>>15145907

Also, things on your to-do list:

>1. Option is to get some flight-time in the Galbaldy to get used to it before we arrive at Solomon.
>2. Ookawara is going to work on modifying the Gyran Recon module to fit into the Galbaldy.
>3. We calculate the freighter's path that it's going to take using its logged flight plan and knowing its average cruising speed.
>4. We drop message beacons periodically into the debris field telling the freighter it needs to turn back because Solomon is a hot combat zone; try to contact the Outer Heaven if they can get clear of the debris field to give us the Gatling ammo they have.
>5. Have MS patrols dip into the debris field as we go, to do a quick look around for the freighter, before come back to the OH and moving on to the next nav point in our search.

YOUR ORDERS?

>5. Have MS patrols dip into the debris field as we go, to do a quick look around for the freighter, before come back to the OH and moving on to the next nav point in our search.
we do this in the galbaldy

>>15145919
Okay, stamp out orders to put all of those bullet-points in motion, and then get back to the OH to see what's wrong with Nell. Have Jolyne take over and see to those items if necessary.

>>15145980
What? No, we're not piloting the Galbaldy, Option is.

Unless you're saying that Option should be doing that, which I disagree to, since he should be given a lot of open space to test the suit out in, not a dangerous debris field.

>>15145994
Agreed, and it's going to take a little bit to get the suit fitted with the recon pack.

>YOUR ORDERS?
Find out what's happening with Nell ASAP.

>>15145919
Items 1 and 2 are easy enough; just tell Option to start testing the Galbaldy out, and I think Ookawara said he would start working on the recon package last session.
Items 3 and 4 we can tell Mauser and Anita to work on; they're better at it since that kind of work is their job.
Item 5, we can probably foist off on Strauss to coordinate.

We should get back tot he Outer Heaven and see what's up with Nell; we'll need her bits in the upcoming battle.

>>15145987

You give your orders, making sure Option get's as much use as possible out of the Galbady B before you expect to get full combat duties. You also tell Ookawara to get to work on that Recon package. He tells you it shouldn't actually take all that long to do, although he has some concerns about the extra weight gain. You promise to listen to them later.

You enter the hangar bay, park up, and then take the lift to the crew compartments where Nells and her handlers have taken residence. When they aren't getting underfoot in the MA bay up top that is.

The two of them usher you inside, they seem clearly worried. You don't see Nell.

"What's the problem?"

"It's Nell, about 20 minutes ago she just went... crazy."

"That's not really how I'd put it, but essentially, about 20 minutes ago she hit the locks on her door, started smashing up all of the furniture in there and then refused to come out. We COULD have hit the manual override on the door lock and tranqed her up, but since she might be needed in combat, we don't really want to do that. Then she started asking to see you."

"Me?" you ask, somewhat suprised, you were still under the impression that you partially terrified Nell.

"That's what she said."
With nothing better on option you decide to use the overrides on the door locks, and enter into her room.

>>15146057
This will be troublesome. If she's asked to see David, then it must be something really bad to get over the fear response we inflict on her.

Hell yeah, Zeonquest!

>>15146057
This can't end well.

Follow the bullet points. See what's up with Nell.

Take a moment to reflect that you're David Goddamned Lister, and you've survived a tremendous amount of stuff, and have, on the whole, been a boon for Zeon, and done the right thing, as best as possible.

>>15146093
I just hope that she won't use her elmeth as a shield to save us... we did save lalah after all.

>>15146057
The room in which Nell has holed herself up with had the lights turned off, the furniture had been turned over and scratches and scribblings were all over the walls. Most probably crayon. Your fruitless attempts to turn on the lights reveal that she must have done SOMETHING to the bulb.

You can hear her sniffling and breathing heavily in the corner.

You attempt to move towards her, but then she just starts crying. Not in the mildly terrified way she usually did either. She basically just starts loudly crying, he feet start kicking up and down, and she pulls herself even tighter into a ball in the corner.

You back away a little, but she waves at you to stay. You look around for a second for some help, which doesn't seem to be forthercoming.
Nell then tries to talk to you.

“D.D.D.d.d.d...” she stutters initially, having trouble talking through the tears.

“If you want we can do this la...” you start but she interrupts by screaming no at you. She cries a little further, takes some deep breaths to try and get some more control and tries again.

>>15146146

“Do you know what an 'newtype breakthrough event' is?” she asks. You shake your head.

“It's when a...a...a newtype goes from unawakened, to a f..f.f.fully awakened state. Normally it happens when one newtype meets another newtype and then gradually they come up to their full potential.”

“Right.” you say, unsure of where this is going.

“T.t.t.t.there are ssssss.sss.s.ss...” she starts before bursting into another round of sobs. Your eyes are beginning to adapt now, you can see she is clutching in her arms the stuffed Acguy you got her, despite the crushing bearhug it seems to at least be surviving.
She get's herself under control again.

“Some people don't have a full awakening like that though. Some people have newtype abilities that their subconcious looks at and is absolutely terrified of and seals them off. Those abilities can only be unlocked by some kind of personal trauma.”

“Personal trauma?” you ask, wondering where she's going with this.

“Like say, your entire neighbourhood collapsing on your head killing your family.” Nell says.

“Like the Zum City Slums incident” you clarify.

“Right, I'm a neuromancer, Jolyne can stop time.”

You pause.

“Wait, what?” you ask.

>>15146093
>If she's asked to see David, then it must be something really bad to get over the fear response we inflict on her.

Try not to scare Nell, Try not to scare Nell, Try not to scare Nell.

"Boo! Dammit. uh, I mean are you alright?"

“It's not important. What IS important is that even though I can see everything that should happen, and could happen, there are STILL some things that no matter how hard I look I can't change. There are still some PEOPLE that no matter how hard I try I can't save. Can you imagine David, having that knowledge in your head for almost 12 months? Knowing that it's coming and that there's nothing you can do to stopitandyouaren'tevensureifyoushouldbecausewhathappensnextmeanspeopledon'thavetogetkilledbutthatone
personandyoutry..yo..yo.tryyyyyyy” she finishes her outburst midsentence by bursting into tears again. You wait a little while for it to subside.

>>15146182
“try to tell yourself it's just one person and it d.d.d.doesn't matter if it's j.j.j.just one guy but its n.n.n.never just one guy because there's no difference and peoplewillhateyoubecauseyouknewbecausetheydontUNDERSTANDthatyoucouldn'tdoanythingandyouweren'tevensu
pposedtoknow. It's not my fault. It was always coming from before today before the war before Zeon before you before me... it'snotmyfaultit'snotmyfaultit'snotmyfault.....”

Nell is clearly beside herself. Whilst having her on fire support would be nice, you honestly aren't sure if you trust her in a warmachine right now.

"Nell. Who is going to die?" You ask.

"If I tell you. You'll die. You cannot die, because then we'll all die. I can't tell you."

"I'm not THAT important" you tell her, trying to cheer her up if nothing else.

She stars at you dead in the eyes with irises flecked with green and yellow.

"You will be David Lister. You will be" she says in a voice more of the pit than of a 12 year old girl. You take a step back in momentary fright.

"There's a newtype out there who is death. He isn't about strength, he isn't "strong" he is an absolute. If you face him directly All. Will. Die. He's out there. There is only one person in all the universe who can get around this and he does not yet exist."

This is spooking you now.

>>15146182
I can think of a few people that Nell might be referring to, including herself. But for most of them, their deaths only contributes to setting the stage for the Gryps Conflict and the Neo-Zeon War.

>>15146228

"Look. Nell, why did you ask for me to talk to you?"

"I don't know. I just.... I just had to do something. Even if it was pointless. Just. Just, do like you always do, I wont say it will be fine but, there IS a way to save the Outer Heaven and the Transport. Even against him. But..."

"But?"

"Please remember. It's not my fault. I tried and I tried but nothing worked. I tried but I could tell anyone because then they would die. I tried!"

She doesn't really seem all that keen on continuing the conversation. She just keeps mumbling to herself in unhearable tones.

You back away, and decide to return to the other two outside. On the way back you see a somewhat incogruous verse scribbled in crayon by the foot of the door

"The bad news is he's dead, the good news is he bred."

You put it out of your mind as you talk with the other two.

"Well? Is she going to pilot?"

"Honestly? She's a wreck, I don't know what you'd call this, but me? I'd call it what happens if you turn children into soldiers. I mean, she might knuckle down and get on with it, or she could fall apart." You ask.

"So, final word?" they ask you.

YOUR ORDERS? DOES NELL SORTIE OR NOT?

>>15146228
"Nell, we ALL die some day. What matters is that we fight for what we believe until the end of our days. Now tell me: Who is going to die."

Also, going to get my tea. See you in a bit.

>>15146261
nope.jpg
I'm more worried about her than David or anyone else, she may get reckless and endanger herself.

>>15146261
>YOUR ORDERS? DOES NELL SORTIE OR NOT?
FUCK. OH GOD THE PRESSURE.

Yeah, no. We can't send her out in the state she is in.

>>15146261
I'm torn; my first thought was to not have her sortie.
But that could be what causes the destruction of the OH.
But what if sending Nell out is what gets her killed but saves the OH?

We should bring her.

Why?

Because she'll probably head out on her own if we leave her behind.

>>15146315

This. Might as well take her. What's the worst that could happen?

>"The bad news is he's dead, the good news is he bred."

What the fuuuuuuuuuck . . .

I vote for leaving her behind. Knowing full well that she'll probably break out on her own, resulting in tragedy. I knew this wasn't going to end well.

Nell should sortie, even if the event is "locked" now it might "unlock" later.

>>15146315
I admit, you bring up a good point.
Even if we tell her to not sortie, she might attempt to break out with the Elmeth.
Of course, we could disable the Elmeth so that she can't launch it.

Damnit, I'm still not entirely sure if we should have Nell sortie. It might not even be her that dies if she does. Though it might mean that someone dies protecting her.
But the implication she seemed to make is that unless that one person dies, then the Outer Heaven and the transport freighter will both be sunk.

Also, any ideas on who she was talking about, this Newtype who is Death incarnate?

>>15146315
>>15146398
I propose something along these lines: Have her and the Elmeth ready to sortee on short notice but dont launch unless everything goes to hell worse than normal. Have the Elmeth locked down and unable to launch unless we or Mauser give the OK.

>>15146446
Okay, I can agree to that. Second.

>>15146455
third'd

Also my UC knowledge fail me... I'm trying to remember about that newtype and can't. It may be a OC made by apologized though...

>>The bad news is he's dead
>>The good news is he bred

GOD
FUCKING
DAMMIT

Thank you for giving us advanced warning. Because if you didn't, Apologized, I'd fucking throttle you. I'd buy plane tickets. If you're killing the big loveable only man aside from fucking-

Wait, how CAN he die if he's in the big zam and has Shin at his side? The White Devil isn't in space now. Who the fuck could kill him?

Fucking *ask* Nell if she wants to sortie. If she doesn't volunteer, she doesn't go out. End of story.

QUESTION

HOW IN THE NAME OF FUCK IS THE 'SOLAR ARRAY' USED IN THE BEGINNING OF THE ATTACK ON SOLOMON ANY DIFFERENT FROM GIHREN'S COLONY LASER?

>>15146510
>Wait, how CAN he die if he's in the big zam and has Shin at his side? The White Devil isn't in space now. Who the fuck could kill him?
Fuck, I think I just figured it out.
Omake, Pt. 99. Federation Space Forces Warrant Officer Dennis Young.
That fucker is the guy who was so accurate that he took out all of the Bygro teams back at Side 4 by himself in a GM Command by himself.

>>15146552
Dammit, you're right.

Who the fuck is this warrant officer anyways? No matter what, we gotta do our best to make sure Solomon doesn't fall, or if it does, it takes the federation's best with it.

>>15146557
There will always be thing to make our plan useless right... since we saved Garma it's like the universe is plotting to foil our plans.

>>15146480
http://webspace.webring.com/people/xt/the_devillin/aces.html

Also, see some Omakes from a few episodes back.

>>15146534

Well, one uses a heavily updated form of Achrimedes Mirror, the other is a colony converted into a truly staggering carbon gas THEL Laser. Legally, nothing, both are superweapons that actually get around the Antarctica treaty.
But primarily? The Solar Array was built and used by the winners.

So. Metagaming ASIDE what's the final word.

>>15146557
KILLS: 149 MS and 3 ships to his credit
PILOTS: RGM-79GS GM Command Space Type and RGM-79SC GM Sniper Custom.

It may be a variation on Tenneth A. Jung.

>>15146618
I think, if I'm reading the votes right, its:
3 for sortie
3 for no sortie
3 for have her prepped but can only sortie if David or Mauser release the locks on the Elmeth

I suggest going with asking Nell if she's okay to pilot, and having her just sit on standby, since that seems to be a compromise between the yes/no crowd.

>>15146619
>>15146618
. . .

Lister may not have him in bodies (I think) for mobile suit kills, but he sure as shit has more ship kills. For someone named El Muerte Gigante we're more like Jack from the Giant Beanstalk- slaying fuckhueg stuff like it ain't no thing and soloing goddamned gundams.

>>15146637
Guy asking about warcrimes here, second.

>>15146618
see
>>15146637

>>15146057
>Galbady B

Wait what? OYW and we already have a Galbaldy Beta?

>>15146677
We ended up with the gyan since gelgoog guys went with gihren, so the galbady series would be the next step.

>>15146677
Our messing with the timeline has resulted in a fast-forward of certain technological developments.

>>15146677

It's just an alpha with less armour. Not really all that advanced, MAHQ puts it's performance as being barely better than a Hizack. This model also lacks the panoramic cockpit, which presumably was added later.

>I suggest going with asking Nell if she's okay to pilot, and having her just sit on standby, since that seems to be a compromise between the yes/no crowd.

Nell is currently unresponsive in her room.

>>15146730
WELL LET'S GO GIVE HER A BIG OLE HUG. DAMNED IF SHE TRIES TO GET AWAY. SHE'S GETTING A HUG.

>>15146677
It isnt the same a s the Federation Galbaldy Beta. (Probably) It's most likely that this one is a slightly cheaper UMP redesign.

>>15146730
Then she's not going to be of any use, so unless she comes foward and the situation absolutly need her, it's a no.

>>15146730
Give Nell a hug, and tell her that no matter what happens, we won't blame her. Then get the Elmeth prepped for launch, but its controls and drive locked so that only David or Mauser can unlock it.

>>15146730
Tell them to get ready to put her in the Elmeth on short notice. If she comes out of it let us know. If she doesnt we cant launch her.
Now lets quit stalling for time we dont have and get this quest on the move.

I dont know about everyone else but I'd like to get to Motherfucking Solomon some time this week.

Go give her a hug. Tell her things are gonna be alright and shit.

>>15146767
No argument from me.
Looks like majority is to give Nell a hug, tell her we won't hold her responsible, prep the Elmeth, and then get going.

>>15146751
>>15146767
>>15146771

You tell them that you don't think she should be piloting in her current condition. Nevertheless, you're going to make sure that the Elemeth is kept read to sortie if she pulls herself out of it.

With the most pressing matters seemingly taken care of you turn back to Nell, walk up to her and give her a hug.

"Look. Nell, whatever happens, happens. It's not your fault."

She doesn't appear catatonic any more, but just sniffs loudly, still crying softly. You're pretty sure you've got some snot on your shoulder for your efforts.

This appears to be the best you can do down here, so you return to your Mobile Suit and launch. Ookawara tells you he should be done with the Recon pack in about 20 minutes, and to send Option back around about then.

After you return to your team you tell Option to turn back to pick up the EWAC's gear in about 15 minutes. Since the situation seems calm for the moment you decide to have an impromptu evaluation discussion with Jolyne.

"So, you worked with Calvin more than the rest of us, how's Option shaping up as a recon unit?"

"He's got the basics down, plus he's got the fine dexterity skills that come with MS suit experience. To be honest, his nerves are pretty shot after Side 4 even now, I think this shift is good for him As is, I'd be suprised if he wasn't being treated for PTSD on the sly."

"Don't ask, don't tell huh?" you state. The more things change, the more they stay the same you think to yourself.

"So what about Rance?" You ask.

>>15146879

"Rance? Rance would be the star of the unit if the rest of us were such testamounts of insanity. Seriously, the guy managed to take out 2 Gelgoogs 2 on 1 all by himself. In a Zaku. Yeah sure, it's the super UMP as-good-as-it-gets Zaku Kai, but it's still a freaking Zaku. Any other unit, he'd be getting medals by now. Honestly, he's a GREAT fit for the rest of you superhuman asskickers..." she says, as if somehow that appellation doesn't apply to her just as much, if not more.
"...but I can't help but feel that being in this unit is stifling his advancement. It'll look great on his service record when he get's out for sure, just, whilst he's in here, he's not going to shine as much."

"Has he brought this up with you?" you ask.

"No, but it's probably going to, he seems like the type who likes being in the spotlight and getting the glory, saving the day, that sort of thing."

"The word your looking for is 'young' " you helpfully supply.

"You know, I'm pretty sure that you're AT BEST 8 years older than him."

"Yeah, but that's in pre-war years, each months of this war is like a year in normal time."

"I *was* wondering why my biological clock was going off, I figured SOMETHING had to be out of whack for me to lower my standards that far..."

"Oh har har."

The banter probably would have continued even further if Option didn't report back at that point.

"Contact! I've found her! But you'd better get here quick, I'm pretty sure we aren't the only one searching in this debris field. If I start launching flares, they're going to KNOW that were here. What are your orders at this time?"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>15146952
All suits scramble. We'll worry about the EWAC package later, Gear up and launch.

David, Jolyne, Elaine, and Rance keep previous loadout.
Zol got a new Gyan Kreiger shield at Pezun right? Standard-ish loadout for him. Beam lances, etc.
Option: Galbaldi shield, beam machinegun, Bullpup MG/or/ Bazooka, beam sabers, beam chaff grenades, various other grenades.

>>15146952
Launch all suits, have the OH go to silent running on a trajectory to where the contact was made.

Has Option had a chance to get the Recon Package installed, or is this before those 15 minutes were up?

I think we should take Rance, David, and Zolomon to provide backup for Option. Elaine and Jolyne, with their ballistic weapons, would be a good defense for the OH in case they need to use AB chaff.

I'm unsure about Strauss and his unit; I think they should come along, but I'm willing to be flexible on it.

Keep the Elmeth ready, but the locks in place.

>>15147012
Guy from >>15147016
Seconding Arty's loadout assignments.

Any more votes? Or is everyone passively agreeing with Arty's and my orders?

>>15147012
>>15147016

>Launch all suits, have the OH go to silent running on a trajectory to where the contact was made.

That's within the Debris field, just so you know. Still do this?

>Has Option had a chance to get the Recon Package installed, or is this before those 15 minutes were up?

Before, he was going to finish this particular recon and signal beacon spreading run before heading back to have it fitted.

>I think we should take Rance, David, and Zolomon to provide backup for Option. Elaine and Jolyne, with their ballistic weapons, would be a good defense for the OH in case they need to use AB chaff.

Ballistic weapons loadout, right. Do you want to mix in beam weapons as well?

>I'm unsure about Strauss and his unit; I think they should come along, but I'm willing to be flexible on it.

This is pretty much Strauss's mission. He's going to try and get that Transport turned around and escort it back to Pezun.

>Keep the Elmeth ready, but the locks in place.

Done.

>>15147154
>That's within the Debris field, just so you know. Still do this?
Yes. Get some of the suits out in front before it enters the field so that we dont get sneak attacked as easily.

>Ballistic weapons loadout, right. Do you want to mix in beam weapons as well?
Yes.

Tell Straus if we havent and find out what his plan is. Is he going to go straight for them?

>>15147154
>That's within the Debris field, just so you know. Still do this?
Extrapolate a nav point outside of the debris field that is close to where the contact was made. Have the OH go to that nav point. If the Elmeth IS forced to launch, we want it to be in area where Nell can make use of her bits.

>Ballistic weapons loadout, right. Do you want to mix in beam weapons as well?
For Jolyne and Elaine? Yes, backup beam rifles, and they've got their backpack beam cannons.
Everyone else, loadout as stated by Arty in >>15147012

>>15147201
The OH can provide a lot of extra firepower, but do we want to send it into a debris field?
If we do, we definitely won't be able to deploy Nell, since she can't navigate within a debris field.

>>15146593
> The universe is trying to fuck with us
I told you this would happen, but you didn't listen! This is what happens when you fuck with a timeline. Events have to be balanced, all causes must have effects.

You saved Garma, and ensured all sorts of other people would die in his place by a hundred fold. You enhanced war tech through your actions and ensured the conflict would grow to become even more deadly and devastating. You expanded the capabilities and numbers of New Types and now there are serious consequences unfolding in front of us.

You forced the two central players of the timeline, Amuro and Char, out of the Space War. You upstaged the main actors and kicked them off stage left. In return they will be replaced by monsters that defy all attempts to rationalize their presence and even basic existence on a battlefield they do not belong at.

Why is are they here? Who are they? Where did they come from? How are they so talented? Why do they broadcast such strong "pressure"? Simple. Because the universe wills it, because they are the reaction against what you have done. You pushed, and kept on pushing without any care that there might be a breaking point. In return the universe has been steadily pushing back.

You refused to listen, and now we'll all pay the price.

>>15147201
>Yes. Get some of the suits out in front before it enters the field so that we dont get sneak attacked as easily.

Okay

>Tell Straus if we havent and find out what his plan is. Is he going to go straight for them?

"Yeah, I pretty much have to, it's in the job description. Oh don't look at me like that, it's not like I'll be charging in all gung-ho, nobody want's to get into a firefight with the Feds if we can avoid it. But yeah, my orders are to retrieve the transport and that's what I've got to do. So, if you want to wait for the Outer Heaven for close support then fine, makes sense, but yeah, I'm going ahead. I'll meet up with Option, get his recon data and then go ahead. With a bit of luck we'll have the transport turned around and out of harms way be the time you meet up with us. We'll set up relay beacons for communications on the way, which should make things clearer huh?"

Since you hardly have the rank to countermand him, you instead wish him luck as the Outer Heaven continues to ponderously lurch towards you.

"...wait, comms beacons?"

"Yeah, Pezun finally managed to get a laser comm emitter small enough to mount in an MS's internal wrist launcher. Talk to them about it if you get back. Alternatively, I'm pretty sure the transport had a good supply of them bound for Solomon. We'll talk afterwards."

You watch him go as the Outer Heaven comes up at your summons. Nells words are making you jumpy. You can't wait for this mission to be over and done with.

--OMAKE--

Nell being quiet was nothing new. So when there was a period of roughly 15 minutes where her two handlers couldn't hear her crying they didn't really think nothing much of it, other than perhaps she would be up to piloting in a few minutes. Normally they would have checked in 5, Sara however had pushed for longer, mostly out of compassion than anything else.
Nell felt somewhat cynical for abusing this fact to make her escape, Sara had been actually quite good for her. The loss of her previous handlers, people who she had known from as far back as she could remember, people who whilst not actual parents or surrogate parent figures, were essentially as close as Nell could remember ever getting had effected her badly.
She'd begun to realise just how little control she had over reality at that point, despite her abilities.

She'd also discovered her capacity to kill people. She also discovered that is was distressingly easy to do, and got easier every time. THAT was what scared her the most about David Lister and the Nachtmaren in general. People, newtypes especially, should be able to kill people that easily.

In any case, it took 15 minutes for her handlers to discover that she'd found and pried off a service vent and made her escape into the ship interior.
From there the tricky part was finding a space suit. The suits that fit her were specially constructed, so she had to engineer a situation that enabled her to steal a used suit that was due to cleaning without being spotted. That took an extra 15 minutes. Journeying up to the MA pod, even with neuromancy and near precognition was, whilst not overly difficult, was still time consuming. So it took a further 10 minutes to make what should have been a 2 minute journey.

“I'm going to be late...” she quietly said to herself.

>>15147364
I'm glad that we had the Elmeth locked down. But given Nell's neuromancy, could she override the locks?

>>15147364

>>15147364
We'll never have an happy end now,,, It's going to turn into victory all over again.

>>15147447
At this point I've given up caring since somehow Newtype = magic powers rather than just enhanced reaction and empathy senses/ mind fucking powers. Just lay back and enjoy the ride.

>>15147364
Dammit! I knew that this would eventually come up!
Come on, there must be one more flag check coming up; we just need to make sure that the 'Save Nell' flag gets raised!

>>15147364
>No fighting with the handlers
Dammit Nell, you could have just asked to go out.

>>15147321
>"...wait, comms beacons?"
Well we did have lasercom relays we were using when we got Cima's team out of South America before the 2nd Jaburo Op. It must have just taken longer to make one that'd stay in place in space.
Next time we need to communicate with a Federation ship for whatever reason use laser coms with our older codes we know the Feds have cracked the encryption on.

>>15147321

In order to not run an undue risk of alerting others to your position, the Outer Heaven doesn't push all of it's engines to reach you. It takes longer, but at least you can be fairly sure that your location wont be spotted due to a massive booster flare.

In any case, if takes them about 10 minutes to meet up with you. At which point you all begin your decent into the debris field.
To be completely honest, the term "asteroid field" would be more accurate, since most of the navigational hazards are simply large rocks that have collected her from various mining projects on the large mining asteroids such as Solomon, A Boa Qu and Luna II. However, this was not entirely true, and aside from rocks, the curious gravitational band had also pulled in the remains of several past battles in the war as well. Vessels of all creeds, long since dead and salvaged of any useful pieces drifted in and out of the giant chunks of silica.

After about five minutes of journey in close support of the ship you manage to penetrate far enough to gain line of sight to Option. His suit waves to you, and you wave back as you re-establish contact.

"Did Strauss already pass through here?"

"Yes sir. I gave him the general location of the ship and then he passed on. I haven't seen the enemy units since. But I'm pretty sure they're out there."

"Did they see you? Also, what sort of force are we looking at here Option."

>>15147516
"I can't be sure of the Mobile Suits, although I know I saw at least a couple from their boost flares, I can confirm at least one Trojan Horse class, and one Salamis. If Texas Colony was anything to go by, we can probably expect AT LEAST another Salamis, most likely all of them were full up on Mobile Suits, so we're going to have 8 or more enemies to deal with if they spot us. Which, no, I don't think they have done yet. They seem to be staying outside on the other side of the debris field whils the Mobile Suits patrol inside. Hopefully they're just being thorough and they don't know for sure there's enemies in here."

"What now boss?" Zolomon asks of you.

"Is the ship having any problems?" you ask over the ships comms.

"You wound me Commander! If a sluggish ungainly Columbus class transport can navigate this crap then my Outer Heaven with is multi-directional thrusters CERTAINLY can."

YOUR ORDERS?

>>15147478
>Newtype = magic powers rather than just enhanced reaction and empathy senses/ mind fucking powers
Well, they're not too far off, considering that Kamille can do things like summon the spirits of the dead and some of the stuff that Judau is seen to do.

>>15147319
Who will our final opponent be? Will our final battle be against The Federation, a mad Gihren ploy, some secret Zabi newtype run amok?

My money is that Necron from FF9 will just show up after the last boss battle and ramble something about resetting existence because we fucked with it so badly.

>>15147522
My first reaction would be only 3 ship? let's sink them... but then there's Nell warning and I'm becoming paranoid.

>mean, visioni
yeah captcha those are really mean vision

>>15147522
Carefully make our way to where the contact was. Be on the lookout for Federation MS patrols.

>>15147545
So how do you explain it then? Was it really just "Oh we're all finally awakening now in these coming decades, it's just that these weaker Newtypes were the first wave."

>>15147522

Since they probably don't know that we're here, taking the fight to them would be actually be a good option.

Grab a few AB chaff pods, assault them and crack those things in their vicinity. Much of their loadout would probably be beam scatter guns and our solid munitions will mean a lop sided fight for quite awhile.

If we do this right it'll look like we stumbled upon each other and Strauss can take advantage of the confusion to get the supply ship to safety.

I've never been a part of Zeon Quest before, but that first line there caught my eye. Did you seriously name the main character after the guy from Red Dwarf?

>>15147585
welcome to the club, this get mentioned at least once every thread

>>15147576
Wasn't it? I mean, what with telepathy and limited precognition being known Newtype powers, Nell's neuromancy does fit in.

>>15147577
I know that we could probably take them, but I think we should confirm Strauss' situation first.
We haven't picked up signs of battle yet, but that's not indicative of much given this debris field.

>>15147585

Yes. Yes they did. I probably should have held out for a more sensible name. But them's the breaks.

>>15147522
Link up with the transport, get them clear of the danger zone first.
Watch for enemy MS and their carriers.

>>15147625
>held out for a more sensible name
Given the names of actual OYW characters, was David Lister really that bad of a choice?

>>15147603
But that's all within the realm of advancing human communication. Early Newtype pilots were successful because they could sense their opponents intent as a form of limited precognition and their brain reaction speeds increased. In its most extreme forms it could be used to send messages across distances either to people or foils.

Using the brain signals and turning them into something more tangible than an electrical signal that can be transmitted to compatible machines certainly is a little bit of a stretch.

>>15147656
Or turning a lot of them into a WMD that mindwipe all humanity *cough*

--omake--

The Elemeth was physically clamped down when not in use, which it most certainly was right now. Also, the locks were physical locks that required the use of keycodes and actual keys to remove, which was beyond her ability to get past without being incredibly sneaky. Perhaps if she'd had something like several weeks to plan this (which technically speaking she had, but she hadn't actually really thought this whole endeavour through all that much.) she could have gotten through them, but right now that was out of the question.

Sneaking across wasn't that hard, this was a decompressed zone. NOBODY stays in a decompressed zone if they didn't have to. So witnesses were pretty sparse on the ground. If someone was paying attention to the internal security feeds they might notice her, but during combat, most personnel who would normally do that were set to different tasks so she would probably go unnoticed long enough.

Entering the Elmeth was the same as always, they didn't even bother with a key-code, sometimes you needed to get a pilot out ASAP of these experimental crafts, and having it so only two people could open the door was kind of an impediment to that.
She settled down, and checked the systems, handily, David had opted to keep it running in case she felt like launching.

She didn't. She was pretty sure she'd end up getting killed if she did, but she DID need to do something in the Elmeth.
She checked her remaining Bits. They'd run out of spares during Texas colony, and she was down to about 80% of total load. Easily enough for her purposes.
Just because she wasn't going to launch herself, didn't mean she wasn't going to launch her bits. First order of the day though, opening those blast doors...

“Now, where's the wireless interlink controls...” she mumbled.

You give the order to push on ahead, reunite with Strausses group and get the transport to safety. You can consider what to do about any enemies in the debris field later.

Option takes the opportunity to head inside to get the new Recon pack fitted. The fitting takes next to no time at all. Which to be fair you'd expect from a supposedly modular component. Once outside he starts scanning the local area with passive lidar arrays for any enemy movement.
A thin trail of expended helium-3 gives you a good idea of where the transport is going, with a bit of luck Strauss should have it pulled around by now.

Your first sign of trouble is Option reporting a heat bloom up ahead. Then you can see the explosions. Nothing on the scale of the larger battles you've been a part of lately, but certainly enough to tell you that battle has commenced.

Damn.

There goes any hope of getting out of this without firing a shot.

YOUR ORDERS?

>oh hey a quest thre-
>#108
>holy shit

Um, can I get a brief synopsis or something, so that I don't have to datamine the archives?

>>15147782
Oh good, so we just have to keep the OH safe if we dive headlong in, which I think is a bad idea.
I say we still link up with Strauss, because most of all, we'll probably need that gatling ammo.

saftel war
captcha, there is no such thing as a safe war

>>15147825
Was the explosion big enough to describe, say, a bunch of ammo cooking off?

>>15147825

Time to dance. I'm tempted to go in full bore, let them know we're here NOW NOW NOW and hope it shocks their commander into thinking the transport was bait.

Do we have AB chaff ready to go, as per >>15147577? If not, we go with what we have...

>>15147825
Well, crap. Though given our current run of luck, I can't say I'm surprised.

Alright, loose formation forward, weapons ready. David, Rance, and Zol take point, with Option, Jolyne, and Elaine bringing up the rear, followed by the Outer Heaven.
Option to be using his EWACs package to keep an eye on the situation, and Jol and Elaine ready for fire support.

>>15147825
Full burn. If we screw around trying to stay hidden we might not make it in time.
If it's still alive when we catch up tell Mauser to swing around the transport proving cover while it heads for safety. He can launch beam chaff as he needs to.
Mobile Suit spread out around the Outer Heaven to provide cover. When we reach the transport take down any enemy MS we see and get ready to put suppressing fire on any warships. Stage a fighting widthdrawl until the transport is away. Once that's taken care of we clear out any Suits and ships still in the area.

>>15147825

Assault. And bring those AB chaff pods.

>>15147867
>>15147869
>>15147908

>Do we have AB chaff ready to go, as per >>15147577? If not, we go with what we have...

AB Chaff/chaff/flare/minovsky spreader missiles are fully ready on the Outer Heaven if you want to use them.

>Alright, loose formation forward, weapons ready. David, Rance, and Zol take point, with Option, Jolyne, and Elaine bringing up the rear, followed by the Outer Heaven.
>Option to be using his EWACs package to keep an eye on the situation, and Jol and Elaine ready for fire support.

Okay, formation set.

Quick question, do you want to try and get an opening salvo off of beam shots before launching the AB-Chaff, or not bother?

>>15147937
Nope

>>15147937

Whythehellnot.jpg

>>15147937
If we don't have specific targets, I wouldn't shoot into the debris field.
Agreeing with what Arty said here: >>15147925

>>15147937
Sure. It'll give some good cover fire for the transport since it'll be a minute or two until we can protect them with chaff.

>>15147848
>brief synopsis
We are Commander Dav id Lister of the ace Nachtmaren unit. Our actions up to now in the One Year War have resulted in preventing the deaths of several Zeon figures who died in the canon timeline (Garma and Degwin Zabi, Rear Admiral M'Quve, Bernard Wiseman) and the advancement of Zeon's technology to almost past OYW levels.
Of course, this also had ethe side-effects of causing a Zeon Civil War (split between the Loyalists who support Gihren and the Legitimacy who support Degwin and Kycilia), as well as advancing the Federation's technology and industry to beyond what they were in the canon timeline.

What you need to know right now: Zeon space fortress of Solomon is under attack. A freighter with vital supplies doesn't know that it's heading into a combat zone, and needs to be turned back to the secure fortress of Pezun.
Nachtmaren Team:
David Lister (us), Zolomon (CQC specialist), Jolyne (long-range fire), Elaine (currently using a Heavy Gatling), Option (Recon module-equipped MS), Rance (good all-rounder).

Remember that this is no substitute for actually reading through the archives.

>>15147983

Sure. When do you want to pop the AB-Chaff and whatnot?

>>15148002
At the first sign of enemy beam weapons fire or when the OH approaches the transport.

>>15148002
I'd say right after we fire an opening salvo from our beam weapons. The enemy will turn towards us and fire their own, and I want those beams impacting on chaff as we switch to ballistics.

>>15148037
Seconding this.

>>15148002
I'm >>15147983 and I realized that I wasn't that clear. If we know generally where the transport is, we should give covering salvo with the beam weapons, then probably pop the chaff.
Suits should be advancing and giving us a better idea of what we're up against.
Vitally, we are fighting a rear guard, if they chase, we'll destroy them. If they don't chase, we get the gatling ammo from the transport and think of another way to get to Solomon.

>>15147990
NVM, I'll take this as an answer.

You surge forwards intent on a shock and awe approach. The debris should have a reasonble chance of obscuring your approach, especially if the enemy is too busy dealing with Strausses team.
Also, the other reason for haste is the fact that Act Zaku's and Galbady's or no, even the most optimistic estimates put his team at being outnumbered by 2 to 1.
Odds are good that it's actually a bit more than that.

When you eventually arrive on the scene you find that you lucks been both good AND bad. Good, in that Strasses team seem to be doing okay as there only appears to be about four or five enemy contacts.
Bad because Option informs you of at least three more Mobile Suits moving to assist the enemy forces. This is an escalating engagement.
This is bad because even if you take out every enemy in range currently, odds are there's still more coming.
On the other hand, a clean sweep is a clean sweep, plus AB Chaff should really even things out more into your advantage.

The current enemies appear to be advanced GM types armed with the Command Beam Rifles, many also pack bazooka's on their backpacks. It seems they came prepared for the possiblity of the use of AB-Chaff. Which given that this was probably supposed to be a patrol, probably means that this loadout has become SOP for the Feds.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>15148090
Any sign of the transport? We should be getting that to safety if they haven't blown it up.
Either way, we should have Jolyne and Elaine give covering fire while us, Zol and Rance go ease some pressure off of Strauss. Option should keep with the longer range and keep us appraised of incoming suits.

>>15148090
Everybody on a first alpha strike with their beam weapons at all Fed suits.
Once we have to split up because the enemy comes at us break into 2 teams:
Option and Jolyne act as a sniper/spotter duo; Jolyne's railgun doesn't leave a trail, so her shots should come out of nowhere.
Elaine sticks with them and provides fire support with the gatling.

David, Zol, and Rance go in and start ruining the Feddys' day.

Mauser and the OH try to find the freighter and give it cover fire.

>>15148090
Everybody Beam snipe those mothers then launch chaff.

>>15148128
>Any sign of the transport?

Oh yes. Sorry, should have mentioned, it's right in the middle of the clusterkerfuffle. Doesn't seem damaged though, and attempting to rabbit as best it's able. It's still seems to be shedding it's current velocity for a quick 180.

>>15148138

>Everybody on a first alpha strike with their beam weapons at all Fed suits.
>Once we have to split up because the enemy comes at us break into 2 teams:
>Option and Jolyne act as a sniper/spotter duo; Jolyne's railgun doesn't leave a trail, so her shots should come out of nowhere.
>Elaine sticks with them and provides fire support with the gatling.

>David, Zol, and Rance go in and start ruining the Feddys' day.

>Mauser and the OH try to find the freighter and give it cover fire.

Okay then.

>>15148234
Sounds good. Don't forget to launch the chaff after our alpha strike.

>>15148262
Ah yes, I forgot to include that.
Launch AB chafff when the Federation suits fire back after our alpha strike.

>>15148299
No worries. Though whoever is makes the chaff must be pretty rich now, seeing as we've basically made it a priority to use in every scenario.

... maybe we can get an endorsement or something.

You quickly set up your opening assault. The initial beam fire cascaded downrange towards the enemy lancing several. Others impacted against rock and metal, causing in most cases the asteroids to expand outwards in strange glass formations only found in zero gravity.

Then the Tadpole counter-missiles came in. Tadpoles were huge, as missiles went, 15 meters long and two meters wide, they bristled with just about every effective countermeasure known currently to man. Minovsky particle spreaders, heat-seeker spoofing flares, and most importantly, anti-beam chaff. Within moments two of these missiles, launched close to each other, seeded the entire area with this beam refracting material.

Now things were going to get interesting.

About four enemy GM's had survived the opening salvo. More than you'd have liked, but perhaps expected in this relatively dense terrain. Clearly well trained for this event they'd already drawn their Bazookas. You likewise all switch to your conventional ammo weapons.

"Dammit David! You could have given me some warning. Luckily, there's a supply of conventional weapons aboard the ship. I'm going to have them punt a 120mil or something out of the airlock for me to use. In the meantime, I'm going to have to go hand to hand!"

Strauss admonishes in a crackly voice over the lasercomm. Partially distorted by the AB-Chaff.

You don't really have time to answer as you dodge a bazooka round from one GM and a heavy shell from what appears to be a pair of Mass Production Guncannons coming in to reinforce. The enemy appear to be moving into the debris field for cover.

When Elaine opens up with her heavy gatling on the area that only encourages them more.

The enemy appears to be currently moving back. Although it's not a retreat by any means.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>15148329

"I'm commander Lister and this is the best beam retardent chaff in the Earth Sphere"?

>>15148367
Don't follow too aggressively. Get in to the transport so that David, Zol, and Rance can provide support to Strauss' team.
Our first priority is to get this freighter safely out of here.

>>15148402
Seconded.

Also say sorry to Strauss.

I talk to Cat, fuck with Rimmer and think about Fiji.

>>15148367
We should have a disclaimer on our file
Warning! Uses Anti-beam chaff far too often. If you are in an operation with David Lister or the Nachtmaren, be sure to bring solid weapons, as beam weapons will most likely be useless.

>>15148416
Strauss: Dammit David, when were you going to tell me you were launching AB chaff?
David: Oops.
Strauss: You've got to work on your communication. No more 'oops'.

>>15148435
Warning: being support for the Nachtmaren may be more hazardous than assignment as Char Aznable's wingmen. Caution is advised.

When the Elmeth had been transferred to the Outer Heaven, one of the ideas that had been thrown about was simply launching the bits from inside the MP bay. Or turning the ship itself into a giant version of the already large Elmeth.
It was the sort of idea that the Nachtmaren team came up with a LOT. Which is what happens if you have a load of REALLY sneaky and highly efficient pilots who spend a lot of time with bleeding edge prototypes. Usually because those kind of sneaky ideas are exactly what the skunkworks were looking for.

This time however was one of those ideas that wasn't really going to pan out. For multiple reasons. Firstly, it wasn't really a good test of the Elmeth's maneouverability if it spent all of it's time in dock. Secondly, as low key as they were, each bit was still basically hundreds of tiny rocket jets wrapped around a beam gun. If a tech got to close to one of those there was a good chance that one of those small bursts of HE-3 was going to cut him clean in half. Nevermind the damage to the bay itself.
Lastly was also the fact that Elaine found it next to impossible to guide bits surrounded by mental chatter. She could launch them without two much trouble but guiding them was next to impossible. It was like trying to listen to your phone in the middle of a “rave” or something.

Whatever one of those was.

>>15148517
In anycase, first problems first, opening the door. Luckily, gaining access to the internal door controls didn't require any programming ability since everything was interconnected. Which was lucky. The hard part was figuring out a way to spoof the doors into thinking she had the authority to open the door. She couldn't just guess the number either, they were randomly generated, she couldn't DO random variable. She considered shooting through it, that seemed a bit over the top, but she was running short on time. She eventually found a way around the problem using a maintenance back door that allowed her to activate the door mechanisms manually, and convinced them that the moving components just happened to be tested in just the right order that they coincidentially managed to open the bay doors.

Now to launch the bits. She wouldn't be able to control them, but she could probably guide them to where the battle was. Beyond that, she simply had to have faith in him.

Strauss is going to have a kid who will change the world?

>>15148526
>Beyond that, she simply had to have faith in him
David: Believe in me who believes in you!
Nachtmaren: Who the Hell do you think we are?!

>>15148551
I think we need to get all these crazy predictions together in one place...

I got one guess, though -
>The bad news is he's dead, the good news is he bred
brings to mind Beltorchika's Children Amuro...

>>15148645
Well it obviously means someone is going to die, but their offspring will be important.

>>15148402

You initially push forwards to try and complete the suppression before pulling back to secure the transport which was at least now beginning to make some movement in the right direction. Your shells and bullets impacted against the rocks and debris sending up a cloud of dust obscuring the enemy from your sensors. You know you see a couple of your hits get in. Probably kill shots, but you can't confirm.

With the enemy supressed you pull back towards the transport and reunite with Strausses team.
Strauss himself is nowhere to be seen, you suspect he's currently inside the transport picking up some cool weapons.

"Good save Commander!" One of his team comms you.
You turn to give your reply when a bright explosion, like the hammer of god shatter his shield and sends him onto the deck, whereupon, this being zero-g, he bounced.

This was the point, you would later identify, when it really went to hell.

So, I think everyone here is agreeing with >>15148402 . We should use debris as cover, and stick to the rough teams. (Jolyne and Option sniping; us, Zol, Elaine and Rance moving in closer, jumping from debris chunk to chunk)
Also, ask Option/Mauser if there are any incoming ships we should worry about.

>>15148666
The hell was that, a hyper bazooka shot?

>>15148708
Hyper-bazooka + Highly accurate newtype = pic related

>>15148666

>666
>when it all went to hell.

I'm not sure what would impress me more. If that was deliberate, or if the internet gods have simply smiled upon your post, apologised.

>>15148666

>>15148666
>>15148781

4chan has a sense of humor all it's own.

In any case, try and track where the hell that came from and MOVE.

Despite the damage, the pilot doesn't seem too badly effected. He turns his Bullpup to face the new enemy as you're doing the same. You spot the enemy at roughly the same time.

Before he can pull the trigger a second shot impacts on the Act Zaku and it explodes utterly.

Only then do you feel the newtype pressure. You've never been particulairly sensitive to these things, maybe a little more these days, but still this is the first time you've ever felt such a monstrous overpressure. Like a physical foce, a white corona that simply seems filled with... malevolence isn't the right word. It's like a basic mathematic function come to life.

>There's a newtype out there who is death. He isn't about strength, he isn't "strong" he is an absolute. If you face him directly All. Will. Die.
>He's out there.

You comprehend what she meant now, his power ranges across, if you make a connection with your killing intent, then like a bolt of lightning passing through a person he responds through that force before your brain ever sends a signal to your hands to fire. He litterally retaliates first, with absolute lethality. The only reason you can think why he hasn't turned the tables already is because he must have been holed up in Luna II waiting for the right moment.
You see and interpret that, and for the first time, you hesitate for just a moment.

>>15148862

F5F5F5F5F5

>>15148862

Nell had lost control of her bits, she thought she had them far enough forwards but it was too late now. She had another quantum headache due to paradoxes, there were people banging on her exit hatch which she'd crudely sealed to try and get her out and she was crying again.

It wasn't the death, it was the fact that she never got a chance to properly know him. Belatedly she had only realised why she had transferred to the Outer Heaven now. That was why she'd had a breakdown. She probably wouldn't have liked him much, but even so, she had a chance and she didn't take it when she should have. Was she distancing herself to protect herself? Or was she just afraid of making any connection at all? Sh wished now that she'd made an effort. She wished she'd gotten to know him.

Because now she was out of chances.

>>15148862
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z4KS2KWix4

>>15148900
OH GOD WHAT IS HAPPENIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!?

WHO IS GOING TO DIE!?

WHAT IS GOING ON!!!!!

>>15148862
>>15148900

Who's taking bets on who is going to die this episode?

>>15148931
I bet Zolomon as mostly likely.

Or Option or Rance tied for 2nd most likely.

>>15148931
My bet is on Rance, the one we never really gave a role. He's gonna try to prove himself and get bazooka'd.

NO
EVERYONE LIVES
JUST THIS ONCE EVERYONE LIVES

>>15148900

You hesitate for just a moment, and Zolomon Ringo sees this, and takes the slack.

His opponent is in a GM Command armed with a Hyper Bazooka in one hand, a Beam Rifle in the other.
Zolomon is currently piloting a customised Gyan Krieger variant of his own specifications christened the Gyan "Skullfucker" Eisvogel. It features a binder-shield system which combines protection with a triple barelled beam system as well as a rack of anti-ms RPG's. On it's back is an asymmetrical rack holding no less than 3 Beam Lances designed not just for close combat, but also for throwing.
Zolomon is very good at throwing.

>>15149011
On paper it should be an easy match. With the air filled with AB-Chaff, that Beam Rifle, a Gundam type model instead of the standard Command Model, is nothing more than a lump of metal. Supposedly.
AB-Chaff is not magic however.

Zolomon Ringo throws his Beam Lance, he's done it before, he's done it hundreds of times before. Even though he can see, better than David what he's up against, even if he doesn't comprehend it as well, he still does this because he is the SiC of the Nachtmaren Unit, and if your CO hesitates then it's your job to pick up that slack.
So the enemy retaliates first, as expected, with it's beam rifle. And Zolomon throws his lance.
He's done it before, he's done it hundreds of times.

The bazooka shell impacts heavily against the shield, Zolomon loses it and much of the arm. He's taken worse.
Besides, he's already thrown his lance. He's done this before.
Hundreds of times.

This time however, at the last second, his target dodges, and Zolomon Ringo's lance, which he threw, misses.

That has never happened before.

Then the enemy pulls up his Beam Rifle, the barrell centered on the small channel of empty space, free of AB chaff that his lance has left and fires whilst Zolomon's suit struggles to cope with the initial impact of the bazooka, and pulls the trigger.

And Zolomon Ringo's world goes white.

ZOLOMON RING HAS DIED.

>>15148942

Why'd you give the GM ideas bro?

>>15149019
oh noooooo! Now who will throw stuff at the enemy?

>BlackDudeDiesFirst

Saw this coming miles away but there was still the chance it might have ended up being David.

>Jolyne can stop time
"Jolyne, covering fire!"

>>15149019

My skype avatar is now this picture. It's in memorial to the greatest thrown character ever known.

>>15149019

All of my hate.

FUCKING SNAP OUT OF IT DAVID LISTER GODDAMN

>>15149055
We've lost Ramirez, Hovis, and Calvin. Zolomon did not die first by any means.

Wait. Haven't there been omakes about Zolomon after the war?

>>15149019
...Thank god they never gave Dennis Young a Gundam.

You feel rather than see the explosion of Zolomon's Gyan. All of a sudden a whole new vista of sensory perception seems to sweep in, like the tide that at long last is coming in.

Then the knowledge begins to seep into your skull like a deluge.

>Bullpup has 120 rounds remaining
>Beam Saber hungers for combat
>Gauss Rifle feels ambivalent on whole situation, overstress will cause warping in 159 shots.
>This rock is heavy, it can batter skulls open.

On and on, every single weapon, every single thing that could be percieved as a weapon, every single damn thing you suddenly realise you can see everything about them, everything they can do, everything they will do, everything they have done, everything they can do. You can push them, you can pull them you have become unto them their God of War. You are the El Muerto Grande, you are the Schalten-konig, you are the Witch King, you are Huitzilopolichti, you are the Nachtmaren you are madder than you've ever been and you're not going to take this crap sitting down.

>There are 18 bits from the elmeth "all of these bits are yours. Tommorow they will be mine again. But they'll always be yours now. - N " fully charged and have no overriding controls
>There are 3 conventional firearms in close orbit, all are functional enough
>There is a Heat Axe floating through space. It was Zolomons.

>>15149099
There was also one about Hovis suffering from phantom limb.

>>15149099
About him and what he's done during the war. I don't think anything about him and him doing stuff specifically after the war. Alternately, this is the timeline getting fucked up, rendering such things moot.

>>15149124
THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKENED

>>15149124
Pyschadelic newtype energy, white and composed in the image of a cloak of a thousand skulls is wrapped around you and grasps at these weapons. Those that can move, move at your demand, those that can't move anyway, through physics that will never truly be understood by man, forming a shroud of gun around you, an arsenal that obeys you command.
The bits swarm in, they have to be at close range.

>His head vulcans are prepared.

"No it isn't."

>His gun feed jams

He can respond to one or two threats perfectly until now because he's never had to deal with truly simultaneous attacks before. Certainly not 28 of them all at once.
He belatedly realises the true threat and attempts to fire his beam rifle at you again, once again picking out the channels that will let him do that.

>Beam rifle will fire

"No"

>Beam rifle critical containment failure

The explosion takes out his entire arm, and his entire suit momentarily freezes up for half a second. That was the half a second where 18 beam shots, 14 heavy bullpup shels and 12 Federal use MG bullets and 1 Bazooka round penetrate him simulatneously.

"Die now, and curse in vain." you command.

His death is instaneous. All shots were aimed at the cockpit.

>>15149124
Mother of god...

>>15149099
No, none. EVER.

>>15149124
>Gauss Rifle feels ambivalent on whole situation

Okay, that made me laugh. In other news: Holy shit, we are going to kill this motherfucker.

>>15149141

.......

>Imagines this ability being used in a major engagement like Operation Star One

HOLY FUCK.

Gentlemen, this is an IWINBUTTON.

>>15149159
There will be consequences. There are always consequences.

BUT HOLY SHIT.

>>15149141
The King of Skulls has beaten death itself?
What was that "he does not yet exist" thing about then?
Was it because we have transcended the existence known as "David Lister" to become something greater?

...did we just unlock the Guns of the Patriots?

Now this just raises the question.

Who did Zolomon breed with?

>>15149183

!

!!!!!!!!!!!

>>15149141

>>15149183
Who knows.

But I'll say he's an ancestor of Mr. Arronax.

>>15149183
I bet it's our operator on the Outer Heaven. What's her name again.

>>15149183
Elaine, obviously.

>>15149141

>nalarm scope

>>15149141
So, like this but with guns and skulls.

>*Starts looking up drawfags to comission a new piece of artwork*

So we should probably make a note to tell Nell that we don't blame her for this. I mean she's like twelve fucking years old, she shouldn't be involved in any of this.

Your brain feels like it's bleeding out of your ears. Nobody could keep this up all the time, you;d have to live your life with your head in a bag!

In a distance you swear you can hear the spectral ghost of Nell Dyland howling that Skull King rises, who try to ignore it. Bullets impact against the relatively soft skin of your Act Zaku, luckily they aren't anything heavy.

It takes Strauss to physically slap your own Mobile Suit to knock you out of it.

"GET TO THE OUTER HEAVEN!" He roars at you. You blink.

"NOOOOOOOWWWWW" he howls and then sets about the remaining enemies. Another Guncannon and a further pair of GM's have joined the fray.

>>15149227
Your hands are shaking as you try to pilot yourself back in. It's like learning to pilot all over again, everything feels strangely unfamiliar, your spatial awareness is shot. For the first time you have trouble getting a fix on objects in space, or working out potential threats in space from behind you. Eventually it takes Jolyne to take your suit by the hand and lead you back in.

The mood in the hangar is sombre. You spend a minute or so looking at your hand.

>Ring Finger nail sharp enough to pierce skin, apply to left carotid for lethal effects.

Seems it's still there. It was silent for a few moments. It still takes the techs to pull you out. Everybody seems to know what happened. A sombre pall had descended on the hangar bay.

Outside however it was a different story. Jolyne returned to the group, already rallied by Strauss and led them forwards. Their charge lasted fifteen minutes and resulted in a rampage that resulted in the mission kill of 1 Trojan Horse and 4 Salamis Cruisers and their remaining MS escorts.

The Transport had squawked a protest at being only left with 1 Act Zaku as escort. But generally they were beginning to realise just how much above their pay grade things were.

You notice as you leave your Mobile Suit that you had ended up securing one of Zolomon's axes. You don't know where the other one went. You have an absent desire to find the other one. But it's an itch to quash the desire to scrath. Later.

Later.

>>15149220
Right, but first things first. We wipe out the rest, if they're not already running.

>>15149238
We're definitely keeping that axe forever.

>>15149238
>Ring Finger nail sharp enough to pierce skin, apply to left carotid for lethal effects.
In before this is how we kill Ghiren.

>>15149227
"Copy that. Lister to Outer Heaven, I'm relieving myself from command."

>>15149263
It should be our thumb, Ghiren will never see it coming.
Also, if we're stable enough, let's get the gatling gun ammo off the transport before it scoots back to Pezun.

AFTERMATH

The mission to save the transport was considered a success. It was returned undamaged, and new transport routes that made use of the now less prohibited Loyalist zones was devised to supply Solomon.

News of Nachtmaren-2's death spread relatively quickly. Although since both sides had lost endgame newtypes neither were really willing to make any sort of propaganda victory out of the engagement.
A state funeral for him was planned, but the situation being what it is, that was shelved indefinately and instead Captain Zolomon Ringo was posthumously awarded the Kinghts Cross with Highest Honours and another Zeon Cross and "buried at sea" along with a civilian funeral in Von Braun after the war.

Everyone attended.
EVERYONE.
A statue was erected over the site in memorum. People remember when you save them from atomic doom.

When Admiral Dozle heard, he immiediately renamed MA-08 from it's orginal designation to the "Big Zol" in memory.

Solomon was however still under siege, and the war continues on.

TO BE CONTINUED.

>>15149294

>>MA-08 "Big Zol"

Dammit... the tears won't stop.

>Big Zol

It better come with an inexhaustible supply of Heat Hawks.

>>15149294
May he rest in peace.
Also, Big Zol is a pretty rocking name.

We getting any omake? Maybe a hint about this thing about him having bred?


Oh god why Zol?

>>15149313
Or beam lance missiles.

All I can hear now is "BIG ZOL, SHOWTIME!"

>>15149339

Patiently waiting for an omake also. Maybe one from Nell's Point o' View?

>>15149361

We need an android if we're to go down this route. And a badass butler.

>>15149294
--OMAKE--

"Why don't I have a Daddy?" The child asked his mother.

It was not the sort of question a single mother needed this early in the morning.

"It's because daddy was a solider, and he died before you were born." She never really believed in varnishing the truth. It was one of her failings, and also why local women with too much time on their hands tended to gossip behind her backs. She was just too unwilling to "play the game" as it were.

Well fuck em.

"What was daddy like?" Again, another question that she REALLY didn't want to have to answer
She hadn't really known him all that well, both of them had been drunk, he'd just saved Von Braun from a nuclear attack, moods were high and she woke up the next morning sharing a bed.
It was only afterwards that she discovered that was shooting silver bullets in the bedroom as well as the battlefield, and since by that time he was already dead, she never really ever considered about aborting it.

Oh sure, she considered that it was going to be a collossal hassle, but a lot of things in life were. Those were the breaks as her father used to say.

"Well, he was a very good person, and he always stood by his friends, and he always was the first to lend a hand. He never understood what the word impossible meant."

"That's pretty silly. Didn't he have a dictionary?"
She paused. Come to think of it, he probably didn't. Fair play.

"Look, why don't we go to that bar where they let you play pool again. Your aunt lives there, so we can ask her, and we can also ask the Barman, he also knew your father."

"Mr Lister knew daddy?" Ramirez David Astrea asked his mother.

"Yes. That's right dear. But for now, stop asking awkward questions and brush your teeth okay?"

Zol.... Well time to send the feddies back to luna II, then to take it out by throwing that lone heat hawk.

Goodnight sweet prince.

>>15149465

>2.7mb

Oh god I did not realise it was that big. I guess sometimes .png really isn't the best format.

I'm off to bed now, there isn't really much else to tell with Nell. I pretty much did everything during. So goodnight.

and thanks for being with me this far.

After the war, David gets into the first mobile suit he can find. It doesn't matter which it is. It'll do the job. He tells no one where he's going. Air control on both sides ask, but he doesn't answer. No one pushes the subject.

He gets to the top of the mountain with ease. Though the trip took hours, he hardly noticed. At the summit, he sat in the cockpit and looked through the monitors at the horizon below. Then he took the axe off of the suit's back. Zolomon's axe. The last piece of him. He looked out to the desert, nothing for miles. This is where they'd met. This was where he'd say goodbye.

The mechanical giant gripped the axe with one hand, holding it in front of itself. "Goodbye," David whispered, the word drowned out by the mechanical whirrs and of the gears and motors as the robot's arm swung back and then forward.

He released his grip, and the axe swung forth, spiraling out of his hand and arcing high into the air. He didn't look to see where it would land. His suit's sensors picked up the seismic readings of the axe's impact. He turned them off, and began the long trip back.

>>15149465
>Ramirez David Astrea
...Seriously? That's almost as clunky as Albus Severus Potter.

>>15149465

Is it really safe to keep us in a bar out of all places? The amount of ways to kill someone with a poolstick alone is terrifying. At least we can assume it's the safest bar in the city by reputation. No one who ever pulls out a weapon leaves alive.

>>15149521
David's not a psychopath. I'd assume that after the war, he became a very calm man, troubled by the things he saw and did and lost during the war.

>>15149510

David is a seldom used middle name. Ramirez Ringo, seems better, and could easily happen later on. Ramirez D Ringo works even better, although it does make him sound like someone from One Piece.

>>15149521
It was Zolomon's bar. Somebodies got to look after it.

>black guy who is literally a spearchucker
>also dies first
Throw in a love of grape drink and you've got a trifecta.

>>15149559
I thought you were implying that David married Zolomon's sister.

That's ridiculous, because WE ALL KNOW that he'll marry Jolyne.

>>15149610
>black guy who is literally a spearchucker
>also dies first

Uh.

rolled 21782 = 21782

>Come back from a vacation
>Zol
>Flashback of all the times we've had together.

Good bye Zol. You will be missed.

>>15149559
Ramirez is not even a first name.

I kind of had been expecting Zolomon to die for a while now. I mean honestly a CQC mech in space is absurd and anti-beam Chaff can only carry you so far.

I am more upset that David Lister got hax powers, and Apologized decided to kill off a potential new antagonist. It would have been better for him to have survived.

We need come up with some suitable Advice Zolomon pics since we never had that many. Until then, here's a new advice Lister. (memegenerator is being a bitch with image upload atm)

>>There is only one person in all the universe who can get around this and he does not yet exist

Who could this person be?

>>15149806

>>15149813
Do you really need to ask?

>>15149813
If he doesnt exist yet it would probably be Tobia Arronax.

>>15149888
I would also assume Zolomon's son.

>>15149888

Why did no one react to David shooting 28 guns, that all hit one spot, and came from all over space TO HIM before shooting?

If i saw that i'd mutter a "what the fuck"

>>15149803
>"I can't believe that mechanical problem kept me from launching with the rest of them. I'm late."
> " Alright now to just find Jonathan and the others... J-Jonathan!?
> "W-What's going on here? That's his suit. Jonathan! W-What about the others? Katie? Miguel? Yang? Not you too.... oh god they're all dead.
> "If I had just been here 3 minutes sooner...."
> "What's this incredible sensation I'm feeling from those strange mobile suits?"
> "It's like my mind is filled with this immense pressure."
> "It was you, wasn't it? You're the reason they're all dead!"
>"I can't back down now, not while the others still need me."
>"There, now with the Hyper-Bazooka!"
>"One Zaku down, alright now for the next one.
>" What is that? A Gyan?"
>"I don't care who you are or how fancy your mobile suit is, I'm not gonna let you get away with hurting anyone else! " *fires bazooka*
>"What's that!? A beam lance!? *dodge*
> "NOW." *fires Beam rifle*
> "Yes, direct hit."
>" Alright steady, I can do thi- Weapon malfu-!? GHAAAAAAAAAAAA....... .................

Welp, we have 'Weapon Vision' and 'Weapon Control' now.

No wonder David gets PTSD, considering anything could be a weapon and I doubt he could turn this power off...

>>15149964

rolled 97 = 97

>>15149847
If this was SRW, Real-type pilot David would have died and Zoloman would have gotten his mid-season upgrade!

Oh well. At least he's in GARhalla with Ryoma and Kamina.

Farewell, Operator Zolomon Ringo.

This needs to be archived. Any suggestions for a description?

>>15151433
Zeonquest threads are always archived,

>>15150019
...wait, did we just kill Kou? Or is it pic not really related?

>>15151730
No, we didn't kill Kou. The pic is just to represent what it must have felt like being on the other side of what happened.

We killed Warrant Officer Dennis Young, perhaps the most deadly Newtype ever, if not the most powerful in terms of raw power output.

>>15151767
Oh wow, stupid question, I knew that... brain fart.

>>15151767
>>We killed Warrant Officer Dennis Young, perhaps the most deadly Newtype ever, if not the most powerful in terms of raw power output.

Who the crap is Dennis Young? I did a quick google search and I mostly found a bunch of pages all referencing/copy-pasting eachother.

>>15151831
Specifically, does he exist anywhere besides in Zeonquest?

>>15151831
Apparently he was the best by-MS-And-Ship-Kills Ace on the feddie side of the one year war.

He also was the reason we lost a. . . either a bygro or a val varo team at the battle of Side 4, along with Gundam-04 and his fucking hyper beam cannon hacks, lost us the ENTIRE battle of Side 4. Even if we did mince two pegasus class transports and three-fourths mince another pegasus class transport- the fucking flagship of the most brilliant feddie general currently (who wasn't on it because he was sick, the lucky bastard).

He also just killed Zolomon Ringo. And he has to die. And now he has died.

This is the same thing with Bernie killing the last pilot of the Midnight Pixy Death Squad. This has to happen. There had best be none who kill a Nachtmaren and live to tell about it. And may their entire squad be wiped out if not in the act, then in reprisal.

>>15151878
>>15151831
Dennis A. Young, alternately Tenneth A. Jung (I blame Engrish translation)
http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Tenneth_A._Jung
The kill tallies match, so I'm pretty sure Dennis A. Young is just an alternate spelling of Tenneth A. Jung.

The changes to the timeline we caused may have resulted in him developing his Newtype powers even farther than he had during the canon timeline.

At the Battle of Side 4 we lost 3 Bygro MA Teams to him.

Bandit better have gotten some serious newtype hax too or David is going to be seriously lacking in the rival department now. Then again the omakes about Amuro and Char post-texas colony only explicitly stated Char was unable to return to space, and since the Feddies don't have any trouble getting stuff into orbit maybe we'll bump into the White Devil again.

>>15151896
I'm just a little sad that we never really get a glimpse at the big picture, or the larger ramifications of our actions. One of the strongest points about Gundam has been that the antagonists are always deeply human and personable. The audience can relate to them even if they still ultimately find their actions monstrous or distasteful.

Here it sort of feels like the opposite. If they have ANYTHING to do with our guys, they're depicted as humane and personable and all around great people all while we butcher hundreds of Federal soldiers, and Loyalist troops. There's no sense of inner turmoil over what we have become, and the opposing sides continue to be de-humanized rather than given a realistic portrayal.

The Pixies are morphed into inhuman monsters that deserve to die. Whenever we ran into a enemy ace we became obsessed with a bloodthirsty urge to kill him or her. Bernie made a big deal out of going FUCK YOU to the last Pixie. The death of Zolomon was the latest escalation of this disproportional FUCK YOU resonse. We killed several mobile suits, and then in a weird newtype-esc fluke we lost one of our own. Rather than go with a sad, mature ending that lacked closure and reflected the uncertainty of battle and would help depict the increasing pressure on Zeon, instead we flicked the FUCK YOU button x1000 and proceeded to utterly annihilate an enemy combatant for what amounts to having the audacity to shoot back at us. (yes I know apparently he was a hax newtype, but he only existed for what amounted to 3 posts)

>>15152116
If there's any single group in this alternate universe who should feel bitter and vengeful, it's the Federation. Not only did all of the awful stuff from the opening of the war still happen to them, but now countless additional soldiers have died, all their prototypes and test pilots keep dying, and very little of it actually feels tit-for-tat. The Federation actually hasn't had very many critical victories in this alternate universe, though we keep getting told that they're just farming out pilots, GM's, and Pegasus cruisers in a seemingly impossible amount of time.

The Nachtmarren ultimately feel like a bunch of spoiled children cruising around the Earth Sphere seemingly oblivious to the pain and torment they inflict on others.

>>15152116
This is not a novel. This is a collaborative game, and those feelings of FUCK YOU are the feelings that we, the other players, felt. Those are not feelings that were written in by the whim of the author, those are the feelings that WE feel, as the guiding force behind David Lister's thoughts and actions.

I do not believe your criticism to be applicable to the subject matter.

>>15152148
Well then I guess I should redirect the critique at you the players.

You guys are spiteful little bastards without any interest in telling a strong narrative, just indulging in immature nascent fantasies. Learn how to tell a bitter sweet narrative! It's not that hard, and the end product will be far more engaging and unpredictable.

>>15152116
>>15152148
I think the problem is that we've never actually had much personal contact with any Federation personnel throughout the quest beyond what we see through the cockpit screens. Therefore, there isn't that much character building like the type we see in the series. Even the omakes focusing on the Federation tend to be cold. clinical histories or military documents.

Though I do hope that some of Dave' PTSD will stem from him now being able to "hear" all the people he kills now that his Newtype powers have fully awakened.

>>15152205
No. We are approaching this as a soldier would, a soldier that mostly sees the enemy not as a human but as a tank, or a fighter jet, or a mobile suit, or even a capital ship. We dehumanize the enemy because it makes us better soldiers, and as better soldiers we improve our chances of not only coming out of this war alive, but keeping our comrades in arms alive.
Are you saying that such a narrative is inferior to what you believe to the superior narrative, of someone who empathizes with their enemy?

>>15152205
>>15152127
>>15152116
>instead we flicked the FUCK YOU button x1000 and proceeded to utterly annihilate an enemy combatant for what amounts to having the audacity to shoot back at us
So, are you saying that our response to seeing our friend get killed is unwarranted? That wishing to kill the soldier who just shot our buddy is wrong somehow?
That it is wrong in some way to be angry, to want to kill the bastard that did this? That we don't have the right to feel anger and sadness at Zolomon's death, because we killed soldiers, during a war, who would have killed us without a second thought?

Is this what you are trying to argue, by calling our anger 'spiteful' and our desire to see an alternate ending to the One Year War that may not quickly descend into the clusterfuck that is the Gryps Conflict and the Neo Zeon Wars, as 'childish nascent fantasies'?

. . . Are we better than Char now? In at least some way? I think he's got us in maneuverability, but I think we've got him in firepower.

>>15152987
Char has the power of plot armor. Moreso than Dave if you argue that he's got some too.

Lister follows a twofold path.

Power, and the self-destruction that is it's price.

Control over the process is a distant third to either one. If this was AdEva, he'd have just taken a big step towards becoming one with the Tang.

Zolomon, bless his afro-clad soul never had to deal with full-on Newtype awakening. Lister just has, the door to Newtypedom is wide open, and it just burned him so badly he had to be led to a ship by the hand of his MS. And having to deal with Zolomon's death for good measure.

Have some sympathy for the Reaper.

The token black guy always dies first.

>>15152116
>>15152127
>>15152205

GTFO /m/ bystanders. Stop meddling in this RP session.

>>15155384
Jesus christ read the goddamn archives. Zolomon is actually the 3rd Nachtmaren member to die.

>>15152148
You may notice we didnt get the option of how to respond to the last threat popping up. It was taken out of our hands so that Zolomon would die and bring about David's newtype awakening.

>>15157745
Yes, and what's your point? That there are times when things happen that our character cannot adequately react to, and that events may occur without our direct control?
The actions of Zolomon, and of all other team members when not directly controlled, are not up to us. We give them orders, they follow them.

>>15157745
I think we did. Had Nell been out things might have been different. The choice was just presented before we could possibly know the consequences.