Rolled 37, 51, 11, 73, 8, 32, 40, 40 = 292 (8d100)

>>34841135
How do you want to deal with the remote weapons?
>They're bunched up, use the Twin Hyper Rifles and destroy them in one shot (risks catastrophic collateral damage, but remember: you still have one reroll thanks to Karen's ability)
>Use your chest cannons and vulcan pods
>Use the cannons and vulcans, but fire some grenades at the oncoming Zakus (penalty for splitting your fire)
>Other

Note: rolling for your team

>>34841143
>Use your chest cannons and vulcan pods

I think us blowing up the colony is a high price to pay for getting rid of some bits. (Not funnels)

Rolled 51, 62 = 113 (2d100)

>>34841143
Dammit, that should have been 10d100.

>>34841143
>Use your chest cannons and vulcan pods

>>34841143
>Use your chest cannons and vulcan pods

>>34841143
If we shoot our rifle there's a high chance we'll hit the colony. At this range, our cannons and vulcans will be ineffectual as will grenades.

So, order Carya to cover us while we zoom and boom into the funnel formation. Open up with grenades and vulcans point blank and bug out. Use the colony itself as cover. If the enemy ships have been reluctant to use beam weaponry then the funnel operator will be to in fear of coring the colony.

>>34841143
>Use your chest cannons and vulcan pods

>>34841143
>>34841217
And wow, that's some mediocre newtype corps.

>>34841143
>Use your chest cannons and vulcan pods

All aboard thevsafe train!

>>34841143
>Other
If we fire ballistics at this range, the remote weapons can scatter.
Instead, use our superior speed to fly into their formation and unload all of our ballistic ordnance at point blank range, as suggested by >>34841255

>>34841326
>flying into a cloud of remote weapons
You do realize that allowing remote weapons to surround you is essentially suicide, right? And that vulcans and cannons essentially EXIST to hit small moving targets, right?

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>>34841143
>Use your chest cannons and vulcan pods

MAXIMUM SATURATION!

>>34841400
We'll also be standing on the colony skin. The pilot will haft to risk hitting the colony if she wishes to fire on us - thus jeopardizing the entire reason Axis came here. Plus, we won't be IN THE MIDDLE OF THEM. We're going Ridden Fast through the formation wiping them out as we pass. Hence, zoom and boom.

>>34841472
>standing
>skimming

How the fuck did you screw that up autocorrect.

Rolled 28, 61, 1 = 90 (3d100)

Alright, roll me some d100. Best of three.

Rolling for incoming fire.

>>34841472
Not to be that guy right now, but you being alive jeopardizes their mission, too.

My free advice to you is this: don't assume that anyone in this setting will ever, EVER play nice if it's inconvenient to them.

>chest cannons
We have those? I forget about that.

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>34841543

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>34841543
inb4 1

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>34841543

Time to laugh

Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>34841543
>1

someone blew their own foot off.

>>34841549
Yup: four of them.
>writing

>>34841569
Nah just put the shell in backward.

Rolled 28 (1d100)

>>34841543
>if it's inconvenient

If it's inconvenient you adapt. The enemy funnel pilot would haft to adjust her strategy in order to hit us without damaging the colony. And that is playing the same game I suggested - skimming the colony skin. We play a deadly game of chicken with lasers.

>>34841625
>If it's inconvenient you adapt
Or, as KoH was implying, they'll just say "fuck it, acceptable collateral damage", and shoot us and the colony anyway.
You're assuming that they won't accept a level of collateral damage that would be catastrophic.

>>34841670
Hell, it's likely not even collateral damage. Axis Zeon hates the Republic for allowing the war to end. They want the colony reasonably intact, but I'm pretty sure "kill everyone inside" was on the agenda anyway.

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>34841670
Acceptable collateral damage is still collateral damage and reduces reputation with the Republic civilians. They're attempting a propaganda war by taking the colony intact, gassing the civilians, blaming it on the Federation, and then sending Side 3 hurtling towards Earth.

>>34841608
We have four? I thought we only had two. Cool. Oh, Lilium, you are the best mobile suit. I hope Anaheim doesn't wind up burying the Gundam Development Plan in this timeline. These suits are just so much nicer than the ones that Project Zeta kicked out.

>>34841725
Uh they've already declared the Republic traitors, at this point they don't give a shit, it won't make much difference if the colony blows up.

>>34841725
If they're going to be killing everyone inside, a few beam holes aren't going to compromise the structural integrity of the colony enough that it can't be used for a Colony Drop.

Since that's the case, damaging the colony a little bit in order to secure it is perfectly acceptable. Which means that the enemy Newtype can and will shoot us with their beam weapons, regardless of damage to the colony so long as it doesn't completely fall apart.

That means that your supposition that the enemy won't shoot at us to avoid damaging the colony is wrong.

>>34841725
Do we know that for sure?

>>34841725
You're also forgetting the one thing that excuses all Zeeks "MUH IDEULS!"

>>34841781
You severely underestimate how dedicated Zeon is to being assholes. Doesn't matter if they don't want to recruit from the Republic, they'll still try to blame the colony's destruction on us. There is no length that they won't go to in order to make life miserable for Earthnoids.

>>34841543
"Sound collision alarms!" you hear Karen order as two more missiles streak towards your team. One of these explodes near the Valkyrie, damaging her hull but doing little more than rocking her in place.

The second rocket knuckleballs out-of-control, eventually spinning off harmlessly into space. The third rocket, fired by a rather unfortunate Zaku pilot, quickly turns into an object lesson for why weaponry has a "shelf life". The rocket's motor fails to ignite, and the squib round remains stubbornly lodged in the launcher's tube. After a small "pop" and no "rock", the warhead automatically arms itself... on a proximity fuse.

The result is a large blast that blows out the barrel and action of the weapon from within, tearing the Zaku's arm apart and showering the nearby suits with shrapnel. Slowly, the wounded pilot loses attitude control and his machine tumbles into the side of the colony.

Your own team follows through with your plan, and Haman sends the Val Varo streaking towards the far group of mobile suits. As she passes the first group of Zakus on the back of the psycommu-guided mobile armor, Rossweisse takes a potshot at a Zaku, but only manages to cause the machines to weave and scatter in alarm. The speed of the Val Varo probably threw her aim off.

Audrey lobs a single shell into the crowd of Zakus, and manages a glancing blow that rips off one of their arms at the shoulder, prompting a bit more panicked maneuvering from your targets. You can tell she's about ready to give up relying on accuracy and simply saturate the area with as much fire as she can muster: a tactic that continues not to work for the Valkyrie, as her guns manage not to hit any of the approaching Zakus.
(1/2)

>>34841769
We're Heavy Arms with less dumb-fire and more dakka.

>>34841781
It makes a huge difference. If the Zekes spin it correctly they can make US look like the aggressors. They're the liberators while we're the ones keeping the locals on the yoke. They post a few videos of cheering, planted Loyalists on Side 3, a dozen or so staged liberated civilians crying SEIG ZEON, and you have everything in place for the war to kick back off.

Gas the colony and say the Feds did it to rile up the spacenoids into another frenzy, fire the manuevering thrusters and send it towards Earth.

>>34841840
Uh but they'll blame us no matter what. Even if they'd destroyed it with mega-particle cannons on a live broadcast. They'd just be like "Well yeah, because the federation turned it into a anti-zeon colony gundam thing."

>>34841898
Yes. That was my point. I'm not trying to argue that they need the colony intact. Just that they'll try to spin it as us being the bad guys if it does explode. Or if it doesn't, and is just gassed. Or if nothing at all bad happens to it and we have a flawless victory here. Zeon are assholes. They destroyed Australia because they were upset about high import tariffs. These are not reasonable people.

>>34841898
We became the Titans and fight AEUG.

>>34841980
Zeon destroyed Australia because even they were terrified of the wildlife.

>>34841988
You, shut up.

Your response to Zeon gassing colonies, is to become a Titan and counter-gas colonies.

This is silly, stop being silly. The AEUG is good, or at least nice-incompetent.

>>34841886
You and the Sisters open fire as well: you manage to shoot down several remote weapons by filling the space around them with lead, and you're backed up by Catrina, who manages to down a few more. Interestingly, you can also feel Carya taking aim and firing at the Zakus with the duo's beam machine gun: she scores a few grazing hits on two Zakus, but manages nothing definitive.

"Catherine, Reiko," you hear Karen's voice, "we need you to shoot."

"I've never done this before," Reiko replies.

"Doesn't matter," Miyu tells her. "Just keep shooting and don't stop. Think of it like you're playing a video game and you've got bottomless clips turned on."

"I can do that," Reiko responds cheerfully.

"Don't get cocky, kid," the older operator jokes.

Meanwhile, Haman nods to herself. "The Val Varo is approaching the target. Hang on Rosse, I need to maneuver here a bit."

As much as you hope Rossweisse will be okay on her own over there, you turn your attention back to the matter at hand: if there are funnels left active, they will have made it inside the colony already. The black mobile suit that launched them continues to hang eerily off in the distance, sitting perfectly still. The pilot shows no signs of wanting to move or to attack.

There are also six Zakus heading your way. You could:
>Waste them with your big Rifles and go to help Rossweisse
>Pick them off in melee combat without using the big guns
>Leave your team to clean up and move forward
>Other

You still have a reroll thanks to Karen's ability.

>>34842033
Just plain incompetent with some competent individuals really.

>>34842043
>Waste them with your big Rifles and go to help Rossweisse

Kill the controller, you kill the funnels. I know everyone is going to want to save this pilot, but I think we're too busy.

>>34842043
>>Waste them with your big Rifles and go to help Rossweisse

>>34842082
That's in reference to the Zakus, not the Tusche Schwartz. The funnels will still be active.

>>34842043
"Carya. Go after the remaining funnels."

Audrey takes out the Zakus while we go tangle with the bit carrier. Time to see how fast this suit really is.

>>34842043
>Waste them with your big Rifles and go to help Rossweisse

>>34842112
What is this "bit carrier" you speak of?

>>34842043
>>Waste them with your big Rifles and go to help Rossweisse

>>34842043
>Waste them with your big Rifles and go to help Rossweisse
But yeah I want the Tusche Schwartz.

>>34842108
Really, that's pointless, blow the funnel machine up before anything else.

Always geek the mage first. That's like rule 1

>>34842043
>Leave your team to clean up and move forward
Let's take out Ink Black.

>>34842151
Why, the one controlling the funnels of course. Bit carrier rolls off the tongue better. I doubt anyone would enjoy if I referred to them as Funnel Cakes now.

>>34842043
>they will have made it inside the colony

This is why I wanted the grenade launcher or gatling.

>>34842033
>counter-gas colonies
I never say that. But I do not want to join AEUG see as will they Anti federation, am pro federation.

>>34842190
It should still be a bit carrier, unless Axis made some rapid developments in the past few months. Funnels aren't supposed to have been invented yet. We could have changed that, though. Bernini's Axis is a very different state to Haman's.

>>34842190
'Bit carrier' is already a term with a specific meaning.

Okay, roll me some d100 again.

Same drill as usual.

>>34842043
>Other
Can we get the CIC to contact the colony and request a report on what's happening inside? Any gassing or bombing? Bits can't carry too heavy a load, so bombs are probably off the table, but it doesn't take that much G3 gas to kill a colony.

Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>34842294
inb4 1 again

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>34842294
Right-o

>>34842236
The AEUG weren't anti-federation. They were a political movement within the Federation which was against the totalitarian actions of the Titans. What you're essentially saying is you're pro-dictatorship.

Rolled 28, 51, 35 = 114 (3d100)

>>34842294
Rolling for Zakus.

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>34842294

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>34842294

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>34842294

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>34842294

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>34842294

>>34842329
Whew. I got worried there, for a second.

>>34842329

Phew

>Funnel Pack
>Holds Bits
>Fin Funnel
>Not actually Funnels.
Gundamn it.

>>34842309
This, I suggest if we leave the EFF, we pre-empt the AEUG with a name that's less confusing, like the "Earth-Sphere Reformation League" or something

It's been bugging me this entire time, but why haven't the Musais opened fire? Have the Valkyrie's censors been keeping track of komusai shuttles carrying commandos to Side 3?

>Shadowrun intensifies

>>34842309
>saying is you're pro-dictatorship
Ones more I never say that. But a something like AEUG might not come about.

>>34842379
Nah, name it as a special force or something, Anything that provokes the intent to reform people in power is a good way to get shot.

>>34842420
So what, go full Canadian and name it someting like "Joint Task Force 2" or something?

>>34842379
Agreed. "Anti-Earth Union Group" sounds a bit too antagonistic. Doesn't help that they recruited heavily from former Zeon ranks. I like "Earth-Sphere Reformation League". Someone also suggested a while back that we call ourselves "Olympus" to signify our opposition to the Titans, but this is better as the name of an organization. Maybe we can use Olympus as the name of our flagship. It would be so delightfully confusing to Mars Zeon, since they've got a base built around Mons Olympus and as such any order to seek and destroy the Olympus would need clarification. I'm sure it would eventually get sorted out, but it would annoy them long after it stopped serving a practical purpose.

>>34842459
People's Republic of Dom.

>>34842459
Might as well. Anything that makes folks in power think you gunning for them just by the name alone, especially when they can just straight up have your shit wrecked, will not work.

>>34842379
>>34842420
>>34842471
>>34842485

What about "Cosmo Babylonia" That's got a nice ring to it! or even "Zanscare."

Oh oh, I got it, "O'Hara Counter"

Rolled 52, 22, 54, 47, 26, 73, 37, 3 = 314 (8d100)

>>34842043
“Enough,” you declare as three more rockets fly by, one detonating harmlessly as Audrey hoses it with 60 and 110mm shells.

“Commander?” Noel asks nervously. “Adjust 1.5 degrees higher.” You make the adjustment and fire, obliterating four of the remaining Zakus in one shot and leaving two behind. Not quite what you were going for, but it will have to do.

“We'll cover you,” Karen offers. “Do it!”

You dash forward, blowing past the remaining Zakus before they have a chance to deal with you.

“Audrey, take the last two,” you order. “Carya, stop the black suit however you want to.”
(1/2)

>>34842471
Lets not start a civl war.
federation Reformation League

See, I went with "Earth-Sphere Reformation League" because it sounds nonthreatening. I mean having the EF and the Titans declare war against the AEUG makes sense from a PR standpoint, since the name "anti-earth" is in there. On the other hand, them declaring war on a group called a 'Reformation League" makes them seem like tyrannical despots, and thus would work to our advantage.

Chosing a nonsensical name doesn't actually do anything for us when the Titans and the EF excommunicate themselves, and anyone who stands against Great Leader Jamitov's plans in sure to be in the firing line, regardless of their name. I mean, the Titans basically decided to beat the crap out of Bright Noa, a war hero, and pilot of one of the biggest faces the EFF had during the OYW, compared to that, what makes you think having an unassuming name would spare us their wrath?

Fuck it, we're a Newtype, associate with known Zeon associate Cima, and have a roster that's chock full of former Zeon personnel, that's plent of enough reason for the EFF high command to hate and fear us.

tl;dr We might as well choose a name that'll gather us as much popular support as possible, since avoiding the EFF's wrath should we splinter, is almost inevitable.

>>34842518
Under an impressive but ineffectual lightshow courtesy of Reiko and Catherine, your team's machines get back to work. Glad to no longer be pinned by overwhelming numbers, Audrey downs one of her Zaku opponents with a shot through the "gut", just missing the cockpit but shredding vital systems and dropping the green machine to the deck. Carya launches towards the black Newtype suit, leading in with her beam machine gun blazing. Several small blasts pepper the enemy suit, but somehow it manages to evade well enough to not take any serious damage.

Unfortunately for the lead team still trying to enter the colony beneath you, Haman drops the Val Varo's plasma leaders around several of the Zakus. The powerful surge of electricity causes some minor power loss inside the colony, as shown by your thermal readouts, but also manages to short out several Zakus and one Gelgoog. Their pilots no doubt frantically work to restore power while Rossweisse takes advantage of the situation. The remaining Gelgoogs continue towards the colony's docking bay, and just manage to round the corner, while the four Zakus which are still mobile turn to face their attackers.

Two grenades make short work of three of the Zakus, but the fourth manages to avoid serious damage.

>Slow long enough to end the fourth Zaku's misery, push on after the Gelgoogs
>Stop to clear up the Zakus in the plasma leaders
>Ignore the others, chase down the Gelgoogs
>Unload on all visible targets without even slowing down (pretty stiff penalty)
>Other

>>34842742
>>Ignore the others, chase down the Gelgoogs

Not getting away

>>34842694
The Titans will come about but like I was say last not start a civl war yet.

>>34842742
>Ignore the others, chase down the Gelgoogs

>>34842742
>Ignore the others, chase down the Gelgoogs
Rossweisse can handle the cleanup here, we need to keep those Gelgoogs from getting away.

>>34842742
>>Ignore the others, chase down the Gelgoogs

>>34842742
>Ignore the others, chase down the Gelgoogs
Ross got our back.

>>34842742
Don't slow down. Keep moving. We trusted Rosse and Haman to deal with it. Let them handle it.

>>34842742
>>Ignore the others, chase down the Gelgoogs

>>34842742
>Ignore the others, chase down the Gelgoogs

Rolled 46, 11, 17, 20, 80 = 174 (5d100)

>>34842742
Rolling for your opponents.

Rolled 92, 39, 55, 3, 10, 10, 49, 11 = 269 (8d100)

>>34842862
And rolling for your team.

>>34842742
I'm kinda torn between downing the last Zaku, and blitzing after the Gelgoog.

>>34842801
I'm not saying we immedately do this now, and even if we don't split, we don't have to broadcast our name for everyone to know. Hell, we can use some random gibberish as a covername if we want, and come out with a 'publicity name' when we decide to move out into the open.

I mean, I'm pretty sure the AEUG didn't broadcast their name and purpose to the EF and Titans the very second they were founded, you build up a support base first, while you're still igcognito.

>>34842888
Our team could use some work

>>34842890
>don't split
Meant to say 'do split' holy fucking hell, how did I mess that up so badly.

>>34842742
We're getting spread incredibly thin here. We've left one suit to defend our ride while three of our machines are bogged down dealing with grunts. One suit is dealing with the nominal ace while we've heard fuck-all regarding the Musais.

Delegate Haman into tackling the ace with the Twins. Dom and Rosse can handle things here. Haman currently has the only other asset with the speed to tackle the slippery little devil.

>>34842900
/tg/ dice is pretty indescriminate.
I like to think Haman rolled the 92, fufilling her role as Queen of Dice.

>>34842900
Could be worse. At this point their suits' sensors are smoothing out some pretty shit rolls. Nothing too bad on the horizon.

>>34842939
She rolled the 3,10

>>34842930
That's the peril when trying to tackle a Zaku Rush.
kekekekekekeke

>>34842966
Y U DO THIS KOH?! I DID NOT WANT TO KNOW THAT!

>>34842890
Ok but I hope it doesn't come to that.

>>34842986
I have fate in Rossweisse that it will work.

>>34842742
Audrey is clearly not a happy person right now, frustrated at the pace of the engagement. She spears the last Zaku on the end of her blade rifle, and with loud, wordless cry of rage, spins the Iris about to take aim.

"SUCK ON THIS!" she shouts as she flips the weapon over to beam mode and hits the firing stud.

Downrange, Rossweisse takes a surprise rocket to the side. Her Kampfer is damaged, losing its left arm as she intercepts the projectile with her vulcans just a moment too late: were she not a Newtype, you figure she probably would have taken that shot full on in the side. Her own grenade goes wild, landing amid the still-motionless machines trapped by the Val Varo's plasma leaders. But to everyone's surprise, a beam lances through the Zaku's cockpit just as it tries to line up one last rocket shot at Rossweisse's suit.

"You're welcome!" Audrey calls out, slinging the cored Zaku off her rifle's bladed tip.

The black Newtype machine and the Viola trade blows: a beam saber cuts clean through the Viola's shield as it boosts around and behind the unknown mobile weapon, and Carya responds by taking out the backpack of the enemy machine. With little apparent explanation, you feel any sense of urgency or aggression leave the enemy pilots mind, and the machine itself grows still.

"I'll back you up!" Haman announces proudly as you press on and past the edge of the colony before kicking out and angling your thrusters against your previous trajectory. You and your copilot are slammed downward into your seats as the g-forces become nearly unbearable, and finally you ease out and dash towards the docking hangar where the Gelgoogs went in.

Haman, however, ends up cursing loudly as she badly misdirects the Val Varo's course change.
(1/2)

>>34843238
NO! Val Varo-tan are you ok?

>>34843332
Well there went the paint job on it.

>>34843353
I hope it just the paint job!

>>34843332
Its a big brootish thing, ramming into suits is not going to damage it, so lets hope if she hit the colony side that itll bounce instead of crumple.

>>34843238
“Shit, that looked pretty bad, I thought I had more room," she mutters as she attempts to level out the Val Varo's flight. She had underestimated the turning radius of the powerful machine, and ended up bouncing it hard off the side of the colony, buckling several plates of the exterior layer and slightly damaging the mobile armor itself.

“Now's not the time to be playing bumper cars, Haman,” you tease her.

“Yeah, well... fuck," she says, struggling to find a retort. "I don't even know what those are."

"I'll take you to the boardwalk down in Malibu some time," you reply. "It'll be great. You can wear that sexy bathing suit I bought you."

"How come you never buy ME anything sexy?" Carya asks with mock indignation... shit, was your comm really open that whole time?

"I'm curious," Miyu admits over the comm. "Slightly confused, but curious."

"Stow the chatter," Karen sighs as you approach the airlock into the colony. "Dom, how's it looking?"

You see a dockyard tech wave frantically at the massive airlock doors. "The Gelgoogs have penetrated the interior, Karen. Probably threatened to blow the airlock unless the dock techs let them in."

"Shit," Karen curses. "Get in there quick and take 'em out. We'll keep things from boiling over out here. Don't worry about us, just GO!"

How do you want to approach the Gelgoogs once you get in?
>Dash in with the vulcans and cannons, then engage in melee
>Use the grenades
>Other?

>>34843500
>Dash in with the vulcans and cannons, then engage in melee

We're going into a colony interior. Best try to limit collateral damage or it'll be Industrial 7 all over again.

>>34843500
Colony interior so...

>Dash in with the vulcans and cannons, then engage in melee

>>34843500
>>Dash in with the vulcans and cannons, then engage in melee

Minimal collateral damage.

There are civilians.

>>34843500
>Dash in with the vulcans and cannons, then engage in melee
Minimum collateral damage, keeps them busy dealing with us. Sounds good to me.

>>34843500
Engage in melee solely. We're here to defend the colony, not shrek it with grenades. Only use our head vulcans and gatlings if our chances of missing are zilch.

>>34843500
>Dash in with the vulcans and cannons, then engage in melee
>slightly damaging the mobile armor itself.
NO! Val Varo-tan!

>>34843500
>Dash in with the vulcans and cannons, then engage in melee

Usual colony combat, make sure you don't hit the reactors.

>>34843500
If Haman wants to play bumper cars, have her plant the VV's bulk on a Gelgoog. Ram one, grab another with a claw, rip and tear.

>>34843500
>>Dash in with the vulcans and cannons, then engage in melee

>>34843595
Hey, it's okay. Val Varo is a tough girl. She's been in worse scrapes before. And her taking damage gives us an excuse to do some work on her, swap out the armor and put on a fancy new coat of paint. It'll be good for her.

>>34843500
>Dash in with the vulcans and cannons, then engage in melee

Hm. Do you think Char might have split off the refugee fleet and taken to recruiting from Side 3? We might run into a pink suit here after the fighting dies down.

>>34843674
I know I know but still it hurt you know it Val Var-tan after all.

>>34843710
I think given the fact it took a year for him to get to Axis, and he was taking a lot of people with him, that he's not going to be back yet, and is still en-route.

>>34843674

Paint it white with purple highlights.

And install proper controls so that the psycomm system can be used on bits instead.

>>34843710
The Axis refugees will not arrive for another two weeks or so.

Don't worry. You'll know when they get here.

>>34843736
It can be. We have bits. Two of them, in fact. I'm honestly not sure why we haven't used them.

>>34843759
Haman's controlling the VV.

>>34843736
>>34843759

A bit carrying val varo would be rape.

>>34843780
I know, but you think Dominic could use them. Even if he couldn't do all-range attacks they're still an extra pair of beam guns. Do it like the Legend in SEED Destiny, swivel the bits around on their racks to use them as turrets.

>>34843759
The Val Varo basically demands Haman's full attention to pilot. It's more finicky to maneuver, and has its own weapons that need to be controlled and aimed.

>>34843843
Can a proper cockpit be installed eventually?

>>34843843
Our next stop back in a Fed port should have us picking up a GM for Karen. Just in case.

Speaking of which, did Kowen ever find out what happened to whats-his-name in the field hospital?

>>34843883
Theirs nought wrong with Val Varo-tan and I think the one-hand cockpit is good.

Rolled 14, 2 = 16 (2d100)

>>34843500
As the technician finally opens the airlock hatch, the Val Varo joins your Lilium. You and Haman pilot both machines into the lock, and the doors slide shut behind you. Air is pumped into the space, until finally the pressure is close enough to equal that the dockmaster gives the all-clear to crack the inner doors.

"Haman?" You look down at the Newtype sitting between your legs.

"Yeah?"

"Send the Val Varo forward along the center axis of the colony. Have it belly-flop onto one of the Gelgoogs," you tell her, imagining the scene.

Haman nods, and you can tell she's grinning/ "With gusto, Dom."

As the Val Varo rockets forward, you push forward yourself, scanning for the Gelgoogs' heat signatures. You quickly find them, and orient yourself so that the surface they're on is 'down'. Your powerful thrusters orient themselves so that all your thrust is pointed straight back, and you quickly gain ground on the two suits...

>roll d100

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>34843978

>>34843962

You don't want to see Haman driving the Val Varo while controlling a swarm of bits?

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>34843978

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>34843978

>>34843991
>>34843999
>>34844013
Well, two out of three isn't bad.

Rolled 61, 81 = 142 (2d100)

>>34843978
>And rolling for Haman

>>34843991
I'll take it

>>34843997
She need to leaned to use Val Varo-tan than.

>>34844036

Not bad, haman

>>34842471
>Doesn't help that they recruited heavily from former Zeon ranks
Lies. Most of the AEUG's recruits were Feds, with only Char and a few motely stragglers from Zeon.

Oh guys, 5 quid on the Musai's surrendering to the Republic, making them Republic property. Cue Feddy brass raging impotently.

>>34843978
One of the Gelgoogs lifts its weapon, but Haman slams the Val Varo claws-first into the mobile suit, denying it the chance to fire. The two machines dig into the colony wall in a cloud of dust and dirt, and for good measure Haman uses the Val Varo's nearly 400 ton weight to grind what remains of the Gelgoog into scrap.

The second Gelgoog looses a rocket that spins wildly away from its likely target, the Republic's assembly building, and towards... a school.

A school a lot like the one you used to go to with your siblings on Londenion, and where several of your friends were killed in a Zeon attack.

That your brother graduated from, before that same Zeon attack claimed his life.

You're not even sure when you flipped your cannons into position. You don't even remember laughing at how easy it was to down the missile before it hit the school building, or how the asphalt surface of the street in front of it shattered under the barrage. Your wrist-mounted blade sliced straight through the Gelgoog where it stood, its pilot dumbstruck at the raw ferocity of your assault. Then the blade struck again, splitting the torso of the Gelgoog in half. As one of the chunks of mobile suit fell towards a terrified couple, no doubt on their way home from a late night out drinking, the Lilium-II's foot lashes out and slams into the chunk of debris, sending it in a long arc until it crashes harmlessly into a small wooded hillside.

When you come to, Haman is looking at you with deep concern in her eyes, and you find that for some reason there are tears in yours.

>Secure the scene and wait to be relieved
>Head back up to where the fighting is, secure any Zeon survivors
>Head back up and do whatever Karen tells you to
>Other?

>>34844248
Their combat pilots were mostly Feds. But their engineers and support staff had a bunch of Zekes. It's a natural consequence of working so closely with Anaheim.

>>34844322
10 Reichsmark they do not, your on!

>>34844350
>>Other?
Smile weakly at Haman then
>Head back up and do whatever Karen tells you to

>>34844350
>Head back up and do whatever Karen tells you to

I assume the Newtype has thoroughly trounced our team in order to secure a climatic final boss to end this arc.

>>34844350
>>Secure the scene and wait to be relieved
>>Await orders from Karen

Defend the area.

>>34844402
I support this action.

>>34844350
>Head back up to where the fighting is, secure any Zeon survivors

>>34844350
>Head back up to where the fighting is, secure any Zeon survivors

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>34844350
Pat Haman on the head. "I'm fine."

"Sitrep, everyone. Status. Now."

Send the Val Varo out with Rosse's damaged Kampfer for a replacemant arm. We can secure the 'googs.

"This is O'Hara, EFSF. If you're still breathing then step out of your cockpits."

>>34844350
>Head back up to where the fighting is, secure any Zeon survivors
Job's not done yet.

>>34844350
Wave at the couple. Inform them through our suits speakers the area isn't safe and they should seek shelter immediately.

>>34844493
They probably dead but Pat Val Varo-tan on the head.

>>34844601
I'm betting they'll overload the suits' reactors if they are still kicking. Tell 'em to get out or put a round each through the cockpit hatch.

If this gets pulled off properly, this could be a huge propaganda coup for the Feddies.

"Eyewitness reports Federation pilot saves school from Zeon rocket attack."

The fact that there's a half-destroyed Gelgoog and a bunch of Zakus lying around would only add credence to it.

>>34844658
>implying it won't be "reckless federation soldier fights in colony, endangering civilians".

You can't control the media that well.

>>34844703
You can if your version of the story gets spammed to high heaven across the stars first.

>>34844703
Ware is RoZDF at away?

>>34844703
Huh, I didn't know Side 3's media was controlled by Rupert Murdoch.

>>34844789
You know Murdoch would be a die-hard Zeon.

>>34844761
Side 3's media is controlled by the federation right?

>>34844827
Nah, he'd be hardline antispacenoid. Probably work as the Titan's media director.

>>34844350
"I'm fine," you insist to Haman, gently patting her on her helmeted head. "Let's get back topside, see what Karen wants us..."

"You're a terrible liar," Haman interrupts quietly.

"All the same," you continue, "now's not the time. We're heading back out. Bring the Val Varo along, let the local security take it from here."

With a powerful leap, you send your Lilium high into the air. As the gravitational forces ease, you find yourself coasting weightless towards the center axis of the colony. Once you reach the exact middle, you kick in with your attitude thrusters and move quickly back to the airlock.

On the side of the colony, you find that your team has things well in hand. The surviving Axis pilots are standing on their opened cockpit hatches with their hands raised as Rossweisse and Audrey keep their rifles trained on them, and Carya and Catrina are recovering the stricken Newtype machine. The black mobile suit still isn't moving.

"Report," Karen prompts you. "Is the threat eliminated?"

"Affirmative," you reply. "Sitrep?"

"The Axis fleet are positioning themselves," Noel informs you. "We have Republic defense forces inbound from the far side of Luna."

"ETA ten minutes," Reiko adds. "They're radioing their apologies: apparently the Fleet had them out patrolling the area around Von Braun and refused to authorize their redeployment."

"Tell them their apology is accepted, and that the initial attack has been stalled," Karen replies coolly. "But keep an eye on those Musais, Anderson, Takizawa."

"Captain!" Miyu shouts. "The Musais are opening fire!"

"Sound collision..." Karen begins before Catherine interrupts.

"They're firing on each other!" she announces. Sure enough, several of the Musais are engaging each other at medium range, with beam cannons scarring one another's hulls. Missiles fly back and forth, some cratering meter-thick armor while others are vaporized by AA emplacements.

"One's breaking off!" Catrina shouts.
(1/2)

>>34844872
Hmm, maybe, but I think he'd be all "Bah we don't need the federation. All those dirty immigrants from earth, taking our spacenoid jobs."

>>34844893

what

>>34844902
People from space actually want to immigrate to Earth (see Hathaway's Flash). I assure you Murdoch is a Titan.

>>34844893
"He's heading straight for us!" Audrey shouts.

Haman's eyes widen as she opens up with the remote beam guns she left out in the field. Audrey, Catrina, and Rosse open up as well, sending munitions and beams flying at the Musai. Even the Valkyrie's anemic turrets do their part, trying their best to down the oncoming cruiser.

"He's heading straight for us!" Noel cries. "Ramming speed!"

"Crazy sonnofa BITCH!" Catrina roars as she unleashes all of the Viola's grenades at once.

To your side you see the last remaining Gelgoog pilot clamber back into their machine in desperation, not even bothering to shut the hatch as they open up on the cruiser as well. Two of the other Zeon pilots follow the gesture.

>Twin Hyper Rifles until it dies
>Crash the Val Varo into the cruiser, use its engines to slow or halt the Musai's progress
>Do both
>Other

>>34845014
>Do both
Why would we not?

>>34845014
>Twin Hyper Rifles until it dies
Die!!!

>>34845014
>Twin Hyper Rifles until it dies
O no not Val Varo-tan!

Is Haman in the vv?

>>34845014
>Do both

>>34845014
>Twin Hyper Rifles until it dies

>>34845014
>Do Both
>>34845055
VV is remote piloted.

>>34845055
... no?

>>34845014
Can't Val Varo-tan attack too?

>>34845014
>>Twin Hyper Rifles until it dies

>> Other
Send Val Varo on a looping course.

Target Engines

>>34845014
No matter what we do we're going to get hit with a meteor shower of debris. Split the cruiser amidship with a shot from our rifle. Order Haman to vaporize the engine block. We, the Twins, and Audrey match velocity with the bow section and redline our thrusters to force it off onto a different trajectory.

>>34845014
>Do both
As much as I like the Val Varo, it's ultimately expendable. Crash it into the Musai to slow it down, then use the time that buys to blast it away.

>>34845093

This.

Use its speed to get behind it and target its engines

>>34845014
Val Varo has a particle cannon. Audrey has a particle rifle. We have a particle rifle. The freaking Valkyrie has mega particle cannons. Shoot it until it dies.

>>34845014
Do both

>>34845074
It has one particle gun of use. Compared to the Hyper Rifles and all the other flak heading towards the Musai, it'd be a drop in the bucket.

The idea is either try and vaporize it before it reaches the colony, or to use the Val Varo to reduce the cruiser's momentum: either to stop its forward progress, or to slow it long enough to finish vaporizing it.

>>34845014
"To the Zeon cruisers shooting each other, shoot the Musai barreling for Side 3!"

>>34845014
>>Twin Hyper Rifles until it dies
>>Other
Use the Val Varo to push against its bulk if it does reach the colony.

No need to crash.

We do our axis pushing here.

>>34845147
>Val Varo has a particle cannon
I know we sued uuse it

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>>34845166
>telling the Musais to aim towards the colony with their beam cannons

>>34845195
What could possibly go wrong?

>>34845211
Given the accuracy of such weapons, one or more shots WOULD hit the colony.

The Axis commanders who are currently fighting against the hard-line elements within their own fleet would not take that risk.

>>34845163
Won't matter if we split her amidship. Valkyrie and the VV deals with the engine block while we and the team tackle the bow. Redline those thrusters

>>34845014
"Haman!" you order. "Get the Val Varo ready to push any leftover chunks away from the colony!"

"Right!" she replies, sending the mobile armor rushing forward while you train the Hyper Rifles on the Musai's bow.

The first shot cores the vessel, but its momentum continues driving its smouldering, guttering hulk forward. Your second shot vaporizes much of its port side, and your third blasts off much of its starboard side. More fire from your allies destroys section of battle-plate that flake off as the main hull's shattered remnants approach.

Then, the Musai's trajectory changes slightly: Haman presses into the ventral hull of the dead ship and throttles the Val Varo up to full. Even as the front end of the mobile armor crunches from the strain, the Musai's course shifts...

... and the whole pile of slag and plating grazes the outside of the colony wall before continuing on out towards the empty space beyond Lunar orbit. Training your rifles on the hulk, you wait for Haman to give you the heads-up that the Val Varo is out of the way.

"Do it, Dominic," she tells you, and you oblige, emptying your two e-pacs into the back of the Musai's hull until nothing remains but a cloud of slag and gasses.

You doubt any of the debris is any larger than your fist.
(1/2)

>>34845507
I have a very healthy respect for those guns. Things of beauty, seriously. Anaheim does great work.

So with all the debris in orbit from the naval review, who wants to bet that this is going to be a thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

>>34845507
Can't look is Val Varo-tan all right?

>>34845611
Yes. Val Varo has taken a beating, but still intact. She's still flying.

>>34845507
The Val Varo limps back to the Valkyrie while the battle winds down between the seven remaining Musais. Two have been destroyed in the fighting, and the remainder are fairly damaged. But it seems they're now drifting closer to your own ship.

"Ma'am," Catherine reports, "they're trying to raise us."

"This is Colonel deLancie, former Mars Zeon," a tired-sounding male voice addresses your Captain. "On behalf of the Axis Advance Fleet, I would like to offer our unconditional surrender."

"Do we trust them?" Noel mutters to herself over the still-open comms.

You shake your head.
>We have to, otherwise we're no better than their hardliners: handle the prisoners yourselves
>We may be bloodied, but we still have fighting to do: try and race back to Earth to get involved in the last of the battle there, let the local Republic do what they will
>Wait until the Republic forces can take over, then leave: take in the Zeon MS pilots before they run out of air
>Other

>>34845606

Considering that the remnants of the fleet appear to still be alive, no, I don't think the earth orbit denial is currently active.

>>34845639
>>We have to, otherwise we're no better than their hardliners: handle the prisoners yourselves

>>34845639
>>We have to, otherwise we're no better than their hardliners: handle the prisoners yourselves

>>34845606
I don't think so. Operation British didn't do that, and that produced a lot of debris in low Earth orbit. I figure that the Federation has orbital clean-up details and should be fine soon enough.

>>34845639

>We have to, otherwise we're no better than their hardliners: handle the prisoners yourselves

At some point we're going to have to start requesting the Feds develop a prison ship.

>>34845639
>Wait until the Republic forces can take over, then leave: take in the Zeon MS pilots before they run out of air
Compromise between trying to get to more of the fighting, and leaving these guys out here.

>>34845632
O Lord, your right that was fearful.

>>34845639

>We have to, otherwise we're no better than their hardliners: handle the prisoners yourselves

What ever we choose, try to get a few pilots, like that newtype, onboard for personal interrogation.

>We have to, otherwise we're no better than their hardliners: handle the prisoners yourselves
+
>Wait until the Republic forces can take over, then leave: take in the Zeon MS pilots before they run out of air

>>34845639
>Wait until the Republic forces can take over, then leave: take in the Zeon MS pilots before they run out of air

>>34845639
>We have to, otherwise we're no better than their hardliners: handle the prisoners yourselves
>Other
Try to get Kowen on the line and ask for clarification on the situation further down the gravity well.

>>34845507
>This Val Varo isn't just for show!

>>34845639
>We have to, otherwise we're no better than their hardliners: handle the prisoners yourselves
I hope Earth is all!

>>34845639
"Trust is earned, Anderson. We give 'em a chance I say."

"Power down your weapons and prepare for boarding, Colonel. Have your wounded prepared for disembarkation first to recieve medical treatment."

>We have to, otherwise we're no better than their hardliners: handle the prisoners yourselves

Let's wrap every thing up here, before heading back. I'm sure that even if we tried to get back as soon as possible, we would only arrive after the end of the battle.

>>34845639
How much fuel does the Val Varro have left? could it boost us to the battlezone faster than the Valkyrie? I remember /tg/ pulling a similar trick in Bright Quest.

>>34845639
Has the ace pilot been secured in our hangar or is the machine still drifting in space?

Get the Side 3 skeleton defense force into recovering and securing mobile suit pilots.

>>34845789
>How much fuel does the Val Varro have left?
Some. It would be in no shape to fight when you got there.

Even the Valkyrie would likely have to meet a Columbus and re-fuel at speed to make it. Possible, but tricky.

>>34845813
>>34845834
The Valkyrie and Val Varo are both in no shape for another extended slug fest. We'll haft to sit any fighting out until we put into a repair dock.

>>34845789

We could load up on propellant anyways to boost a few of us out there but that leaves the valk severely undermanned and defended.

Whats more against a Colony cylinder, a couple more MS and a MA, no matter how powerful aren't gonna help much. We need something like the Valks Mega Particle cannons to help put a dent in it.

At least the earth defence fleet has Yuu with the Albion and the GP-01 and GP-03

>>34845834
What about one of the Republic's assets. Do they have anything that can get us there fast?

>>34845882
Well, if they have any Chivvay/Chivvay Kais left in stock...

>>34845882
No faster than taking your own ship.

You could take the Base Jabbers at a certain range, but even at that you'd be pretty exposed and unsupported when you got there. Rossweisse would likely have to stay behind, as her suit's taken a bit of a beating.

>>34845863
Not to mention several suits missing god damn arms and shit

>>34845933
Backing we just sit tight as we resupply and shit.

I wonder what the Axis pilots and crew will think when they run into Haman.

>>34845948
We took on roughly 5 to 1 odds in mobile suits and 9 to 1 odds in ships. We're lucky we only lost that much.

>>34845974
I'd rather keep her away from them for the time being. Just as a precaution.

>>34845992
We took 10 to 1 odds in Mobile suits actually. We just blew up half of them in the first 15 seconds.

>>34846030

Good thing we hit the Battleship. An additional 18 or so MSs would have been a bad thing. Especially since that was the flagship, its MSs would have been top of the line stuff, probably more gelgoogs.

>>34846030
That Dominic's Valkyries for you.

>>34846070
Which is why you don't put you're carrier in the front of your fleet. Idiots

>>34846030
Now just have to do 12 to 1 odds. I won't be satisfied until we beat Amuro's record.

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>>34846078
>Dominic's Valkyries

Pls no. That's begging for our team to be killed off.

>>34846113
Make your death count.

>>34846113
Not with us around!

>>34846138
I finished reading chomp yesterday.

>>34846186
>Not with us around

Our ship can be named Valkyrie, but our team can't. That's death flag material.

>>34845639
"We have to, Noel," you remind her. "We're not barbarians: we're supposed to be the good fuys here."

Karen quickly agrees. "Colonel," she replies. "Power down your weapons and prepare to be boarded by Republic crews. Do not resist. Captain Joshua out."

"Hey," you announce to the surrendered mobile suits. "Step out and onto our palms. We'll bring you into our ship before you all asphyxiate. Sound good?"

A female voice responds. "Do we have a choice?"

"Yeah," you reply quickly, "you can stay out here and asphyxiate."

"Point taken."

The last Gelgoog's pilot pops her hatch and pushes away from her mobile suit, gliding gently into the Lilium-II's open hand. You see her comrades do the same, including the pilot of the black mobile suit.

Aboard the Valkyrie, your machines tuck into their respective gantries as Emary squeals about the extensive damage to the Val Varo. Literally: she's so angry at your abuse of the mobile armor that you're not even sure she's using words.

Two pilots stand out to you: the brash young woman, about your age, who was piloting the Gelgoog takes off her helmet, revealing long, strawberry-blonde hair. She sighs, and holds out her wrists for an MP to handcuff before taking a seat on the deck. She seems... distinctly worried.

The second standout is the mousy-haired woman who was piloting the black mobile suit. As Carya stands next to her, something worries you: Carya is confused and concerned, where you'd say Catrina is a little disturbed. But the newcomer? Nothing. No sense of any emotions whatsoever.

>Blonde prisoner
>Brunette prisoner
>Other

>>34846218
Our ship, Rossweisse and now our team.

>>34846235
>Blonde prisoner
She seems more receptive to talking.

>>34846235
>Brunette prisoner
Time to find out why this one will make the team upset.

>>34846235
>>Blonde prisoner

Let C.C. work on the other one. We'll see what she comes up with later.

>>34846235
>Blonde prisoner
Ask her what she's worried about. When asked why we think she's worried, answer that we're a Newtype.
Asking before ransacking her memories is considered polite.
...
...it was a joke.

>>34846235
>The blonde

>>34846235
>Blonde prisoner

>>34846235
>Brunette prisoner
Lest see what this is all about.

>>34846235
>>Blonde prisoner

Make sure to thank her for helping with the suicidal musai.

>>34846235
Approach both of them.

"Hello, ma'am, ma'am, can I get you two anything? A drink? Food? Vacation tickets? A new mobile suit? I don't know how long we'll keep you here but I attend to see that you're treated fairly."

>>34846235
>Other
The twins. Ask them what's got them spooked. Aside from the obvious, I mean. They have any sense of what's going on with this woman?

>>34846409
They're in opposite directions.

Pick one.

>>34846235

>Brunette prisoner

Let's try and prevent the twins from having a minor breakdown in public. The blonde isn't going anywhere.

>>34846425
>opposite directions

Ya blew it.

The creepy one for us. Send the Twins to deal with the other.
"What has you two spooked?"

>>34846235
Do they look like the sisters by chance?

Sorry shdow run have to ask

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>>34846235
>Brunette prisoner

Something's not right here.

>>34846717
>Something's not right here.
Yeah it's zeon.

>>34846235
You walk the short distance over to the pink-haired pilot you captured earlier.

"You seem worried about something," you tell her.

She shakes her head. "You're not wrong, but how do you figure."

"I'm a newtype," you explain. "It's common courtesy to introduce oneself before digging around in someone's thoughts."

As she looks at you in horror, you raise your hands defensively. "I'm kidding... jeez, it's like you'd believe anything about us."

The young woman relaxes a little, but still seems on edge. "Newtypes are scapegoats back on Axis," she tells you. "They say a lot of things about what you can do, right up to and including brainwashing."

You laugh loudly to yourself. "Brainwashing? Really?"

"It's how Bernini said you converted Miss Haman."

"Speak of the devil," you reply as Haman pokes her head out from behind a technician she's been talking to about the psycommu system's status.

"Dominic," she greets casually as the prisoner's eyes widen.

"Lady Haman?" she asks incredulously. "What are you doing here?"

"Fighting against you fools," Haman replies with a sudden chill in her voice. "Someone has to stomp out your idiocy before you're allowed to hurt others along with yourselves. I figure it may as well be me."

"A little harsh," you offer. "She did help us with the Musai that tried to ram the colony just a while ago. Oh, and thank you for that, Miss..."

"Pazom," the woman replies. "Ilia Pazom, Lieutenant, Axis Forces."

"Commander Dominic O'Hara, EFSF Special Forces," you reply.

"Ensign Haman Karn, same," Haman adds. "What were you trying to accomplish here, Lieutenant?"

"We were meant to assassinate Prime Minister Bakharov," Pazom explains, "in order to sow chaos and confusion among the Republic leadership. Split them into pro and anti Federation camps."

Haman scoffs at the explanation. "So why try and destroy the colony? What idiot made THAT call?"
(1/2)

>>34846783
"It was the worst-case scenario: disrupt the chain of command and take the Republic out of the fight," the Lieutenant continues. "Privately I assumed nobody would resort to that... it scares me a little how wrong I was."

Haman gives you a look: that look says 'oh look, someone else who gave Zeon too much credit, what are the odds'. Thankfully she doesn't give a voice to those thoughts.

Meanwhile Sayla Mass has been called to the hangar, and approaches the Sisters and their captive. You can feel their combined dismay from here, and more than a little anger surges to the surface as Sayla tells the Sisters something.

>What next?

>>34846844
Ask about the Newtype pilot, and then go check on what's gotten the Sisters and Sayla riled up.

>>34846844
"Shall the three of us intervene before things escalate Haman, Pazom?"

>>34846844
Approach the Sisters and Sayla, see what the problem is.

>>34846844
Is this where the "interesting circumstances" finally come into play?

Get the Twins attention and flag her over before she starts pulling out bulkhead screws with her mind.

>>34846783
Oh hey, this lady. Neat, we've got one of the "crazy 80's fashion" members of Neo Zeon. Got to love those guys, they're just so colorful.

>>34846844
Right. Let's go head over and see what the fuss is about. Leave Haman to talk with Illia, one pink-haired Zeon lady to another. We should go and ask the twins what about this situation has them so angry we could feel it from the other side of the hangar. What did Axis do to this woman?

>>34846844
Hmm... Chara Soon perhaps?

>>34846976
Go this
Yeah they are something.

>>34846993
I don't think so. Chara Soon can't really be described with terms like "mousy" or "emotionless". Not unless they did some seriously bad things to her in this timeline.

>>34846783
"Can you take care of our guest?" you ask Haman.

She nods. "You'd better not try and escape."

Pazom laughs sadly. "Lady Haman, I just fired on my own fleet. Even if I escaped, I have nowhere in this universe to go anymore."

You turn, leaving the two pink-haired young women to each other's company, and approach the group clustered around the brown-haired prisoner. Rossweisse, her head bandaged after having presumably bashed it in the battle, looks on in discomfort at Sayla as she examines the prisoner.

"Jesus, that could have been me," Rosse mutters softly as you pass. Confused, you look at her over your shoulder: this must have gotten to her. That's the longest sentence you've heard her say in public.

Carrina turns to you, tears pooling in the corners of her violet eyes despite the wrath etched into her face.

"I can't believe this. I knew Newtype research was bad, but this? THIS is too much," she snarls. "Unbelievable."

The brown haired newtype silently attempts to recoil from Carrina, which forces the Sisters to calm themselves somewhat. You can feel a little twinge of shame at their loss of temper.

Sayla turns to face you. "We're going to need to take this young woman down to the sickbay, could you let Karen know?"

"What's the matter?" you ask, dreading the answer. "What did they do to her?"

"She's got more drugs in her than your local pharmacy," Ilia explains from behind you as Haman leads her over by the cuffs.

"Explain," you demand seriously, all attempts at pleasantry for the time discarded. "Now."

"God, I know her," Haman whispers. "She's Lieutenant Fanning, a test pilot."
(1/2)

>>34847322

God.

I'm glad we stayed to sort this shit out.

>>34846976
I wanna see Mashymere.

Problem is that he's going to die unless he decides to pull a Jeremiah Gottwald.

>>34847422
We new this shit out of character. Now we know in character, finally. Heads are gonna roll.

>>34847322
"Was," Pazom corrects sadly. "Was. After we lost Schnee Weiss and Lady Haman in the raid, Enzo had to start over on the psycommu system. Miniaturizing it led to adverse effects on the pilot's mind. Instead of fixing the thing, I heard a rumor he had drugs administered to the pilots. I hoped that was just a rumor... we were never allowed to actually see the Tusche Schwarz pilots in person."

Pazom turns her face away from Fanning. "I doubt Rebecca Fanning even knows her name anymore, let alone where she is, or who she used to be. All that's left is loyalty to Zeon, and to her now-dead commander."

Haman scowls. "Sieg fucking Zeon." Disturbingly, Fanning... or rather whatever's left of her... tries to salute at the words.

"With a lot of the right kind of help," Sayla tells you, "I hope she can make a partial recovery. But I don't think she'll ever be who she was before."

Audrey, who has come over to see what the crowd was about, voices your whole team's sentiments.

"Hell is empty... and all the devils are here..." she mutters angrily.

>Any details you wish to deal with before the Epilogue for 0083?

>>34847509
Nope

>>34847509
No.

>>34847509
So Tusche Schwarz-tan and Val Varo-tan what kind of data do we gat from them?

>>34847509
Hoo boy. Nope.

>>34847609
You have both machines in your team's possession, along with full schematics and reports on the Val Varo, courtesy of Cima Garahau.

No proper examination has been undertaken yet.

>>34847509
Repairs ASAP. Ask the defecting pilots if they want to join our unit or Cima's in her gambit against Delaz. Send a laser comm off to Cima informing her we have possible recruits and material for her to pick up. Ask Cima if she wants to finally get that drink.

Get a status report on the colony condition and assist where we can while we wait for repairs and refit. Officially rechristen our vessel to Ridden Hard.

>>34847669
I disagree with telling them about Cima. We should be as tight-lipped about that as possible. Don't want any of them ousting her in an attempt to get back in favor with the Delaz faction.

>>34847509
Nothing that I don't think won't happen anyway as part of the epilogue. Clean up, repairs, PR with the colony...that sort of thing. Maybe look to see if we can find the remaining bits? As I recall we didn't destroy all of them, we shouldn't leave active materiel lying around like that.

>>34847708
A hint, which Dominic would have picked up on? If you uncuffed Ilia Pazom at this point she'd be more likely to hang herself in her quarters than she would be to sell you out to Delaz.

>>34847509
Oh, and FINALLY, FINALLY, take the damn crew to Denny's. We've neglected that since thread 3 when we went to spess.

>>34847708
They've already fired on their own side. Joining up with the rebels would give them a cause to fight for. Plus it'd bolster Cima's ranks.

>>34847509
Get repairs underway with a priority on the engines of the Valkyrie and our suits.

Send a lasercomm to Kowen, let him know that we were successful in dealing with the Side 3 attack, and requesting an update on where we are most needed next.

>>34847650
Will then proper examination if can. How much does this sat back Zeon?

>>34847799
So make sure that she's on suicide watch. Don't know if Haman should be on it or if she'd be better able to help Fanning.

>>34847509
Yeah check with the Side on their casualties. Explain what was up with Haman and the girls at some point. Restock, Resupply and start considering how to kill the top two Zeon Zealots as painfully and efficiently as possible.

>>34847708
Yeah me as will.

>>34847650
I'd prefer we kept it under wraps for now. We've seen what Axis was doing.

>>34847895
Dammit, I meant to reply to >>34847782

>>34847808
We'll probably be told to sit tight and wait for further orders. We took one hell of a beating even with all of our fancy toys.

>>34847816
The battle itself probably set them back a good deal. Axis is rapidly industrializing, but they still have limited resources. We either destroyed or captured everything they sent at us. Ten ships, dozens of mobile suits, a prototype mobile armor (that never even got to fire a single shot, poor baby) and a brainwashed Newtype pilot. Combine that with the losses they faced during the colony drop attempt, and it's going to take a while before they have the resources to do anything again.

Can we pick up the MA?

>>34847990
Even so it was a pretty impressive feat. Maybe not Amuro levels of impressive but still pretty hard.

>>34848008
Bigger issue is manpower really. They probably have around 25,000 soldiers at this point.

>>34848017
The mobile armor we reduced to molten metal? Probably not.

>>34847509
Once the Republic ships were on site, and once the four captured pilots were tucked away in the Valkyrie's brig, Karen set course for Earth orbit. When you arrived, you could readily see the terrible cost of the battle: while the colony drop was averted, the damage to both sides was severe. The Albion was badly damaged, and two of the Four Musais left behind by Admiral Kirikov were lost, with 19 of their 25 GMs. Yu Kajima, the Blue Death, made a strong showing, and managed to survive the battle. Three damaged Salamis and the carrier Gray Phantom were lost, the latter with some survivors. The Gray Phantom came down in one structurally sound piece, but was too far gone to be repaired.

Dendrobium Orchis was destroyed, but the Stamen survived. Defrah was responsible for inflicting heavy casualties on the Delaz fleet. Gundam GP-01 was damaged while inflicting moderate casualties: Kou and Defrah together earned the nicknames "the Unknown Aces" for their success.

Defrah, however, was badly wounded when you pulled her machine aboard the Valkyrie.

"I knew you were busy," she told you as Sayla bandaged up her many lacerations and treated the third-degree burns to her side, "but I knew you'd drop in sooner or later."

Good thing you did, too: another twenty minutes and she would have suffocated.

In an embarrassing showing, the 49 combat-ready ships of the EFSF fleet showed up even later than you did, and the superweapon intended for use against the errant colony was never fired. A crew from one of the Musais managed to board and divert the colony, thus ending the threat.
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>>34848061
White base never wrecked an entire fleet. Also, Did Dom Just pass Amuro's kill count in this battle?

>>34848079
>and the superweapon intended for use against the errant colony was never fired
Suck a dick, Jamitov.

Wait. This means the Solar System is in the hands of the Titans.

shit

>>34848099
The Trojan Horse also did not have a colony full of civilians behind it acting as hostages either.

>>34848064
I was counting the pilots and crew as part of the mobile suits and ships, but you're exactly right. Axis has a small population. And unlike materiel, personnel takes a long time to get more of.

>>34848099
Dude, it's easy to pass Amuro's mook kill count during OYW.

Ace kill count is much harder.

>>34848079
Yay Defrah survived!

>>34848079
No... Gray Phantom-kun and Dendrobium Orchis-tan bless your souls. RIP.

>>34848123
Eh, they were going to build one anyway, at least this one is less effective than the Gryps laser.

>>34848150
a) Mars
b) Clones
c) Mobile Dolls

>>34848079
Wait, we had Musai's?

>>34848079
The Delaz fleet was in shambles by the time you arrived. They had deployed a SECOND Neue Ziel unit alongside another Tusche Schwarz: both of which were totaled in the fight after dealing heavy losses to the EFSF mobile suit contingent. When you got to them there were only four Musais left, and about 20 mobile suits, all beating a hasty retreat.

The first few EFSF regular forces to arrive, however, find a dilemma: Cima has apparently sprung her plan into action, turning on the Delaz fleet and taking over the Gwanban Delaz had used for a flagship. Her former command ship, the Lili Marleen, and a single Musai, along with a little less than a dozen Gelgoog Marines, are currently locked in a standoff with three Salamis class ships. Neither side has fired yet.

>Pursue the last of the Delaz Fleet, leave Cima to her own devices
>Vouch for Cima, allow her to escape
>Try and pursuade Cima to stand down and perhaps join you (write-in required)
>Other

>>34848274
The ones that defected yeah.

>>34848274
Either it's a Republic vessel or Axis defector vessel.

>>34848274
Typo. It reads Salamis at the end of the paragraph.

>>34848206
Cloning is out as a way to rapidly build an army, it's faster than natural maturation but not that fast. But mobile dolls...I can see that happening. Axis is doing a lot of work on quasi-psycommu systems, which are at their basic level just AI control systems. Developing it into fully autonomous mobile suits seems like a plausible research path.

>>34848291
>other

Join Cima.

>>34848291
>Other: Vouch for Cima and request her assistance in chasing down the last of the Delaz fleet. Possibly join forces afterwards.

>>34848387
This.

>>34848358
I'd take this as a joke, but frankly, this suddenly seems like a good time to GTFO from the Earth sphere.

Pity we only have Jupiter as the last place of refuge.

>>34848358
And hw would you plan to convince Karen?

>>34848291
>Try and pursuade Cima to stand down and perhaps join you (write-in required)

"Don't repeat the mistakes of your former comrades. You know the path of vengeance will only get you so far, before it consumes you whole. And for what? More countless deaths? We've all seen enough of that to last us several life times. You have no loyalty to Delalz, and I'll assume to the Axis Remnants. Join me instead. You can still do some good."

>>34848291
How about we cut a deal where Cima joins the republic's fleet? We've certainly proven the dangers of leaving their defense forces too anemic.

>>34848291
Vouch for Cima. Having an ally out in the field will be an incredible asset. We can recruit her when shit really hits the fan.

>>34848420
The Republic gets co-opted by the Titans.

>>34848291
>Vouch for Cima, allow her to escape

>>34848387
This, we can always wait for another time for her to join us. She probably has plenty of distrust for the Feds so lets try to convince her bit by bit.

>>34848291
>>Try and pursuade Cima to stand down and perhaps join you (write-in required)

First off, vouch for her first to the admirals. A show of good faith.

"Cirma, first, what do you intend to do with your fleet? Be pirates or be mercenaries? Look at your fleet, a zanbizar class, a squadron of musais and now this flagship, backed up by veteran MS pilots and loyal crew. Few forces right now could stand up to yours, hell you might even be able to conquer side 3 for yourself.

But how long will that last? Even with how you've helped us, the EFSF will have to come after you eventually. It will take a while and we will definitely take heavy losses in doing so but mind you it will happen some time or later.

Instead, how about joining us? With the state of the current fleet, we're truthfully hurting for reinforcements. With your fleet, even a flag rank might be possible, considering your actions today. That and safe refuge for you ane your crews. I'm sure they've spent too long in the vast reaches of space."

>>34848442
In canon, yes. In this timeline, with Cima or Char in charge? Hell no.

>>34848291
>Vouch for Cima, allow her to escape
If anyone gat one than this.
>Try and pursuade Cima to stand down and perhaps join you (write-in required)

>>34848466
I don't really want to recruit her and have her on our team. Domscartes needs some freaking guy friends. If we can have her firmly as an ally and the men she can bring to the table, then sure, I'll run with it.

>>34848291
>>34848411
Seconded

>>34848291

seconding >>34848466