>>33988568
Pursuing the GP-02 had to take priority, though, and you eventually found your teams assaulting the southern defensive lines of Kinbareid Mine. Your team and the Burning Team agreed to try and push through a gap in the mountains protecting the southern approach, willing to risk springing a trap in the hope of punching through with your overwhelming speed and firepower. The trap, however, turned out to be eight buried nuclear satchel charges with a yield of one kiloton each. The first of these claimed the life of Lt.JG Alpha A. Bate, the Burning Team's point man at the time. The rest you countered while under aerial harassment through a combination of your own twin hyper rifles and Haman's psycho-mines, allowing you to progress under the cover provided by the irradiated dust of the blasts.

You then found yourself facing down a tide of Doms, which outnumbered your own forces more than two to one. But with the firepower of your Lilium-series Gundams and fire support from the remainder of the Burning Team, along with a stellar performance from your freshly-blooded cyber Newtype teammate Rossweisse, you cut all of the attackers down with only moderate damage to South and Ensign Uraki's suits in return. Unfortunately the Zeon defenses managed to stall your team, and more importantly the Albion's big guns, long enough for the Heavy Lift Vehicle assume to be carrying the GP-02 to launch.

The Albion fired its guns, and Haman pushed her remaining psycho-mines well past the redline... but the Albion's fire controller missed his chance before the titanic rocket boosters carried the HLV out of range, and despite her best efforts the motors on Haman's mines just couldn't catch her target.

Currently South and Audrey are managing the surrendering Zeon forces as well as restraining Monsha, who seems ready to kill a few of them for the loss of Bate.
(2/?)

>>33988588
Uraki seems to be dealing with Ensign Keith, who spent a good deal of the battle in a daze, and the Marseille sisters seem worried about Rossweisse's present condition. You can sense a fair deal of pain, panic, and confusion mounting in the young cyber Newtype's mind. The rest of your team aboard the Albion is arguing with some prick over the comm, trying to follow your request to get the La Vie en Rose involved in tracking and downing the escaping HLV.

“What I'm SAYING,” you hear Karen shouting over an open frequency, “is that I'm ordering you to ignore the comm restrictions!”

“I'm sorry Captain,” the paper-pusher on the other end replies in a tone that comes dangerously close to patronizing, “I can't authorize that. My hands are tied.”

“You CAN'T, or you WON'T?”

“Captain,” you hear Reiko interrupt. After several seconds of discussion that you strain to hear, Karen's voice returns.

“In accordance with EFF Directive thirty-one-fifty section three 'b', subheading ten stroke two-oh-six,” she recites, clearly from a piece of paper, “and pursuant to standing orders by Admiral Kowen, I am assuming all tactical command authority over response to the ongoing pinnacle nucflash and bent spear events reported in the vicinity of Kinbareid Mine, northern Tanzania. I am devolving information control duties to Staff Sergeant Reiko Hollinger, currently stationed aboard the Albion.”
(3/?)

>>33988613
“And I'M ordering you, CORPORAL,” Reiko snarls, “to disregard standard information blackout procedures and patch through all current satellite telemetry on the location and course of the unidentified HLV that just broke atmosphere here to the civilian ship La Vie en Rose. Acknowledge.”

It wasn't a question. There are a few seconds where you can hear the Corporal stationed at the EFF's satellite control and reporting station in Cairo flipping through his own manuals, before he finally relents. “Orders acknowledged, ma'am. Sending the data via laser comm... cannot guarantee transmission security.”

“That's fine, Corporal,” Karen replies. “Just do it quickly.”

What do you wish to deal with while we shift perspective?
>Prisoners
>Rossweisse
>Monsha

>>33988628
>Rossweisse

You look after your own first, then worry about others.

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What do you mean, we can't paint it red?

>>33988628
>Monsha
Because Goddamn, it'd be hilarious.

>>33988660
Did Gundam-san actually get subbed properly, or is it still the DIY ripped from the manga translation?

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>>33988628
Monsha Time.

>>33988628
Nice job, Reiko. Never piss off the secretary when you're working in a bureaucracy, I suppose.

>Rossweisse
This is her first actual battle, I believe, so I would expect her to be a bit worked up. Especially seeing how someone got nuked. Speaking of which, we caught that on our flight recorders, right? Because it would be nice if we could throw it in Delaz's face that he violated the Antarctic Treaty first. A broadcast of our own, or something like that.

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>>33988660

>>33988713
The translation is still shit, but I still love it.

>>33988628
>Rossweise

Make a mental note to have the paper pushers' balls in a vice when we return to orbit. Get SOMEONE with the clout to handle the surrendering base personal from the Federation out here. We're a single ship and we've got a HLV to catch and catch soon. Can't dally about on this mudball any longer. Burning can handle Monsha.

>>33988660
I said this last thread, but that's my justification for why Dom feels the need to troll Char. Because before he was the Devil Jester his callsign was Red Wolf, and he feels that Char is besmirching the color. Char's suits aren't even red, that's clearly salmon pink he's painted them with. What the hell, Aznable?

>>33988628
>Rossweisse
You have peeked my interest

>>33988678
I think we should lay off him. His best friend just got nuked. Let's give the guy a break. At least until Von Braun, then we can resume crushing his spirit.

>>33988767
A little bit of backstory, not at all related to the plot: your machines weren't red either.

The Red Wolf nickname comes from two things: Dom's hair, which is quite red and was rather mane-ish during his time in the OYW, and a run-in with an actual red machine. A collision with debris from his twenty-sixth kill left a contact transfer of red around his tan machine's 'face', which some of the recruits said reminded them of a wolf that had just eaten.

>>33988628
> Rossweisse
First the team.

>>33988628
>Rossweisse
Gotta help her handle the psychic backlash.

>>33988824
What the hell are you talking about? How the hell is switching to his POV 'crushing his spirit?'

>>33988866
Cool.

Don't forget to update your twitter.

>>33988866
Well...that is pretty badass. Personal canon destroyed, but actual canon is cooler so I guess I don't care. Dom must just have seen Char as a target of opportunity, then.

>>33988944
I thought we were selecting the character Dom would interact with while perspective shifted away from him, not the character whose perspective we were shifting to. I figured we were going to switch to Defrah's perspective up in orbit.

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>>33988944
Because if we take control of Monsha we will inevitably roll all 1 all the time?

That is pretty spirit crushing.

>>33988628
>Dominic has chosen to prioritize Rossweisse's first cyber-Newtype breakdown

Today is October 22nd, UC 0083, and you're listening to some Iron Maiden. Also, you're still Defrah Kar, why would that even be a question? Anyway it's a Tuesday, which means tacos in the galley later tonight. They're hardly proper tacos, but... hey, is your phone beeping at you?

Oh fuck a duck, it's Lucette, and she's apparently called you three times. That probably means it's important. Checking your messages, you can see a text asking you to come down to the hangar deck.

Maybe you should do something about that. Or, you could just sit here in the lounge and drink your coffee, and keep listening to a long-dead singer about his fear of the dark.

>No-one interrupts the metal
>Go see what Lucette wants
>Other?

>>33989057
>Go see what Lucette wants

>>33989057
>Go see what Lucette wants
We never have anything to do up here, maybe Lucette has something for us? Are we getting attacked by Zeon again? Because blowing up those ships was fun.

>>33989057
> Go see what Lucette wants

>>33989057
Call her back. Keep pumping heavy metal. Shout to be heard with copious WHATS?.

When Defrah dies and we salvage the mobile armor, stick Haman in it and fill the thing with psychomines. You think it's terrifying now? Wait until it shits out guided missiles.

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>>33989134
>Call her back. Keep pumping heavy metal. Shout to be heard with copious WHATS?.

I enjoy this idea and support it.

>>33989134

I'm all for putting the emotionally dependent Newtype into the Mobile Armor of mass destruction, and I don't know about the rest of you guys...

But personally I draw the line at funnel missiles. There are no words as to how incredibly bumblefuck retarded those things are, and no amount of stupid sexy Xi design can make up for it. Even if they do look cool in execution.

>>33989057
>Go see what Lucette wants

>>33989225
So you want us to get rid of the psychomines? What would you have us replace them with?

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>>33989225
>I draw the line at funnel missiles
What about funnel suits?

>>33989258
Casaba Howitzers.

>>33989281
We'd still have to launch those off like missiles. Why not have them be guided?

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>>33989258
How about Swords?

You can never have too many swords, just ask Ian Vashti.

>>33989277
Those would be bits.

You could also add psycho-mine launchers to the bit suits if you were feeling really filthy.

>>33989317
True, but they don't make a very good replacement for artillery.

>>33989277

That's fine, it's the funnel "missile" aspect that bugs me.

>Okay so we have this insanely expensive Newtype technology, it costs us a tiny fortune to install just the control frame into a Mobile Suit and that's not taking into account the funnels themselves. What do we do for our new weapon?
>GUYS HEAR ME OUT. WE PUT THE EXPENSIVE NEWTYPE TECHNOLOGY-- WAIT GUYS WAIT
>WE PUT IT ON THE MISSILES THAT BLOW UP AFTER YOU USE THEM, MAKING THEM THE MOST EXPENSIVE AND IMPRACTICAL WEAPON YET

I don't know why I draw the line there, but that's the sole weapon that completely draws me back out of enjoying it and makes me go "but that's not how it works, especially not if you claim there's no Newtype specialty weapons around anymore in late UC because it's too expensive."

>>33989304
Well, yeah. The main disadvantages funnels have is they're huge and are nullified by an i-field. Bits are smaller, but have limited operational time, and are once again nullified by i-fields. A Howitzer is a scaled up Orion Drive which fries your opponent with x-rays. Not a whole hell of a lot that'll survive that. I-field be damned.

>>33989368
The only way I could see them sorta work and have them be cost-effective would be as psychically guided nukes for precision strikes.

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>>33989368
Dunno, I can think of worse money wasting ideas.
>pic related

But yeah Psycho-tech is actually a terrible idea to mass produce in general. Even funnels and bits are technically a bad idea, because out of your 2 million soldiers, only 3 people would be able to use it.

>>33989368
The receivers aren't that expensive, that's why the Sazabi's funnels are disposable. It's just the transmitter that's expensive. And it's not the Newtype weapons that were too expensive, it was Newtypes themselves. Cyber-Newtypes had become political suicide to experiment with, and naturally-occurring ones were too rare. It was considered impractical to design combat doctrines around the few psychic soldiers they had available.

>>33989418
Aren't laser-guidance systems still effective within 5 kilometers?
What about a psycommu-laser designator with like 30 laser-guided missiles?
You chuck 6 of these, target up to 18 targets, and then recover the designator-launcher units after the battle?
The missiles themselves are cheaper laser-guidance ones.

>>33989418

The problem is that the guidance systems are insanely expensive in-universe, and that by the time that they debut in UC, they've already stopped producing Newtype weaponry for most part because they were running out of money.

So then they start installing the insanely expensive Psycommu parts on disposable one-off weapons by nature, as opposed to funnels, which are meant to last longer than a single encounter or even shot.

I had the same problem with Gundam 00. Even in the decent season (the first), they put a lot of emphasis on how their technology was this big deal, that even recovering the cast-away missile-carrying attachment the Kyrios used on some mission was a big deal due to the materials used in constructing it. And then, not even five episodes later, we see the Exia with beam throwing daggers, literally throwing their secrets at the opposition.

It's just something that, even in a show like Gundam, just tears me right out of my immersion and brings my enjoyment of what's going on to a screeching halt.

>>33989057
Yeah, you figure it would be good to at least reply to Lucette and figure out what she wants. She's one of the nicer techies here, and she's been fairly tolerant of your 'eccentricities'.

Basically she's nice and lets you get away with shit, but still, she's good people.

"Sup?" you greet Lucette over the phone.

The response is barely loud enough to hear over the GLORIOUS METAL, but rather than turn it down you keep up the act.

"I can't hear you!" you shout. "Metal!"

After a few minutes you can tell Lucette is actually pretty pissed, so you turn the music down.

"Dominic's team is having some data sent to us on a lift vehicle he wants blasted," Lucette shouts at you, still under the impression you wouldn't be able to hear her otherwise.

You shrug. "Sure, I'll be down in a minute."

As you near the hangar deck, you can feel the La Vie en Rose accelerating hard all around you... that's weird. It never does that. Since when can it even DO that?

"Why are we accelerating, Lucette?" you ask your friend.

"Combine the velocities of the Dendrobium and the station, and we'll get you there faster," she explains.

That doesn't seem right... it's a lot of effort to get a lot of heat on one target like that.
>Alright, launch me.
>Why use the MA against one little lift vehicle? That seems like a gross mis-allocation of resources.
>Ask another question?

>>33989500
I like this idea. Call them "spotter bits" or something like that. And short-ranged guided missiles are going to be available soon (that Full Armor ZZ), so it could have some nice synergy.

>>33989457

At least the second season did away with any pretext of giving a shit at that point. Just not in a good way, the second season was shit. Only enjoyable part, to me, was Ribbons being Ribbons and the return of the Drei.

I'm still mad at it jobbing right after returning in the way it did, goddamnit 00 you had such potential and you throw it all away to become spaceBleach

>>33989558
>Alright, launch me.
>Ask another question?
"What opposition are we expecting?"

>>33989558
"Why's Dominic in such a tissy over one lil' HLV? He should've blasted it with Metal if he wanted it exploded!"

>>33989558
>Why use the MA against one little lift vehicle? That seems like a gross mis-allocation of resources.

>>33989559
The nice thing is that if it's designed as something that sneaks out, paints a target, Itano Circuses it to death, and runs away, then it can also be used as actual spotter and recon bits, to expand your sensor range beyond normal Minovsky Particle limitations.

>>33989558
>Alright launch me

Ask the questions over the vox. Save time and keeps the egghead from strangling us for stalling.

>>33989558
>Alright, launch me.
>Ask another question?

"So what am I blowing up today Brains?"

>>33989571
I feel the same way, the first season was probably the best AU we've gotten, and with just a few changes would have been a perfect story on it's own. Then we had that thing, which was only interesting because Reborns Gundam was sexy. Then it got even worse with the film, although that did have the Sol Braves, and the 40 seconds spoof movie was great.

>>33989611
And we could even combine it with the helicopter bits that things like the Shamblo or the Psyco Mark II use so we could have them work in atmosphere. Those can't seem to life very heavy loads, but it would be enough for the sensor package and at least a couple of missiles.

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>>33989457
And then said Newtype Equipment gets Hijacked anyway because the Newtype Angsty Teenager in a opposing suit was stronger then yours.

>>33989533
I always took it that the daggers self-destructed after hitting/missing, haven't seen 00S1 in ages though.

>>33989558
>Alright, launch me.
>Why use the MA against one little lift vehicle? That seems like a gross mis-allocation of resources.

>>33989611
Would be cool if it was possible to switch weapons aboard the thing.
Need artillery? Mount some rocket launchers on it. Need suppressing fire? Throw some giant machine guns on it.

>>33989368
Here's the justification, from the EFF and AE perspective.

BVR engagement capability is still extremely rare: in effect, Newtypes are the only ones that can do it with any reliability. The 'psycho mines" aren't actually expensive at all, let alone compared to the fact that they basically give any ship that has them a massive tactical advantage. So field-testing them is perfectly reasonable.

>>33989648
>So what am I blowing up today Brains?

The same thing we do every night, Pinky.

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>>33989648

Well, 00 was basically Wing with a better animation budget anyway. And you forgot about the Exia Repair. Terminexia, not that Exia with green crystal shit plastered all over it.

I'd also say that the movie tried to bring Graham back to what people liked so much about him in season 1, except they completely fucked it up and still made him act like Mr. Bushido save that he wasn't weeaboo this time, just a shitty shounen-series rival instead of GUNDAM IS OLEV.

Also;
>00 being best AU
>Not Build Fighters
>Not G

Come on, senpai, step it up

>>33989689
So wait, the psy-mines are actual mines with a psycommu-system that gets blown up with them?
I always thought they were regular mines that are just dropped on a target by a psycommu-guided machine or something.

>>33989680

That's just the thing. They didn't. They just sat there in the cockpit with the beam blade still activated like a dumbass, so you can't even say it shorted itself out after the enemy keeled over or anything.

They were literally throwing the secrets of beam technology, and in that universe by extent, the secrets of weaponizing GN particles. 00 pretends it's all politics and secret operations and all that, but the moment you actually start looking at the setting, it falls apart like a house of cards made out of gingerbread in fat camp.

>>33989762
Yeah, they're psycommu guided missiles. They're called mines (I presume) because no Newtype-use weapon can ever have a straightforward name.

>>33989762
They're essentially shortened missiles with verniers, a funnel control receiver, and an e-cap for a warhead.

>>33989798
Weird. I thought that, considering the price of the entire psycommu thing, it'd be far cheaper to have a guided deployment system that just drops a huge bomb where you need it. The machine that dropped the bomb returns back to the ship, picks up another bomb, repeats the process.

Of course, you can still use them as guided weapons, but this way you don't destroy expensive equipment in the process.

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>>33989722
Now now, let's not get into AU wars, Gendum is pretty much Pick Your Poison anyway, boils down to what you want in a series.

>>33989722
Well yeah but Build Fighters didn't exist back then. I've also had a difficult relationship with G, I love parts of it, but I tried re-watching it and I couldn't get back into it.

Although the similarity to Wing probably made me like it more than I should have. Wing was my first entry into Gundam, and 00 was wing with less tedium.

>>33989773
Honestly, I think you're being a bit harsh about it. In 0079 Amuro left beam rifles all over the place, but no one's bitching at him giving away the plans to Gelgoog. And on that front the techs in 00 all knew about GN particles, because Aeolia published everything 200 years ago. Not to mention even Graham was aware of beam technology when he first saw Exia's beam saber.

>>33989864
We just had this conversation. The receivers aren't expensive, it's the transmitter that is. Though I agree that just hooking up the receivers to a drone plane would be an effective use of them.

The first 10 minutes of G Reko is out on Kiketube for those who haven't been keeping up. Sadly, it's region locked.

So here's a DM link.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x231vov

>>33989982
Yeah, I saw that. I had no idea what was going on at all, though. All I came out of it with was "Hey, that's a neat new design for Haro".

>>33989982
So how many of those cheerleaders die.

>>33989897

The point is that they spend their time in 00 building up how incredibly fucking hardcore their secrets are, and then not even a few episodes later literally start throwing them away. That's what bothered me the most. All that emphasis on it and then completely throwing that aspect away for the sake of being cool. It makes for an incredibly schizophrenic tone in the series and it bothers me. I still like the first season, I just feel it was also very hypocritical.

>>33990025
None of them yet, but they do get kicked around some. Pep rallies will not be tolerated onboard the space elevator, clearly.

>>33989558
"So this is Dom's mission, then?" you ask as you swing your legs into the Dendrobium's cockpit. "I'd have thought he could handle a target like this."

"Apparently it launched at range, while the Albion was under fire," Lucette explains. "It's not a surprise that it got clear of the launch site."

"Yeah, I guess," you reply. "And here I was hoping he'd take me somewhere fancy our first time out. This is more like him ordering a pizza to my flat, then telling me he's off to a fancy high-society ball without you."

"That's an oddly specific scenario," Lucette tells you. "You put much thought into this?"

"… and he's going with the class valedictorian AND the captain of the Varsity basketball team," you finish. "Defrah Kar, launching, I guess."

After you clear the La Vie en Rose, your questions continue. "So we're really committing this much heat to such a small time target?"

"Seems that way," Lucette explains to you. "Orders came down from Kowen as well: we're to hit the vehicle and destroy it, then confirm the kill."

"Understood, Lucette. ETA to the target at maximum burn is six hours. Has it deviated?"

"No," Lucette replies. "It's still tracking steady and true."

How do you want to handle the shoot-down?
>Capture it, try to hide the fact you've captured it from the higher-ups (2d100)
>Cannon the fuck out of it before it even knows you're there (1d100)
>Missiles are fun (1d100)
>Other?

Rolled 51

>>33990079
>Cannon the fuck out of it before it even knows you're there (1d100)
Don't even give it a chance to respond.

Rolled 92

>>33990079
And this is where Defrah dies.

Long range artillery bombardment. Cannon the fuck out of it while pumping Heavy Metal over the general freq.

Rolled 37

>>33990079
>Cannon the fuck out of it before it even knows you're there (1d100)

Rolled 36, 68 = 104

>>33990079
> Capture it, try to hide the fact you've captured it from the higher-ups (2d100)

>>33990117
Provided Hearts takes that one, I'd say she'll do fine. Do posts count if they don't submit their vote as greentext?

>>33990117
That's one hell of a bombardment.

>>33990138
It's fine. He specified ranged 'artillery' bombardment, so I can safely assume he meant the big gun.

Rolled 31

>>33990079
>Cannon the fuck out of it before it even knows you're there (1d100)
DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA!

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Rolled 43

>>33990079
>Missiles are fun (1d100)

Rolled 91

>>33990079
>Cannon the fuck out of it before it even knows you're there (1d100)

Dom totally owes us big time for having to clean up his Op...

>>33990163
Great! Now we only have to worry about whether they were paranoid enough to put an I-Field generator on the HLV. I hope they didn't.

Rolled 25

>>33990117
Righto, we're done here, the bombardment clearly blows up the GP02, but not before it accidentally launches it's nuke, into the Delaz fleet.

>>33990171
Soon, Zenbu. Soon.

Rolled 55

>>33990079
>Cannon the fuck out of it before it even knows your there
Is there any other option?

Rolled 31

>>33990222
Nah, we'll destroy the transport handily. The Metal Gear will get away because plot armor.

>>33990255
I'd expect Gato to get away because of plot armor, but the GP02 should be ruined by the blast. I hope.

I would think that the psycommu reciver on a missile would be even cheaper than one on a funnel/bit. Funnels and bits need their psycommu to move and shoot, but since missiles don't really shoot anything, all you need the psycommu for is movement, and thus you save on cost/size by cutting out the non-essential bits.

>>33990290
or it gets away, but the launch system is trashed

>>33990171
>>33990239
Season 3 when.

Where is the Gundam comparison chart when you need it.

Rolled 82

>>33990290

I doubt that the Gundam designed for Nuclear Combat would get wrecked when the HLV goes boom... but it would definatly do some damage to it's more delicate parts, and I doubt that they have the equipment or parts to repair it properly, so we might end up facing a kind of Franken-GP-02....

>>33990338
I'd bank on the shield being slagged first before the bazooka. Launch system will be fine, simply haft to take the shot at a greater distance to prevent vaporization.

>>33990441
Maybe we'll get to fight the Beam Bazooka MRLS version of the GP02? I would enjoy that.

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>>33990340
Only have the old one.

>>33990338
Or it gets away relatively unharmed and fucks shit up so we lose Dendrobium, possibly by using the nuke.

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>>33990255
>Stardust Memory: your machines are faster and tougher, but far from invincible. Watch out for other aces, experimental machines, groups of grunts with bazookas or beam rifles, and die rolls. Don't expect any advantages you start with to last.
>die rolls.
Hey, if dice rolls can fuck us over badly, I don't see why they can't for Gato.

Also, I really hate the 'hurr invincible plot armour' that shows up a lot in Gundam quests, it really vexed me Zeonquest with Amuro's flat-out invincibility, and that shitty antagonist Bandit always escaping due to PLOT.

Seriously, best Feddie antagonist in that quest was Revil, because he managed to adapt to our shit instead of relying on some bullshit 'invincibility field.'

>>33990447
Not necessarily. The shield stores the barrel of the bazooka. So if it gets slagged before Gato can assemble the parts, the nuke can't be launched.

>>33990515
He'll have a nuclear capable mortar without the barrel. Can still launch it at reduced accuracy.

>>33990473
Yeah I remember that, the bullshit apologized pulled so the canon chars always were better than us. Char was the one to kill Gihren, despite the fact that he and Amuro fell to earth 2 days prior. We should have killed bandit in I think it was our second encounter when we fucked up Jaburo. And then the fact that no-matter what damage we had done to the Feddies, it didn't have any effect on them, and they were still a massive terror. Again with Jaburo, we went in there, and blew the shit out of the place. Our total damage was "lol, they decided to mass produce Pegasus carriers instead of Salamis."

Revil was quite good, but half of it was bullshit, "Lol you came up with these ideas which Zeon ignore, but make the Feddies better".

>>33990556
I thought Nina said it couldn't be used that way? Well, even if it can, we should be fine. Combine lowered accuracy with increased minimum range and it's going to be a lot harder for him to nuke the Navel Review. It could buy us time to intercept him and keep him from firing.

>>33990079
Six hours, you're at this.

Six. HOURS.

God DAMN you're bored. You even resorted to playing tic-tac-toe on your flight checklists against Lucette over the comm link you were so bored. The laser feed cut out a few times as she was forced to run the feed through various satellites in order to extend the effective range, which seems a lot of effort for a silly game.

Finally, you spot your quarry. Your sensors pick up its thermal signature as well. Running almost at a diagonal to your course, actually, and running fast.

"Alright, say good night, Gracie."

>92

You hit the firing stud for the Dendrobium's warship grade particle cannon, and watch as the HLV you've been sent to chase evaporates immediately from the first shot.

"Fuck yeah," you comment aloud. "You like that, Lucette? Cuz that was pretty fucking hot if I say so my... hang on..."

There are Musais over there.

"There are Musais over there," you explain to Lucette. "Over along the course the lift vehicle was following."

"A retrieval team?" Lucette wonders. "Can you confirm the target was destroyed?"

"Oh-hoooo yeah. It's gone," you confirm happily before a single particle cannon blast lances out past your machine.

"They missed, you observe. "Funny. They know I'm here, but they fired only once... a warning shot." That's the only real conclusion you can reach, as the three Musais begin to reverse course... along with a Zanzibar you didn't notice at first. Equally strange, you get the distinct impression that they could have easily intercepted the HLV before you arrived if they'd tried.

You can tell Lucette is thinking about bringing you "I think it's time for you to come back in."

Fuck. Every time.
>Reverse course. The target is gone, and this machine is too valuable to waste on a frontal assault you could as easily avoid
>Follow them as far as your fuel allows, then retreat.
>Catch up and attack them. No rest for the wicked.

>>33990632
>Reverse course. The target is gone, and this machine is too valuable to waste on a frontal assault you could as easily avoid

Yeah, OK King that's kinda bullshit. What was the point in us rolling if it wasn't even in there?

>>33990632
Wait, are we sure they DIDN'T intercept the HLV before we arrived? It still had a thermal signature, so there was an active reactor onboard, but it could have been a decoy. Shit, I don't know what to do now.

>>33990632
> Catch up and attack them. No rest for the wicked.
It deployed off the ship. Get it.

>>33990632
Deploy the i-field. Counter battery. We should be capable of hitting them at this range. If the Musais deploy mobile suits, missile spam. Then bug out.

>>33990632
>Follow them as far as your fuel allows, then retreat.
I don't like this scenario. Let's keep investigating.

>>33990678
unless this group of zeon fellows doesn't mind if the plan failed

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>>33990632
>Catch up and attack them. No rest for the wicked.

ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK!

>>33990678
From what i comprehend the HLV was there, but 02 had already been unloaded (Presumably to the Musais), had we missed we would probably wasted time with it, but since we got it early we can engage the new proper target before they get too good a head start.

>>33990697
If there was a heat signature to chase I'd have told you so.

>>33990736
Well, it appears to be the Cima Fleet. And she certainly doesn't care if Delaz's plan fails. So maybe?

>>33990632
>Catch up and attack them. No rest for the wicked.

>>33990736
Yeah, because that's happened before.

Let's face it, King wants us to follow canon, if we try and go after it we'll magicly be out of fuel, or worse, the fleet will launch 1000 mobile suits, with only solid based weaponry.

>>33990632
I'm wondering if this is Cima's fleet coming to intercept the 02 after dealing/backstabbing Delaz. Remember the tech specifically mentioned sending the missive to CIMA. Not Delaz.

>>33990632
>Follow them as far as your fuel allows, then retreat.
Let's not jump the gun here.

>>33990753
Could we search the wreckage of the HLV, then? Just to ease our worries that it got transferred over before we arrived? I mean, they genuinely could have been procrastinating on picking up the HLV just to fuck with Gato, since this looks to be Cima, but I'm worried.

Rolled 97

>>33990632
>Reverse course. The target is gone, and this machine is too valuable to waste on a frontal assault you could as easily avoid

"Why were there Three Musais and a Zanzibar waiting for the HLV? Why aren't they trying to attack us? I know that I TOTALLY WIPED THE FLOOR WITH THEM last time, but that shouldn't have stopped them..."

"So, who's turn?"

>>33990736
>you get the distinct impression that they could have easily intercepted the HLV before you arrived if they'd tried
So yeah, I don't think they're even miffed that the HLV got blown. They just seem to want to fuck off.

>>33990632
>Follow them as far as your fuel allows, then retreat.
Let's not abandon this yet, but don't start a fight until we absolutely have to.

>>33990632
>Follow them as far as your fuel allows, then retreat.

>>33990795
That's not even remotely true.

Canon is fucked. Assuming anything based on canon at this point would be a mistake.

>>33990864
I think he's just bitter because we didn't manage to shoot down the HLV from the ground.

>>33990882
He needs to get over it then.

Newsflash: people miss targets all the damn time in Gundam.

I think King is just laughing right now and 02 iss really dead

>>33990810
I'm starting to get the impression Gato got hosed by someone or something. We know in canon Gato and Uraki had WORDS. There's been no mention of said WORDS thus far. Plus we've never actually asked for security tapes from the hangar the Metal Gear was jacked from nor have we asked the crew or the pilots if they got a look at the person.

>>33990902
Especially when it's a ship doing the shooting. That's been the case since day one. If you want to hit a moving target, don't use a ship.

No I'm assuming the fact they don't care with the assumed knowledge that the GP02 probably already got out of the HLV before we shot it, and that's why they're leaving. I'm also assuming our shot just now hit an empty HLV.

>>33990632

>Reverse course. The target is gone, and this machine is too valuable to waste on a frontal assault you could as easily avoid

Let's not let them lead our experimental Mobile Armor into a trap where they may or may not capture it. We can go after whatever they have when we've got back-up, and we accomplished the mission.

>>33990632
Something nags at you for a moment. Performing a quick scan of what little remains of the target confirms there's nothing unusual about it: nothing that would suggest it was carrying unusual cargo, and no real Minovsky interference aside from what little issues the beam shots themselves have caused.

It was just an HLV, with its engines running at minimal burn.

"I'm following them," you announce.

"Defrah!? What the hell are you thinking!?" Lucette shouts.

You ignore her and push forwards, but slowly. The Musais maintain their course and speed, but the Zanzibar maneuvers to get a clear line of sight.

Suddenly, you receive a transmission from the Zanzibar. That's outright bizarre, what Zeon commander would want to contact you?

Pressing a button, you bring up the Zanzibar's message on your small screen.

"Why are you still following us?" the black-haired woman on screen asks you, clearly irritated. Oddly enough, though her uniform seems Zeonic, there are several personal touches to it. You also note that her chair seems more like a throne, with exotic hides and furs thrown over it. "You already destroyed our objective, and yet you hound our retreat as I try to avoid a meaningless battle? Do you value death that much, both your own and that of your perceived enemy?"

Wordy, isn't she? Still, following her has paid off: she seems to be headed roughly towards the Shoal Zone.
>You have a point, I'm falling back.
>I'm just seeing where you're going. Fight me if you feel like it.
>Other?

>>33991168
>I'm just seeing where you're going. Fight me if you feel like it.
Could it be possible that Gato and GP-02 was never on the HLV in the first place, and he escaped the Mine on foot to get to another HLV?

>>33991168
>Other?
"Oh, I don't want to fight. I'm just curious. Why did you linger so long before intercepting the HLV? You could have picked up your objective and already left long before I got there. Did you not like that guy?"

>>33991168
>You have a point, I'm falling back.

"I was just being nosy, ta-ta"

>>33991168
>it's Cima

Called it.

"Following? Our flight vectors just happen to coincide along this same trajectory. I think you're becoming paranoid if you think I'm 'following' you."

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>>33991168
>You have a point, I'm falling back.

RIP ye constantly Hijacked Gundam.

>>33991168
>You have a point, I'm falling back.

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>>33990902
No kidding.

>>33991355
Ah Lunamaria, the melee oriented pilot, who only pilots ranged suits. Did she ever even use the sword impulse?

>>33991168
"The ones in the HLV were using Nuclear weapons in direct violation of the Antarctic Treaty, I want to make sure that I didn't miss anything."
I wanna have Cima know that habouring them will majorly piss off the Feds.

>>33991168
>You have a point, I'm falling back.

>>33991442
Don't think we were actually informed of what was in the HLV, so we don't even know it's the GP02.

>>33991469
We could assume based on the fact that it was Dom's mission and he was chasing the GP02. But yeah, we don't have as much information as we need to really build a case.

>>33991168
> Other?
Just wondering what your objective was. Considering how little you care about it, I guess you can tell us.
Also, hi, our name is Defrah.

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>>33990605
IIRC the Pegasus carriers were a fraction of the amount of Salamis and Magellan's they would've otherwise produced, it felt like there were a lot more, because Revil could use them on Earth, instead of being space only. I mean if they build 100 Salamis, chances are, we're not going to encounter anything other than a small fraction of them. On the other hand, Revil's going to send a good chunk of his 20 Pegasus carriers to Odessa, because it's the biggest assult operation the Fed's are conducting on earth.

If by "Lol you came up with these ideas which Zeon ignore, but make the Feddies better". you mean Lister's book, Zeon actually did adopt it, it's just Revil saw it's value too, and we wound up seeing WAY more feddie armor in combat on earth, than we did Zeon's.

I thought that a lot of the problems that we had against Revil were that of perspective.

>>33991168
"Hey," you reply, "if you want to fight I'm game. But for now, while our trajectories seem to be the same, why don't we have a little chat?"

"You're in a giant flying death machine," she observes, narrowing her eyes. "Why would I want to talk to you?"

"I don't know, why are you still talking with me?"

"Perhaps I'm just being self-indulgent."

You lean back into your seat, letting the Dendrobium carry you forwards. "So why didn't you try to save your guy? You have the speed to have recovered the ship and whatever was on it."

"If that man was indeed aboard it," she replies with disgust, "I would have been happy to hear it. But now I guess I'll never know."

You shake your head at her in mock confusion. "So you mean you Zekes aren't all best buddies?"

"I don't know what Gato has planned, but trust me," the black-haired woman tells you, "I'll secretly be cheering for you when it comes time for the final act."

"What's your name?" you ask the mysterious Zeon commander as you begin to throttle back for your return to the La Vie en Rose.

"Cima Garahau," she replies. "And yourself, pilot?"

"Defrah Kar."

"A pleasure," she replies casually before the feed cuts abruptly.
>Continue playing as Defrah for a while
>Switch back to Dominic's PoV aboard the Albion

>>33991701
I just generally felt that everything we ever did in that quest was ultimately pointless. We assault a base, it turns out it makes them build the Gundam quicker because they're more scared, oh but those plans on beam weapons you got, they don't make anything quicker.

>>33991779
>>Continue playing as Defrah for a while.

>>33991779
>Switch back to Dom

>>33991779
>Switch back to Dominic's PoV aboard the Albion

I like Defrah, but I think newtypiness needs to be dealt with.

>>33991779
"Hey! I didn't even get to ask if you liked Heavy Metal!"

Rolled 85, 24 = 109

>>33991779
>Continue playing as Defrah for a while
At least long enough to give a report.

>>33991928
You can assume the report will be given accurately, reflecting Defrah's doubts about the whole thing.

Does she strike you as the type to do otherwise?

>>33991989
>Dear Mr Boss. Today I blew up a HLV, it was awesome. The End.

>>33991779
>Switch back to Dominic's PoV aboard the Albion

>>33991779
>>Continue playing as Defrah for a while

>>33991779
>Switch back to Dominic's PoV aboard the Albion

>>33991779

Back to Dom.

Omake of Defrah's Report later KoH?

>>33991779
You are Commander Dominic O'Hara, and it's currently the wee hours of the morning on October 23rd, UC 0083. The prisoners taken at Kinbareid are being processed by EFF military police from Madagascar in the wake of the defeat you handed the Zeon defenders here. But that will sort itself out, as these things usually do. If your presence is especially needed you'll be called. Right now, you're most concerned about seeing to Rossweisse.

She's sleeping fitfully in her bed after you had too carry her aboard in your arms. The young cyber Newtype was in a state so severe she couldn't even recover her own mobile suit, and you had to ask Haman to do it for you.

This is much worse for her than it was for you. Something makes you even suspect it might not be all to do with the stress of combat on an inexperienced Newtype's mind, but partly a side effect of the procedures that made her into what... no, into who she is now.

There's a knock on the closed door: it's Uraki.

"Sir?" he asks. "It's Ensign Uraki. Your Captain and Lieutenant Marseille said I could find you here."

>Leave. Now.
>Be quick about it.
>Allow him in. Rossweisse may be in rough shape, but it's not like it's his fault.
>Other

>>33992388
>Allow him in. Rossweisse may be in rough shape, but it's not like it's his fault.
Something wrong, Kou?

>>33992388
Open the door yourself and let 'em in. Indicate Rossweisse.

"We can talk. Keep your voice down. She's had it rough in more ways than one."

>>33992308
Mobile Suit Gundam Quest: Defrah's Report?
Maybe.

>>33992388
>Allow him in. Rossweisse may be in rough shape, but it's not like it's his fault.

>>33992388

Seconding >>33992439

>>33992388
>Allow him in. Rossweisse may be in rough shape, but it's not like it's his fault.
So long as he doesn't wake Rossweisse we're fine with talking. Is everything alright? It's too early for a social call.

Oh, and if we get a chance while he's here, explain that Rossweisse wasn't snubbing him earlier. She's just very withdrawn, and often doesn't say anything even to people she knows well.

>>33991779
>Switch back to Dominic's PoV aboard the Albion
Much Rossweisse

>>33992610
Hurk
>>33992388
Let's go with this >>33992558

>>33992388
Well, now that Defrah knows the name of the hijacker, will the crew of the Rose send the info down the grapevine to us? The ones actively hunting the Red October? That's kinda important information to let sit rot in a file cabinet.

Idea/Question;

Could we use data from the EXAM System Project to modify CCs MS so that one can operate a Psycommune system while the other Pilots? Except not trapping one of them in the Suit or horrifically killing them (again), Because since we are getting Hamon as our Co-pilot, the sisters could be their own Co-pilot, we'd just have to design it to accommodate their unique situation...

>>33992726
I'd rather try with just the psycommu first before we start delving into the EXAM system. That's dangerous territory, I don't want to go there unless we have to. Not that I know where we'd even find the EXAM system, all devices have been destroyed and I don't know who has the research notes.

>>33992388
"You can come in, Ensign," you announce tiredly, but quietly enough to avoid waking Rossweisse. "And you don't need to say your name, I know who you are."

Uraki steps into the room. His eyes go first to Rossweisse, lingering briefly on her bare shoulders, before falling on you as you sit quietly at her bedside.

"Keep your voice down," you tell him. "She needs her rest right now."

The Ensign nods and pulls up a chair. "You undressed her?" he asks quietly.

"Had to," you reply. "Sleeping in a bulky suit isn't too terribly comfortable, you know. So why are you here?"

"Is she going to be okay? What's wrong with her?" he persists.

"She's fine," you reassure her as she squirms in discomfort. "So far as I can tell this happens to all of us at some point or another." Reaching down you rest your had gently against Rossweisse's head and brush her hair reassuringly, and she relaxes in response.

"I see," he replies lamely before falling silent.

"You know she didn't mean to offend you," you tell him. "By not responding to you, I mean. She's just not very talkative, even around us. She talks to Lieutenant Marseille, Karen, and I more often, but even that's pretty rare."

Ensign Uraki sighs and nods. "That's a relief. So does she..."

"No," you tell calmly him even before he gets the chance to say it. "I didn't need her to tell me she's not interested in you for it to be obvious, but she did."

"As for me," Uraki replies, "nobody needs to tell me that Rossweisse is interested in you. You know that, right?"

"Of course. She's made her feelings crystal clear."

"Then are you going to return her feelings? CAN you? Answer me, Commander!" His voice rises a little along with his mood, and Rossweisse stirs briefly at the negative emotions leaking out of the Ensign.

>Of course.
>It's a private concern.
>No, but handling it is my concern. Not yours.
>Wasn't there a reason you were here? What was that again?
>Other

>>33992952
>It's a private concern.
>Wasn't there a reason you were here? What was that again?

>>33992952
>It's a private concern.
Man, you don't see me butting into your wierd relationship with Nina, do you?
Nina's gonna wind up becoming a ventriloqist, and end up as the worst guest QI's ever had.

>>33992995
This

>>33992952
"Things will play out how they play out. If she wants a relationship then I'll do what I do. If she doesn't I'll support that as well. If she wants to be with another man, who am I to stop her? Right now, she needs time and that's what I plan to give her."

"What was it you wanted to discuss, Ensign?"

>>33992952
>Of course.
>>Wasn't there a reason you were here? Whut was that again?

>>33992952
>Other
"Calm down, Kou. Getting upset could wake her even if you don't make much noise. She's psychic, remember? As for what I'm going to do about her feelings...I'm not sure. She hadn't really had any sort of affection in her life at all until my team came along. I'm not sure if she has the emotional understanding to make the distinction between love and romance."

Clearly we need to get us, Rosswisse and Haman in the same bed

>>33992952
"It's.. complicated. Us. Newtypes. The closer we are the better we work together. Entering a relationship with her would increase our capability on the battlefield and increase our synchronization."

"The downside is that Newtypes become incredibly irrational around the ones they feel affection for - ignoring perils to themselves to save a comrade as the bond is mind-deep. It could damage unit cohesion or worse render the unit combat infective."

"The short answer to your question is - it's complicated."

>>33992995
Seconding.

Wait isn't kou with Nina already?

>>33993293
Denser than Shirou.

Still clueless.

>>33992995
Thirded

>>33992952
"Ensign," you hiss quietly. "You're being too loud and too angry. Rossweisse's sensitive enough to pick up on it."

Uraki shuts up, but still sees undeterred. So, you decide to give him the only answer you can.

"What there is between Rossweisse and myself is our own business," you reply coldly, "not yours. She's not your girlfriend, she's not your teammate, and she's not your responsibility. Now, was there a reason why you're here? I distinctly remember telling Carya and Noin to keep people away unless they thought it was important."

"Yes, sir," Uraki replies bitterly. "I was wondering if I could help identify the pilot who stole the GP-02, assuming he was still at Kinbareid. So far as I know I'm the only one who saw his face."

Wait. Did Uraki just say he SAW the pilot of the GP-02?

"Why didn't you tell me this sooner?" you ask in a growl, trying desperately to keep from shouting around Rossweisse. Her visible discomfort is the only thing that's holding you back now. "And don't say..."

"Nobody asked."

Well, fuck all kinds of duck.
>Go with Uraki, find the pilot of the GP-02. If you want something done properly, do it yourself.
>Send Uraki on his own, stay with Rossweisse until the GP-02's pilot is found... IF he's still alive. After all, your being here seems to be helping her, and the odds are poor that the pilot is still alive.
>Send someone with Uraki to keep you informed, but wait with Rossweisse until you hear back.
>Other

>>33993494
>Go with Uraki, find the pilot of the GP-02. If you want something done properly, do it yourself.

>>33993494
>Go with Uraki, find the pilot of the GP-02. If you want something done properly, do it yourself.
Let's do this thing.

>>33993494
>Go with Uraki, find the pilot of the GP-02. If you want something done properly, do it yourself.

>>33993494
>>Go with Uraki, find the pilot of the GP-02. If you want something done properly, do it yourself.
Can we get Haman or the sisters to watch Ross?

>>33993494
>Send someone with Uraki to keep you informed, but wait with Rossweiss until you hear back.

>>33993494
Ring up someone to watch over Ross.

"I doubt the pilot is still here. He's either atomized, Defrah missed her shot and he rendezvous with Delaz, or he played us all and went to ground when this place fell."

"On the brightside, we can ask nicely where he went."

>>33993494
>>Send someone with Uraki to keep you informed, but wait with Rossweisse until you hear back.
Let's send either Karen if we can or Haman. Trying to think of someone that will make sure it gets done.
>writein
When he leaves, administer pets to Rossweisse

>>33993646
Yes this is good!

>>33993494
>>Go with Uraki, find the pilot of the GP-02. If you want something done properly, do it yourself.
Get the sisters to sit with her for a spell.

>>33993494
Brightslap when.

>>33993890
soon i hope (side note i hated kou in GDW3)

>>33993494
>Go with Uraki, find the pilot of the GP-02. If you want something done properly, do it yourself.

Have the sisters help watch Ross.

>>33993890
I don't think Kou's behavior deserves a Brightslap. We know that everything's perfectly innocent. From an outsider's perspective it's less clear. It's not like he's being petulant, he just thinks we're kind of skeezy. Which is an understandable view. I mean, we did usurp his role in the plot and establish alpha dominance over everyone on his team. We're kind of an asshole from his perspective.

>>33993494
"I doubt he's still here," you tell Uraki as you scratch your head, "but if he is, I don't want to mess up and let him give us the slip again. I'll come with you."

As you turn to stand, you find that Rossweisse's hand has found your own, and her grasp is holding it there as she sleeps. You can sense that she knows you're leaving, and that she would be asking you to stay were she conscious. You could break her grip easily, but then again it's not her hand that would make that difficult.

"I'm sorry, Rosse," you tell her quietly. "There's something I need to do now, but I'll be back. I'll have Carya and Noin come in to watch over you while I'm gone, okay?"

Slowly, the young woman's grip loosens enough for you to pull your hand away. Before you leave, you stroke her hair affectionately once more. "Don't worry, Rosse. Just rest for now."

You then turn to face Uraki. "Come on, let's go."

As the two of you pass by Carya and Haman on the way out, you greet them warmly.

"I told you she'd be fine, you fool" Haman insists. "Though it makes me happy to see such dedication.

"Don't worry," Catrina adds. "We'll take care of Rossweisse for now... but from when you get back onward we expect you to take care of her. Got it?"

You nod, and head your separate ways.

Before heading out the hangar doors in a jeep you borrowed from the MPs, you pull up next to Nina.

"Hey, Miss Purpleton," Uraki greets her.

"Oh, hi Kou. Commander," she replies wearily. "Where you going?"

"To see if we can't find the asshole who stole your Gundam," you explain.

As if by magic, Nina's exhasution evaporates as she hops into the back of your vehicle.

"I'm all about it," she tells you. "I'm gonna give that bastard a piece of my mind. Teach him to ruin a perfectly good Gundam in a stunt like that."

"Ruined?" Uraki asks.
(1/2)

>>33993978
Also our plan got Alphabet killed, which he and some of Burnings team may or may not blame us for.

>>33994009
Didn't Burning want his team to be on point?

>>33994044
We still picked the route. And even if Burning himself understands, that doesn't mean Monsha or Chap would.

>>33993988
"Defrah and Lucette sent me a report, apparently the HLV was completely annihilated," she explains. "The Cima fleet was meant to recover it, but Defrah managed to restrain herself from assaulting them as they left."

"They left?" you ask incredulously. "I'd have thought they'd jump at a chance to shoot down the Dedrobium. They went far enough out of their way the first time."

"It's weird," Nina agrees.

At this point, I want you to do two things for me. First, link this post. Second, roll for ONE and exactly ONE of the following at a time:
>Roll 1d100 for NEWTYPE SHENANIGANS
>Roll 1d100 for Kou's memory

First three for each option will be taken. Also, nothing but the time limit between posts prevents you from voting for both: just be sure to only vote for ONE at a time.

I'm experimenting.

>>33994009
I think they'd rather blame the Zekes, who decided to violate the Antarctic Treaty, that while not technically applicable, is still going to generate outrage amongst the Feds.

I'm more worried about anti-spacenoid sentiment, then them blaming ourselves, really.

Rolled 75

>>33994082
>Roll 1d100 for NEWTYPE SHENANIGANS

Rolled 47

>>33994082
Memory roll. Kou a shit.

Rolled 14

>>33994082
>Roll 1d100 for NEWTYPE SHENANIGANS

Rolled 66

>>33994082
>Roll 1d100 for Kou's memory

Rolled 50

>>33994082
>Roll 1d100 for Kou's memory

Rolled 10

>>33994082
Are we rolling to seduce? Newtype hax.

Rolled 3

>>33994082
It took him this fucking long to bring up the fact he had contact with the pilot who jacked the 02. His memory is shit.

>Kou's memory

Rolled 4

>>33994082
>Roll 1d100 for Kou's memory

Rolled 22

>>33994082
1d100 for Kou's memory

>>33994185
>Kou has amnesia

>>33994252
Man, Kou has shit memory apparently

>>33994278
We got a 66 within the first three, so it's not that bad. He remembers two thirds of the details about the pilot. Yes, I know that's not how target numbers work, what's your point?

>>33994343
Really? I didn't see that, sorry.

>>33994343
66. That good right?

>>33994082
>75 Newtype Shenanigans
>66 Kou's Memory
Sorry for the delay, had housing bullshit to deal with.
>Writing

>>33994438
He's here... you can sense it as you drive towards the makeshift tents that house the wounded and captured Zeon soldiers. The man you've been chasing is here.

"They look so beaten," Uraki comments idly.

You slow down as you roll up to the largest tent. "Keep your eyes open," you tell him. "So what are we looking for?"

"Tall, broad shoulders, pale hair," Uraki recounts. "He had a square chin, a ponytail, and long sideburns or something."

Stepping out of the jeep and into the tent, you can feel a bit of surprise and unease from Nina at the description.

"Don't go getting all starry-eyed on me, Nina," you tease her. "It almost feels like you've fallen for the guy."

Nina waves you off dismissively and walks some distance away, looking over the dozens of dejected prisoners' faces while you and Uraki talk to the head MP: a Lieutenant by the name of Strayer.

"Okay, I get you," Lieutenant Strayer tells you. "You're looking for one Zeke in particular, and I've got plenty for you to look at. More than I can handle, really, so taking him off me's the best favor you could offer."

"Excellent," you tell him as salutes are exchanged. "I'll stay out of your way otherwise."

Surprisingly, it only takes a few minutes before you spot him: standing against one wall is a man who stands apart in your mind. Uraki sees him too, and immediately points him out.

"You!" he announces. "You're the Zeon pilot who we've been after, aren't you!?"

"Real smooth," you mutter.

The Zeon soldier sizes Uraki up. "Who are you?" he asks. "I doubt I'd remember a guy like you even if we HAD met, but I still think you've got me confused for someone else."

"No," you reply. "I think you're our guy. What's your name, stranger?"

The soldier eyes you wearily, with much greater interest than he did Uraki. "You. I fell you might be worth remembering, pilot."

"You picked me out as a pilot already? What gave me away?"
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>>33994688
>Gato wasn't the pilot

Where's my five quid. Now I'm wondering where they stashed the 02. If he's here the Metal Gear is still earthside.

>>33994812
Kelly probably has it.

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>>33994837
Maybe. Maybe not. It would require modification to be operated one-handed. So if he DOES have it, we've time to spare hunting him down.

>>33994688
"Your hair looks like you've had a helmet on it for most of the last three years," he replies calmly.

"Shit," you mutter while mussing up your hair a little. "I hate helmet hair. But you didn't answer me: who are you?"

"Anavel!" you hear a fourth voice. It's Nina?

"What are you doing here, Anavel?" Nina asks the Zeon pilot as she runs over to where the three of you are standing.

"Nina?" he asks. "What are you doing here?"

Before she answers, Nina delivers an open-palmed smack across the man's face. "I designed the Gundam that was brought here, but more importantly, did you really leave me for THIS?"

"It was my duty to place my ideals over my happiness," he replies, only to earn himself a back-handed slap in response... this time from you.

"Sorry," you apologize: and you almost mean it. You did, after all, lose control there for a moment. "But any time I hear a Zeon soldier talking about 'ideals' I get a bit slap-happy. But please, DO talk about how gassing colonists and dropping their homes on Australia was all for the benefit of mankind, you sanctimonious fuck."

"And kidnapping sixteen year-old girls is a wonderful alternative," he snarls.

Well... fair enough.
>Take him back to the ship to interrogate at your leisure.
>Take him back to the ship, and see to your team. Deal with Gato later.
>Keep him here, but alert the EFFMPs of who he is. They'll see he's made 'comfortable'.
>Other

>>33994928
>Other
"I'm sorry, what was that? I couldn't here you over the sound of billions dying in agony."

>>33994928
"You know, I know a pilot or two that would REALLY like to have a conversation with you about Zeonic ideals"

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>>33994928
Been saving this one for a while.

>>33994928
>>Take him back to the ship, and see to your team. Deal with Gato later.

Let him stew for abit.

Now that we've found him, we can look to our own.

Is the wreckage of the GP-02 secured?

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>>33994928
"That sixteen year old girl is safe, by the way. Even happy if I'd hazard a guess."

"She honestly scares me."

"I'm to assume the political situation on Axis has went to shit if you're here Gundamjacking mobile suits."

Introduce ourselves to Gato. We may hate the man's guts, but you've gotta respect the man for his skill and tenacity.

>>33994928
>Take him back to the ship, and see to your team. Deal with Gato later.
Throw him in a dark cell and leave him there to stew for a while. And get some MPs sent over to the Albion to guard him.

>>33994928
>Take him back to the ship, and see to your team. Deal with Gato later.

>>33994928
>>Girls
I notice a plural there. I guess he knows about Haman?
>>Take him back to the ship to interrogate him at our leisure.

>>33995118
That IS the implication, yes. Rossweisse's age is unknown, and she was in a Federation black site.

>>33994928
>Take him back to the ship to interrogate at your leisure.

>>33994928
"So, you and Nina, huh? What was it? I bet it was the legs. It was the legs, right? Kou, you've gotta stop being denser than a neutron star."

"So, if you're the pilot who stole the 02, then you've obviously stashed it somewhere Earthside. I'd bet Nina's Gundam that it's still somewhere in Africa."

>>33994928
>Other
"Point one: We didn't kidnap her, we took her as a prisoner of war. Big difference. Point two: She's been treated well and has actually made friends while she's here in the Earth Sphere. She's fairly happy, all things considered. Point three: Her father was assassinated, there's no reason to think she wouldn't have been too, so don't pretend your side would have treated her any better. It might not have been our intent, but she's definitely better off here than at Axis."

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>>33994928
>>Take him back to the ship, and see to your team. Deal with Gato later.

Do not take him to our ship. He will break out and steal the 01. Or one of ours if he's gotten wind of the Slattern. Keep him here.

>>33995040
Always the best screen cap.

>>33994928
>>Other
Seconding this. He really is a sanctimonious fuck.
"Point one: We didn't kidnap her, we took her as a prisoner of war. Big difference. Point two: She's been treated well and has actually made friends while she's here in the Earth Sphere. She's fairly happy, all things considered. Point three: Her father was assassinated, there's no reason to think she wouldn't have been too, so don't pretend your side would have treated her any better. It might not have been our intent, but she's definitely better off here than at Axis."

>>33994928
>Other
"Kidnapped? I didn't realize captuing an enemy MS pilot in battle constituted as kidnapping. Tell me, how was gassing a colony of civillians supposed to help the freedom of spacenoids?"

>>33995265
Obviously we make sure Nina's *never* allowed near him, since they seem to know each other.

>>33995265
How else are we supposed to integrate him into our harem?

>>33995292
I'm thirding this, but begin with>>33995007

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>>33995329
This.

>>33995118
He could be referring to Blitzen now that I think of it. Muh secretary.

>>33995310
Also Kou. That Kou found out about Gato and Ninas relationship is a perfect reason for Kou to go full baka.

>>33995343
I like her too! Muh yes!

You know, if we flat out told Gato how high the rot flows in the Federation and some of the conspiracy shit we've uncovered, we could probably have him as the token evil guy in our harem. We hate some aspects of the Fed. He hates all of the Fed. It's a match made for hating each other.

>>33994928
"I'm taking him with me," you tell Strayer.

"Go right ahead," the Lieutenant replies. "I'll also send you a few officers as well, see if you can make any use of them."

You nod to the man, who waves a trio of his own men over to serve as your escort and Gato's guards... or executioners, if the need arises.

Aboard the Albion, you can't help but rib him a few times as you wait in the hangar for the ship's own MP detail to arrive and take the prisoner into custody. They've been busy offloading all the unimportant prisoners from the Zeon submarine you destroyed yesterday... in total, you'll be left with ten prisoners to interrogate over Zeon's plans for the immediate future.

"Soooo, you and Nina?" you begin.

"Don't," he replies.

"Oh, come on. Was it the legs?"

"Stop."

You grin. "It was, wasn't it? Can't blame you, really."

"I don't want to get into this right now."

Nina merely sits back and takes some small amount of satisfaction out of Gato's discomfort.

"If Uraki wasn't dense as a lead weight he could get some of that action," you comment, hinting heavily at the young officer. He seems completely taken aback, but before he has a chance to say anything the Sisters approach from where they've been standing off to one side.

“Lemme get this straight,” Catrina interrupts. “You know him, he knows you. He tried to nuke us...”

Nina nods in affirmation.

“... why aren't you angrier?” Carya finishes.

"I've already hit him once," Nina replies. "Depending on the interrogations, I might do it again."

"Anyway," Carya continues, pulling you aside to talk in private, "Rossweisse woke up briefly while you were gone."

"How is she?"

"She was sad you weren't here, but she understood you were doing something important. You want to see her before Karen calls a meeting?"

"Karen's going to call a meeting?" you ask.
(1/2)

>>33995553
Catrina nods. "Of course. We got the HLV, but the jury's out on whether we got the GP-02 along with it... things aren't as straightforward as we'd hoped."

"Speaking of which," you reply, "after this meeting, do you two want to help me grill Nina's ex boyfriend?"

The sisters beam at you. "Crushing a Zeon diehard's belief in his precious 'ideals'? Sign me up."
>Visit Rossweisse
>Visit Rossweisse, talk to her about what Uraki brought up earlier
>Don't visit Rossweisse. Let her sleep, catch a nap yourself, then go to the meeting.
>Other

>Visit Rossweisse, talk to her about what Uraki brought up earlier.

May as well.

>>33995636
>>Visit Rossweisse.
No need to bring up any Uraki nonsense.

>>33995636
Also: if choosing to bring up the whole argument with Uraki, how do you do so?

Write-ins, as always, are encouraged.

>>33995636
>Visit Rossweiss

>>33995636
>Other
>Beef up security around the Zeon pilot
I don't want this fucker escaping or anything. The second we take our eyes off him, he's gonna break out, give some famous rallying speech like how "Zeon's not exhausted" and galvanize the Zeek's fighting spirit.

>>33995636
>>Visit Rossweisse
Changed my vote, if she wants to talk about it, she can bring it up

>>33995636
>Visit Rossweisse
We can also talk to Haman, too.
>Other
Beef up security around Gato.

>>33995706
We'll need to deal with it some time.

She's kissed Dominic at least once, has outright SAID that she wants to be with him (in not so many words, of course), and seems to enjoy his company nearly to the point of emotional reliance. It's not going to go un-addressed forever.

>>33995636
>>Visit Rossweisse

Should we let haman have a meet with Gato?

>>33995837
the only meat Haman gets is ours.

>>33995553
>ribbing Gato over Nina
My sides.

Keep Noin and Gato well apart from each other or shit is will fly. Beef security up around this guy. It'll be completely pointless, but it'll put speed bumps to slow him down before he tries to steal a mobile suit. Instruct security to keep Nina away from him while he is in custody, who knows, they might conspire amongst each other.

>>33995837
After he takes an asswhupping. Make sure to mention Char let us take her as well, so he thinks its all part of a plan Maharaja left behind.

>>33995779
And say what?

>>33995859
>they might conspire amongst each other
They won't conspire.

Instead, it will be a conjugal visit, and Nina fucking up after he makes the kitty eyes.

>>33995718
"Uraki wants in your pants. Nina wants in his. We've got to set those two up before she goes stir-crazy with the ex on board and does something stupid."

>>33995915
I dunno, a simple "I'm fine with it and the sisters are fine with it", or "the sisters would be fine with it, but I'm not 100% comfortable", or something along those lines?

You know, like an actual answer to the overarching question of "is this happening or not"?

>>33996037
Ok "I love you but I love the sister too "

>>33996134
>Haman
>Yes, Dominic?
>Come with me for afternoon lessons.

AND THEN THEY FUCKED.

>>33996037
>>33996134
bear in mind the sisters are fine with us liking Haman, at least, they'd probably not mind bringing Rossweisse into the fold either.

>>33995636
Alright, since there's been some disagreement, and some side-swapping, 5-minute period. Just a link to this post and a number. No other text, just the number.

1 for just visiting Rossweisse

2 for asking if she wants things to get more 'serious'

>>33996192
2

>>33996192
2

>>33996192
2

>>33996191
Even in this thread they've told us that they expect Dom to "take care of her".

That's always a euphemism for sex.

>>33996192
2

>>33996192
2

>>33996192
I honestly don't think Dom wants her to enjoy his Wild Ride. From what I've gathered he sees her as the little sister.

>>33996192
2

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>>33996303
Makes me smile every time, without fail.

>>33996469
Glad I could be of service! My favorite panel is Rin's nosebleed.

>>33996552
Yeah. I have it cropped somewhere around here.

>>33996183
And Audrey, Reiko and Blitzen.

>>33996192
"I have something I need to take care of now," you admit to the sisters. "Something I've been putting off."

The Marseilles nod quietly. "We understand. You reckon it's finally going to happen?"

"Probably. Haman is still deciding, but it seems Rosse's made up her mind," you reply. "Of all the people, it was Uraki who finally tipped the balance."

"Makes sense," Carya replies. "If he can see it, anyone can."

You pull the sisters into a warm embrace, which they return. "I hope this works out," you mutter.

"Don't be an idiot," Catrina scolds you gently. "We've told you already, it'll be fine."

The three of you walk together towards Rossweisse and Haman's quarters, and eventually Carya and Catrina wish you luck before continuing on to your own room. With a deep breath, you let yourself in.

Rossweisse seems happy to see you, as always. The splitting headache has dulled substantially: enough to allow her to smile cheerfully at you instead of cringing in pain.

"I see you're feeling more like yourself," you observe.

Rossweisse nods. "Yes..." she adds quietly.

"We've been making sure you weren't disturbed," you continue. "I figured when this happened to me the first time, all I really needed was some rest."

"To you?" Rossweisse asks.

You nod. "I got it bad, but thankfully Carya and Catrina were there. I might've gone insane otherwise... and I'm not sure I didn't go slightly insane anyways."

Rossweisse laughs to herself softly, before a twinge of pain in her head forces her to stop. "Remind me to thank her."

"You know, Rosse..." you begin, and the young cyber-Newtype's piercing blue eyes suddenly focus on you. It's almost like she knows.

"... I've been doing some thinking. About you, and me, and this whole ridiculous setup."

Rossweisse sits quietly, waiting to hear you out.

"I know that you're in love with me, Rosse. It's obvious, and I love you too. But until today I wasn't sure if I loved you the same way you love me."
(1/2)

>>33996820
And there's the death flag. Nice knowing you Rossweise. RIP in peaces.

>>33996820
You know if anyone in our squad actually bites it, the emotional Newtype enhanced breakdown is going to mentally cripple people in a 50 mile radius, especially if Dom is the one who dies.

>>33997005
and the sensitive newtypes like Kamile are going to go braindead no matter how far away they are.

>>33997005
Hell, even with a near miss our squadmates panicked like X-Com rookies.

>>33996820
She better thank Uraki for being a wingman.

>>33996820
"Dominic?" she asks quietly as you consider your words.

"We're connected, Rossweisse. You and I. And if you want to explore how intimate that connection can be, I'd be happy to explore it with you."

There's a long pause where neither of you say anything. Emotions are running high...

... until Rossweisse pulls you down by your collar, and kisses you. Unlike the sisters, who are all passion and wild excitement, what you feel from Rossweisse in that moment is simply warm happiness. It's a sweet feeling, but not saccharine: there's a sensation of mutual affirmation that you've rarely felt in the absence of the sisters.

"About damn time," Catrina mutters to her sister.

Haman simply closes her eyes, deep in deliberation. "Not like Char at all," she concludes with a sigh of relief. "But I like it. So that's what sincerity feels like."

Okay, so we know Amuro's basically an instructor for the EFF, right?
Instead of trying to get him to join our forces, which will almost certanly be denied under some fear of a newtype coup, we should get him assigned to work on designing MS's for the EFF. This guy IS the son of the guy who designed the Gundam, had the most experience with it, and knows and understands firsthand the limitations that MS's offer to Newtype pilots. Considering this is the guy who's already developed the Haro, why not have him develop Newtype MS's?

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>>33997242
and the harem officially grows.

>>33997042
Is Kamille feminine enough to end up in our harem?

>>33997242
Dominate is turning into Rance-lite at this rate.

>>33997242
And that's it for today. I've got nothing left, and the electricity keeps dying on me.

Tune in tomorrow, and see if you can figure out what happened to the GP-02 before the Albion is ordered back into space.

Thanks for playing, and the archive will be up momentarily.

Feel free to discuss stuff and things.

>>33997318
Isn't he currently stuck in his mansion?

>>33997328
I'm going to say no. He's almost trap material and could possibly pull it off if he acted WAY more feminine but he's such a self entitled little autist that I think we shouldn't get him involved

>>33997337
Thanks for running, the volatile newtype timebomb grows.

>>33997337
The Hunt for GP-02.

If Dom's seen Pacific Rim, then he must have watched Hunt for Red October.

Some point he's gotta put on his best Sean Connery impersonation and lament about seeing Montana.

>>33997429
>lament about seeing Montana
Fuck no.

Let's all bemoan the lack of any original Rossweise art.

>>33997484
Oh come now. It's not THAT big of a death flag. We'll be in space.

>>33997318
>giving Amuro designs to EFF
>Jamitov is around
>Titans have a history of blackmailing for MS (see Marasai)

Why don't you just gas a colony while you're at it?

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>>33997504
This is the only official art I've got from AoZ. Sadly I don't even have the scans of the series she's in.

Rossweisse is on the right in a Titans uniform... sort of.

So lewd things to do with Rossweisse

>>33997632
I'm still not liking the fact we just upped and boinked. She's a fucking pariah and latched onto the first person who showed her any.. humanity. I would not be surprised if she turned into a closet yandere.

And that makes me moist.

>>33997336
It'll make the inevitable posting to Londenion somewhat uncomfortable.

>>33997692
To be honest, there was no boinking mentioned. We've just given her permission to boink, after several months of knowing her.

>>33997625
Thank you!

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>>33997780
has it right. we were given permission to boink, haven't boinked yet.

>>33997780
I bet you followed SWQ when fap angel basically had to come out and say "AND THEN THEY FUCKED. THE END".

Open your eyes, Shirou. That's a fade-to-black if I ever seen one.

>>33997625
I was more meaning fanart/etc like on Pixiv/Danbooru/Gelbooru blah blah blah. There's nothing but screencaps from the show on the wikia, for example.

>>33997834
They have not fucked. I would have mentioned it specifically.

About that, though. I assume people are fine with me not going into detail about the actual sex? Because I'd be totally comfortable writing it, I just kind of assumed that more people would prefer it being left as an FTB.

So anyway, if you were a desperate band of space Nazis, where would you store the stolen nuclear armed mecha if your main hideout was raided by the Space Police?