own sub-machinegun and down him.

"Hey what's going on?" Asks the tecnician from inside the shuttle. You use the microgravity to your advantage, somersault into the cabin and stamp his face into the side of the cockpit cabin with your boot as part of a spin kick.
He slumps bonelessly to the ground. You usher the guy behind you inside and lock the cabin door from the inside.

"Hows it look?" You ask.

"It looks like they were in the process of removing the hard-drive and replacing it with a clean one. You can't ever really be sure with just a datawipe these days, data retrieval has gotten pretty damn advanced."

"So they're gonna lift the drive, replace with a new one, and vent the old one into space?"

"Most likely. Shit! They already gaussed the drive though to be doubly sure. It's going to take day's to retrieve the data from this drive!"

"Shit, we don't have days man! What about the tiertiery manufacturers black-box?"

"The what with the what now?"

"All shuttles made in Von-Braun for operations within the city (which this is) have to have a second black box fitted inside an armoured core in the cockpit floor. It's another safety reg that most people forget."

Cherefe blinks, clearly oblivious to this. Which might mean that the ZIRCON agents were as well...

>>12773228

Well don't just stand there! CHECK!

>>12773261
Second!

>>12773228
Should we bother telling this guy that most Zeon warships also have a second black box?

You grasp a crowbar from within your BAG OF GUNS AND SHIT and begin prying up the floor plating of the shuttle.
You have to grab the knocked out technician and toss him out first as he's in the way. You can hear shooting outside from the security room.

The plate is hard to remove, it's a good sign it hasn't been done recently. You lift if and pull up the smaller, older black box. Charefe pulls out his diagnostic and begins checking it.

"It's doesn't appear to have been tampered with, and I'm seeing flight data. I'll skip to the last few entries try to see if I can find it. Goddamn, there must be 10 years worth of entries in here... found it! I'm downloading the last weeks worth of entries wholesale so we don't miss anything. I'll look at it closer when we get back to the hotel. What now?"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>12773356
Uh.... check the other shuttle? Or if that isn't important, go and give Ral some backup?

>>12773356
Give Ramba and his team a hand.
If the ZIRCON agents were pulling this shuttle's records, the other one is probably clean.

>>12773356

Can Cherefe, I dunno... Email a copy to the analysis team or something? This could still go horribly wrong, and I'd rather not have all our eggs in one potentially shootable basket.

After that, make sure the shuttle's clear (I dunno how big it is. Could be some dude hiding at the back muttering frantically into his radio), then secure the people we KOed/shot. Ramba can probably handle the security room, and if he can't we probably wouldn't get there in time anyway.

Secure the people we've rendered unconscious or shot. We saw him go down, but he might still be able to radio for help.

>>12773446
>>12773436

Oh shit. Right. Two shuttles.

In that case, see about emailing stuff, make sure shuttle's clear, go for the second shuttle. If they missed the black box in THIS one, then...

>>12773446
>Secure the people we've rendered unconscious or shot. We saw him go down, but he might still be able to radio for help.
Seonded.

Also, what's the plan after we secure this place? Eventually somebody is going to notice.

>>12773507

By that time we have disappeared into the night, leaving behind only bullet holes and a suspicious absence of petty cash and valuable personal effects.

But seriously. We don't, DON'T do anything to this hanger. We leave it intact. We remove the bodies and the information, and put the covers back on the secondary black-box thingies. If we blow it up, then it will be news. News is bad. If it's just unoccupied, it will sit here until someone comes to find out why noone is answering the phone.

>>12773382

You tell Carefe to finish the download, and to keep the doors locked until you call, and that you're going out to help Ramba Ral.

"Be careful, we don't know how many there are."

You carefully peer out each way. The tech still appears to be out cold, but you bind his hands and feet just in case. You look up, you can see Ramba Ral in the Security office through it's broken glass, patching up a flesh wound whilst the other two trade fire from the cover of the doorframe.

You put on a thick pair of gloves from within your BAG OF GUNS AND SHIT and leap up to the security room and enter through the broken window.

"Hows it hanging?" You ask.

"I'm fine, we've got about three other agents all with guns of some kind pinning us down. But this corridor is basically a killing field, they can't get to us, we can't get to them. What's the situation in the shuttle? We had to use a frag grenade to clear this room out, so the computers are fried. We've retireved what we can, but Phellips is optimistic."

"It looks like the agents forgot about the second black box in the shuttle, Carefe is downloading last weeks entires from it as we speak."

"Good, pass me any pineapples you have, we'll toss them at them and either make our escape, or risk finishing them off. Whichever seems appropriate."

"Carefe here, you asked me to call in when I'd finished?"

"Excellent. So what now?"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>12773612

Pass the man his pineapples, and be prepared to do some risky shit.

If these people call home, we are fucked.

>>12773612
>pass me any pineapples you have
It's time for some Pineapple Salad!

Before we leave check pockets and jackets and shit, and the other shuttle, for radios or maps or documents or anything.

>>12773646

Damnit Arty...

You pass Ramba Ral the grenades.

"If any of them survive to get word out, they could start the attack early. We have to take them all out, and we have to take all of the prisoners with us. That possible."

"Sure, we need to interrogate some of them anyway." Ramba Ral replies with a shrug. He takes the grenades, removes the pin from one and tosses it down the hall.
An explosion follows, and you all dash forwards, guns blazing.
You stick your gun inside the doorway of the nearest office, find a target holding another compact SMG and fire a burst at him, you then move on, keeping up the rest of them as they storm forwards. Using the low gravity to dart about the walls and ceilings like some kind of stylised honk kong action film.
You see Amistad take a bullet through the leg and spin backwards. Ramba Ral arrests his fall and bodily catches him, send bullets spitting back at the assailant from his pistol.
You add to the weight of fire, supressing the attacker and then helping Ral carry the wounded Amistad into an already cleared office. Ral takes out some more battlefield dressing.

"I'll deal with this, you take my grenades and finish them off!" he tells you as he hands the remaining nades back to you.

Taking position behind Phellip you see him trade shots at close distance, firing blind from cover. You helpful toss a primed grenade at the direction of enemy fire. There is a pronounced yelp as your fastball sluggs some poor bastard in the face.
The following krump of the explosion clears the opposing room out.

Both you and Phellip nod at one another and push forwards. There's one office left in the building, most likely the Directors.

>>12773958

Guess we go in then, grenades first, guns blazing.

>>12773958
If there are any windows to the Director's office, try to get to them wherever they are. Shoot them out and toss a grenade in there.

Taking position on either side of the door, you replace the ammo mag on your SMG, and check with Phellips, he nods and you tap the door switch.

The door opens and a hail of bullets follow. Unfortunately, you seem to have run out of grenades. You look around you for something that could help you out, and you spot a fire extinguisher attatched to the wall.
You close the door again, dash for it, and wrest it from it's moorings, you then punch the seal on it, open the door again, whilst Phellip gives covering fire, you jam it on and toss it inside. A shower of bullets follow, you hear a loud ding, followed by a bang and a scream.
Some stupid idiot doesn't know what happens when you shoot a high pressure container at close range it seems.
You dive in, there are bouncing shrapnel fragments everywhere, the room is a mess of blood and papers and carbon dioxide. You're pretty sure that whoever was shooting at you is dead. But you carefully give it a minutes for everything to finally settle to double check.

From what you can tell he was trying to call out to somewhat. But from where your standing, the phone appears to have been too badly damaged to find out who.

Good thing you all decided to cut the communications trunk for this spaceport twenty minutes ago huh?

>>12773646

http://www.youtube.com/user/PinesaladProductions

*ahem*

>>12774176
>Good thing you all decided to cut the communications trunk for this spaceport twenty minutes ago huh?

Um... right.

Commence cleanup operations and evac our wounded.

>>12774176
Apologized, you can't keep doing that. That is one of the major reasons I feel ZQ has gone downhill lately. Less active players and whatnot. You don't let us make our own mistakes, so no matter what we do, everything ends up at the same conclusion. It all becomes the illusion of choice when we have no influence on what happens.

I'm not saying that you aren't listening to what we say, because you do. But no matter what we say and you add in for flavor, we end up at the same exact point.

>>12774324
That's our mistake, sure. But is it a fair assumption that a team of commandos and spies would make that mistake?

AFTERMATH

You quickly drag the unconcious survivors back with you onto the transport pod, and lock up behind you as you go.

You have to rush, as the explosions might bring in law enforcement officers, which you don't have time for right now.
The journey back to the Hotel is somewhat nervous and tense. Carefe is still going over the data, but he thinks he's got it. But he needs network access to crosscheck and make sure.

After bribing the receptionist to look the other way, you drag the unconcious agents back to Ramba Rals joint rooms. One room is cordoned off for Amistad and Phellips to interogate the survivors, whilst Carefe double checks the data.

A few minutes pass.

"It looks good sir. I've crosschecked where the shuttle went after attending to the Arclight crash, it went directly to this resource sattellite in the Rickenbaker Expanse. The sattellite is large, has very big entry and exit ports, perfect for hiding a Superheavy MS like the Ghost, plus it's currently registered as unowned and for sale, and the last owner was Arclight. I think this is the one."

"Good work soldier. Okay Zolomon, we have our target, now, how do we get the word to the rest of Nachtmaren without alerting the enemy?"

YOUR IDEAS?

>>12774393
Isn't it a fair assumption that robot pilots would be able to do all of this instead of us deciding what to do?

That specifically isn't the point. The point is when we have no control over what happens, good and bad, it stops being fun. And I'm guessing that's why there are so much fewer players now.

>>12774401
Find the fastest ship in Von Braun, and steal it.

>>12774422

The reason I did that is because I forgot about that as well.
So it was as much my mistake as anybody elses, and why should I punish you for my own mistakes?
Sure, nobody else realised either, but if I should have remembered something that obvious, and should have perhaps mentioned it are alluded to it first beforehand.

Okay, where are the Nachtmaren presently? In Von Braun? Still dropping Nell et al off?

>>12774401
>After bribing the receptionist to look the other way
With the cash the guy was trying to bribe us with I hope.

>YOUR IDEAS?
How much time do we have left? And would a priority express mail delivery make it to Grenada with time to spare?
We send a letter with the purchase info on that station with a note saying "we should totally buy this thing after the war and start up a business." Hopefully David will get the picture.

Alternate: email along the same lines to Flanagan institute since we know they'll be visiting there some time soon.

>>12774324
Eh, it's not like Zol dictates the whole operation. Do go on, apologized.

>>12774491
Or send Zol and his Gyan to Grenada.

>>12774430
Absofuckinglutely.

>>12774577
Wrong picture. I meant this one.

>>12774491
This was me.

>>12774513
I'd agree but for the problem of getting his MS out of the ship and out of the city without everybody knowing about it.

>>12774430
Wouldnt that big a big news item something like that happening?

>>12774643
It'd be pretty fucking awesome, is what it would be.

>How much time do we have left? And would a priority express mail delivery make it to Grenada with time to spare?

On the current timeline you'd have over a day. But that's assuming they don't get word that their suppliers been hit.
If there were any more supply drops scheduled before the attack then they'll probably figure it out then.


>>12774658
>>12774603
>>12774577
>>12774479

You know, you COULD just rent or buy it right? You probably have the gold for that.

>>12774643
Yes, which is why we are weighing in the risk. Call Grenada, and move slowly? Or ramming speed!

Need to be sure the position of the target, in comparison with VB, Grenada, and the rest of the Nactmaren's current position.

>>12774673
Take it for a "test drive".

>>12774673
Awesome. Legal way has so much less risk of getting reported. Go for it.

>>12774673
What sort of speed are we talking with the fastest rentable ship? And does if have a cargobay?

>>12774673

How long will it take it we steal a wheeled EVA vehicle, suits and just drive to Grenada?

Should be faster than what our infantry did when they last moonwalked that route.

>>12774703
Shit doesn't need a cargobay. We just need someone to go fast as fuck and give them the details.

>>12774703

A small fast rentable shuttle can get you there in under two hours, one that you could fit your Gyan Kreiger into would take about 6 hours. Probably a neglible difference, but who can say?

>>12774805
Four hours could make a big difference. Screw it, take the faster one.

>>12774805
Get both. Problem solved. :D

>>12774805
Get the fastest ship. Rent or steal, doesn't matter. Send someone without a suit to deliver the message. Zol sticks with Ral so we can deliver a two pronged assault.

David's group will attack. Ramba and Zol will play defense, hoping to intercept and surprise ambush from the other side.

>>12774869
This. Meet the Krieger halfway back.

>>12774864
>>12774872

So, get the fastest ship, have somebody from the team send the message to them, whilst Ral and the rest of his team get ready for a last ditch defence if it doesn't work?

>>12774946
Ral's team and Zol set up a last line of defense.

>>12774976
Kampfer and Gyan Krieger, eh? I guess they might be fast enough...

Especially if JG just escaped Nachtmaren's raid and has no escorts.

Though hopefully it won't get that far.

>>12775032
Or was it that Gelgoog upgrade? I can't remember Ramba's current ride...

>>12774976
Yeah, that's what I meant. Okay then.

You compose a digital file containing all of the relevant information, and put it inside a sealed envelope.

You then book on short notice a fast transport to Grenada, and send Carefe with the message to deliver it personally. With a bit of luck, you might just be able to pull it off...

You shake hands with man as he's about to leave in the shuttle.

"Well, in case I don't see you at the end of this mission, it's been real bro." you tell him.

"Thanks, it's been... and experience certainly."

"The work ain't over yet you two, now comes the tricky part." Ramba Ral reminds you both.

"Tricky? Commander, have you ever actually SEEN my boss fight?"

TO BE CONTINUED

While Zol's doing this, David and the team are sipping martinis and laughing at him.

That is Zol's greatest fear.

David or Jolyne had better have been testing Newtype weapons in the course of their side trip.

>>12775115
>"Tricky? Commander, have you ever actually SEEN my boss fight?"

That would be a no. He was off fighting core fighters with the rest of the team while Jol, David and Hovis attacked the Carrier.

I like that Zol calls David his boss.

I could do Omake's about what the rest of the team has been doing, but honestly, I think I'll save that for next week.

a superior weapon system appears

rolled 21141 = 21141

Fuck me, I completely forgot about this today.

>>12775320

Yes.
We know.

Hell, why did you think that Zeon wanted to end the war without ever actually setting foot on the earth in the first place?
Did you not fucking read any of the background information or are you just here to troll.

I've been looking at the MS-18F Kämpfer Beam Weapon Type this past week and think it might be the best choice as Zeon's designated sniper MS.

The MS-05L conversions dont seem to be happening (yet) and the Gelgoog isnt being produced in significant numbers for Jaegers to be issued as a main line sniper unit.
With some minor modifications like dust filters for joints I think the MS-18F could prove just as effective on Earth as in space. They could wear camo netting or tarps as they move into position then use their superior engine output to escape after firing. Their limited fuel reserves are only an issue in situations where they have to use their boosters.

>>12775406

Seems reasonable. The high engine output would probably help it to shoot and scoot as well. It'd need some pretty big external fuel pods, but for a long range support unit that wouldn't be too bad...

>>12775449
Considering its high payload capacity, drop tanks wouldn't be out of the question. UMP suits use them, so it should be possible to retrofit some hardpoints on the back, maybe where the bazookas attached.

>>12775449
>>12775551
And if it's assembly is any indication it'd be much cheaper to produce than the MS-14Jg.

Btw was that a yes or no on a Gyan Beam rifle shield?
(Yes Sam, I know you still want that other one, I'll get it next week.)

>>12775646

Maybe on the Kreiger.

>>12775702
The Krieger is the one that Zol already has. I put it there for comparison.
I'm trying to find ways of increasing the ranged firepower for regular Gyans since we havent seen them carrying Beam Rifles yet.
The Gelgoogs that Girhen is likely to deploy en-mass are going to give us a very hard time.

>>12775646
Aww, thanks Arty. I didn't mean for it to necessarily be for mass production though, if you're worried about that. More like an ace custom shield for an already-upgraded Gyan with an improved reactor to handle both extra weapon systems at the same time. Alternately, since they probably won't be fired at the same time much (short ranged linked weapons and a long ranged rifle, right?), then I suppose a normal reactor could power them both as long as they're not used at the same time....

I'm just thinking of versatility here. And at close range, if the reactor can handle it, adding the Beam Rifle's firepower to that of the Beam Guns would be helpful, no? Blarg, it's late, I don't even know what I'm talking about anymore.

tl;dr- Thanks for indulging my need for more guns Arty.

>>12775770

...What if, we replaced the Hide-Mines with Anti-Beam Chaff pods?

>>12776094
That'd certainly give it a much better chance of closing to melee range.

And if you're going to be launching beam chaff from the shield a beam weapon wouldnt be quite as useful... What about that GM Railgun we captured at Odessa? Give them to regular Gyans as a backup ranged weapon?