Zeonquest fuck yeah!

First things first: get a sitrep from our team while looking around and seeing who's still up and operational. How bad off do the Loyalists look like? Same thing for the Legitimacy and Feddie forces.

The blast lasts just under a second, and narrowly misses A-Boa-Qu. The situation has instantly turned to chaos, the lasercom network has become fragmented, and there is a large degree of debris.

From the looks of things both the Great Degwin and the Magellan class Battleship Ananke II have been destroyed, as well as their escorts. Damage to all of the fleets appears to have been catasrophic. One of the Dolos supercarriers appears to be dead in space, and about 40% of the Loyalist forces have been destroyed. The federation appear to have lost roughly three cruiser squadrons, which would be about 12 to 15 vessels. None of the Pegasus class carriers appear to have been taken out however, too far back.

DEGWIN HAS DIED
REVIL HAS DIED

Our forces have sustained lighter damage than they would have done without our warning. You can confirm a total of about 10 ships destroyed, although that's a sizable amount from your dwindling forces.

Interestingly, the forces that redeployed earlier to match the Loyalist movements all survived. This includes Kycillia and her support squadron.

You are having difficulty in raising the comm lines but the Outer Heaven reports that there's a lot of confusion al around over what's happened. You're warning evidently helped a little though...

Everybody is launching Mobile Suits if they haven't already. Including the survivng Dolos.

YOUR ORDERS?

Well, with Degwin dead and Dozle still at Solomon, that leaves Kycillia as acting head of the Legitimacy. Unfortunately, the fact that she matched her movements with the Loyalists and the fact that we know that she made deals with them in the past is very troubling.

I'm kind of thinking of rounding up any Legitimacy forces we can and hightailing it back to Solomon. Dozle is the only guy we can trust at the moment.

>>15830175
>Degwin has died
>Revil has died
GOD-FUCKING-DAMMIT!
Even after all we did, the future still refused to change about those two!

Alright, orders:
Damage report from our team, first.
Then, we try to raise Kycillia for orders.


It might be overstepping our authority, but maybe we should transmit "Alright, everyone stay calm. That superweapon can't fire again so quickly, I hope." over an open frequency to try to keep everyone from fighting.

>>15830211

Neither her nor the federation matched movements so much as saw where the Loyalist forces were going and rearranged their own ships to counter it.

Like those small alterations in a American-Football Lineup.

>>15830211
Maybe, but thing about it from the Federation's viewpoint: Legitimacy ships leaving as soon as a superweapon is fired?
Probably not a good idea to immediately depart.

Then there's the whole problem of Revil being dead. He was the moderating influence on the Federation High Command; if we don't get a cease-fire or peace ironed out now, the conservatives in the Federation will continue to prosecute this war.

Maybe we can get them to agree to curbstomp Gihren before doing anything else.

>>15830286
Well, in that case we form up with Kycillia and try and convince her to get the combined Zeon forces to back off and the Feds to do the same until we can figure out what happened.

I'm still not that inclined to trust her completely, though. We don't know whether she knew about this attack or not and the evidence we have suggests that she might have.

why don't we just calculate where the laser originated from and send the federation after it?

Would be a good way to eliminate bad guys without risk to ourselves, and show that we're all for peace by not interfering with the federation

just a thought

>>15830286
Actually, if we can, now might be a good time to have that Loyalist rear admiral we have locked up questioned. With a monkeywrench, if need be.
If we can get him to admit that it was Gihren who authorized the use of a superweapon at a neutral peace summit, we might have what we need to convince the Federation to stop fighting the Legitimacy and go after the Loyalists.
Should probably tell Kycillia when we can get in touch with her, too.

>>15830175
Time to rally everyone forces, seeing as the white base isn't here to do it for the federation. Also find that thing and destroy it, you probably can't hide something that shoot laser this huge once it has fired.

OH to rally any floundering friendly ships nearby. If there is a pegasus "nearby", OH to fire an uncoded laser com to them "Do not engage. -Nachtmaren" a few times. Hopefully, we can get through to one ship...

Contact Kycillia's ship and suggest "rally and withdraw" unless we have intel as to who just trashed our leader's ship.
MS team to rally on the OH defensively.

Are the Loyalist forces getting uppity, as if they're about to attack?

>>15830362
Sounds good; only problem is identifying ourselves, though.
We're kind of the boogiemen to the Federation; it might be better to say "This attack was on both of us; do not engage."

>>15830347
>Actually, if we can, now might be a good time to have that Loyalist rear admiral we have locked up questioned.

Whilst the tactical net struggles to reassert itself you take a quick check of your team. This far out you haven't taken any damage.
You then ask the Outer Heaven about the Admiral you just brought in.

"Yeah, he cracked once the weapon went off. He's a lot more talkative now." Anita informs you.
"He keeps saying that he didn't think 'he' would go through it. It's a fair bet he's talking about Gihren."

You were wondering when he'd pop up again.

You try to raise Kycillia or any of the other command elements on the communication network. The general gist of the chaos that you can make out is to expand formations to reduce multiple damage and to head earthwards in an attempt to hide away from the laser in the planets shadow.

All aspects of the fleet appear to be doing this.

Presently, Anita raises you again.

"We think we've got the situation from him. He think he was probably trying to escape into one of the debris zones because he wasn't able to get a ticket to the axis. But more importantly, he thinks that Gihren loyal units will be embedded WITHIN the Loyalist fleet and that they're probably going to attack the Federation forces."

"That's insane! Resuming hostilities here would destroy Zeon!"

"He say's that Gihren's plan was to escape the earth sphere in the Axis and that he'd made an asylum deal with what he believes to be the Jupiter Energy Fleet."

"So, fuck Zeon as long as he survives, right?"

"Right!"

YOUR ORDERS?
ALSO, BRB DINNER.

>>15830446
We need to get this info to Kycillia immediately.
Also, I thought about transmitting on an open channel that Loyalists may attempt to fire on the Federation forces, but that would trigger the firefight.

Maybe try to get a lasercom connection to a Fed ship, tell them about the Loyalists trying to start a fight between the Federation and the Legitimacy?

If only we could find out which of the Legitimacy units were the traitors.

>>15830446

locate a pegasus class, shoot that story to them through uncoded laser coms until they reply.

Hell, target EVERY ZEON SHIP POSSIBLE and open laser com them: "If you love Zeon, DO NOT FIRE UPON FEDERATION FORCES. Any that provoke battle with the federation are traitors to us all!"

>>15830446
>Offer him immunity if he repeat what he just said on an open line to everyone. He'll probably even get considered a hero or something if we win.
>Get everyone on the same agenda. Kill gihren.

>>15830446
Explain the situation to Kycillia and get her to give out a general order that ANY ship caught firing at the Federation will get FUCKED UP personally by yours truly. I'm sure we've built our reputation up to the point where we can get potential traitors to second guess themselves. Plus it may make the Feds hesitate when they see the Nachtmaren of all people taking down their own ships to preserve the ceasefire.

>>15830526
It might work.
Of course, that might cause all of the Loyalists, both embedded and not, to open fire.
And undoubtedly, some of the Federation won't believe it, and will think that it's just a trick to disguise us opening fire on them.

And of course, there's our position at the cease-fire talks to be considered.

>>15830639
If she sends out the order on an open frequency, that might work.
The trick will be to get in touch with Kycillia and convince her of our plan.

>>15830663
Well loyalist will shoot at them weither he talks or not, the only good it can make is making us not a target to the federation, I mean we are different factions.

So, orders are:
Try to get in touch with Kycillia and convince her to transmit that anyone firing on the Feddies will have to answer to Nachtmaren.
If we can't get in touch with Kycillia, have the admiral transmit his confession about Gihren's plot over an open channel to everyone.

My concern with the latter part of that, is our forces might descend further into confusion and friendly fire as everyone starts pointing guns at each other.

>>15830854

So you want to try and physically get into contact with Kycillia? THe command network is still really badly fractured.

>>15831153
I'm not against it, but >>15830526 plan seem to be the one that has the most success chances

>>15831175

Open radio might be the best option for this plan. But you should probably take him out of his handcuffs and put him in his full dress uniform if your going to sell it.

Even then, I should point out you still don't know for certain what this guy did.

>>15831206
I don't know either, but I'd rather lie to him and get everyone to gang on gihren than not doing so and get a three way fight or worse allow the colony to shoot again.

>>15831206
Okay, so how about we tell Mauser to get the admiral cleaned up for an open broadcast on Gihren's lunacy, and David himself tries to make a direct lasercomm line with Kycillia's ship in order to tell her what's going on and what we're going to try to do.

Let's get this moving. Get the guy broadcasting.

Then let's all unite and go crucify Gihren.

I wish Dozle and Garma or any

>>15831352
Ahem.

*I wish Dozle or Garma or anyone other than Kycillia were here right now. . .

WHAT ARE OUR RESUPPLIED WEAPONS STATUS ON THE FUCK-SHIT-UP FRONT, APOLOGIZED?

WHAT'S THE LATEST PIMPED OUT SHIT WE HAVE WE CAN SLAP GIHREN WITH?

>>15831372
Well there would aways be the option of taking control of gihren ship and have it shoot his own fleet... if we ever wanted to fry ourselves.

Do we know what direction the laser was fired from?

Goddamnit, I bet that if we had questioned this Admiral sooner we could have saved Revil and Degwin.

In any case, I agree that getting in contact with Kycillia is our #1 priority right now. Take whatever steps necessary.

>>15831305

Okay, you relay the orders, with bit of luck everyone might just buy it.
You then begin to push forwards, you check the colony laser to see how long it'll take to recharge.

>Colony Laser: Massive overheating damage, repair in progess "ARGH MAH NUTBLADDER"

...that probably means a while.

Of course the real concern here is how do you deal with the embedded enemy units within the loyalist forces, as even with your announcement, you can think of at least three seperate ways they could kickstart hostilities between the Federation and Zeon.

As you close with Kycillia's flagship, Rance and Jolyne as your wingmen you can see that the Mobile Suit patrol radius has expanded, and the three forces are now very close to each other, it wouldn't take much to cause this tinderbox to reignite. The fact that it hasn't already is impressive.

You spot Ridden operating in close patrol with his unit escorting Kycillias ship as usual, as well as several other mixed squads of advanced mobile suits.
The federation are also operating in force, massed ranks of basic GM's led by the occaisional more advanced model. No sign of any Gundams thank god. With a bit of luck you'd like to think most of those have already been dealt with.

The loyalist factions are also present, an eclectic mix of older Zaku's and advanced Gelgoogs, including several squads of them in the Spec Ops Blacks of Gihrens Specialist Units...

Wait, they wouldn't be THAT obvious would they?

You're still trying to raise Kycillia on the tactical net.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>15831565
Wave over to Ridden, try to raise him on lasercomm.
If anyone could get a direct line to Kycillia, he would be it.
Give him a heads-up on the situation, have him try to get ahold of Kycillia, and to watch those Gihren Spec-Ops units.

>>15831565
I'm probably going to get us killed but keep an eye on the black gelgoog and if they seem to want to start something stop them with our power... It's the safest thing to do for everyone but ourselves.

>Also that colony lazer

Whatever happens, don't fire the first shot. In fact, make that clear to our subordinates and any other legitimacy forces in the vicinity, so long as it doesn't noticeably district from trying to contact Kycillia and getting the Admiral ready.

>>15831602

Seconding this.

-OMAKE-

ROUGHLY UNDER A WEEK AGO.

"The seismographs confirm it, it's definately down there."

Garma looked at the map, resources were scarce everywhere, but luckily many of the Rio-Grande Line caches had been undiscovered by the Federation, so they were subsisting fairly well. On old parts unfortunately so the newer Mobile Suits often had to be kitbashed to keep them working. In many cases, pilots had gone back to the easier to use and maintain Zaku II J.

Even then the parts, the food, the medical and most of
all the manpower was running out. He could raid most of that stuff off the federation, but manpower he was kind of stuck with what he had. Story of the war really. Char and the Hawaiin naval forces joining up with his forces was a welcome shot in the arm and good for morale though.

Nevertheless, Garma was thinking of endgames now.

"What would need to get down there?"

"It's a web of underground mazes and tunnells, reports we took from that Federation Outpost seem to indicate that the original crew had to lash together some kind of diving bell to get to the surface. But, over here is an old iron mining operation. We can convert the engineering Zaku's with the drilling equipment and get to it more directly." his aide told him.

"How long will that take?"

"I can't say for certain, but barring any serious accidents, we should be able to get a crew to her in about... 3 days? Repairworks going be tricky, but with everyone helping out, and judging by these damage reports, then we might be looking at about 3 days to get it mobile. It WILL use up a lot of our stores though, and it wont be combat worthy."

"That's fine Sub-Commander...."

"Just get me the Morlock!"

>>15831760
Morlock? Isn't that the evil underground beasties from H. G. Wells The Time Machine? Morlocks?

Seconding having the captured admiral broadcasting his message and suggesting we tell Kycillia, the Feddies, AND Dozle that shit has gone down with Gihren. Seeing as Gihren just killed A) Everyone's dad, and B) fucking Revil, whom even WE couldn't off.

>>15831877
No, the Morlock is a drill battleship. We captured one once, and it helped speed up Marine MS development.

>>15831991
Neato.

Alrighty then. ETA on us getting that man in his dress-blues and ready to broadcast to everyone what Gihren just did?

Broadcast the fact that Gihren is selling out Zeon to the Jupiter Energy Fleet in the clear. Presumably, the blast from the Colony Laser would have dispersed the local Minovsky particles to at least some degree, so radio might actually work.

We want everyone, especially the Loyalists, to know that Gihren did this specifically to buy himself enough time to flee to his new masters, and that he'll happily abandon all of his supporters AND THEIR FAMILIES IN SIDE 3 in the process. Might make a few of the Loyalists rethink things.

Also state that we know exactly what Gihren's moles had planned, and that we will find and end any of them who try to fuck up whatever's left of the peace talks.

Can we also send this through Psychedelic Newtype Space? There have to be at least a few Feddie Newtypes around who could help relay this to their commanders.

>>15832097
Well, getting that captured admiral to spill his guts on an open channel would do essentially that.
Mauser can take care of getting the admiral ready to make his confession; I think we should concentrate on informing Kycillia, through Ridden, and keeping an eye on those Gihren spec-ops suits.
Maybe have Rance and Jolyne keep an eye on the Gelgoogs while we flag Johnny down.

>>15831602
>>15832097
>>15832004

You wave to Johnny Ridden as you approach. Eventually you're able to raise him over the radio. You relate the situation and ask him to patch you through to Kycillia.

Luckily he obliges. You also tell him to watch those Black Mobile Suits, it could be a double bluff, but better safe than sorry.

Kycillia is haggard but luckily willing to hear from you. You relate the entire story to her.

"I thought Gihren has been alltogether too quiet lately. For this crime he WILL be found and made accountable!"

She relays orders to keep watch on the Loyalist units, you relate to her you plan to have your captured general explain the situation to everybody on radio.

"Hmm. Admiral Doenitz was wanted in relation to the use of Poison Gas on federal colonies within Side 4. He wasn't expressly implicated as the main instigator, although his apparent dash for freedom speaks volumes. Hopefully he delivers it in a way that the Federation will be willing to look past."

Well, that doesn't sound good. Too late now however.
You take up position carefully keeping an eye on any black units you can see. There seem to be several three man squads interspersed within the loyalist forces.
Whilst most don't seem to be moving, you do spot the occaisional squad drift a littly bit to the left, then a little bit up, then stop moving. You spot several of them doing this in fact.

From this distance you can see several of their ships. The surviving dolos launches another black mobile suit.
Then another.
A few seconds later another...

Hmmm.

There's a crackle as the radio signal from the Outer Heaven begins it's transmission...

>>15832298

I feel like the number three is important. . . but don't NORMAL zeon squads deploy in threes?

Anyways. How many of these black squads are there, how tough do they look, and how good is their friendly cover?

>>15832298
>move a little to the left, then up, then stop
Shit, that was their 'GO' signal, wasn't it?
Tell Rance and Jolyne that more shit's about to hit the fan.
Maybe we should lasercomm Kycillia and tell her that Gihren's Spec-Ops are about to make their move.

>>15832424

Yes. You're overthinking things again.

>>15832620

You as well. All of the black squads are sort of lazily drifting a little towards the federation lines. But they aren't exactly doing it at full speed.

>>15832695
Oh. Okay. But still, we need to keep an eye on them.

>>15832695

Tell them to screw themselves to the spot or Nachtmaren will nail their feet to the space they are occupying. We can make fucking water run uphill, don't question the logic. We've survived attempted and actual nukings, we've been gassed if I recall, we've hijacked mobile suits- if none of them were actually gundams, that's just a pity- but we've done some impossible shit. We've killed five Pegasi in ten minutes using low altitude no opening maneuvers. One of which we killed entirely by ourselves.

Let them know that we notice they are drifting, and we are not pleased.

>>15832757
Warning shots. Then a transmission: "The next one goes into your balls or ovaries, whichever set of genitalia is applicable. Yes, we can hit them while you're in your suit."

>>15832826
NO!
Any shots fired, warning or not, could cause this entire tinderbox to go up!

>>15832840
>>15832826

Us talking is shock enough. We can fucking tell their guns not to fire if we want. Just say we've noticed that shit, and to cut it out.

Sage for mass murder/Civilian slaughtering quest.

>>15832868
You're thinking of the One Week War, not the One Year War.

Has Zeon nuked/gassed any noncombatants in this continuity outside of the One Week Battle?

>>15832909
Ignore him. It's the same stale troll as always.

So it seems we're going with the transmission to the black Gelgoogs, telling them not to start shit, because we will END them if they do?

>>15832734
>>15832757

You directly intersperse yourself between the Federation and the black mobile suits. With a bit of luck that should dissuade them.

Meanwhile, your captured admiral is beginning to explain the plan. He's managed to dodge around actually giving his name out, but he has stated his rank, and his uniform appears pretty legit.

He starts by explaining about the Gryps plan, and how it was intended to create an artifical short term side designed for military science.
He then skims that (you have some dark suspicions as to why) and then details a plan to construct a massive gas-laser out of a colony cylinder. This plan had apparently already begun construction as far black as before the split.

He then goes on to detail how after certain incidents Gihren left Side 3 for Grypps which was largely under his control due to a heavy ZIRCON presence. He then indicates that it was heavily suspected that he'd have an escape plan ready, and that it was with someone outside the earth sphere. Barring Martians coming to Gihren's aid, it's pretty clear who that would be, but the guy doesn't come out and say it.

Clear that they've been rumbled, the Black Mobile Suits are moving forwards now weapons hot. Several vessels are maneouvering from the Loyalist factions.
They're coming right for you.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>15833272
Kill them all, but be sure to let them fire the first shot so that there will be no question as to who attacked first.

>>15833272
Transmit to the tactical network that Kycillia is on, "Loyalist forces coming in, weapons hot! Repeat, Loyalist forces on hostile approach vector with weapons hot! Requesting permission to engage!"

We might as well milk this as much as we can.
If we make pretty damn obvious what's going on, hopefully the Federation will not join the fight and we can continue the talks later.

Start targeting and get weapons ready, but don't fire until authorization comes down.

>>15833272
See if you can turn off all of their guns.
At the same time.

Get some rock candy and get on a public channel.

"*crunchcrunchcrunch* You want to start something for a man who's left you and your cause for dead so he can sell out to the Jupiter Energy Fleet? In between the Legitimacy, Federation, and REAL Loyalists? With No Guns?"
"*Crunchcrunchcrunch* Good luck."

>>15833272
Tell them to back the fuck off or they'll get blasted. Make sure its over an open channel so the Feds can hear it too. Then wait until they get close enough and/or take the first shot at us before enaging.

>>15833334
Using our Newtype power that much could potentially fry our brain. I think it's too risky.

Why not newtype hack all the enemy guns and thrusters so they can't do shit? We did it with that other ace.

>>15833334
I would hold off wantonly throwing around our Newtype powers unless we REALLY need to. Last time we did it Lister nearly melted his own brain.

>>15833421
I think preventing us from starting duking it out with three armies is a pretty big fucking fucking thing to do. Brain frying or not, if people start firing guns left right and center, we are ALL FUCKED. Gihren won't have to fire the colony laser again, we'll have atomized ourselves if the black suits start us all fighting each other.

>>15833441
There's also the issue of whether we can even willingly pull it off again. Our powers were triggered because we were under SERIOUS amounts of stress and going up against one of the most powerful Newtypes in existence. We nearly fried our brains and we did was knock his beam rifle and commandeer a few guns as makeshift funnels. I don't know if we even have the capability of disabling AN ENTIRE FREAKING FLEET, much less even a few of the Gelgoogs.

>>15833441
I don't think it will work, though. I think the strain would melt our brain before we stop all of their weapons. Sure, might stop half of the Gelgoogs, but they only need 1 to start the fight.
Then that would leave us with a brain-fried Lister while the situation STILL devolves into a battle.

Well, I gave the suggestion of diplomacy a shot. Kill'em all then.

Just take a page out of "Jesus" Yamato's book (yes, I know, bear with it just this once) and try to snipe the weapons out of their hands.

If we can't, then switch to killing. This is UC; main characters here aren't pussies.

These bastards think we'll just let them throw away everything that Fontaine, Ramirez, Shin, Hovis and Zolomon struggled and died for?

FUCK
THEM

Who the hell do they think we are?

Having them rush at you like this, the sensible option would be to retreat backwards and maintain your distance. You don't though, because you know full well they can see your unit insignia.

It's hard to miss, you're the big giant flying skeletons with beam rifles.
Your shield would be a mess of kill marking if you hadn't run out of space something like THREE WHOLE MONTHS AGO.

Roghly three squads of Gelgoogs press towards you on high burn. Most appear to be Type-B High mobilty types.

You thumb the transmit toggle on your short range radio.

"Gentlemen. I want you to properly consider, because I don't think you have done so, in what world exactly you think that any of you will survive by actively moving against me. You know me, you know what I can do. You know what I have already done."

"But most of all, know that you will not kill me, only make me angry."

"You wouldn't like me when angry."

Side 6: Primarily known for it's large financial brokering services, picturesque colonies that after the independance movement have been styled using a mix of Swiss and German Baroque architechture and one of the largest and most complete collections of old 20th century television shows in the earth sphere.

>>15833838
>You wouldn't like me when angry.
AHAHAHA!
Oh, that's hilarious.
This should be good. Let me get my popcorn.

Oh wait, is it general knowledge that we killed half the last Gihren Black Ops team we intercepted? Should we share that with these folks?

Also: we seriously need rock candy when we troll Gihren.

>>15833968
No, that's pretty much still a secret.
While letting it be known that we handily took out a spec-ops unit might have some intimidation factor, it is more likely to stoke these guys into a rage and have them attack us.

Wait for Kycillia to make the call, have her give us authorization to open fire. Unless the Gelgoogs shoot first, of course. Then we shoot them all down.

Also, once this is all over, we should make a note to break up the Jupiter Energy Fleet so we don't have to worry about double dealing energy monopolies again. So far, out of all the factions, they've definitely gained the most from the war, and there's only one possible reason why they would be offering protection to Gihren in return for restarting the conflict...

>>15834061
Kind of hard to do, when they're the premier supplier of He-3 to a Humanity that needs the stuff for the fusion reactors in everything.
Without He-3 shipments from Jupiter, there's no way to prosecute a modern war. And you an bet that Jupiter has been collecting combat data all this time on the weapons and mobile suits used throughout this conflict, even with their neutrality.

>>15834061
How do you plan on doing that? The JEF has more money than god, and more troops then both Zeon and the Feds combined.

>>15834133
>>15834115
Well, we can't exactly let them get away with assisting the guy who just incinerated our two best chances at peace.

Plus, I dont recall the JEF having a large military, if at all, until they form into the Jupiter Empire. So, if we take them down now, it would save our descendents a whole lotta trouble..

>>15833838

The rush slows. Then stops. There appears to be developing some kind of mexican standoff. The forces arrayed against you don't want to risk trying to push past you, on the other hand, more of their forces are appeared.
But now the Admiral is talking about inserting Gihren loyalist agitators into peace talks to reinstigate a final phase. From the sound of it the original plan was for Gihren's escape hatch to include more than just himself. Or at least that's how it was sold to his inner circle.
You're not really sure how this admiral managed to get himself sold high and dry, without getting shot for being a liability anyway.
Probably something to do with him being wanted in connection to warcrimes. The looming threat of a televised showtrial and execution does tend to ensure loyalty.

Nearly getting incinerated by a colony laser would seem to encourage the opposite though, as he's being more than talkative now.

Apparantly these revelations are causing a bit of disruption with the surviving Loyalist units. Some of them possibly weren't expecting as being sacrificial lambs by their own former head of state. Several of the surviving ships seem to be breaking formation.

>>15834206
Luckily, it seems that the federation forces are at least buying some of what the Admiral is saying as they've begun to react accordingly. Pulling back their own forces way back.

Some of the spec ops forces are clearling beginning to see that things are reaching diminishing returns here, some of them are even slinking back away, towards the Dolos. Other Legitimacy forces are beginning to back you up as well here.

Just once, you could do with your luck holding here. Now if never before and never again. A few more tense minutes pass.

The last dregs seem to make a decision and about face at high speed. You exhale in suprise almost. You were almost certain this was going to end in a firefight.

A few seconds later you receive a private high priority message from Kycillia.

"We'll keep an eye on those suspected enemy forces as they continue their retreat. We aren't sure if they're heading back to A Boa Qu, or some other unknown base of operations. But we've already begun re-establishing communications with the Federation, and the Loyalists are certainly a lot more willing to play along and not stall for time like they were doing previously. It's going to take a little longer than expected, but there's a good chance we can get the peace process back on track. I have one last
missions for you however."

"I want you to kill Gihren."

TO BE CONTINUED

>>15834164
There's still the problem of them holding all the fuel. And any military excursion sent to Jupiter would take months to arrive; months in which the JEF could build up a military.

Don't forget to take into account the amount of time it takes to get from the Earth Sphere to Jupiter; that would be the longest supply train in history, and don't forget that you need fuel for them, too.

I'm off to bed as I have to be up by 8 tommorow. This went on for longer than I wanted because frankly, I just couldn't think what the fuck to write half the time, and the other half I just didn't want to. I am beyond burnt out vis a vis Zeonquest, it's basically just this great big fucking Albatross around my neck at this point.
Goddamn if next week isn't the last episode I'm going to go nuts.

>>15834210
>"I want you to kill Gihren."
Finally, the orders I've been waiting on for so long.

We'll need to work fast; Gihren's probably already learned that his operation is a failure, and is likely going to abandon the Colony Laser very soon, if he's not already leaving.

>>15834233
Dude. You've been running this since 2009, and by God if it isn't awesome.

For all the hard work you put into it, know that the final product shows for it.

>>15834233
Sorry to hear about the burnout. But it's better to plow through and finish, than to just abandon it. Be strong, Apologised, it's almost over.

>>15834210
So no Saddam Showtrial for Gihren, huh? Who are the feddies going to vent all their hate out on then for war crimes?

>>15834349
We could take gun-cams and head-cams, and show Gihren getting shot and then have his corpse defiled, then send the Feddies the video as a Christmas present.

But seriously, I think they'll just have to be satisfied with us having killed Gihren.

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Smallest Zeonquest thread ever?

>DEGWIN HAS DIED
>REVIL HAS DIED
Fuck you

>>15834241
This sounds good. We should still try to destroy or disable the laser if we find time though.

>>15834444
>Smallest Zeonquest thread ever?
Yeah, it's a little short. But can you honestly say that there was much to discuss concerning our actions? Sometimes, there's just not a lot to talk about.

As for what to do next, since we didn't expend any ammo, we should just top off our fuel tanks.
I'm not sure if we should try following the Dolos supercarrier to see if it'll lead us to where Gihren is holed up, or if we should go to the Colony Laser.
If Gihren's been in talks with the JEF for sanctuary, we need to find and kill him before the Jupiter Fleet picks him up.

>>15834349
With cloning technology, EVERYBODY can have a Gihren of their very own to execute!

>>15834557
Worst comes to worst, we can kebab him along with Scirocco when the latter visits the Earth Sphere.

And with a meatshield in the way, Scirocco can't lobotomize us with his final "fuck you" the way he did to Kamille in canon!

>>15834233

I can sympathize. You have my thanks, Apologized.

Can I interest you guys in a Gryps War-era Zanzibar-class ship?

From Advance of Zeta.

>>15835237
I like it. Let's call ours "Outer Haven".

>>15834210
>>"I want you to kill Gihren."

OUR TIME HAS COME.

It is time to assemble the most badass team ever comprised of both Fed and Zeon pilots.

(Let's have Yuu Kajima and Yazan Gable on our team yes?)

Will Bernie return?

>>15835347
I second the motion.

Also apologized, what is the status of the Shield of Zeon folks in here (from Plot to Assassinate Gihren Zabi manga)?

>>15835358
Wasn't Yazan Gable always an asshole, though?

>>15835564
You think we can still make him into a Chaotic Good alignment?

>>15835358
Didn't Yuu get knocked into the atmosphere with Nimubs? Hes probably dead

>>15836548
Yeah, I remember Yuu is dead.

We don't have the time to put together any kind of team; if Gihren steps foot on a Jupiter Energy Fleet ship, he's as good as gone. No way we could break the neutrality of a Jupiter ship.

So it all comes down to where to go:
1. Colony Laser is the last known location of Gihren, but who knows if he's still there after learning of his plan's failure.
2. Axis Redoubt; he could be trying to catch a JEF ship from there.
3. We follow the Dolos supercarrier to see if it'll lead us to Gihren. I kind of doubt it would be this easy, though.

>>15836548
>>15837120

Wait are you sure I said that? I think all I said was that you only knew for certain that Nimbus was dead. Basically I followed the plot of the Blue Destiny canon. So Yuu is around but not terribly pleased with the Feds for even involving themselves in the EXAM technology.

Unless you killed him personally at a later date I suppose...

>>15837850
Is Nachtmaren going to team up with Feddie pilots for this? Like, Hughes Courand of the to-be Phantom Sweep?

http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Eric_Mansfield

>>Eric Mansfield
Either he is among the people right now in this area, or he's guarding Gihren.

http://www.mangareader.net/1693-56616-35/kidou-senshi-gundam-giren-ansatsu-keikaku/chapter-30.html


I think that Shield of Zeon unit, if they're with Gihren right now, might be waiting to kill him when it presents itself.

>>15837850
Really? I could have sworn that you mentioned Yuu being killed at one point.
Oh, well, I guess if Yuu is in the Federation negotiation fleet, and he wants to take a crack at killing Gihren, I suppose he can come along. But only if he's willing to take orders from a Zeon officer.