>>5888231

Hmm, A feddie quest? I may be a zeon fanatic (Cause their suits are my favorites), but I'm fine with being a feddie as well.

>2) A grizzled veteran. You've served the Earth Federation for as long as you could remember, like your father, and his father before him. Years of experience has made you wise, but you're set in your ways, and age has a way of catching up to you. Assigned to EFGF Armored Cavalry, you're the commander of a three-man crew for a Type 61 tank, and you lead a platoon of 5 Type 61s. Many find you to be intimidating and imposing, but you care for every man under your command.

Just because a dog is greying round the snout, doesn't mean it has lost its fangs.

As for the name

>Jag Rommel

Since you need a stupid name if you're a gundam character

Jag = Jaguar tank

Rommel = The Desert fox himself

Perfect name for a gundam tank commander

Also, make sure to shill this quest in the /QTG/, so people can know it exists. Been missing a gundam quest on this board since the last one died.

>>5888242
>Been missing a gundam quest on this board since the last one died.
Man I miss Felix too, I was wondering for a while if Contolist would come back. I've never done a quest before but the hole left in my heart by that quest is what lead to this one. Figured I'd do a Feddie Quest since that last one was a Zeon quest.
Thanks for the suggestion too, I'll do some shilling to hopefully get a good start on the quest and at least get through the initial character creation/introduction and see how far I can take it.

>>5888231
>2) A grizzled veteran. You've served the Earth Federation for as long as you could remember, like your father, and his father before him. Years of experience has made you wise, but you're set in your ways, and age has a way of catching up to you. Assigned to EFGF Armored Cavalry, you're the commander of a three-man crew for a Type 61 tank, and you lead a platoon of 5 Type 61s. Many find you to be intimidating and imposing, but you care for every man under your command.
>Gon Braun
Gon as in "gone" and Braun after "von Braun" we're out of the moon, boys. But I'll probably change the name to Jag Rommel later on, it's a good one.

>>5888259
That's an admirable reason to run a quest and I'm not just saying that cause it left the same hole in mine. It speaks of passion which in my experience is the best fuel to keep a quest running. So I'm sure you'll do great, FS.

What's your favorite MS, by the way?

>>5888231
>3) A Special Ops soldier. Most of your history is redacted, a human mystery box with more secrets than friends. You get bounced around between ground and space forces depending on what you're needed for, but most of your missions have been in the skies or the vacuums of space with an FF-S3 Saberfish. You're versatile, but used to working alone.
>Juan Barrera
welcome, gundam quests are always a good addition.

>>5888231
>3) A Special Ops soldier. Most of your history is redacted, a human mystery box with more secrets than friends. You get bounced around between ground and space forces depending on what you're needed for, but most of your missions have been in the skies or the vacuums of space with an FF-S3 Saberfish. You're versatile, but used to working alone.

I love the Saberfish, all the gunfam fighters really.

> Simon Altford

>>5888231
1) A fresh new recruit. Green as can be, but you make up for it with enthusiasm and some damn good luck. Assigned to EFGF ground infantry, your boots are still squeaky clean. A naive young man ignorant to the horrors of war, and the newest member of the 12th Anti-Mobile Suit squad consisting of 7 troopers.

John Pierson

>>5888231
>1) A fresh new recruit. Green as can be, but you make up for it with enthusiasm and some damn good luck. Assigned to EFGF ground infantry, your boots are still squeaky clean. A naive young man ignorant to the horrors of war, and the newest member of the 12th Anti-Mobile Suit squad consisting of 7 troopers.
I'm only picking this because of the pure comedy that the last couple of years/months have shown modern anti-armor warfare to be.

>>5888231
>A fresh new recruit. Green as can be, but you make up for it with enthusiasm and some damn good luck. Assigned to EFGF ground infantry, your boots are still squeaky clean. A naive young man ignorant to the horrors of war, and the newest member of the 12th Anti-Mobile Suit squad consisting of 7 troopers.
I prefer to be the footslogger greenhorn chucking RPGs at mechs. Tank commander is my second choice though.

>2) A grizzled veteran. You've served the Earth Federation for as long as you could remember, like your father, and his father before him. Years of experience has made you wise, but you're set in your ways, and age has a way of catching up to you. Assigned to EFGF Armored Cavalry, you're the commander of a three-man crew for a Type 61 tank, and you lead a platoon of 5 Type 61s. Many find you to be intimidating and imposing, but you care for every man under your command.

Silver Fox
>>5888235
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Macross but Gundam
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New Kid
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Looks like we've got a tie between knowing what we're doing and not having a goddamn clue. I'm still at work, so I'll give it another hour before I close the voting since that's when I'll be signed off and ready to write more. In the meanwhile, feel free to maybe agree on names for each choice.
Also, thanks for all the replies so far. As I've mentioned before, it's my first quest and I'm pretty surprised and excited at how many replies I'm already getting.

>>5888272
>What's your favorite MS, by the way?
I'm a very simple man, the standard GM is my favorite Feddie MS, and the Zaku for Zeon. Runner ups for both sides would be the GM Sniper Custom since I love using it in GBO2, and a tie between the Gelgoog and Kampfer for Zeon since both are just pure sex. Yourself? I'm guessing something Zeon.

>>5888352
Zaku 2, though the zeong is a close second. Really if it has a mono eye, my appreciation ranges from adoration to I wish to have fuck with it. Monoeyes and grunt suits are my bread and butter. The running for my favorite gundam is much more intense and shifting, though the Turn A is usually high in the ranks, along with barb and the WfM gundams, currently Calibarn is my favorite gundam, cause the broom stick rifle was fucking inspired, but the OG stays in my top 5 or near enough to it.

>>5888271
I'll switch the name to
>Jag Rommel

>>5888352
>1) A fresh new recruit. Green as can be, but you make up for it with enthusiasm and some damn good luck. Assigned to EFGF ground infantry, your boots are still squeaky clean. A naive young man ignorant to the horrors of war, and the newest member of the 12th Anti-Mobile Suit squad consisting of 7 troopers.
New Gundam quest? Hell yes!

I missed the voting cutoff but I'll still vie for
>Jag Rommel
>>5888352
Good choices. GM's are the best shitboxes, especially the late war high performance ones. I gotta go for Ground Gundams though, they're the M3 Lee of the OYW.

>>5888486
Any love for the BALL?

>>5888489
They're the best coffins in space, without a doubt.

>>5888504
Express, cheap and memorable!

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New recruit, Jag Rommel it is. Writing!

>>5888486
>>5888509
Ground type Gundams are pretty great. But how about Ground type Balls?

>>5888525
Aren't those just armored hamster balls?

>>5888525
Blursed. I'd pilot it.

>>5888525
Remindes me of starwars sniper droids.

>>5888525
Nice. How terrible are they?

>>5888557
The pic FS posted is as custom job, and doesn't exist in the actual setting. It's a kit bashed model based off of the BALL and completely repainted

The BALL is the absolute worst option. Even compared to basic tanks and air craft. The things are called mobile coffins for a reason, they were a desperation weapon the feddies cooked up before GMs could be manufactured. They're civilians space pods retrofitted with weaponry and thin armor. Only about a 1000 were built, and uh

Well the only time one dealt damage, it was friendly fire, and it's cause a zaku kicked it into a GM

You get in one of those, you're going to die pathetically, making the Zaku seem like it's the super prototype robot just by comparison of the sheer shittiness of the BALL

They're great, need to pick up a model kit of one

>>5888620
Sounds absolutely based and feddie-pilled. I love our little shit-ball already.

>>5888636
Yeah it's the gundam equivalent of getting on a scooter with a nerf gun and playing a game of chicken with a tank

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>>5888557
The only thing the base Ball had for it was the big cannon, it was pretty shitty otherwise. The variants range from marginally better to actually viable. The K Type was superior to the mass production Ball in every way, the Type M was extremely effective in it's role in deploying mines and the Fisheye was probably the best ball variant, being used underwater to high effect in hit and run attacks.
They're all still Balls though and generally got as good as an actual MS.

There's also the best Ball variant, which destroyed three Rick Doms at the Battle of Solomon.

>Almost finished with my post last night
>Accidentally pressed some fucking button and the post disappears to nothingness
>Get frustrated and decide to go to bed and try again tomorrow
>Re-write in the morning, almost finished again
>Computer crashes and my post disappears.. again

I don't know why the /qst/ gods feel the need to deny us our Gundam quest but I promise you I will see this through. Post coming soon, sorry for the wait.

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>>5888525
"Jag Rommel, Private Second Class, sir!" you say with a salute and all the gusto of a soldier fresh off the academy, eager for action. "Gaspa Salla, Private First Class." says your slightly older senior in the driver seat of the military jeep, with nowhere the same energy. One of the armed guards at the gate inspects your IDs very closely and nods to another guard, opening the gate to allow your jeep entry into your new home. "Welcome to Torrington Base, boys." says one of the guards as you drive by.

"Security's kinda tight, huh?" you say to your friend from the military academy. "That's 'security's kinda tight, sir' to you. Do I need to remind you who's the senior officer on this jeep?" he says. There's no sharpness to his words, and you both burst out in laughter. "Oh shut up, you only graduated one rank above me because one of our instructors really had it out for me." you say, crossing your arms as you remember some frustrating memory. "Instructor Andras, right? The one with a bone to pick with your old man? Bet he was just up your ass since he couldn't go up your dad's ass." "Yeah, whatever.." you say, wishing to think about anything else but your old instructor going up any asses.

The ride is silent for a few minutes, but you jump up and gasp in amazement once you start seeing the rows of Type 61 tanks and hangar bays of Fly Mantas and Saberfish. "Woah, look at them all!" you say, sounding like a child in a toy store as you gaze at the beautiful machines. "I'm still wondering why you went for infantry if you get this way whenever you see a tank or a plane. You could've joined the air force, or followed in your old man's footsteps in the armored cavalry." "I thought about the armored cavalry, but I didn't want to just live my entire career under my pop's shadow. And the air force.. well... I just had my reasons.." you say, not wanting to admit that you're just afraid of heights.

>>5889113
You reach your destination a few minutes later, parking by a large tent. You both get off the jeep and five soldiers, the rest of your squad it seems, are there to greet you. A gruff, middle aged man walks up to greet the two of you with a salute, and the two of you give a pair of crisp salutes back. You and your friend introduce yourselves, and the man nods. "Sergeant Philip B. Seed. I'll be your commanding officer starting today. Welcome to the 12th anti-mobile suit squad."

"Fresh off the academy, eh? Hope you last longer than the last guys." one of your squadmates says with a snicker. "Cram it, Ben." says your commanding officer, and Ben shuts right up. "....As I was saying," the sergeant continues. " ...this is the rest of your squad, Benjamin McCann, Justine Moer, Stefan Smith and Yunnus Wynn."

Your squad mates each offer you a greeting as they're introduced. Ben is pretty indifferent, just giving a nod while he cleans his rifle, but the other three exchange pleasantries with a warmer greeting. "Welcome aboard!" Justine says, shaking both your hand. Something about her smile tugs at your heartstrings, and you smell the faint scent of a sweet perfume as she walks past you to offer Gaspa a handshake as well. Hell yeah. Hot Federation girls, that's what it's all about. You thank whatever gods are out there for your luck, until the sound of snapping fingers brings you back to Earth. "Hey, rookie, you paying attention?" You hear one of the men, Yunnus, say. "H-huh?" You blurt out. "Don't space out like that on the field, if you don't want to end up like ketchup." Stefan adds in.

"I said, which one of you is our new support gunner, and which one'll be joining our specialist team?" Yunnus repeats.

>I'll be your new support gunner. I'll keep our specialists covered so they can take care of enemy mobile suits!
>I'm the new specialist, and I've been trained to use the M-101A3 Regina. Give me some cover and time to set up, and I'll take those Zakus down!

>>5889116
>I'll be your new support gunner. I'll keep our specialists covered so they can take care of enemy mobile suits!

Sounds like more of a challenge.

>>5889116
>I'm the new specialist, and I've been trained to use the M-101A3 Regina. Give me some cover and time to set up, and I'll take those Zakus down!
I'd rather have the thing that can actually kill an MS. This makes us a huge target though.

>>5889116
>I'll be your new support gunner. I'll keep our specialists covered so they can take care of enemy mobile suits!

>"Don't space out like that on the field, if you don't want to end up like ketchup."
hamburger

If it helps, here's a bit more context on the roles.
Support gunners stick close to the specialists, who will mostly be preoccupied with assembling, loading and firing the anti-MS missiles. Since they're vulnerable, the support gunners guard the specialists from any Zeek infantry troops looking to take out anti-MS squads. Most of your action will be against other soldiers, your guns can't do shit against Zakus. Depending on the situation, you could also be equipped with anti-tank zooks or mines.
Specialists are usually in pairs, both carry and assemble the Reginas, and one will be the spotter while the other fires the wire guided missiles. This is a complicated process that will take all your attention, so you'll be putting your life in the support gunner's hands to make sure that you're able to down the Zakus without getting riddled with bullets by enemy infantry that might be hunting you down. Naturally, most of your action will be against mobile suits, though the Reginas can be used against Zeek tanks too if needed.
Support gunners and specialists stick together, unless circumstances dictate otherwise. Specialists are sitting ducks without support gunners close by, and support gunners will be useless against mobile suits without the specialists and their equipment and training.

>>5888968
Don't write in the reply box, that might've flown in /tg/ when threads lasted two days and posts were ~1100 characters but we're almost a decade out from that.
>>5889116
>I'm the new specialist, and I've been trained to use the M-101A3 Regina. Give me some cover and time to set up, and I'll take those Zakus down!

Also I hate to be a pedant but you should have a line break between different speakers, it makes things a lot easier to follow.

>>5889284
Yeah, use a site like word counter or a tool like Notepad to write up your updates

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>>5889285
>Don't write in the reply box
I learned that lesson the hard way. Thanks, I'll check out word counter. I was using my computer's notepad after the reply box mishap, but after losing all my writing with a computer crash, I'm thinking I'll look for a writing site/software that automatically saves stuff as I write it. Times like this makes me miss Microsoft Word, but I don't feel like paying for it.
I'll keep that in mind about line breaks between different speakers too. I welcome and appreciate any criticism or advice, since I'm not really a seasoned writer or anything. My autistic love for Gundam and quests is all that's fueling this, but I still want to write well for you guys so we can all enjoy this.
While we're on the topic of advice, how long do you guys think I should let voting go on for before cutting it off and beginning the next post? I want to give everyone a fair shot at voting, but I also don't want to wait too long to cut off votes and risk the thread dying or people losing interest. In hindsight, maybe I should've read a few more quests and paid attention to how it all works before starting this, but I'll learn as I go. Since votes are currently tied, I might just let the next vote end it so I can continue writing and get closer to what we're REALLY here for. Pic possibly related.

>>5889319
>I'll look for a writing site/software that automatically saves stuff as I write it.
LibraOffice/Google Docs for a straight replacement for MSWord. For a dedicated book oreinted word processor I personally use QuollWriter.
>how long do you guys think I should let voting go
As long as you want, and it depends on your time zone and work schedule along with the players. You won't be hurting for time with how slow /qst/ is.

>>5889319
Depends. Some people run session quests, closer to the fast /tg/ style of quests, where the usual span of voting was like 10 minutes if I recall right, but usually the shortest time for session styles is like thirty minutes to an hour. You can always give a time frame for the vote.

But most quests will do daily or a few days. or a mix of posting once a day and posting several time with voting periods running for a couple hours.

It depends on your style and when you're able to right. So long as you don't vanish without going "Hey i'm sick" or "God exploded my computer" before or during your leave of absence, you'll do fine.

Quests only die between votes when you leave without a trace, since anons will assume you'll flake. Don't feel well enough to write, missed a day or three cause of it or because you were busy, just leave a post in the thread explaining and anons will stick around since they know you haven't just blipped off the radar or given up

And when you're getting started, if you do for whatever reason vanish for a few days, post that you've updated in /qtg/ when you come back. Established quests, like say, 2nd primarch, can get away with the Qm vanishing for a week or more cause the players know that motherfucker is coming back since he communicates why he is delayed and because the quest has been around for like three years

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>>5888235
>I may be a zeon fanatic

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>>5888352
>realizing that the GM is unironically the best federation suit

>>5889116
>>5889133
I'll switch to
>I'm the new specialist, and I've been trained to use the M-101A3 Regina. Give me some cover and time to set up, and I'll take those Zakus down!

>>5889116
>>I'll be your new support gunner. I'll keep our specialists covered so they can take care of enemy mobile suits!
Eat lead !

>>5889116
>>I'm the new specialist, and I've been trained to use the M-101A3 Regina. Give me some cover and time to set up, and I'll take those Zakus down!
Grenade launcher man! Time to knock out those schmuck pilots!

Gunner
>>5889118
>>5889133
>>5889478

Specialist
>>5889128
>>5889284
>>5889451
>>5889493

Specialist it is, let's hunt some Zakus! Writing.

>>5889116
>>I'll be your new support gunner. I'll keep our specialists covered so they can take care of enemy mobile suits!

>>5889502
fuck

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>>5889502
"Oh. Specialist, sir! I'm trained to use the M-101A3 Regina. Ready to take down those giant zeek bastards, sir!" you say confidently. You go to the back of the jeep to pick up your Regina to show your squad. The weight is considerably noticeable, but weeks of training have gotten you used to it. Still a bitch to pick up and lug around though. The weapon is spotless, partly because it's fresh off whatever factory it came from, and partly because you take damn good care of your equipment. "That makes you my partner, then. I'll be your spotter." Stefan says, extending his hand for a handshake.

"Let's give those spacenoids a run for their money, sir!" you say, returning the handshake.

"Sounds like you're our gunner, then. You a good shot?" Stefan says to Gaspa.

"Good enough." Gaspa says with a carefree shrug.

"You damn well better be, or it's all our asses." Stefan says, a harder tone in his voice. He doesn't seem to appreciate your friend's more lax attitude.

"Easy there, Stefan. I've seen his academy records. He may be green but he's a damn good shot. Wouldn't have accepted him into the team otherwise." says your sergeant, stepping in. "Same with the other rookie, too. His simulated training success ratio with the Regina was 97%." This gets a few surprised reactions, and you puff your chest out with pride. Maybe it's skill honed from years of vidya, maybe its strict discipline and training, or maybe it's just luck. Whatever it is, you've proven yourself to be damn good at what you signed up to do. "Don't let it get to your head though, kid. Those were just controlled training environments. The real deal isn't so neat and tidy. The situation can change at any moment, one wrong move and it's not just a failing grade at risk, it'll be your life and the lives of every soldier around you." says the sergeant, sharp eyes that have seen more things than you could probably imagine looking straight into yours as if in search of something. "

You meet his gaze and it feels powerful, dominating. But you don't buckle under the pressure, and you give him a resolute look. "I understand, sir. You can leave it to me!" You say.
The sergeant seems to relax a bit, so subtly that you almost don't notice it. Whatever he saw you in you, he seems satisfied. "Very well. Like Stefan says, he'll be your spotter, and Gaspa will be your support gunner. Stick together and keep each other alive. The other half of your squad is Justine and Yunnus as our second team of specialists, with Benjamin as their support gunner. I, of course, will lead your teams and relay orders. Our next mission will tomorrow. Do what you wish until then, but do not leave the base and do NOT miss briefing tomorrow.. Any questions, seek me out."

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>>5889659
Philip soon leaves for a meeting with the other squad leaders, leaving you to mingle with the rest of your team. It's barely noon, and you have the whole rest of the day to do as you see fit. "Tomorrow already, huh? Really throwing us in right away.." Gaspa comments.

"Scared?" you say, elbowing your friend in a teasing manner. "Don't be, I'll take those Zakus down quick. You won't even have to fire a bullet." You're oozing with confidence, and Gaspa rolls his eyes.

"You talk big for a little man." Benjamin says with a snicker, his Irish accent heavy. "Bet you'll piss your pants the first time a Zaku catches you in its sights."

"Wanna say that a little closer to my face?" You say, striding towards the man. Gaspa quickly steps in, putting a hand on your shoulder. "Woah, easy there bro. We got the day off, why don't we do something fun instead? We could head back into town, grab a bite, get a drink. I bet the uniform will be a hit with the ladies."

You stare daggers at Benjamin, but you calm yourself a few moments later with Gaspa's head. He is right, though. You've got the day to do whatever you want, you might as well spend it NOT getting into a fight.

You choose to:

>Agree with Gaspa's idea. Why bother with some asshole when you can do something fun instead? Justine and Yunnus want to join in, too.
>Turn Gaspa down and spend the time with your equipment. If it's the day before your first mission, you want to make sure your equipment is working perfectly and prepare with some extra practice.
>Fuck it, get into a fight. Roll a 1d100
>Other- write in

>>5889600
>>5889601
Sorry, anon.

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>5889664
>>Fuck it, get into a fight. Roll a 1d100

>>5889664
>Turn Gaspa down and spend the time with your equipment. If it's the day before your first mission, you want to make sure your equipment is working perfectly and prepare with some extra practice.

>>5889664
>>Agree with Gaspa's idea. Why bother with some asshole when you can do something fun instead? Justine and Yunnus want to join in, too.

I wonder how long it'll take us to fall into one of the federation super prototypes running about during the OYW.

>>5889664
>Turn Gaspa down and spend the time with your equipment. If it's the day before your first mission, you want to make sure your equipment is working perfectly and prepare with some extra practice.

>>5889664
>Turn Gaspa down and spend the time with your equipment. If it's the day before your first mission, you want to make sure your equipment is working perfectly and prepare with some extra practice.

>>5889664
>>Turn Gaspa down and spend the time with your equipment. If it's the day before your first mission, you want to make sure your equipment is working perfectly and prepare with some extra practice.
I have the sensation we will need it

>>5888352
Cool quest so far, plus I have to say you have good taste.
When it comes to Fed builds, imo they get better over time, and my personal favorite is the Jesta, especially the cannon variant. I do have a special place in my heart for the Stark Jegan though.
As for Zeon: the Kampfer without a doubt.

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>>5889917
forgot pic

>>5889918
Nice

Get into a fight
>>5889737

Spend time with your equipment
>>5889750
>>5889785
>>5889813
>>5889907


Go to town with the team
>>5889769

Clear winner here. Writing!

>>5889917
Thanks anon, I hope you enjoy it. I'm still not sure how much I liked Unicorn, but what I can say for sure is it gave us some damn good MS designs. I fell in love with the Jesta/Jesta Cannon design too when I saw it, I bought two Jestas and a Cannon kit to display a squad. I only wish they got more action than just "stand there and look cool". By the time they finally got to do something, it was just a quick 10 second scene. They blue balled me hard, man. At least the ReZel and Jegans got a good bit of screentime, even if just to job 90% of the time.

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"Head into town? But the Sergeant said to stay inside the base." You argue. You've completely let go of any hostility you were holding on to, now too distracted by the blatant disregard to authority and order that you're hearing. You'd have thought you'd be used to it by now, since Gaspa was always like this in the academy. Gaspa is a good friend, but his tendency to bend the rules until they break makes you.. uneasy.

"What, you gonna tell on us?" Gaspa jokes. You think about it.

"Just.. I don't want to be involved in.. that. Do what you want, Gaspa. You've never let me stop you before, anyway. I'd rather stay here, need to look over our equipment and make sure everything is good for tomorrow. Just don't get into any trouble." You say to your friend with a concerned look.

"I'm flattered you care. I'll stay out of trouble, just for you buddy." says Gaspa with a teasing tone.

"Yeah yeah, I just don't want you getting into anything since I always get dragged into it too." you say, waving him off.

"You're not coming? Aw, that's too bad. Maybe next time! See you around, Jag~" Justine says as she hops onto the passenger seat of the jeep you and Gaspa arrived in. You blush and turn away. You feel the desire to hop right on that jeep with her and just while the hours away with your new friends and a beautiful girl, but the call of duty and discipline is stronger.

"Sticking around to inspect your equipment, huh? I can respect that. You're alright, kid. But me, I could use a drink, especially before tomorrow. Mind covering for us in case Phil comes looking?" Yunnus says.

"....No promises..sir." you say, waving then goodbye. Yunnus shrugs at your reply, "Hey, at least the kid's honest.." you hear him say before the jeep drives off.

You see that Ben's disappeared to who knows where, but Stefan is still nearby. "I'll help you go over the equipment. I was actually going to do the same, anyway." he says, and you accept his help.

The firing range is right over there. We can put her together and make sure everything's in working order, give her a few test shots while we're at it. I want to see how good a shot you are, anyway. I'm glad at least one of you newbies is taking this seriously." Stefan says as the two of you carry the disassembled Regina parts behind your backs, each of you carrying half of the load.

"Gaspa's... aversion to the rules always made me feel a certain way too. But, he's always there right when you need him. I trust him, at least when it counts the most." You say, remembering all the hijinks the two of you got to in the academy. Or rather, mostly his hijinks, that you somehow found yourself pulled right into the middle of. They're good memories though.

>>5890137
You reach the firing range after a bit of walking, and you even spotted Ben practicing with his rifle. Your eyes stay on him for a few moments, and you can't help but respect how good of a shot he is. "Don't worry about Ben, either." Stefan says, seeing your eyes on Ben. "He's.. just processing the deaths of a few close friends of ours. Most of our unit was wiped out in the last op."

"Shit, I'm sorry. That.. must be hard." You say, unsure of how or if you can even say anything that can truly console the man. You reach a good spot to put down the Regina, and you get to work unpacking with Stefan following suit. "Their sacrifices won't be in vain, though. We'll drive those zeek bastards out!" you say as some form of support.

"Yeah...." Stefan says, clearly not comforted by those words. The next few minutes are silent, as the two of you put the Regina together. Stefan is well trained, or maybe just experienced, as all his moves are quick and precise.

"You're amazing, Stefan..sir. This is the fastest I've been able to assemble the Regina with someone." You say, trying to change the subject and break through the awkward silence.
"Heh, thanks, kid. It's nothing amazing though, it just becomes muscle memory after doing it enough times." he says.

The Regina is fully assembled now, and you kneel on the Regina's left side, fiddling with the controls with your eyes on the screen to monitor any changes or irregularities as you run a systems check. "Guidance system fully operational.. testing firing mechanism.. no issues." you say out loud. Stefan loads a dummy missile in, and gives you a nod once it's ready. He looks through his binoculars, eyeing a giant steel Zaku silhouette used for target practice. "1.7 kilometers.. let's aim for the optics. Be sure to adjust for turbulence." You nod in return, and set your eyes back at the targeting screen. You pull the trigger, and the wire guided dummy missile flies off. You use the controls to guide the direction of the missile toward your target. The "Zaku" is worn, covered in blackened holes and splattered paint rounds, and you add to its state with another splatter of paint from your dummy missile. It hits the head, but you grit your teeth, it's not your best shot.

"Hey, that's pretty good. Your trajectory was a bit off at first, but you saved it in the end. Try adjusting your starting latitude by 1.05, longitude by... .007. It'll make it easier to correct your trajectory. Reloading." Stefan says, loading another dummy missile into the Regina. You adjust per his instructions, and your missile hits the "Zaku" square in the monoeye. You smile. Stefan reloads, and your third shot goes just about as well as the second.

"Damn, you are a good shot. Makes me feel good for tomorrow." Stefan says, giving you a thumbs up.

>>5890139
"Hitting an unmoving target isn't too hard. Zakus are very mobile. Can you adjust your shot while tracking a moving target?" Ben cuts in, it seems he started watching at some point. His arms are crossed, and he's looking directly at you.

"Hey, lay off. If everything goes according to plan, our target should be immobile anyway." Stefan says in your defense.

"Moving or not, I can hit it." you say, meeting Benjamin's eyes. You say it less as a challenge, and more of a reassurance. Ben stares at you silently, sizing you up. "......I've lost people too." you bring up. Ben and Stefan both look at you intently.

You:
>Are a native Earthnoid. From Sydney, in fact. You saw the destruction Zeon caused first hand.
>Are a spacenoid. Born on Earth but raised in Side 2, it was your home that destroyed Sidney.
>Are a spacenoid, born and raised. Originally from Side 3, your family were supporters of Zeon zum Deikun. Your family was caught up in the Zabi's purge, barely managing to defect and escape to Earth thanks to your father's connections.

And you enlisted in the EFF to:
>Avenge everyone you've lost.
>Protect everything that's left.
>Jus do your part in putting a stop to the fighting, enough is enough.
>Other (write in)

>>5890141
>Are a native Earthnoid. From Sydney, in fact. You saw the destruction Zeon caused first hand.
>Just do your part in putting a stop to the fighting, enough is enough.
Break the cycle of death

>>5890141
>Are a spacenoid, born and raised. Originally from Side 3, your family were supporters of Zeon zum Deikun. Your family was caught up in the Zabi's purge, barely managing to defect and escape to Earth thanks to your father's connections.

>Protect everything that's left.

The earth isn't there to be your battleground, Zabi shits

>>5890141
>Are a native Earthnoid. From Sydney, in fact. You saw the destruction Zeon caused first hand.
>Protect everything that's left.

>>5890141
>Are a spacenoid, born and raised. Originally from Side 3, your family were supporters of Zeon zum Deikun. Your family was caught up in the Zabi's purge, barely managing to defect and escape to Earth thanks to your father's connections.
>Just do your part in putting a stop to the fighting, enough is enough.

>>5890141
>>Are a native Earthnoid. From Sydney, in fact. You saw the destruction Zeon caused first hand.
>Protect everything that's left.

>>5889917
>Stark Jegan
I find that the best Fedscum suits are the ones that have the ZoE/Omega Boost visor aesthetic going on. I never liked the two-eyed Gundams, personally.

>Zeon Kampfer
Mint.

Question: What's your take on the Sinanju?

>>5890141
>Are a spacenoid. Born on Earth but raised in Side 2, it was your home that destroyed Sidney.

>Other (write in)
Zeon did nothing wrong.

>>5890162
>The earth isn't there to be your battleground, Zabi shits
It is in G Gundam.

>>5890447
>Zeon did nothing wrong.
I second this.

>>5890485
G gundam isn't UC and thus the Zabis don't exist in it. Might exist in the same timeline if you subscribe to the theory that the timelines that end in turn A begin with G, since it is the only one besides Turn A to have nanomachines and the MUSTACHE certainly wouldn't stand out in GG Mobile suit designs...

>>5890141
>Are a spacenoid. Born on Earth but raised in Side 2, it was your home that destroyed Sidney.

>Protect everything that's left.

>>5890162
actually I'll switch from this to

>Are a spacenoid. Born on Earth but raised in Side 2, it was your home that destroyed Sidney.

and

>Protect everything that's left.

>>5890141
>Are a native Earthnoid. From Sydney, in fact. You saw the destruction Zeon caused first hand.
Earthnoids who go to space are the most potent Newtypes after all. I mean uh... something that isn't metagaming.
>Just do your part in putting a stop to the fighting, enough is enough.
I like the idea of it not being super personal, but also not super noble.

>>5890141
>>Are a spacenoid, born and raised. Originally from Side 3, your family were supporters of Zeon zum Deikun. Your family was caught up in the Zabi's purge, barely managing to defect and escape to Earth thanks to your father's connections.
>Jus do your part in putting a stop to the fighting, enough is enough.

>>5890488
Why did you respond to this post but ignore the others? That's the REAL question here.

>>5890757
I wanted to expose others to the G to Turn A dark history theory

>>5890763
Well, you should still kill yourself. Not only for ignoring posts directed at you, but also for going off on an unhinged rant about UC. Nobody said G Gundam was UC, dumbfuck. It's in a non-UC continuity. I forget what it's called, but even my retarded pet dog knows it isn't UC.

We also knew that Turn A confirms a multiverse canon. Did you forget where you were, son? We're in a Gundam thread.

>>5890141
>Are a spacenoid. Born on Earth but raised in Side 2, it was your home that destroyed Sidney.
>Protect everything that's left.
Finally, a mecha quest, and federation too, nice. Also favorite UC ms is the nightingale, so over the top, it’s an awesome final boss suit. Close second is the sinanju stein(federation version)

>>5890141
>>Are a native Earthnoid. From Sydney, in fact. You saw the destruction Zeon caused first hand.
>>Jus do your part in putting a stop to the fighting, enough is enough.

>>5890783
Man. You got brain problems. And are seriously retarded. This is the last (you) I shall give you

>>5890783
You should kill yourself for seething this much that an anon didn't reply to your shit posting. Cause that is incredibly pathetic

>>5890434
>I never liked the two-eyed Gundams, personally.
Absolutely agree, honestly the face claim Gundam units that act as the face of the franchise have always been some of my least favorite designs. I feel like they just try to hard to be marketable, in comparison the visor look of the GMs and the later fed units are way cooler looking imo.
>Sinanju
I really like it, it has that feel of Zeon's take on the original RX "White Devil" Gundam. It's a sleek design and I like the red color.

>>5890809
Visors are an under appreciated "eye" type for mobile suits. The jeturk suits from witch are good examples of it. Especially the dilanzas and their stag beetle motifs combining two things little kids love. Beetle catching and robots

>>5890811
Also, speaking of the white devil. Any one got that pic from tha5 manga where a zeon pilot is freaking out cause the gundam has two eyes and it has the junji ito esc panel of it looking terrifying?

>>5890783
Also to be a pedantic Lil shit, turn a does not confirm a multiverse Canon. It just loosely connects the UC and every AU timeline made before it to itself through the dark history twist. Used to be that the moonbeam butterfly was the destined end of every series, but awhile back they changed it so it only diddles the ones made before it. Which means the turn a does have the horseshit that unicorn is packing, since I'm pretty sure it comes part and parcel with the various dark history timelines it ended.

This just means that the turn a won't rip its way into say Cosmic era, post disaster or any of the AUs that came into being post turn a.

And really this is only like this cause turn a was supposed to be the grand finally of gundam since the series before it actually got axed it was so unpopular, so the show runners made it a nostalgia trip and invented the dark history explanation. Which ended up reviving the franchise. Good job turn a

Earth
>>5890160
>>5890172
>>5890360
>>5890665
>>5890796


Side 3
>>5890196
>>5890715


Side 2
>>5890447
>>5890529
>>5890536
>>5890792


Protect
>>5890162
>>5890172
>>5890360
>>5890529
>>5890792


I just want it to stop
>>5890160
>>5890196
>>5890665
>>5890715
>>5890796


Earthnoid wins, with a tie between protect and wanting it to stop. I kind of already started writing with more of a "protect" angle, but I'll try to revise a bit to have it sort of be both. Sorry if that's a bit half assed, I posted earlier that I began writing and votes were closed when protect was in the lead, but my dumb ass didn't notice that the post didn't go through because of captcha errors. Post coming out shortly after some tweaks.

>>5890880
Captchas are the bane many a quest.

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>>5890141
You take a few moments to find the right words within yourself, and your two squad mates patiently wait for you to speak. "....I'm a native Earthnoid. I know the colony drop killed a horrible amount of people, and I'm sure a lot of soldiers in the Federation forces have lost at least one person from that day. But.. I'm from Sydney. I was there. Or.. almost. Or.. I should have been. I don't know."

Your hands begin to shake from the recollections, and you do your damn best to keep the tears back. You shut your eyes tightly, and when you open them again as you continue your story, you see your older sister's face as it was a few days before the colony drop. Her long brown hair was tied into a messy ponytail, and she's talking to you about her wedding plans. She's been up for days making sure everything goes smoothly, and it's showing. Your mother was watching TV in the living room, listening to news coverage of Zeon's declaration of war and subsequent attacks. It was terrible sure, but it seemed like such a faraway problem that it couldn't possibly affect you from here, in this little corner of the world. The Federation will take care of it, anyway.

"...The seamstress is in Brisbane, she finished the wedding dress and the pictures look absolutely perfect! She offered to ship it in first class priority mail, but I don't know if I trust it.. I've lost packages before, and I can't risk it. Maybe.. maybe I'll fly over and pick it up myself, I can leave in the morning and schedule some late night flight, that way I can be back in time to help with organizing the venue the next day.." your sister says, partly to you, mostly to herself as she plans out loud.

"No way, that's too much! I'll pick up the dress, I've got nothing going on anyway. Just stay here and rest, you've got a lot to do anyway." You offer. Brisbane's only a short flight away, and it would be nice to contribute to your sister's big day.

She looks at you and thinks, running some imaginary simulations in her head as she weighs the possibilities. "That would free me up to get catering figured out.. are you sure? It's no bother?"

You nod and place your hands on her shoulder. "I promise it's not. You always take everything on yourself, let me do at least this much for you. It'll be nice to get out of the house anyway."

Your sister gives you a big smile and an even bigger hug. "Ohhh, you're a life saver, J! Thank you thank you thank you! Oh, you should ask Diana to come with you! Your anniversary is coming up soon, right? I'll give you some extra spending money, take her out somewhere nice! It's the least I can do for this."

>>5890894
....It's a couple days later, January 8th, when you're in Brisbane. Alone, unfortunately, your girlfriend Diana agreed to come at first, but had to stay behind in the end after getting sick. She always was a bit frail. You've got your phone in hand, waiting for what feels like an eternity while you listen to waiting music after being put on hold. Your flight back to Sydney was cancelled, and you're trying to negotiate another flight back home if the damn customer service rep would just pick up. As you wait, your attention is taken by the tv. The reporter looks panicked, as she talks about Zeon's colony attacks.

".....Federation forces are fighting bravely to repel the attack, but experts estimate that the colony could fall somewhere in the South American region if left unimpeded. Evacuation notices have been..." The reporter trails on, but you lose interest. It's a terrible thing, and you're anxious sure, but you're sure the Federation forces will smooth this all out and life will go right back to the usual business. It always does.
Right now, your only real concern is this phone call. "All customer service associates are currently bus-" you end the call, you've gotten sick of hearing that. You scratch your head in frustration, wondering how you'll get home now that all flights are cancelled until further notice thanks to the whole colony thing. You can understand why flights might be considered hazardous in the situation, but damn is it inconvenient. Hopefully this terrible plan from Zeon fails soon so you can go home. "Maybe if I rent a car.. let's see how long of a drive.. nine hours? Augh." you say to yourself, getting agitated.

You dial your sister's number, and wait for her to pick up. "Hello? J, are you okay?" you hear your sister's voice say over the phone. "It's terrible, do you see it up there in the sky? I'm scared, J.."

"Don't worry, the Federation will take care of it. Dad's up there right now, fighting off those Zeong guys or whatever they're calling themselves. I'm sure he'll have a damn good story to tell when he's back on the ground. Anyway, here's the real problem, my flight's been cancelled. Looks like all flights everywhere are cancelled until further notice. I could drive down there, it'd take me half a day. Just wanted to let you know I'll be a little late." you say.

"......No, no. Everyone's in a panic, who knows how dangerous the roads might be. Just sit tight, extend your hotel stay for a day or two more. Once this whole thing blows over, you can fly back. We still have plenty of time for the dress. Just stay safe, okay little bro?" you can hear the worry in your sister's voice, and you can hear how she's trying her best to not show it. You feel your heart hurt for her, but you hope this whole thing blows over soon so her wedding is all she's got left to worry about again.

>>5890895
You wake up abruptly the next day to the sounds of chaos and panic all throughout the building and the outside world. You try to call your girlfriend, but she doesn't pick up. You call your sister Rosalinde, your mother, your best friend, your other best friend, even that one guy in your friend group that nobody really likes but for some reason you all still keep around. But every time, the phone just rings and rings and rings and rings and rings..
Confused and starting to panic a little, you turn on the television to see if you can find out just what the hell is going on. "...--now say that the colony has broken apart over the Arabian Penninsula due to damage sustained in the previous battles. Experts are saying that the new estimated trajectory is....." the local reporter is quiet for a moment, and you hold your breath along with. "Dear God, are you sure?" the reporter says as he listens to the unheard words spoken into his earpiece. ".....Experts now say that the estimated trajectory course of the colony fragment will... will impact Sydney in.. in a matter of minutes." the reporter finishes. He struggles to speak out the words, and you struggle to believe them. The reporter looks up to the sky, and you find yourself doing the same.

You see it, you see the titanic slab of steel and death coming closer and closer. To your home, your family, everything and everyone you know. "No....no.." is all you can utter out. You pick up your phone again and try to call your girlfriend, your sister, and your mother. Not that it would've changed anything at this point, but it's all you could think of doing. Nobody answers.

You continue looking out the window and up to the sky, unable to take your eyes off the colony. You pray, and hope, and muster up some kind of emotion even further than hope, that something, any kind of miracle, will steer the colony away. You imagine the colony breaking off into smaller pieces and crashing elsewhere, or perhaps some heroic federation officer sacrificing their life and their ship to crash into the colony to push it away from Sydney, you wished with all your heart that someone would do something to stop this nightmare.

But.. nobody does. The next few minutes are a blur. You remember the brightest flash of light you've ever seen, followed by the strongest gust of wind you've ever felt. It caused every window in your building to shatter and the force pushes you back all the way against the wall across the room, you were lucky to not have been injured too badly.

You spend the next few hours trying and failing to call your loved ones. At some point the phones don't even ring anymore, probably due to damage to the infrastructure taking out cell signal. You fall to your knees, and sink even lower to the ground. You sink, and sink, and once you couldn't sink anymore physically, you began to sink emotionally and mentally.

>>5890896
.It's a few days later, and you're almost there.. almost home. Almost at Sydney. Everything had been thrown into chaos, and rescue efforts had slowed to a crawl due to the military and rescue personnel being spread thin as tidal waves and earthquakes rocked all of Australia. They had began accepting civilian volunteers to assist with rescue efforts, and you were one of the first to volunteer. You had hoped, wished, dreamed that you would find them. That you would see them safely tucked away in some shelter. Or.. or you'd be digging through rubble and after lifting some heavy stone, you'd see your loved ones buried underneath, hurt and tired but alive.

As you approach Sydney on the rescue helicopter though, your heart plummets into the abyss as the truth sinks into you. There was nothing left but a terrible, watery crater. Your home, your college, your favorite restaurant that you took Diana to on your first date, that one hobby shop that you always bought model kits at, the military base where your family would've taken shelter.. everything. It was all just.. gone.

"Horrible sight, isn't it?" One of the other volunteers says grimly, seeing the same sight you are. "At this point, I'm wondering what the point of a rescue operation even is. There's.. there's nobody here we can rescue." he continues.

"No. I won't believe that. I'm sure there are survivors. There... there has to be.." you reply.

"I hope you're right.." the man says as the helicopter begins its descent, followed by the rest of the rescue teams. "The name's Gaspa. Gaspa Salla. I'll have your back out there if you'll have mine."

"Jag Rommel. Let's save some lives." you say, before the two of you hop out of the helicopter to begin the search for survivors.

You take a deep breath, and exhale. You let the memories and feelings of that day flow out of you as you let the air flow out of your mouth. It's a trick you learned from Gaspa, and it helps you calm down. You're back at the Federation base, Yunnus and Ben speechless from your story.

"Fuck.. I was transferred here from California base. I knew it was bad, but.. fuck, that's the worst account of it I've heard.." says Stefan. "I'm so sorry, Jag."

Ben offers no words of consolation as he continues to stare at you. You feel his stare soften though, just a bit, before he finally speaks. "..That feeling of loss.. That pain. Keep it close. It'll help you remember what you're fighting for." he says as he leaves.

>>5890897
"Yeah. I could never forget. I lost everything. When I first enlisted, I wasn't sure why. I thought it was for vengeange. I thought I had to do this, to avenge them, to make sure their deaths weren't in vain. But now.. now I don't think so. I didn't enlist to get back at Zeon for everything they took from me. I enlisted so I could stop them from taking anyone else. Not from me, or from you, or from anyone. It has to end, and I want to do my part. I'll protect everyone I can along the way."

Ben gives you a nod, and walks off. Stefan looks just about to bawl out in tears through his glasses over your story. He gives you a strong pat on the back, strong enough that it snaps you out of the funk you were. "Don't worry bud.. we'll have your back through all this" he says.

It's now the next day, and you're lined up at attention as you await the debriefing. Gaspa and the others made it back to base before anyone could notice, but Gaspa is struggling to hide the hangover. After a couple moments, Sergeant Philip begins the debriefing.

"Our mission today is a joint operation with the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 11th squads. We'll be hitting multiple targets as we make the push to retake Brisbane. Our squad will work in tandem with the 5th squad to take down two Zakus that patrol the northern area, while the 4th, 5th and 11th squads wait to ambush the reinforcements that will follow after. Gunners, keep your eyes peeled for Wappa escort teams providing recon for the Zakus. Any questions?" the sergent announces.

"Sir, will we be receiving any form of support from our tank squadrons?" Benjamin asks.

"Negative. Our tank squadrons will be focused on attacking Zeon HQ in the heart of Brisbane. There's heavy Magella tank presence in the area, so our Type 61s will most likely be locked in tank to tank combat and thus unable to provide support for anti-mobile suit operations." The commanding officer answers.

"....how about air support?" Stefan asks next.

"Negative on air support as well. The last battle did a number on our air force, and they're too backed up with repairs to offer anything substantial."

"So just a couple of guys against some giant fucking robots? Yeesh.. you sayin' we're some kinda.. suicide squad?" Gaspa says.

Sergeant Philip steps in front of Gaspa and stares him down, you can almost feel the intense pressure coming off the man. ".....Need I remind you that you and your friend there signed up for the anti-mobile suit corp of your own accord?" he says, almost too calmly.

"And I'm just about to regret it". Gaspa bites back.

"...Unless you'd like to be written up for insubordination, I recommend you get in your jeep right now and shut the hell up. We've got a job to do." The sergeant says.

You step in, and start to pull Gaspa away. "Sir! We'll be going, sir! Come on, Gaspa.. let's not do that."

"Yeah yeah, whatever.. can't believe you roped me into this.."

>>5890898
"Now you know how I've felt since the day we became friends." You say, and you both snicker as you get into the jeep. The rest of the squad gets in one by one, you drive to the transport plane that will take you closer to Brisbane.

After few hours spent on a plane, then a jeep, and then on foot travel, you find yourself back at the outskirts of Brisbane. You try to hold back the memories from that day.. you've got a job to do, after all.

It's just you, Yunnus and Gaspa now, the rest of the squad split up to take different ambush positions. "So the patrol route should take our target down... that road." says Yunnus, pointing a couple blocks down. "We've got a few choice ambush spots to choose from around there. We could hide inside that one building there, we'd have optimal firing position from the fifth floor balcony to hit the optics. Or, we could lay low under the subway tunnels, and pop out once the Zaku passes by. From that low, we could hit the leg joints to bring our bad guy down. Either way, once we've either blinded or crippled the target, Team A consisting of the rest of our squad will go for the killing blow for the reactor near its backpack. Hitting from the balcony gives us the extra advantage of having easy access to hit the reactor in case Team A misses, but it'll be harder to retreat quickly from that position. If we hit from the subway tunnels, retreating would be a lot easier since the Zaku probably won't see us coming, but hitting the reactor would be a lot harder as a contingency. What do you guys think?" Yunnus asks.

Gaspa shrugs, "Doesn't matter to me either way as long as we take out that Zaku and make it out alive. Especially that last part."

Yunnus nods, and looks to you for your thoughts.
>Set up by the balcony. It's riskier, but we'll have a better shot of making sure the target goes down.
>Set up in the subway tunnel. Your job is to cripple the Zaku and that's exactly what you'll do, and you trust team A to do their job as well
>Other- Any bright ideas welcome

Didn't realize how much I wrote here.. guess I got a bit carried away. Hope you guys like long blocks of text.

>>5890900
>Set up in the subway tunnel. Your job is to cripple the Zaku and that's exactly what you'll do, and you trust team A to do their job as well

Capture the zaku, capture the zaku, capture the zaku! War plunder! War plunder! Give me it!

>>5890900
>>Set up by the balcony. It's riskier, but we'll have a better shot of making sure the target goes down.

>>5890883
Glad it’s not just me then, made me feel like a retard.

>>5890902
The aim here is to absolutely wreck this Zaku, the idea of capturing Zakus have definitely been brought up before but every attempt so far has failed. Add the high mortality rate of anti-MS teams, and this lead to command seeing MS capture as something to put in the backseat to prioritize aggressive destruction as they desperately fight back to recapture lost territory. Convincing the team to go for capture of a mostly intact MS is possible, but it’d take a good plan and a damn good dice roll, partly because you’re just the new recruit so you don’t have much influence here, and partly because most anti MS teams deem it way too risky in an already really risky job. Still, not entirely impossible if the majority would want try this route, and I can offer any context you’d want to form a plan…unless you meant just capturing whatever is left of the Zaku after destroying it, which the clean up crew will do. The Federation should have wrecked Zakus to study and try to reverse engineer by now, but an intact and operational Zaku at this early point in the war is still just an improbable wish the higher ups have.

>>5890941
I know it's a long shot, but my zeonaboo soul needs me to try, I'll try and cook something up on how it could be done. If we caught the pilot slacking for instance and they got out to recon like the ones in the first episode did, stepping onto the MS's hands, with a good shot we could gib them. Or we could always pull a war crime, fake a surrender and blast the fucker or cut his throat, but those might be plans to keep in our pocket when we have a better shot/ more experience

And besides the chance to capture my fav, I think taking the less risky option that will still disable the Zak if we succeed is tactically sound. So is going for a kill shot but I also don't want jag to get hamburgered on his first mission, so I'm being cautious as much as I am being greedy

>>5890856
What is and isn't part of the Dark History depends on what you're looking at or who's giving the interview. Like, the Master Grade Turn X kit claimed that 00, Age, G-Reco and Build Fighters are part of the Dark History. I also remember seeing something about a few Seed things showing up in one of the later Turn A novels, but I can't find it offhand.
UC Testament also suggests that shows made post Turn A are part of the Dark History, I believe. The last chapter has the Unicorn seeing G, Wing, Seed, X, Age, 00, Turn A, G-Reco, IBO and Build Fighter. Since I don't believe it's been translated, I'm not 100% though.
You also have Tomino's interview nonsense claiming G-Reco is post Turn A mudding the waters too.

>>5890900
>Set up in the subway tunnel. Your job is to cripple the Zaku and that's exactly what you'll do, and you trust team A to do their job as well

>>5890972
To be honest, this is probably why people don't talk about the Turn A much. Well that and the moonlight butterfly makes any power levels argument have to exclude it and it's dapper mustache.

Here is my two cents on the whole, does the mustachioed menace eventually euthanize every gundam timeline. I Can't speak for testament but I know the Turn X kit lore is probably non Canon since the lore on gunpla boxes is, if it isn't basic info, often pulled from the asses of whoever wrote it. Also didn't know they made Turn A novels, need to find those.

ANYWAYS, besides the idea that G gundam is what lead to the Turn A & X being created, I just assume that only the series directly referenced in it are part of the dark history (and the later UC installments, with if they keep making will eventually decanonize Turn A entirely), since everything else is only referenced in side materials like dubious model kit lore or manga (though you can't really expect them not to be, since they were made after Turn A was produced). So I guess like the other anon, I subscribe to the anything before Turn A is dark history, anything after isn't theory.

Especially build fighters, since it is gundam Valhalla and the Turn A shows up as model in it, which would make the real deal popping up feel weird.

I'm still not sure what G reco being after it means even now so I just don't bother since it makes my head hurt thinking about it, since it has no connection outside of Tomino saying that. It'd be different if there was reference to Turn A, like moonrunes or something.

Really it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but people do get upset because of the Turn A and the confusion surrounding it and the dark history. Personally, I just don't think about it too deeply outside of pulling G gundam into the dark history for no reason besides nanomachines and not going any further. But it's fun to talk about, unlike the power level debates that someone always ruins with "muh moonlight butterfly thou", even if it is a debate about which grunt suit wins a free for all.

I wish evolution didn't shut down, the satisfaction I got hunting Turn A's as a Zaku was immeasurable.

>>5890447
They exist.
They shouldn't have been allowed to exist.
But errors can be resolved and cleaned. Glory to the Federation !

>>5890900
>Didn't realize how much I wrote here.. guess I got a bit carried away. Hope you guys like long blocks of text.
Love them it was good, builds our boy and his squad. Gives a reminder for why we fight.

>Set up in the subway tunnel. Your job is to cripple the Zaku and that's exactly what you'll do, and you trust team A to do their job as well
>Other- Any bright ideas welcome
What if we collapse a building on it ? If we can't fully cripple it from the subway tunnel, we might be able to block it under the rubber for a while, enough to reload the Regina and sending the zook in the depths of hell.

>>5891117
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>>5890900
>Set up in the subway tunnel. Your job is to cripple the Zaku and that's exactly what you'll do, and you trust team A to do their job as well
If we can disable it instead of one-shot-kill it, we're still doing our job. A mobile suit that isn't mobile is . . . just a suit. A bunker. MSs already have high mortality rates, so you tell me what you gon do when your already-risky job is made riskier by not being able to move (with one or two damaged legs). The Zaku is, effectively, out of the fight at that point, AND we're in heavy cover. Win-win. Remember: it's not just Zakus we have to worry about. Anti-personnel teams will be hunting us.

>>5890946
I can't say that chances are good that the pilot would be that careless, they've been expecting a Fed attack for a while now. But, I'd allow some rolls to try your luck with the luck gods.

How I was planning to do dice rolls was just a basic 1d100 roll best of three, and you'd either try to beat the enemy's combat roll or if it's something passive like this, I'd set a certain DC for you guys to try and beat. In a case like "careless pilot leaving the MS", that'd be a pretty high DC of 90 I would say. But hey, not impossible, and if you guys can think of some clever ways to lure the pilot out, I'd set the DC lower depending on the plan. If it does succeed though, I will warn you that you'd have to pass a few other rolls to get the Zaku moving and operational since you've got absolutely NO MS training. I'll also warn you that combat rolls against other Zakus will be rolled with some form of disadvantage due to the fact that you'd be piloting a machine you've never even touched before, against pilots with actual training. But, I guess that disadvantage could be remedied a bit by working in tandem with your anti-MS team and other squads in the area. You've got the power of friendship (and an organized military) on your side.

Disabling is also a bit tough since the Zakus have a lot going for them. Even if you take out an arm, it has the other arm to squish you. Even if you take out the head camera to blind it, it has backup cameras. Even if you take out a leg, it's still got a big ass fucking gun. Take out both arms, and it can still walk away or stomp you. Take out all the limbs by some huge miracle, and it can still shoot out anti personnel bombs like from 8th MS team (along with the fact that it'd take a really REALLY well organized strike from multiple teams hitting each limb simultaneously, or a small team being really lucky and somehow avoiding getting burger'd). I think the best chance for capture would be a reactor shot that's also VERY lucky in the sense that it would shut down the reactor without exploding, but it still leaves the issue of having a non-operational Zaku. But again, if you guys can think of some way that hasn't come to my mind, I wouldn't stop you.


>>5891117
Collapsing a building on it could stun it temporarily, a good roll may even keep it pinned indefinitely if you also cripple it before hand, like maybe take out an arm and/or a leg so it would have trouble getting back up. There are damaged buildings around from the battle that saw Zeon taking this city over from the Feds, but it'll be a little tougher to find a building structurally unsound enough for a Regina shot to take it down in one. I could let you roll for this too, to see if the luck gods smile upon you with a conveniently placed damaged building that could work for a trap. I'd give it two DCs, a higher one where the building is VERY conveniently placed, and a lower DC where you can find one, but you'd need to lure the Zaku towards it.

>>5890900

>Set up in the subway tunnel. Your job is to cripple the Zaku and that's exactly what you'll do, and you trust team A to do their job as well

Risk management people

>>5891117
Collapsing a building on it is a good idea

>>5891165
Yeah it was a best case scenario thing and would rely entirely on QM fate

this anon's >>5891117
Topple a building idea has potential if we can lure the Zak to one, which I think we can do if we make them think they we and our big gun are set in it like a sniper nest rather than our actual location, we could have a good shot of trapping the suit and pilot beneath several tonnage of concrete and rebar, hard to recover but easier than not exploding them with a reactor shot or dealing unrepairable damage to cripple it

This would require a lot of power of friendship, excellent set up location choice and more than a dash of protag luck. If we had demo charges it'd be easier, but shooting down a building works just fine

Even if it doesn't capture us a zaku, which I would like jag to pilot one but already didn't think we'd pilot this one for the reasons you pointed out. But if we get a functioning zaku back to command and the tech boys...well I wanna see what that particular butterfly wing beat would do but Also it makes the chance of us temporarily piloting a Feddie zaku actually on the side of possibility, once the egg heads figure our or reconfigure the control scheme or whatever

Also we'd be drowning in soldier girls, which we know jag as a fondness for, since if we do capture a nearly undamaged zaku we'd be heroes and it'd be a huge propaganda win for the Freddie's

Shit we might get a poster and a nickname lol

Also fell asleep before I could and I was too occupied about the idea of looting a zaku to say this when the update was posted, so I'll do it now. That flash back scene to the colony drop was amazing, visceral, emotional, all that good stuff. Fleshed out jag's personality, motivation, friendship with gaspa..etc...etc. the way you wrote his perspective of the drop was very real and human feeling. You're doing great, pal

>>5891308
I'm more than happy to steer the story in that direction if collapsing the building gets majority vote.

If you guys do want to go this route though, you'd first have to pass a roll to convince your commanding officer to alter the plan. DC will be fairly high since this is a carefully planned operation so Sergeant Seed (which I quickly noticed while writing sounds like a really dumb sounding name but I just used some name generator for some of these names..) would be hesitant to make any alterations that could compromise the whole operation, especially coming from a new recruit in his literal first day.

If you guys can think of a good plan, or a good write in speech to convince him, I can lower the DC for a better chance at convincing him.

I'll wait until later tonight to check the votes and write up the post to give you guys a chance to discuss and plan this out if you can get the other anons to back the idea. I will say that getting an intact Zaku this early on can have ripple effects on the timeline and push us towards noncannon territory.

>>5891342
Thanks anon, I really appreciate that. I'm not much of a writer so I am a bit self conscious and critical of my writing, but I've been wanting to muster up the courage to try QMing a quest since I've enjoyed Zeon quest from years ago and Contolist's quest from last year.

>>5890900
>Set up by the balcony. It's riskier, but we'll have a better shot of making sure the target goes down.

>>5891350
>and push us towards noncannon territory.
I think a lot of us would be fine with that. Also, doesn't this quest start 8 months after the war started? That's august so early federation Ground MS units should already be rolling off the production line.

can't wait for our rookie to become more and more gritty as the war goes along, also War Crimes when? spacenoids aren't human after all

>>5891369
War crimes are bound to happen eventually, but I don't wanna go full Titan if only cause then we might have to work with that little bitch Jerid

what the situation with guerilla warfare? is it happening or is the population very concetrated in cities?

>>5891388
Pretty sure until the white base takes flight, the answer is there isn't, don't remember any civies fighting back against the zeon invaded, at least in the original series.
Probably cause they have giant fucking robots and that isn't something you can feasibly take down with milsurplus or grandaddy deer rifle

>>5891399
You need to let the qm answer these questions. I'm glad you're enthused but it isn't your quest. Be respectful.

>>5891350
What zeon quest? If you don't mind me asking. Also, you're doing great qm. Major Zeon fangirl right here. Feels odd going against them, but I'm having fun.

>>5891494
It is also set in a well established setting, so anyone with knowledge about it can answer simple stuff like that, QM of course can make any changes he pleases, but in Early UC by canon, there really isn't a guerilla resistance against the zeon forces, could be different in this quest of course.

Anons answering lore questions in quests like this standard procedure, and you're acting like I took a shit on his carpet.

>>5891505
Been hungering for a Gundam quest since the last one died. Don't want your sperg to annoy the qm and cause this one to die too.

Be respectful, boy. This is your last (you).

>>5891500
There were two, the older one, and the one that Contolist ran where we took on the role of an OC brother of Char, Felix Zos Deikun, which was very interesting but it has gone on haitus or else died due to the QM getting too busy to run it. Included Gundam the origin stuff and we went WAY off the rails from Canon events in it. Was a blast, I'd rec checking that one out

here's a link to the archives of that one, for some light reading: https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Felix%20Zos%20Deikun

Don't know which older zeon quest he's talking about. Most gundam quests have been zeon focused, cause Zeon is cool

>>5891508
You're overreacting yourself, literally every fan fic quests has people do what I did and the QM's don't care because it doesn't matter unless they need to pipe into to go "Actually, I'm changing that" which is cool, makes things exciting.

You're more likely to annoy them than any lore sperging is, I guarantee

>>5891399
I assume everyone (from teenagers to old people of both genders) is enlisting in the Armed Forces in some capacity after what happened to Seattle? I mean this look like a war of extermination from Earth's perspective, conventional rules of war and p.o.w would be loosely applied here to Zeon forces, like the Vietcong to Americans and the French, maybe?
What the manpower looking from each side?

>>5891350
>I will say that getting an intact Zaku this early on can have ripple effects on the timeline and push us towards noncannon territory.
How early are we? Like Immediately after Operation British? Because Igloo shows the Federation using stolen and captured Zakus by May, but a headstart on Federation MS development would be nice.

>>5891163
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>>5891165
Kay
Its not in my hands someone else needs to vote for it.

>>5891536
An enlistment boon would make sense, but lorewise I don't know if it happened.

There are various reasons why that could be, and one is that the earth federation is in a very bad position at the point in the timeline we're in

the colony drop (Which hit sidney, not seattle) did kill A LOT OF FUCKING PEOPLE ON EARTH and not just in australia. The rising in tides and fallout its impact caused wiped out a whole fuck load of people and just from the beginning of the 1 year war (Battle of loum, one week battle...etc), nearly one third of humanity has been killed. That is in the first days of the one week war, currently, we're in month 8

And if I got the time line of the quest right, at eight months into the 1 year war, the zeons should be controlling like two thirds of earth martially, currently, and have been for months

So, that'd mean, besides the opening of the one week battle and loum that decimated the population, the Antarctic treating forbidding another colony drops or the use of weapons like nukes has been signed, Revil has given his "Zeon is exhausted" speech and the earth invasion well under way and going far in the zeons favor

Yeah, we are part of the losing/ lesser side by a long shot. Feddie forces are scattered and our numbers decimated. It isn't a good position, and the lack of a recruitment rush could be explained by a huge chunk of humanity dying or else being displaced by the colony drop and the zeon lightning war tactics.

Can't give exact manpower numbers, since I am not that much of a lore autist, FS might be able to since it is his quest, but suffice to say

We're outnumbered and outgunned on all fronts until the White Devil & Trojan horse flies. Don't ya love an underdog story?

>>5891540
Eight months, but from what FS has said, it seems like IGLOO isn't being taken into account for the quests canon, considering they mentioned the higher ups are drooling at the though of capturing a zaku , but who knows, we'd need to wait for his word to be certain

But giving Operation V a kick in the ass with a captured zak would be very nice indeed, I agree

>>5891540
Let the qm rather than this clown answer. It's rude otherwise.

>>5891554
You really aren't from around here, are you?

>>5891554
The only clown here is you, and what's rude is whining about harmless discussion between anons. There is a reason you're the only one throwing a bitch fit.

>>5891562
You sound stupid as hell.

>>5891551
>Eight months
I just looked at the OP and shit, you're right.

>>5888231
>Eight months had passed since the rebellion began.
>9 months ago

It should be September in quest, unless the opening crawl is just copied from the show's intro and isn't relevant to the story.
We should have GM (E), GM (G) and Ground Gundams running around at this point, even ignoring everything but 0079 the RX-78-1 would have been doing testing for months and the RX-78-2 would be pretty much complete and waiting to roll out.

>>5891350
Please clarify the timeline and what is/isn't being taken into account.

>>5891551
well, shit, we gotta get some Protagonist Point to our boy then! are we aiming to become a MS pilot?
If the situation is as dire as you make it out to be then I can see some entire theaters of the war being more brutal to Zeon pow than others, also where my Aussie Unit at? the MC needs to shed his human nature and become a killer if he wants to survive this type of war imo

QM here, phone posting while I’m out. For the record, I’m absolutely fine with you guys answering each other’s questions and maybe jumping in if I want to say that something may be different in this particular story. But as long as you all play nice you can do or say whatever you want.

>>5891388
Not much guerilla warfare happening, there may have been small local resistances at the start of the Earth invasion, but that one scene from 8th MS Team where all the villagers got wiped out explains why that didnt/wouldn’t last too long. I feel like the chances of finding local guerilla fighter groups aren’t zero though, but they won’t be doing too well. I guess you could count what anti-MS teams do as guerilla warfare, since their whole purpose (at least to my understanding/personal head canon) is to pop in, take out their targets and pop out before they’re found and burger’d since they could scatter and disappear much easier than tanks. That one episode of Igloo used anti-MS teams in a pretty retarded way with just having them sitting out in the open, but I could chalk that up to desperation, lack of advantageous positions, and the anti-ms infantry being thrown into it solely to die for the sake of buying the rest of the army time to retreat.. if I’m remembering right.

>>5891500
If you’re a zeon fangirl, you’ll love Zeon Quest. It’s an old as fuck quest ran by I Apologized on 4chan, back when quests were ran on /tg/ and /qst/ didn’t even exist yet. I’ll link it sometime later when I’m home.

>>5891540
>>5891551

It’s currently May, couple of months after the colony drop, and couple of months before operation V and the EF’s comeback. Figured it’d be a good spot for a fun underdog story like that one anon mentioned, until the Federation catches up at least. Which could happen sooner depending on how much you guys fuck with canon. I do remember captured Zakus in Igloo, and part of the reason why I chose to go for May as our starting point is so we can argue that it’s still so early that Zakus haven’t been captured yet since most Federation forces are still scattered and recuperating. Australian EF forces are just particularly aggressive (at least in this story) since it’s a lot more personal for them.
I think an enlistment boon is possible and likely, since EF still outnumbers Zeon to a vast degree military wise, and I can see a lot of people enlisting after Earth gets fucked up just because they’ve got nowhere else to go and it’s an easy meal and housing ticket, at least compared to trying to tough it out alone in a damaged world with fucked up infrastructure and ruined economy (I would guess)

>>5891513
>literally every fan fic quests has people do what I did and the QM's don't care
You have more posts than the QM, most QMs don't like their powerposters, they just don't say anything because they at least usually generate activity.

>>5891590
Sorry uh ignore that part, I just copied the opening crawl from Gundam since it felt like an easy and lazy way to fill out the introduction haha….. I decided soon after that starting earlier would be more fun

>>5891494
Anons talk to eachother all the time, him saying "yeah err civies are kind of fucked they might have a little bit of an hard time" doesn't do any harm to that other anon asking or the QM.
Discussion keeps quests alive, if anything is an excellent sign of the status of the quest.

>>5891388
Its most likely resistance fighters exist, but ultimately the Ziiks love slaughtering people. Missiles, Bombs, Radiation, Gas, Biochemical, thermal, infrared, night vision, scanners, movement sensors, comms for check through radio signals, explosives, guns and just stomping you.
It becomes hard to offer any resistance when they don't mind killing anyone.

>>5891536
More or less. Everyone that can be recruited is usually recruited by both sides, in "theory" the Earth Fed had more numbers. But they are losing, hard from the start of the war. And even with Zeon losses, the Federation is on that last legs vibe. They are fucked.

>>5891595
>>5891597
I appreciate you clarifying, man. I honestly do.
So it sounds like while groups may have captured or stolen some Zakus, they haven't gotten into the hands of the federation suits and officially the Federation hasn't captured any yet.

>>5891590
Well if its September rather than august, then at most, the side 7 attack has happened.If it is august the RX 78-1 prototype gundam should've entered trials either a month or two months prior.

But GMs don't enter the field till Jaburo, which is either three or two months away from the "Current" day of the quest, maybe four since Jaburo happens at the very end of November of the one year war, however I'm entirely uncertain when Ground Gundams start being fielded and FS' prior comments about capturing a Zaku make me think that the federation hasn't gotten any active MS currently, but again, need them to confirm

>>5891608
If I remember right, the Ground Gundams were on the field in July and the Ground GMs were in August, because they were made using spare parts from Project V.
I thought the GM Early Type was around the same time, but according to the wiki that didn't start showing up until September.

>need them to confirm
>>5891595
>>5891597

>>5891595
>It’s currently May

Okay so that means we're really up shit creek without a paddle. Four months till side 7, and six till Jaburo. But that just means capturing a zaku is even more enticing!

And the logic you have for why there could be an enlistment boon makes sense, more than what we see in 0079 where no one really cares to join the EF or do their part to stop the zeons from war crimeing as they please, which make our situation slightly less fucked than May is for the feddies in canon, cause man those are some long months until the gundam arrives and starts kicking in teeth

>>5891597
That's cool, better to retcon us further back in the timeline now than latter

>>5891611
Well FS just said we're actually four months in to the 1 year war rather than 8, so no matter what, the EF has no moble suits currently and capturing a zaku is now higher priority to me than just wanting to get jag to pilot one.

Cause a lot of bad shit wouldn't happen if Operation V gets an early boost from a captured zak or two

>>5891618
The closest thing the federation has to a MS right now is Guntanks. But yeah, capturing a Zaku would be really beneficial.

>>5891620
And I wonder how many of the total guntanks being fielded are freaking ancient RTX-65 Early types instead of the shiny new RX-75s.

We really need to capture a zaku, even if capturing either of the two we've been sent to take down this mission is not in the cards. It'll be tough, but it'll make life easier going forward for...well everyone not from side 3

>>5891618
Capturing a zaku is highly difficult even with a plan to do so. Best we can do unless we roll especially well, is crippling it a good amount and Fed teams are able to recover it without the Ziiks being able to recover it on their own (meaning winning a fight for it for the Fed, against more Zakus and anything else Zeon has around near this ruins. His fellow soldiers will come to his rescue thats the real hard part of a recovery).

For now we should become a great user of the Regina. If we can be good enough, we might be able to be trusted on the field by our squad and sarge that they consider the crazy idea of capturing one of these things worthed, enough that officers above might give the green light and prep something. Right now we are the new recruit that they have heard can make a good shot

>>5891635
I agree whole-heartedly, I'm not cocky enough to gamble the lives of our MC or the already awesome characters FS has cooked up trying to play war-hero on our first mission. It'd be very nice to luck out and snag a zak, but its clear that's more a long term goal, especially with the points you bring up since the Zeons will know how badly the feddies want a intact zaku.

Another issue besides the ones you bring up about capturing an intact zaku, is that I could see the pilot of one scuttling it to prevent its capture.

100% agree with training up and getting experience before seriously thinking about capturing a zaku instead of just neutralize them, or at least get permission to try so we don't get bright slapped

>>5891637
Exactly doing it on our initiative doesn't help much if our side didn't know what we had in mind.
I think is a possible goal to work towards and might give a better chance sooner to the Fed. Before that, our Regina will work in overdrive.
Getting some cloaks that look like the ruins colors will certainly help. Heat will be a bitch in Australia unfortunately.

what's our squad equipment like? how long are we expected to be in the field?

>>5891660
>Heat will be a bitch in Australia.

Maybe, probably, but then again who knows what kind of environmental changes having a chunk of colony dropped into the sea through most of its landmass, but that is a discussion for minds even more autistic than mine.

But good idea for getting some urban-camo colored cloaks, we should see if we could request some from command after this mission is done and dusted

>>5891620
No Guntanks yet here. I know they have that retcon in Origin on Guntanks and Guncannons already existing pre-Operation V, but I'm going by the original show's canon.

>>5891661
You've all got assault rifles and pistol sidearms, support gunners pack some explosives and specialists have the anti-MS Reginas. You've also got whatever tools soldiers typically have, like a knife, flashlight, a first aid kit, some MREs, etc.
Field time varies depending on the op and how long it takes to down your targeted Zakus. You're only ever there to hunt mobile suits, and you leave when there's nothing left standing over 50 feet tall. You could be out there for a day, it could be several days.

>>5891660
>>5891662
Australia heat is indeed a bitch. You're currently by the coastlines though so it's at least fairly breezy.
Urban-camo colored cloaks can be requested, but no guarantees that the request gets fulfilled since supplies are a bit in short supply at the moment. The more accomplished your squad though, the more likely you'd be given requested supplies. Do well today and you might just get those cloaks.

Anyway, writing the next post up now. We'll be sticking with the subway tunnels for now, putting MS capture in the backseat for now until a good opportunity presents itself.

>>5891763
Oh wow, not even guntanks. Man we really are at a disadvantage.

>>5891763
>but I'm going by the original show's canon.
Ignoring the Origin stuff, the RTX-44 was developed in March of 0078. The first RX-75 was a year later, I believe. It's Igloo stuff, but one RTX-44 was used for developing the RX-75, the other three were converted into RTX-440s.
Don't think I'm telling you how to run your quest though, man.

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>>5890900
You eye the balcony and the subway tunnel, weighing the options, running the simulations in your mind. "I think the subway tunnel is the better idea. The balcony does give us a better angle at a kill shot as a solid plan B, but it's too risky since rellocating from that position would take longer. Besides, I trust our squad to take the shot they're assigned, just as they trust us in ours."

Yunnus smiles and gives a nod, "My thoughts exactly. Let's hoof it then, boys."

The three of you quickly make your way under the subway, setting up the Regina just out enough that you're peeking out of the subway entrance. Gaspa has his rifle up and ready, scanning the surroundings for Wappas, infantry patrols, or big green giants while you and Yunnus focus on doing your jobs.

"Team A, in position." You hear a female voice call out through the comms, your squadmate Justine.

"Team B, sitrep?" you hear your sergeant's voice ask.

"Just about... there, got it." Yunnus answers over the comms as the assembly is finished and you begin calibrating the targeting computer. Yunnus whips out a digital tablet showing a map of the area. You see the map begin to get fuzzier and fuzzier. "Minovsky particles are beginning to condense. Zaku should be reaching our proximity any minute now." Yunnus updates.

"Kill box ready?" Srgt. Philip asks.

"Affirmative." you and Justine say over the comms, almost at the exact time. Sounds like she's the shooter for Team A.

"Gunners, keep your eyes peeled for Wappas but do NOT engage unless necessary. If we g..ve ou.. posit..n away too soo.., the mi..ion w..ll b.. compr..ised. Cle..r?"

"Cl..r." Ben responds.

"You got it." Gaspa says.

"Minovsky particles are starting to affect comms, it's almost time. Be ready." Yunnus announces.

It's a tense handful of minutes as you wait in silence, and it's slowly sinking in that this is your first live combat mission. One mistake, one missed shot, one stroke of bad luck, and lives will be crushed underfoot. You keep your eyes glued to the monitor, ready to fire and control the missile, trusting Yunnus to keep an eye out for the target and direct your angle of fire.

Suddenly, you begin to feel it. Shaking. Rhythmic. Giant footsteps hitting asphalt. It's subtle at first, but quickly becomes stronger. It's getting close. All three of you wait tensely, none dare to break the silence. Then, you see it.. the tip of a large metal foot, slamming into the ground with a terrifying, nearly logic defying might. This is it, and you steel yourself like never before. The giant slab of metal in the shape of a foot rises slowly, and comes crashing back down a moment later.

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>>5891829
You watch it make its way down the street like a lumbering metal giant holding the biggest goddamn gun you've ever seen. Holy shit that's a big gun. Would anything of you even be left if that thing were to get a direct shot on you? Would it even need to shoot you when it could crush you under foot in a heartbeat? No, stop. Focus, Jag, focus.

"Adjust your angle by .025 and -06." Yunnus says as he monitors the Zaku closely through binoculars. You comply, and continue watching the Zaku stride down the block. One more step later and it's now squarely in your sights. "Now!" Yunnus says suddenly, just as the Zaku raises its left leg for another step. Without a moment's hesitation you pull the trigger and begin controlling the trajectory of the wire-guided missile.

It's the most agonizingly nerve wracking few seconds of your life that stretches to what feels like an eternal moment, as you carefully and precisely adjust the missile's trajectory with precise flicks of your wrist on the controls to ensure the missile finds its mark.

You keep a close, unblinking eye on both the missile and your target. It feels almost like when you were a child, pressing your pencil against the paper and dragging it across the page, connecting the dots in a drawing book to form a coherent line that becomes a whole image. The whole image you see in your head that you were trying to trace becomes reality as the missile hits the back of the Zaku's knee and your efforts are rewarded with an ear shattering explosion, and you cover your ears without thinking. Somehow, the sound was completely different from the explosions you've heard in training, more powerful. More.. real.

"Hah! Great shot!" Yunnus shouts out with joy, giving you a strong pat on the shoulder.

You smile and feel yourself brimming with pride as you see the impossible giant fall to one knee, looking less mighty than it did just a second ago. You can do this. You can win. You can stop all of this. You can--oh shit. The Zaku's monoeye shoots to its left, and you feel it somehow make eye contact with you. The smile on your face quickly fades as you see it point its giant machine gun at you, and you feel your heart stop.

"Move move move!" you hear Yunnus says as he gets up into a sprint heading deeper into the tunnel for cover. You try to get up, but you can't. You're stunned, and you can't get your legs to move no matter what you try to do. Your eyes can't tear itself away from the giant green monster about to end your life. You watch it, and time feels like it's slowed to a crawl. You can feel it, the Zaku's finger slowly pressing into the trigger. Through the corner of your eye, you see Gaspa drop his gun and lunge at you to cover you, and it all feels like it's going in slow motion.

>>5891831
The explosion you see comes from behind the Zaku, and the Zaku's body recoils as its head and shoulders swing back from the force of the explosion. You see fires burst and gush from inside the humanoid machine as the Zaku falls to the ground like a lifeless corpse.

".....what happened? We're not dead?" says Gaspa as he watches in disbelief and confusion, similar to you.

"They.. they did it. Team A got the kill. It's done. Really took their sweet time though." Yunnus says, sounding just as shaken from the near death experience.

Team A.. that's right, how could you forget? You weren't at death's door, far from it. You were safe, because your squad had your back. At least.. that's what you're telling yourself to keep yourself grounded. It is true though, of course it is.

"You okay there, man?" Gaspa says to you, snapping a finger at your face. "You froze, bro."

"...Yeah. Yeah, I did." you say, slowly coming back to reality as time catches up with your senses. Gaspa offers you a hand and you accept, feeling yourself get pulled back up to your feet.

"Alright, let's get moving. One more to go." Yunnus says, bending down to pick up one side of the Regina and waiting for you to take the other. One more? Right.. that's right. We're hunting two Zakus today. It sounded so easy to say out loud before, but the weight of it all is really hitting you now. Can you really take down another one? Do you have a choice? ....No. Of course not. Not if you want to keep to your convictions. Not if you want to do your part to end this war. Not if you want to protect what little is left of this planet. You feel a certain weight on your shoulders get lighter, and you pick up the Regina. It doesn't feel as heavy as usual.

"Target kill confirmed. Moving on to point B. Status?" Yunnus says over the comms as you begin to exit the subway with Gaspa taking point. "...Repeat, target kill confirmed. Moving to point B. Team A, status?"

ou listen in as you walk, and you hear only static over the comms.

"That's weird, shouldn't comms be back to working order now that minovsky particles should be dispersing? That Zaku's not operating still, is it?" Gaspa asks.

"No, not with damage like that.." Yunnus says. The three of you watch the Zaku laying motionless, cooking from the inside you would guess judging from the smoke rising from broken panels and exposed wires.

You hear the sudden sound of explosions, but you quickly glance at the fallen Zaku only to see that it looks the same as it did a second ago. No.. those explosions came from somewhere else. "What was that?" You ask your team.

Don't know, but something tells me we should hurry." Yunnus says as he picks up the pace and you follow suit.

"a.....rt.....s...n... c...mp...s..d... I rep....t... bo...t...mis...n.. s...co...pr...s.ed.... re....at....p...n..t.. g..mma...." You suddenly hear over the comms.

>>5891832
You suddenly hear over the comms. You exchange looks with Gaspa and Yunnus, but the two look just as confused as you do. It sounded like sarge, but what the hell was he saying? You find yourself lost in thought while you jog in tandem with Yunnus as you try to piece it together, when you suddenly feel a tug. You look back, and you see that Yunnus stopped in his tracks with his eyes up. You look to Gaspa, and you see him doing the same. You follow the direction of their gaze and you see it. The second Zaku.

The zaku is lowering its gun, the smoking ruins of the building in front of it indicating it had just finished firing into it. But why? Then, you notice something. It took you a moment, and it's from far away enough that you can't say you're fully sure of what you saw, but you swear you saw Justine and Ben lying in their own blood in the now exposed second floor of the building. You squint your eyes, trying to confirm what you're seeing, when you suddenly feel yourself pulled to the side.

"What is up with you today, lost your nerves?!" Gaspa asks, clearly irritated. "You could've gotten spotted. Snap out of it or you'll die! WE'LL die!" he continues.

"I'm.. I'm fine." You say.

"He's right, hold it together, alright?" Yunnus adds. "We need to retreat and find a better position, plan's scrubbed."

"I agree, let's find a way to get back in contact with team A and take it from there." Gaspa says, peeking out of the corner to watch the Zaku.

"....I think.. I think Team A IS there." you say, trying to repeat what you just saw in your head to figure it out.

"...what?" Gaspa asks.

"I saw it. I think. Justine was over there, and someone... I think it was Ben. Maybe Sarge? They were lying there. They were covered in blood." you say, realizing how horrifying it sounds to say out loud now, as if it's made it real.

"....That would explain the explosions, and why that Zaku fired into that building... Fuck. Shit! Fuck." Yunnus says. He paces for several seconds, looking deep in thought. "Gaspa, what's the situation out there? What's the Zaku doing? Can you see team A?"

"Negative on team A, I don't have a good view from here, at least without exposing myself. The Zaku looks like it's scanning the other buildings, or something. Probably looking for survivors." Gaspa answers.

Yunnus' pacing gets faster, and after a few moments of thinking he stops. "Let's retreat. the plan's REALLY scrubbed. If team A got wiped out, there's nothing we can do here. We can't take it ourselves, it's too risky."

"What? No! We can't just leave. They could still be alive! If we leave now, we could be dooming them. We have to take that Zaku down." you protest.

"Take it down? You nearly died when you froze on the first Zaku!" Yunnus retorts. "I know it's hard to accept, but team A is lost. This happens all the time. Anti MS teams have a really high mortality rate. It's why our team consists of 7 rather than the usual 5. We're just a patchwork survivor squad!"

>>5891833
"You're right, I froze. But it won't happen again. Team A saved our lives back there. They had our backs. Don't we owe them the same?" you say, feeling your hands curl into fists.

"Well, what would you suppose we do, then? Against that Zaku, without the same element of surprise we had before, and without backup?" Yunnus shouts.

Maybe this is stupid. Maybe it is impossible. Who do you think you are, some kind of hero in a movie? You're not a hero. Not when your family needed you. Not now. You're just a guy, in over your head.. aren't you?

You look at Yunnus, then Gaspa. Gaspa nods and reassures you, "Whatever you choose to do, I've got your back. You always make the right call."

You find some solace in your best friend's words. A faint light in an overwhelming darkness. You scrunch your brows and you think. You think, and you think, and you think. What can you do?

You:
>Will stop acting like an idiot and follow Yunnus' orders. You need to retreat, it's over.
>Will continue acting like an idiot and find a good place to set up the Regina to try and hit the Zaku's reactor. It's probably a longshot, but you need to bring this Zaku down if you want to protect your squad. One shot is all you need.
>Will REALLY continue acting like an idiot and act as a decoy to lure the Zaku away and get it to expose its back to your team. Yunnus will man the Regina and take the shot, while Gaspa runs to the damaged building to check for survivors.
>Other- write in.

If you guys choose to do anything but retreat, I'd like a 1d100 rolled.

Also, just a heads up, I try to post at least once a day, but I might not be able to write a post tomorrow. Next post will for sure come Tuesday the latest though.

Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>5891834
The way you wrote the terror of facing down a zaku on foot was fantastic. Nice foreboding atmosphere, sent a chill down my spine, could even hear their signature sound effects while I read through it


Anyways

>Will continue acting like an idiot and find a good place to set up the Regina to try and hit the Zaku's reactor. It's probably a longshot, but you need to bring this Zaku down if you want to protect your squad. One shot is all you need.

Time to imagine that zaku is the piece of side 2 that took away everything from us

>>5891800
The RTX-44 was developed that early? Damn, I didn't know that. I appreciate you bringing that up though. We can say that the RTX-44 still exists here, and maybe I'll think of a way to integrate that into the story.

>>5891840
Each and every manga/ova/game that gets made and set in the OYW fucks with the MS development timeline of the Federation. It's a nightmare to keep track of, which it why I keep asking for clarification about stuff in-quest, honestly.

>>5891834
>Will continue acting like an idiot and find a good place to set up the Regina to try and hit the Zaku's reactor. It's probably a longshot, but you need to bring this Zaku down if you want to protect your squad. One shot is all you need.

>>5891834
>>Will continue acting like an idiot and find a good place to set up the Regina to try and hit the Zaku's reactor. It's probably a longshot, but you need to bring this Zaku down if you want to protect your squad. One shot is all you need.
We don't have much time if our squad is wounded.

Rolled 80 (1d100)

>>5891834
>Will continue acting like an idiot and find a good place to set up the Regina to try and hit the Zaku's reactor. It's probably a longshot, but you need to bring this Zaku down if you want to protect your squad. One shot is all you need.

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>5891834
>Will REALLY continue acting like an idiot and act as a decoy to lure the Zaku away and get it to expose its back to your team. Yunnus will man the Regina and take the shot, while Gaspa runs to the damaged building to check for survivors.

>>5891834
>Will continue acting like an idiot and find a good place to set up the Regina to try and hit the Zaku's reactor. It's probably a longshot, but you need to bring this Zaku down if you want to protect your squad. One shot is all you need
KILL THE SPACE TRASH

>>5891843
Perfectly understandable, and I agree that the UC development timeline is a mess so I'm always happy to answer any questions about our particular timeline. I'm also aware I'm not the best at explaining certain details (case in point, the confusion about which month of the one year war we're in) so feel free to ask absolutely anything.

>>5892062
how many zeeks did zeon send in australia ? i wonder how many we will have to place in a grave

>>5891763
>assault rifles and pistol sidearms, support gunners pack some explosives and specialists have the anti-MS Reginas. You've also got whatever tools soldiers typically have, like a knife, flashlight, a first aid kit, some MREs, etc.
pretty good, i recon our sarge has binoculars too

>Urban-camo colored cloaks can be requested
excellent, i imagine other types of equipment can be requested.

>>5891839
>>5891854
>>5891921
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>>5891923
>>5892047

Setting up the Regina and taking the shot wins. Nice rolls, by the way. Writing.

>>5892920
I don't have any numbers and I don't remember it ever being mentioned, but if any anon knows I'd appreciate the input.
If we HAD to put a number on it, I do know that the 4th Terrestrial Mobile Division from Zeon's Earth Invasion Force was assigned to Australia, though their forces were also spread between Australia, New Zealand and some parts of Asia.
I vaguely remember (and please someone correct me if I'm wrong) that a division consists of 45 mobile suits, that are divided further into five battalions, with each battalion consisting of three mobile suit companies, and each company having three mobile suits.

I would assume most forces of the 4th Division would be assigned to Asia given it's the biggest region, with one or two battalions assigned to Australia I would guess. Again, someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. If we use this logic, we could expect somewhere between 9 to 18 Zakus stomping around the Outback. That amount can be subject to change though, especially if the Australian forces request reinforcements.

>>5891834
“We can still do this. We can’t just give up on them.” You say, standing your ground against Yunnus. “All it takes is one clean reactor shot, right? One shot is all I need. You’ve seen what I can do, and I can do it again. We just have to find a good position where we can reach the Zaku’s back.”

"Yeah, maybe in fairy tale world where everything happened conveniently in your favor. But this is the real world, in a real war, where I've seen guys just like you end up as splatters on the ground dozens of times over!" Yunnus argues back, nearly shouting. "I.. I'm just as angry and upset about Team A, no.. Justine, Ben, Stefan and Sarge. Hell, I've known them longer than you. But I can't have you two die on my watch along with them. I just don't want to lose more than we already have." he continues, his tone softening a bit.

"....I feel the same way. I'm sick of losing people to these damn Zeeks. I enlisted to stop the fighting, and protect the people.. And that's why I can't leave." you say, looking Yunnus in the eyes. "You don't have to stay. In fact, maybe it's better if you don't. Someone has to report what's going on, after all. You and Gaspa should go.. I'll stay."

"If you're staying, I'm staying." Gaspa states matter-of-factly.

"God, you two are inSUFFERABLE." Yunnus nearly shouts in frustration. "Fine.. fine! You win. We can't keep arguing anyway, I'm sure that Zaku's already reported this, and Wappa patrols are en-route. If we do this, we do this now and we do this quick. Let's go you little shits."

You smile, and give Yunnus a quick salute. "Yes, sir!"

Gaspa, peeking out of the street corner, motions for you and Yunnus once the coast is clear. The Zaku is busy scanning another half-destroyed building, and you use this time to run to one of the buildings behind the Zaku while carrying the Regina with Yunnus. Gaspa takes point, kicking a door open and shouting "clear!" once he confirmed that the place is empty.

You run up to the second floor of the building and immediately start setting up the Regina, with Yunnus right by your side loading in the next missile and Gaspa keeping an eye out for other hostiles.

"Wappa, 7 o'clock." Gaspa announces, and Yunnus turns to look. Not you, though. You keep your eyes squarely on your quarry.

"Shit, if we fire now it'll give away our position. We shou--" Yunnus says.

You pull the trigger, and the missile shoots off.

"Goddammit!" You hear Yunnus say in frustration, but you ignore it. You're focused now, eyes square on where that reactor should be. You imagine it, those connecting lines that guide your missile to its target, and you start tracing them. You imagine yourself back in that day, and you imagine this Zaku to be that colony fragment. Just one well-placed shot is all it would've taken.. all it will take now.

>>5893170
You don't care that the wired missile gave away your position. You don't care that the nearby Wappa is now firing its machine gun in your direction. A bullet grazes your face, and another grazes your arm. But it doesn't matter. Your eyes stay on the monitor as you guide the missile, your mind clear of anything else as the world seems to move around you in slow motion. The Zaku's monoeye swivels in your direction as it now turns to face your squad and raise its machine gun. Death is coming for you, but i you don't care, because you're coming for it first.

An explosion rocks the streets as your missile connects with the Zaku, and you hold your breath as you wait and watch to confirm that this was a kill shot. The missile hit true, and the Zaku goes down as several implosions rock the green giant. It hits the floor with the loudest crash you've ever heard, breaking ashpalt as it does.

You exhale, and slowly, the world begins to move in real time again. You're realizing that one of those bullets that grazed you didn't actually just graze you, and you're realizing that being shot at by a Wappa machine gun is actually really fucking terrifying as another bullet rips through your left arm. You scream, and you see Yunnus dragging you away from the large window you fired from. Gaspa is firing back at the Wappa, shouting curses as he does.

"You okay? Nice fucking shot, I didn't think we were going to survive that." Yunnus says as he begins administering first aid to your wounds. "Well, let's see if we'll still survive it." he adds in as another volley of machine gun fire crashes into the building. You and Yunnus are safe for now though, as he dragged you to a hallway away from where the machine gun fire is coming from.

Suddenly the hail of bullets from both sides stop, and Yunnus peeks into the room you were just in.

"I got him." Gasps says simply and grimly. The smoking remains of the Wappa can be seen further down and lodged into a building.

You and Yunnus exhale in relief at nearly the same time. Your cheek hurts, and so do your arms. But you grit your teeth, you still have a job to do. "Let's check for survivors."

Gaspa and Yunnus nod, and the three of you make your way to the destroyed building across the street. The three of you walk around the burning Zaku, as Gaspa's eyes linger on it for a moment longer. "Don't worry, I don't think it'll be getting back up." you tell Gaspa half-jokingly. At least, you hope it doesn't.

"Yeah, you made damn sure of that." Yunnus says with a chuckle.

Gaspa is again first to enter the building, immediately checking the surroundings for any hostiles. "I see someone", he states as he points at a uniformed body on the floor. The ceiling above is shattered, and it looks as if they fell from the second floor. Gaspa runs over to them and kneels to check their pulse. He looks up and nods with a smile, "We got a live one!"

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>>5893173
You and Yunnus run over, and you recognize the soldier as Stefan, badly hurt and probably with a few broken bones, but Yunnus is working now to stop the bleeding on the unconscious man. "I'll handle this, check upstairs for the others." Yunnus says, and you and Gaspa nod as you start heading upstairs.

The sight upstairs isn't much better, as you see bodies strewn about with blood and soot all over. You see an arm sticking out of a pile of rubble, the gory mess that must have been someone else spread around the room, and Justine laying in a pool of what you assume is her own blood, her Regina nothing more than twisted and broken scrap metal nearby.

"Gaspa, start working on clearing that rubble, I'll check on Justine. I'll join you as soon as I can." You say, and Gaspa gets right to work.

You run to Justine and kneel to check her pulse, and... you feel it. It's faint, very faint, but you feel it, along with a sense of relief. You flip her on her back gently, noticing that the bloodstains are darker around her abdomen. You open up her uniform and your suspicions are confirmed by the blood leaking aggressively from her stomach. "Shit!" you say out loud. You press your hands on her stomach to try and put pressure on the blood, but there's just too much. You try to remember your first aid training, but your mind is going blank. "No.. not now, not now.. come on, think, fuck!"

"Move over." You suddenly hear, and you turn to see Yunnus looking Justine over. You comply and move, wiping tears away from your eyes that you didn't even notice at first. "If you can't handle it, don't look. Go help Gaspa clear the rubble away from whoever's buried under it." he orders.

"Right.." you say, getting up and noticing that your knees feel weaker than before. You head over to Gaspa, and try to find the strength to help him clear the rubble. It takes a lot of work, but together you and Gaspa manage to free Benjamin from the rubble. He's got broken bones all around with blood leaking from several places, but first aid administered by you and Gaspa (mostly Gaspa) ensure that he won't be crossing over to the other side today.

You rush over to Yunnus again, "How is she doing?" you ask.

"Not good. The bleeding won't stop. There's nothing lodged in the wound or anything, but whatever got her was deep. If we can just stop the bleeding, it should buy us enough time to at least get her to a medbay for proper treatment, if we're lucky." Yunnus answers.

"What can we do?" You ask. But then, you have an idea. "Gaspa! Throw me a flare!"

Gaspa throws the flare from across the room, not even questioning what you had in mind.

>>5893177
You catch the flare and immediately light it, and tell Yunnus to move over. A confused Yunnus gives you some space, as you kneel down and press the lit flare against Justine's wound and she screams in pain. After a few agonizing moments, you move the flare away, and see that the wound has burnt close.

"Great idea, kid. That won't leave a pretty scar, but I'm sure she'll still thank you for it.. if we can make it out of this alive, at least" Yunnus says, inspecting the burns and covering it with gauze.

The smoke from the SOS flare's bound to attract some attention though. Might bring friendlies over to our area who could help, or it could be telling the Zeeks precisely where to shoot. What should we do?" Gaspa asks, eyeing the still lit flare as smoke emanates from it. With the building half-destroyed and the frontal walls mostly torn down, the smoke is easily rises up to the sky to create a giant column of orange fumes.

"Zero Actual, this is Delta team requesting immediate evac from our position." Yunnus calls over the comms. Nothing but static answers the call. "Damn. Minovsky particles are still jamming comms. What the hell are the other teams doing?" he says in frustration.

You consider your options, and suggest:

>To stick around and wait. It's a far journey back to friendly territory where a medic can see to the injured. If the gamble pays off and friendlies reach your area, they could assist with transporting your wounded back to base. There's strength in numbers, too.
>To leave. It's not worth the risk. Maybe you could hotwire one of the nearby cars to transport your team back to base? You'd have to find a car first though, and hope that it has enough gas to take you where you need to go. This also risks running into enemy forces when finding a car, or driving back.
>Other- Write in

Please roll a 1d100 too, I'll take best of 3. I've got some interesting things in mind that could potentially happen, depending on the winning option and dice rolls.

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>5893179
>To leave. It's not worth the risk. Maybe you could hotwire one of the nearby cars to transport your team back to base? You'd have to find a car first though, and hope that it has enough gas to take you where you need to go. This also risks running into enemy forces when finding a car, or driving back.

You're really good at building suspense. FS

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>5893179
rollin

>To leave.

Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>5893017
I'm assuming we're departing heavilty from canon here? Rise from the Ashes suggests that Zeon had total control over Australia and resistance was minimal due to reliance over supplies Zeon brought in. Due to this, most Australians started to harbor resentment for the Federation. The Federation operation to retake Australia was started after the success of Operation Odessa.

>>5893179
>>To leave. It's not worth the risk. Maybe you could hotwire one of the nearby cars to transport your team back to base? You'd have to find a car first though, and hope that it has enough gas to take you where you need to go. This also risks running into enemy forces when finding a car, or driving back.

>>5893188
That or we're the minimal resistance and are truly up shit creak without a paddle or cool urban camo cloaks

>>5893182
Thanks anon, I appreciate that.

>>5893188
Anon here >>5893195 would be right in that you are the minimal resistance.
I never knew that fact you mentioned, but I always assumed resistance in Australia would be minimal for a long while into the war anyway just because the EF forces in Australia would have been really weakened after losing a chunk of their forces. You're part of a minority group that's really passionate about driving Zeon back because a lot of these soldiers lost loved ones in Sydney. So in that regard, we're still within canon. We'll have plenty of chances to veer off of canon too, maybe even sooner than later depending on what happens and what you all choose to do.

What do you mean by reliance over supplies Zeon brought in, though? Are you saying EF forces in Australia didn't do much against Zeon because Zeon offered supplies in exchange for a sort of peace, or something?

>>5893252
>What do you mean by reliance over supplies Zeon brought in, though? Are you saying EF forces in Australia didn't do much against Zeon because Zeon offered supplies in exchange for a sort of peace, or something?
It's been awhile since I've played Rise from the Ashes, but I believe in canon the Federation Forces in Australia were pretty much decimated after the colony drop and the survivors pulled out. Zeon controlled the main harbor, so any survivors were reliant on materials and relief supplies that Zeon brought in from that harbor. By the time White Dingo goes in, there are a ton of Zakus down there, Goufs and Doms, a fucking Adzam, the Rhinocerous, and one Gelgoog.
Also, great game. I totally recommend playing it, or at least reading the manga version.

Also, don't let this stuff influence your quest if you don't want it too. Like, sometimes it feels like me dictating your quest and I don't want to do that. I just want to talk Gundam.

>>5893252
QM, you're killing it right now. On God. And don't feel bad about going off canon. If people like >>5893195 are sticking to their canon-tism don't worry about it. I'm all for seeing what creative QMs can cook up while sticking to the overall rules of a setting as a whole. I didn't think I'd bookmark a Federation quest, but here we are.

Which reminds me, how comfortable are you as the QM with going off canon? I wanted to ask that before I start Gundaming out in the thread. Haha.

>>5893179
>To stick around and wait. It's a far journey back to friendly territory where a medic can see to the injured. If the gamble pays off and friendlies reach your area, they could assist with transporting your wounded back to base. There's strength in numbers, too.

>>5893179
>>To leave. It's not worth the risk. Maybe you could hotwire one of the nearby cars to transport your team back to base? You'd have to find a car first though, and hope that it has enough gas to take you where you need to go. This also risks running into enemy forces when finding a car, or driving back.
>>Other- Write in
Okay here is the plan
Ask Yunnus if she can do something with all we have in our first aid kit for keep all our wounded stable. Their life is on the line give them everything, they need to survive all the way back to base.
Done that, she remains here, while us and Gaspa go out and find a car. Give the machine gun of team A to Yunnus, so she can fuck up any zeeks coming in to her.
Before we go both us and Gaspa loads on some of the ammo of team A, both for his machine gun and our regina launcher. We are going to need it if there are more zeeks, and there are of this hunter killer squads. Also throw some rubble dust on us is the next best thing we have.

This is what we need to do. Chances is that we need to look for buildings that are standing and with closed garages. There is nothing on the roads 100% beside rusted machines and skeletons.

With a fireteam of two we can fight less in terms of combat power, but we are more difficult to find on foot. When the car engine starts (if we find one) is where we truly risk it

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>>5893277
Interesting point, I’ll keep that in mind when writing. I played Rise From the Ashes years ago, but I should replay it sometime. I don’t remember much from the game though other than how fun it was to play a cockpit pov game and how I wish we had more games like it.
Did the manga ever get translated? I’ve always wanted to read it but could never find it translated anywhere.

And for the record, I don’t mind all the canon talk. I always appreciate new Gundam canon knowledge, even more so now that I can think of ways to have it affect this story. I’ve actually been feeling even more glad that I made this quest since I rarely get to talk Gundam with others, and it’s been making this experience a blast.

>>5893301
Thanks anon, I appreciate that.
I also don’t mind canon ‘tism since I have it too, and like I said to the anon above I find it fun to figure out how to fit this story to established canon without breaking anything. That said, I’m absolutely happy to go off canon. In fact, I pretty much expect it since I haven’t read a Gundam quest that stuck to canon, and I could see that anons just love to break off the canon rails as soon as they can. I always thought it made for more interesting Gundam quests, and I can see the fun of imagining how canon events/characters could bend and change depending on whether certain things happened differently. I’ll definitely give you guys plenty of chances to break canon in however ways you want if you guys talk about what you want to see and do.
Gundam away, my friend.

>>5893277
Man the White dingo were so fucking cool. Wonder what UC games FS is gonna use in the future, mostly cause I do not wanna run into Noise Fairy and the Titania. Though by time it shows up, if we haven't gotten made a casualty of war by the zeeks or Jag's own heroism, we'd be in a much better position, equipment wise since the Titania is an end of the war suit.
Which means if Noise Fairy exists in FS's OYW, and jag is put on the witch hunter squad, we'd have end of the war shit to. Like the sniper gm, which wouldn't be too outmatched by the Titania in a hypothetical fight, I think. Or even a variant of the gundam.

Wonder what colors jag would paint his custom MS, if he gets one or a few.

>>5893354
Issue is, we'd be kinda boned our elves in a fire fight considering we took a few bullets taking down the 2nd Zak. If we had some non reg clothes and some tarp to hide Reggie, we could in theory bullshit the zeeks that we were civies caught in the cross fire and make our get away before they realize we are the Feddie's that took down their Zakus

But I am not in love with this plan, since it is just as unlikely/risky as capturing one of those zaku 2s would've been

>>5893688
Hey, I've been planning to break the rails of Canon from the start and if we do capture a zaku, I'm very interested to see how it effects the Fed's MS projects and designs or rather what OC variations or straight up original suits you cook up with it. So I'm very much alright with you changing things, whether it be shifting the timeline or creating new, unexpected stuff

>>5893688
>Did the manga ever get translated? I’ve always wanted to read it but could never find it translated anywhere.
It looks like the manga is four volumes and Zeonic did a translation of it. You can find it on Mangadex or likely the Zeonic Scanlations site too.

>>5893801
At the very least, unless we get pulled in for Operation Odessa or the capture of California Base we shouldn't run into Noisy Fairy or Midnight Fenrir or if things go WAY off rails that they end up in Australia for some reason.

Honestly, I'm tempted to try and use captured Zeon suits the entire war and make that our signature. If we ever switch to a GM or a Federation Super Prototype, keep the Zaku spiked shoulderpad and other bits as a reminder of Australia.

>>5893887
I'm down to clown with that, it'd have to give us a rad sounding epithet if we succeed enough to make it our calling card, lol. Also very much down to at least keep the spikey shoulder- pad from the zaku 2 if we do capture one and make the switch to a Feddie suit later.

But if we survive long enough in Australia, we'll probably be re-assigned simply because of how valuable an asset that'd make us to command, since we are in the THICK of it right now.

Also random thought, but we should totally name any customized MS we get Bunyip or something else suitably aussie, Like kelly for ned kelly. Gundam Bunyip and Gundam Kelly do have a nice ring to it, don't they? And of course they can be applied to other MS, if we get a customized/ personally tuned one before gundams start getting handed out like candy.

>>5893801
We can still very much move right now around with the Regina and Yunnus ensured we can move. This is in addition to the plan of finding a car, which most of us have voted upon. No we don't bullshit that here this is a graveyard, civies have all been murdered by them there is no civilians here that aren't a guerilla fighter likely.
We already are searching for a car with the main decision, we also know team A is heavily wounded, and our boy can keep going.

I want Yunnus to stabilize our wounded which are all critical and need it regardless, because otherwise the effort of coming here doesn't make sense. We will have hours of travel at worst if no Feds hear us on comms, so Team A needs to survive all the way. She has actual medical knowhow, while we don't and we are lightly wounded.
Giving her Team A machine gun and let her stay with them is for the best.
Having the regina with us is the bare minimum (neither of the two main options say we don't keep it with us much the same for ammo btw) and reloading on team A ammo save us from having none, its simply dumb to go without it is our only way to do something with a Zaku if they show themselves and there is one here 100%. The dust is the only thing we can use for stealth because finding clothes here is even less likely than a car.
And also its just reasonable that the most functioning cars are probably in buildings still standing. Beside if we find a car and start it, it will make sound (if the engine is electric this is reduced, but there is still rubble around and so on. i don't know much about the cars of the setting) by moving around. So having the regina already with us is great, because we will likely shoot with it while someone drives.

>>5893887
i am okay with capturing zakus in the future, but i dislike the idea of using them. They are cool, but i wouldn't see the point for our guy to do so when is much better to give them to research. I wouldn't want to be one of the weapons of the guys that slaughtered his whole family and home, feels wrong.
It would make more sense if he was someone with a vengeance quest or a colonist that didn't join Zeon, at least in my opinion.
This said i could see the spike shoulder because it can be a trophy sort of thing and a reminder we are a zaku killer, that we could keep in our MS.

Maybe some shoulder weapons like the regina, or multiple modified mounted regina's on the shoulders only auto-loaded by the MS that we can guide from a monitor inside the MS. Using the same or similar weapon in our future arsenal sound like a good idea, since we trained with it and will use it a lot before going inside one of the giants.

>>5894048
>>5894048
Oh the cars are just like ours, nothing fancy, at least at this point. And I doubt we'll find electric cars, since the cars like a lot in 79, is based off what was modern at the time of its creation. So yeah there is gonna be noise. And we've taken down both of the 2 zakus in the area, so a third would take time to arrive.

And no, there are still civies even in Australia, but you are right that there probably aren't any here in the blasted ruins of a city, mark that as an additional flaw in a plan I wasn't considering seriously anyway, no big loss.

But here's the thing, civvies are just weirdly apathetic about the zeeks being space nazis during the 1 year war. Shit, there's that one bitch who was a spy living within spitting distance of a feddie base somewhere where the zeeks had nowhere near as much presence as they do in Australia, who did it for cash then died to make shit heel Kai a better person.

Earthnoids can be really fuckin stupid like that, shit there's an episode where Ramba ral takes a bunch of his men to a bar for lunch. Point is, civvies are around and they tend to keep their head down if they aren't slurping zeon dong. Now this being Australia, maybe the non enlisted are more against zeons than the rest of em, but those old fucks whose colony got totalled held white base hostage to get dropped in the middle of nowhere instead of helping fight the zeeks who killed many of their loved ones and destroyed their home or at least not getting in the way of the people who were fighting them.

It's weird, but for some reason if you aren't a feddie yourself you don't seem to give too much of a shit about the increasingly genocidal spacenoids, at least from what we see in the anime. Like this doesn't really have anything to do with what's going on on the quest rn, I just can't help but rant about how little a shit people gave in Canon. They killed one third of humanity and could still buy a whiskey at any bar they rolled up in. Boggles the mind. But I guess it can be chalked up to 79 being closer to super robot than the real robot genre it kick started and I shouldn't bother trying to make sense of it.

But my autistic ramblings aside, as I said myself, the disguise plan would be too risky to attempt even if we had the stuff to actually achieve it, even if there were civies in the ruins

And about the zakus, they weren't really used in the colony drop except to fill the one they used with poison gas to kill its inhabitants so there really isn't any baggage with them except that they're of zeek make.

>>5894063
Ye i kinda remember the tech level generally looks like that, though not the specifics so thanks.

I find it incredibly weird and suicidal for civies to remain here really near Zeon occupied territory, or in the heavily destroyed ruins. If they are partisans sure but anyone else would want to leave if i was them. I mean what you do ? Eat dust ? Work ? What work ? Because the zeeks have no reason to give you anything in their minds, and will at best use you.
>civvies are just weirdly apathetic
If anything it looks more insane for them to remain under zeon or near them. They could just be killed at the drop of an hat. No I see what you mean and i fully agree, even if they are all collaborators/bootlickers it would be just better to leave to any EF held territory simply because they will not abuse/murder you and they actually keep you safe. You are still a citizen of earth so an enemy for Zeon. And this becomes crystal clear from start to end of the war, kinda need to be blind for not get it.

It would make far more sense if the population was more hostile if not becoming genocidal of zeon during the war. Hell i wouldn't be surprised, if the majority of old political parties in the federation members states would be starting to lose to more aggressive+hostile political parties. And they would have all the fertile ground they could ever want for grow in members.

The zakus are still kind of a big symbol of the enemy, it would be used around a lot by propaganda and training purpose for focus recruits. The big green murder cyclop. Jag might not look too much in to that, but he is a young man, being from Sydney and his reaction to the Eye tell me it might not easily work or be pleasant.

>5894108
I mean there is a reason the Titans have so much sway in Zeta. Lots of feddies started outright hating spacenoids after the 1 year war. To the point some of their grunts could beat the absolute shit out of Bright, a war hero, without facing any consequences for it, cause they were titans and could get away with it (and to be fair bright did get his ass kicked in a Titan base, so that is one reason the got away with jumping his ass). But during the one year war, its all strangely casual outside of the feddie and zeek skirmishes, even between the two forces themselves occasionally. Like I said, this is probably cause the 79 still had a lot of super robot in it, since it was the beginning of the real robot genre. But still, a third of humanity and you don't even treat them like invaders, sure they don't have death camps but they fucking killed a third of humanity in a week, at least show so apprehension around them, Mr civilian!

And yeah that does make sense why Jag might not be comfortable piloting a straight Zaku. But their Monoeyes are pretty intimidating, and to be fair I want one so until Jag says he won't pilot one in an update, I shall hold onto my dream of the Zaku v Zaku fight

>>5894048
>i am okay with capturing zakus in the future, but i dislike the idea of using them. They are cool, but i wouldn't see the point for our guy to do so when is much better to give them to research. I wouldn't want to be one of the weapons of the guys that slaughtered his whole family and home, feels wrong.

>>5894108
>The zakus are still kind of a big symbol of the enemy, it would be used around a lot by propaganda and training purpose for focus recruits. The big green murder cyclop. Jag might not look too much in to that, but he is a young man, being from Sydney and his reaction to the Eye tell me it might not easily work or be pleasant.

Part of it is we will eventually need an MS. Unless Federation MS development is sped up, or we veer hard off canon, the only way to do that is a Zaku. Jag might not like it, but I can easily see him using one out of nesscity. On top of that, once you've gotten a suit, used it forever, made modifications and customizations to keep it running, you're likely going to want to stay with it.
In canon, the Australia Campaign where the Federation retakes the continent doesn't happen until late November. Not saying the same will definately happen here, I'd like to do enough damage that one of the earlier attempts by the Federation to gain a foothold on Australia works. But we'll need an MS for that.

Before I met you I was incomplete . . .
Didn't know what to do with anything.
Now I met you and I'm on my feet.
And my heart is feeling everything.

I. Don't. Need . . .

>>5894368
>Federation MS development is sped up

Captured MS for that. Thats the only way or data really. Eitherway the Fed will give us something if we go above and beyond, which we are kind of already doing that.
We would need training for it really even if we enter and understand the basics of one, it doesn't mean much.

Debatable if he would go for it, and i certainly don't want to keep it that way if i can or force him to like it in the first place. Since if we go by this argument
>once you've gotten a suit, used it forever, made modifications and customizations to keep it running, you're likely going to want to stay with it.
Then no. I don't want to be forced using the green cyclop MS forever just because there isnt a zion quest around. Looks inevitable if you all think like this.

>>5894467
We wouldn't use it forever if we got it. Eventually, pretty quickly, it'll be outspecced no matter what we do to it, and using one would be suicidal at that point.

and we're more likely to pilot whatever the egg heads cook up than a actual zaku if we capture one, unless we commandeer one and pull an amuro and learn to pilot it with some light reading.

The only point to capturing a Zaku is to speed up Federation MS R&D. Isn't that how it went in 0079? Type 61 pwns, Zeon makes Zaku. Federation makes GM and then eventually, the Gundam. GG no RE.

Since QM has stated they're good to go with off-canon questing, I imagine we'd get some nifty MS developments and original suits, but I don't see the MC being transferred to a MS division too quickly. They may want to capitalize on his ability to capture them first. Ya dig?

>>5894467
That depends on if we can get the MS to the Federation proper. I'm not sure what the situation looks like currently in quest. We don't just upload the MS to the Federation if we capture one and data transmission is massively fucked by minovsky.
We might be forced into using the green cyclops MS forever just because we have no other option until November.

>Eitherway the Fed will give us something if we go above and beyond,
Again, that's if the Federation is able to get it to Australia. Until we get more information about how the situation is in quest though, the only thing I can make judgements with is canon.

>>5894475
>Isn't that how it went in 0079? Type 61 pwns, Zeon makes Zaku. Federation makes GM and then eventually, the Gundam. GG no RE.
No. Not at all. When the war started up, the Zaku made the current Earth Federation forces completely obsolete. This is why they were literally able to ROFL stomp all over everything and take over like 70% of Earth. The Type 61 can be effective against an MS, but has a number of severe disadvantages like Muinovsky fucking it's tactical communication, observation and targetting abilities and the fact that Zakus are faster and more agile. Allowing them to get in close easier where the tanks can't angle enough to hit anything important
Also, the Federation MS timeline in canon is Captured Zakus -> Zanny -> Guntank -> Guncannon -> RX-78-1 -> Ground Gundams (Made from Spare RX-78 parts) -> Ground GM (Made from Spare RX-78 parts) -> RX-78-2 -> GM. There's also a side branch there where the RTX-44 feeds into the Guntank development too.
GM Spam didn't start until November, after Zeon blew it's super weapon load chasing White Base around for two months. Though Early Type GMs were active around September.

>>5894539
Appreciate the response (especially since you aren't that one idiot who was trolling earlier). While we're on the topic and it seems you know your Gundam, what about the red-and-white Gundam that Amuro tested out? The Alekk? Or some shit like that. All I know is it was a test suit and red-and-white. Not sure if it was a test Gundam, but at the very least a MS. Ya dig?

>>5894641
You were the one who through a schizo fit cause an anon didn't reply to your shitposts

>>5894641
Not sure about a Red and White Gundam Amuro tested, in 0079 he used the RX-78-2 the entire war ouside of the Novel, where he switches to the RX-78-3 at the end. (And then dies.)
From what you mentioned, maybe the GM? That was Red and White and it used the data collected by the Gundam's learning computer to help develop the GM. The Alex was a MS built near the end of the war to be a custom unit for Amuro, who at that point had severely outgrown the Gundam to the point where it couldn't keep up with him. He obviously never got it, due to the Cyclops team and the war ending.
There's also an Amuro custom Z-Plus A1 that he was Rumored to have used, and the Zeta 3A that he was pilot for. But this doesn't happen for like 7 or 8 years.

>>5894652
A damn shame Amuro never got the Alex to. He'd have been unstoppable in it, but alas, hamburger happened. There's actually quite a few gundam variants running around in the 1 year war's later months, like the Pixy, the close quarter combat variant of which there were at least two

>>5894659
>There's actually quite a few gundam variants running around in the 1 year war's later months,
Side stories have added so much nonsense to the one year war, it's silly. The last months have a bunch of the RX-Series Gundams running about, Three Blue Destinies, a handful of Ground Gundams, three heavy gundams, a couple of full armor Gundams, at least three Pixies. (Bork's, Fred's, and Lillith's).

There's also the Pale Rider, White Rider, Black Rider and Red Rider running about, which aren't Gundams, but are stupidly fucking bullshit. Red, White and Black are all unique units, but there are a few Pale Riders if I remember right.

>>5894671
Ah, I knew I was forgetting about one of the Pixies. And it is really silly how many gundams are running around during the 1 year war. And the riders aren't just bullshit, they're terrifying. HADES is one of the spookiest things in UC, fortunately only the pale riders and the FUCKING TODESRITTER have it. And the Todesritter is post one year war. Think its made in 0090 UC, could be wrong thou

>>5894675
EXAM is worse. HADES is literally just watered down EXAM.

>>5894679
I personally think HADES is worse, due to the effects it has on the pilot, even if one of the components of the EXAM is a newtype's soul. HADES is a death sentence to use, since either it fries your brain or the surgeries to stop it from doing that kill you in a few years anyways. At least with Exam, you destroy the system, the newtype whose soul was used to make it has a chance to return to their body or they die, depending on if you're playing Blue destiny or reading the manga of it. Which is less scary to me, personally, than all the shit HADES does to its users

>>5894692
The side-effects of HADES and it's development and surgery are nuts, but HADES never flips out and starts murdering everything around it indiscriminately like EXAM does. Also, the side effects of HADES and the surgery are exaggerated, IMO. Since ARES and ZEUS don't really have much effect on their pilots. The biggest risk of ARES is stopping the heart of the pilot, but there's a built in resuscitation system in the suit too. Black Rider and the Cavalry have a simplified system that don't seem to have any side-effects at all.
Plus the two on-screen pilots of the Pale Rider live until UC0090 just fine.

>>5894703
Yeah I always chalked up HADES not actually killing the people who we see use it as the usual anime trope of dangerous forbidden techniques, but what is supposedly does with or without the surgeries, is still scary enough to leave an impact, since the surgeries are beyond crippling. But again, as you said, for as scary as its side effects are on paper, the only people we see using it get out of it fine, which does de-fang HADES bit. I dunno, I still rank it higher than EXAM in terms of terror, since what we're told it does is really more scary than a berserk MS, IMO, but as you pointed out, we really only see the memory loss in Missing Link and not everyother way it will kill you painfully

>>5894705
If it makes you feel better, I'd preferably not have to deal with either of them. I like Marion and Yuu, but fuck having anything to do with EXAM and HADES is just bad juju.
Could you imagine ending up in one of the Ghiren's Greed offshoots where Zeon recaptures Moses and ends up with EXAM Gyans and EXAM Gelgoogs.

>>5894716
Man thinking about that actually put a chill down my spine. But I 100% agree, we're keeping Jag as far away from both of em, cause that shit is the devil's work.

>>5893182
>>5893187
>>5893188
>>5893302
>>5893351

Leaving wins, sorry for the delay but I'll get a new post up sometime today.

To offer my input on a few things I see being discussed..

Side story characters from the games and mangas definitely exist in this story too. You'll have chances to interact with them depending on what you guys decide to do with Jag, where he ends up, etc.
There's some very fun things I've got in mind with that but I won't say much else because I don't want it to become a meta issue where votes swing a certain way because you guys know that X will happen if you do Y.

Bullshitting the zeeks into thinking you're civies could work, you're in a city and there's plenty of abandoned homes and shops around. A lot of it may already be looted, but I think it would be reasonable enough to assume that you guys can find something. It may not be too fashionable or a great fit, but you'll find something.
On the topic of civies, there definitely are a few people around that are either too stubborn to leave, or just have nowhere else to go.

As for piloting a Zeek MS, it's definitely viable at the beginning of the war, Igloo even confirms that Feddies used captured Zakus. It becomes less viable once the Feds get their own MS though. Partly because it's kind of odd for an Earthnoid, especially someone with so much baggage from Sydney, to only want to use Zeon MS, and partly because it'd be a nightmare to keep maintained. You won't exactly have spare parts for Zeon MS lying around like you would with EF MS, and even if you were to salvage from the field or something, EF mechanics probably won't know what they're doing when it comes to repairing and maintaining unfamiliar Zeek tech. You'd really only use stolen MS until the thing is just too broken to keep going.

>>5894650
You're the one who was a faggot. STFU unless spoken to.

>>5894652
Huh. So the Alex is legitimate, but not the test suit I was thinking of. Perhaps it was a VerKa gunpla of the Alex with that color scheming. I also don't recall the RX-78-3 at all. Prefer its colors over the 2, but I can't say this one rings a bell. I think I need to ask the guy on discord who told me about it because nothing comes up and nothing other than the GM fits the colorway.

Do appreciate you dropping knowledge on me. Can you give a 101 on Laplace's Box from Unicorn?

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>>5895253
Hey man I get it, but let's try not to devolve this place into shitposting and faggot calling for my sake.

To answer your question though, would you possibly be thinking of the Zeta Plus A1 with test colors? It's a red and white Gundam, and was SUPPOSEDLY tested/piloted by Amuro.

>>5895263
Taken from the Gundam Wiki:

The first Zeta Plus A1 rolled out in November of U.C. 0087, and the new machines were assigned to Karaba units such as the 18th Tactical Fighter Aggressor Squadron (18TFAS) based aboard the Garuda class carrier Audhumla. These machines were painted in gray for low-visibility missions, but had a different rollout color scheme for demonstration purposes. The demonstration colors was also known as "GM coloring" and is a two-tone color of red-orange and white.[2] Rumor has it that one of these colorful machines was used by the legendary ace pilot Amuro Ray in his role as commander of 18TFAS.

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>>5893179
“…I think we should leave.” You add in, and your team mates look to you to listen. “I don’t think it’s worth the risk waiting for the enemy to find us when half the squad is already down. I bet the rest of our forces are too busy dealing with the Zeon main forces to just conveniently show up and save us. No.. if there’s one thing I learned, it’s that nobody will magically come and make everything better. If you want to protect people, you have to do it with your own two hands.” You say, thinking back on painful memories. Gaspa and Yunnus are silent, but they’re not protesting, so you continue. “I’ve seen a few empty cars nearby, maybe we could commandeer one to take back to base?”

“I know how to hot-wire a car.” Gaspa adds in.

“Perfect, we can scout out the nearby area and see if there are any usable cars out there that can fit our injured.” You say.

“But you’re injured too!” Yunnus states, referring to your arm. It’s stopped bleeding, but now that he’s pointed it out, it does sting like fucking hell.

“It doesn’t feel great, but my legs can run just fine. Besides, I think it would be better for you to stay here and keep watch over everyone, you’ve got the most medical experience out of the three of us in case any of them take a turn for the worse..unless you have any objections, sir?” You say.

Yunnus sighs after thinking it over. “I guess this is our best shot.. just don’t wander off too far.”

“Yes sir!” You say with a salute using your uninjured right arm. You hand Yunnus Ben’s heavy assault rifle, and leave the building with Gaspa taking point.

You search the nearby cars while Gaspa keeps watch. Each car you inspect is in varying conditions, with some being too damaged for use, and some only having a few bumps and thick layers of dust. Most aren’t big enough to fit your whole squad, and nearly all have little to no gas in the tank.

A lot of these cars have no gas. You think the civvies siphoned gas from abandoned cars around here? Would anyone even be around still?” You wonder out loud.

“Wouldn’t be surprised. I doubt there’s that big of a law enforcement presence around with shit the way it is now” Gaspa replies.

After checking all the nearby cars, you sigh in frustration. “We’re not getting anywhere...There are a few houses in the perimeter, maybe we can check for cars in the garages. I'd rather not break into any homes, but we also can't let half of our squad die."

"Maybe we can bring it back after the battle." Gaspa offers, and you can't tell if he's joking or not. You split up and search homes in the perimeter. You feel bad for forcing entry, but these houses should be abandoned anyway. Most people who could leave Australia already have, and many others moved to wherever they could to avoid Zeon occupational forces.

>>5895312
You check several houses, kicking doors in to the point that your leg is starting to ache, each time praying that a screaming and terrified family won't be waiting for you on the other side. Thankfully none do, and after fourth door you strike gold, or rather.. silver. A silver pickup truck greets you inside a garage, and you immediately open the garage door and call Gaspa over.

He jogs over, holding something in his hands."Nice, enough room in the back to lay everyone down. I'll get to work." Gaspa says after taking a moment to inspect the find. He has it working within a minute, and the engine comes to life, like music to your ears.

"That was fast. You've had practice, huh?" You comment. "How much gas is left?"

"What can I say, I've had an interesting past." Gaspa says with a chuckle. "We don't have much, but it should be enough to get us where we need to go.. probably."

"That's good enough for me. What're you holding, anyway?" you ask

"Clothes. It looked roughly the right sizes, maybe. I was thinking we could put on some civilian clothes in case we run into Zeek patrols on the way back. We're not in a good shape to keep fighting, so why not try and avoid it?" Gaspa answers. You both get in the car and begin the drive back to Yunnus' position.

"That.. could work." you think out loud.

It's a quick and thankfully uneventful drive back to the building Yunnus was hiding out at, and once there he wastes no time loading the weapons and supplies into the truck. "I'm glad that went well enough. Trunk looks to be the right size, great. Gaspa, help me carry everyone to the back. Jag, load up the rest of our equipment into the backseat. Once we're out, Gaspa can take the wheel and I'll get a better look at that arm of yours." Yunnus instructs, and you all get to work.

"How are they?" you ask, seeing Yunnus and Gaspa try their best to both be quick but also delicate as they lay everyone down at the back of the truck.

"They haven't gotten worse, but.. they haven't gotten better, either. Time's ticking, though. That much I know." Yunnus answers. After your injured squadmates are set up on the trunk, Yunnus calls you and Gaspa over as he unfolds a map. "While you were away, I was trying to find the best routes back to friendly territory, and here's that I think. We can either go the long way by going around the known combat zones here" he says, tracing the route with his fingers through the map. "It'll be the safest bet, but it'll also take time, which isn't exactly a luxury we can really afford with our passengers."

"And our other option?" you ask.

>>5895314
"....We cut through here," Yunnus continues, tracing a much straighter line that cuts across the map, "close to known combat zones. It cuts our travel time by a third, maybe even half if we drive fast and get lucky, but huge emphasis on getting lucky. Best case scenario, we manage to link up with friendlies, maybe even find a medic or get evac sorted. Worst case, we drive right into a live combat zone and get caught in the fight. Even worse case? We run into enemy forces, alone. It's a tough call.. What do you guys think?"

"I'd rather play it safe and go the long way.." Gaspa adds in. "but taking twice as long could be fatal, and we're not exactly running with a full tank. What do you think, J?"

You suggest to:

>Take the long way around, play it safe. It pushes your luck with how long the truck and your injured squad mates can last, but at least running into enemy forces will be less of an issue.
>Take the shortcut, it's worth the risk. You could run into friendlies, or at the very least get your squad mates to a medical facility much faster to save their lives. The chances of running into enemy forces isn't zero even if you circle around, anyway.

Also:
>Take some time to ditch your uniforms to disguise yourselves as civilians
>Keep the uniforms, we need to leave ASAP.

Whichever options are chosen, roll a 2d100 as well.
Would you guys prefer if I chose best of three, or would best of five be more fair? Also, I keep the DC hidden, but would you guys prefer if I'm transparent with what the DC for success would need to be?

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>>5895263
Ha. Don't worry about it man. A to B thing going on. You just keep writing this awesome quest.

That's the suit! I'm a retard. It had test COLORS, not a test SUIT. I should join the other spergs and commit suicide. Sorry to the folks who tried to help. I legit thought it was a test suit.

>>5895318
>>Take the shortcut, it's worth the risk. You could run into friendlies, or at the very least get your squad mates to a medical facility much faster to save their lives. The chances of running into enemy forces isn't zero even if you circle around, anyway.
>Keep the uniforms, we need to leave ASAP.

Maximise getting the fuck out, the conditions of team A are damn bad they need medical aid and Jag arm might need a check too realistically not sure if Yunnus has something on hand for it, if we used all the first aid kit on Team A for keep them alive. If nothing else even if the zooks see our truck, they might go for some seconds "what the Hell did i just see" before activating their genocide genes to overdrive in seeing what they presume is an easy slaughter. And thankfully each second is important in war, and we have a regina and machine guns for put down the zooks if needed.

I would consider to try and check for any ex hospital in the maps, but it would be foolish. In regard to change of clothes it can take time for more than a reason (possible different sizes, rough dirty cloth etc...) and there is our buddies of team A that can't change with their wounds, plus Jag with the arm. It might work but i am not sure and frankly I wouldn't want to ditch out our weapons for a better attempt at stealth. Since we can't print out of nowhere false documents, and this are a genocidal people that wants to murder much of mankind.

Eitherway, time to think of where would be the most safest Fed point to reach in the battle. We should have a rough idea of them i recon yes ? Or see if we can organize through comms and get saved.


>Would you guys prefer if I chose best of three, or would best of five be more fair? Also, I keep the DC hidden, but would you guys prefer if I'm transparent with what the DC for success would need to be?
I like best of three and maybe put spoiler for DC ?

Rolled 15, 23 = 38 (2d100)

>>5895318
>Take the shortcut, it's worth the risk. You could run into friendlies, or at the very least get your squad mates to a medical facility much faster to save their lives. The chances of running into enemy forces isn't zero even if you circle around, anyway.

>Keep the uniforms, we need to leave ASAP.

Let's skeddadle. And as for rolls, best of three for now would be good, could increase it as jag gers more experience or give us bonuses to certain types of checks, and for the dc, it's up to you. Some anons are risk averse and won't take high dc checks, others love that shit and will dive into them immediately so maybe keeping it hidden is for the best

>>5895406
I should fuckin stop rolling, cause I've been rolling ass. Well let's hope the next two rolls save this

>>5895376
All of these are sound strategies, so I'll give my support to them,

>>5895098
good to know the situation of piloting a zaku is pretty much exactly as I thought'd it be, use it for at the start if we can get one then ditch it for a proper Feddie suit. Nice

Rolled 69, 14 = 83 (2d100)

>>5895318
>Take the shortcut, it's worth the risk. You could run into friendlies, or at the very least get your squad mates to a medical facility much faster to save their lives. The chances of running into enemy forces isn't zero even if you circle around, anyway.
>Keep the uniforms, we need to leave ASAP.
I'd say Bo3.

Rolled 66, 3 = 69 (2d100)

>>5895318
>>Take the shortcut, it's worth the risk. You could run into friendlies, or at the very least get your squad mates to a medical facility much faster to save their lives. The chances of running into enemy forces isn't zero even if you circle around, anyway.
>>Keep the uniforms, we need to leave ASAP.

Well, I hope the 2nd d100 wasn't for anything important

>>5895477
I'm hoping that was the run into friendlies one and we zip through the shortcut.

>>5895376
>and this are a genocidal people that wants to murder much of mankind.
Depends on who you get. Zeon has a lot of decent people in it's army, soldiers and officers. The Federation is similar, with their soldiers and pilots being a mix.
The problem is when you get to the upper echelons, the leaders of both sides being extremely corrupt with rare exceptions.

>>5895253
>Can you give a 101 on Laplace's Box from Unicorn?
It's the original charter for UC, drafted by the original federation goverment. It pretty much said that the colonies were given more freedom to govern themselves from the earth federation and they could take part in the federation government.

Naturally, the current earth federation government being corrupt as shit, this was a threat to their control over the earthsphere and wanted to destroy it.
In the end, it's re-discovered and made public, I believe, but has absolutely zero effect on anything and was a footnote in UC History.
The Federation pretty much continuted to control the Earth Sphere through late UC until they became irrelevant around Victory. Like they still controlled things, but they had almost zero ability to stop the Crossbone Vanguard, Jupiter Empire or Zanscare on their own when they popped up.

>>5895505
Wouldn't this put them in the same camp as Zeon, at best (and beyond it, at worst)? It can be argued that there would have been no Zeonic sentiments/philosophies without Feddie corruption. Earth was already their playground, and it seems they wanted little to do with space anyway (no Spacenoids on Earth without reason, etc).

Yes, I'm aware of the Republic of Zeon and Zabi fuckery that led to the Principality of Zeon but still. Like you said--the Fed continues their antics throughout all of UC. It seems that in popular Gundam space (heh, pun?), Zeon is the agreed-upon bad faction with no discussion possible.

>>5895521
Then you haven't been in the space for long, people have been arguing who is worse between the feds and zeeks since the dawn of time. in 0079, yeah zeon are the baddies, but successive works and popularity (not so) gradually pushed the one year war towards being shades of grey. Which has people to this day unironically defend operation british There is a lot of discussion of who in the end is worse between Zeon and the earth federation, since both have quite a few atrocities under their belt by the end of and beyond the 1 year war

>>5895529
Even 0079 had shades of gray with Ramba Ral, Cucuruz Doan, Lalah, Dozle shows a lot of gray with the contrast of how he's shown with Zeon and his family and when he's fighting Amuro and the Gundam.

>>5895529
Ignoring this faggot.

>>5895563
I genuinely think Ramba Ral is an all-around stand-up fellow. I mean, Sunrise has to know how much he's favored, given he's a main supporting character in Build (or a homage of one technically).

>>5895569
Ramba Ral is my favorite character, and you should probably stop sperging out before you get hit with another 3 day vacation, homie

>>5895563
Certainly they were, and they're probably the basis behind the later whitening of the zeon morality and the inclusion of other Good/ noble zeon characters

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>>5895406
>>5895444
>>5895472

>Highest roll for second d100 is 23
>Pic related

>>5895376
Sure, I'll start doing that from now on. For the current rolls, here are the DCs and a bit of a look at how the dice rolls could affect things:
Roll 1: DC was 65. This roll was for how quickly you can get to where you need to go and whether or not your injured team mates take a turn for the worse. Fail the DC and the ride is slowed down by debris and whatever else, and/or conditions of the injured start to go downhill the lower the roll gets. The higher your roll from the DC, the faster you would've gotten there and your squad mates could be in slightly better shape.

Roll 2: DC was 75. This roll was for what you guys would encounter. 75 or higher would find you guys linking up with friendlies. 90 or higher would've gotten you guys some medical attention. Around 50-74 you'd have encountered friendlies AND enemies. Around 30-49 would see you facing enemy forces alone, with enemy composition being stronger the lower the roll. Anything below, and.. well, I guess you guys will see soon enough.


>>5895569
I'm all for Gundam talk and maybe a bit of arguing over characters and sides, but let's keep it civil man.

Rolled 46, 29 = 75 (2d100)

>>5896149
Forgot to do this..

I wonder what the Antarctic Treaty has to say about people who are ferrying their wounded.

>>5896160
All we know is it says no nuking or repeating the colony drop

>>5896160
>>5896385
One of the lore books listed it out.
1: No using NBC Weapons or Weapons of Mass Destruction.
2: No attacking the Jupiter Fleet, Lunar Cities or Neutral Zones. No combat in them either. Granada is an exception due to being controlled by Zeon and not neutral.
3: Prisoners of War must be treated Humanely. Also, Soldiers out of uniform are considered unlawful combatants and are not protected by the treaty.

>>5896433
I really need to get my hands on those lore books. Pretty basic stuff though. Wonder how many times it's broken in 0079 alone

>>5896443
If I remember right, once. It was M'quve during Operation Odessa firing the Nuke. It's been awhile since I watched 0079 admittedly, though.

>>5896451
Does the giant fucking colony laser count? It wasn't fire on earth, but it was a wmd

>>5896463
I'm not sure if the Solar Ray or the Solar System count, everyone was constructing giant space lasers at that point, so I assume not.

>>5896472
Probably had a loophole since they wouldn't affect earth they were fine to make and melt fleets

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>>5895585
Dude, just fuck off. I don't like you, I don't want to interact with you. You ignored me before so just go back to that and leave me alone. Stop sperging into threads that don't concern you.

>>5896149
Focus on the quest, broski. Trying to be chill here.

>>5896149
Thanks.
Well we have the regina and the machine guns, lets see if they want to say hello to it.

>>5896553
I bet its gonna be another Zaku. It'll be funny if its another zaku

>>5896684
Oh baby a triple!

>>5896717
Yeah imagine how happy command will be if we take down 3 when we weren't really expected to deal with 2

>>5896717
>>5896731
I'd rather not fight with them if we can help it, and see if we can get our friends medical attention.

>>5896746
Oh yeah, first plan of action is leg it and get away from the Zaku. But if flight fails, fight is the only acceptable alternative, since the other ones are, die or surrender

>>5896750
Surrender would probably get our friends help actually. We're thankfully still in uniform, and thus protected under the Antarctic Treaty. It's not what I want to do and we could run into some dickbag Zeeks. But it is acceptable.

>>5896759
I am very much on the "death before dishonor" side of the scale, but hopefully it won't come to another fight or terms of surrender and we can just gtfo before having to make the choice. Also trusting some guys whose buddies we just iced to uphold the treaty may not be the best survival plan. They could be cool dudes and honorable soldiers or they could be the puppy kicking kind of zeek who enjoys the sounds of earthnoid screaming. Not a coin flip I wanna make, desu

>>5896766
>I am very much on the "death before dishonor" side of the scale
Death before dishonor doesn't make a long quest or help our friends out.

>>5896770
Which is why the plan is to run first, surrendering is more of a gamble than combat, but it still is plan b for me.

>>5896774
Yeah, I'd rather just try to get by them. Combat is the last, last resort in my mind, because my goal is to get our squad medical attention and Zakus usually patrol in groups of two or three.

>>5896778
I agree entirely, getting our Mates to the field hospital is the utmost highest priority, I just consider fighting our way out to b plan be rather than c, since it really is a dice roll if surrending means we end as prisoners or casualties of war and which it is depends entirely on the temperament of any zeeks we surrender to.

But I'll vote to retreat and only vote to bring Reggie out if that doesn't work, since anything else besides trying to avoid combat could get the mates we risked our lives to save killed.