>>33868703
As it happens, your guy's been acting especially cagey of late: there were three independent reports of him sprinting straight to his quarters after your crash, and two that suggest he made his way into the hangar immediately after it was announced you would be relieving Uraki in the Core Fighter. Several more technicians have also reported that his mood seemed more relaxed since Monsha was placed into custody. Haman's view of his mood? She felt the man felt "positively cocky". Sure makes him SEEM guilty as sin... but then again, your very nearly bought the 'evidence' of Monsha's 'guilt' as well. You could just be jumping at shadows.
>Meet with Nina, discuss your respective findings
>Enlist the assistance of Captains Joshua and Synapse to draw Orville away from his quarters
>Get Karen's approval to take Orville into custody and search his quarters
>Inform the Captains of the situation and suggest creating an opportunity for the saboteur to try again
>Other

>>33868768
> Meet with Nina, discuss your respective findings
> Inform the Captains of the situation and suggest creating an opportunity for the saboteur to try again

Rolled 48

Once we do ensnare the rat(s) and set the trap, how are we going to keep them from jumping ship? As far as we know Orville is not alone and could have multiple hands working under him. We'll haft to secure the exterior bulkheads near his quarters and the hangars to prevent him from running.

Either way, consult with Nina.

>>33868768
>Inform the Captains of the situation and suggest creating an opportunity for the saboteur to try again

Unfortunately for us, our evidence is only circumstantial, so we can't really do too much. I have a feeling that he's going to become complacent and mess up now he thinks he's safe, so a trap is the way to go.

>>33868916
Uh, the ship is flying over the ocean, where's he going to go?

>>33868966
Status update: three hours after the crash, the Albion reached Mozambique and proceeded North towards Tanzania: a hotbed of Zeke resistance.

>>33868966
He stole one of the core fighters in canon and flew away.

>>33868768
>Meet with Nina, discuss your respective findings

>>33868703
Get South under our wing. He can help us corner the rat when we start rooting him out. Extra muscle doesn't hurt. Plus I bet Monsha would want words with Orville.

>>33868768
>Meet with Nina

>>33868993
Oh OK, but still I assume we're still airborne? He's not going to be able to escape that easily.

>>33869008
Really? That's fucking stupid. I assume he got blown up by AA fire the moment he left. And also since we're running constant patrols, we don't have a spare now since he broke the other one right?

>>33869052
Keep in mind he's been actively working on the GMs and Gundams in the hangar, so he has some inkling of how they function. He could just as easily Gundamjack US if he can't get a fighter.

>>33868916
Assuming we don't dock anywhere so he can slip out then, the other way for him to do so is to grab a vehicle of some sorts (like a core fighter) and flee the scene.

So maybe we can "sabotage" one of the remaining vehicles around, and when he decides to skip town, he falls into the same trap he set up for us?

>>33869081
Why don't we have biometric locks already, Nina?

>>33869149
I'd assume they're locked down tight by the enginseers.

Which is what Orville is. So we're screwed either way if he gets antsy and tries to route.

>>33869149
Because that would prevent angsty psychic teenagers from falling into the cockpit and singlehandedly routing entire wars. Duh.

>>33869081

If he tried to make a quick escape in one of the MSs from our team, he'll die quite quickly due to him probably not having anything close to newtype reflexes, and the suits settings are for us, so he shouldn't have enough time to change them...

>>33869247
We should be careful he doesn't sabotage the machines. It happened before.

>>33868768
Nina is hanging around the hangar, with Uraki hovering around her. You're not sure whether he reminds you more of a circling vulture or a lost puppy, but either way you're pretty sure he's not there to talk shop with the lead designer of his Gundam. Regardless of his intentions, though shop-talk seems to be all he's getting right now.

You clear your throat behind Nina to catch her attention.

"Ah, Dominic," she greets you. "I was about to come try and find you. Have a minute to talk?"

"Sure, and I've got that report you wanted," you tell her cryptically. "Where to?"

"I'm thinking Mora's office," she tells you, pointing at an enclosed office overlooking the Albion's cavernous port hangar.

You nod, and Nina leads you up the stairs to the office. "No, stay here Kou," she tells Ensign Uraki as he tries to follow you.

"Why not?" he asks, clearly offended a bit.

"It's a private matter," Nina explains to him before closing the door to the office in Uraki's face.

"Poor sod," you mutter.

Nina ignores your remark. "So, I looked into Anaheim's records," she begins, "and Orville was definitely working for Zimmad Company before we 'acquired' him. He's also closely associated with some of the now-cancelled GP-04 project's members, who worked with him at Zimmad."

"Seems like he's got plenty of reason to try something like this," you admit. "But why do it when I'm in the cockpit?"

Nina stares at you incredulously. "You're the Devil's Jester," she replies. "You're right up there with Jung and Ray. Of course he'd try to off you."

Well, shit. That makes sense, but it definitely doesn't feel good knowing you've got a target painted on your back like that.

"So," you eventually manage, putting your own nervousness aside, "I've interviewed a few crewmembers, and Orville's behavior has been pretty fishy. Haman even went so far as to call him "cocky" after he heard that Monsha was arrested."

"He went for the bait," Nina muttered. "Damn. I trusted him, too..."
(1/2)

>>33869247
>>33869288
We really should get the roster on who is working on our machines. Specifically Uraki's.

>>33869317

Did we tell Nina about Haman? I thought her cover was Noin....

>>33869317
"So," Nina finishes, "how do we handle this? Try and catch him in the act or something?"

>Arrange with Karen and Synapse to order a false 'patrol' for tomorrow morning, see if you can catch him trying to sabotage your machines
>Arrange with Synapse and Nina to draw Orville away from his quarters, and look through his personal effects while he's out
>Clear it with Synapse and raid his quarters while he's asleep: he either panics, you find something, or you treat his association with Zimmad and the circumstantial evidence as 'probable cause' to have him held

>>33869357
It's the 21st/22nd century people. Install security cameras in your robot carriers hangar and flight deck already.

>>33869380
... fuck me sideways. 'Noin'.

I keep forgetting she's supposed to be incognito.

>>33869431
>Option 4
Confront him directly in the hauls. Wrap an arm around him like an old friend and lead him off to somewhere private. Set the toothbruth down in front of him and give hm the "we know" look even though we can't prove jack. He'll get cocky and start mouthing off his master plan.

And that's when we pull out the tape recorder and give him the Just as Keikaku.jpg.

>>33869431
> Arrange with Karen and Synapse to order a false 'patrol' for tomorrow morning, see if you can catch him trying to sabotage your machines
> Arrange with Synapse and Nina to draw Orville away from his quarters, and look through his personal effects while he's out
We'll have the false patrol in the morning, and have him be assigned as "someone we trust" to oversee our launch. While he's with us, helping us calibrate the machine, somebody else can run a search of his offices.

>>33869431
Our best bet would be to catch him in the act. We rotate stand-by shifts in our Gundams as it is. Wouldn't be hard to have one of us constantly monitoring the hangar bays from our cockpit. Plus we'd have photographic proof of his fuckery.

>>33869431
>Arrange with Karen and Synapse to order a false 'patrol' for tomorrow morning, see if you can catch him trying to sabotage your machines
>Arrange with Synapse and Nina to draw Orville away from his quarters, and look through his personal effects while he's out
Have Orville be requested to be present at the morning tune up before we take our machine on the patrol.
He's cocky, so he might think he can get away with another sabotage attempt. We can search his room while he's in the hangar.

There's also a good chance that he won't risk a second attempt, simply because the most likely suspect (Monsha) is already under arrest and a second sabotage attempt would prove that it wasn't Monsha acting alone.

Rolled 22 + 20

>>33869637
This

By the way, is interrogating the Zeke sub prisoners on the back burner until this gets resolved?

>>33869705
Maybe we should goad him into trying a second time?

Like acting all cocky in front of him and telling how this time we won't crash?

>>33869823
Or we go up for a second patrol. Another chance to off us. Before we go up have Nina double-check the hydraulics.

Actually, it wouldn't be a bad idea to have her check our fire control software either. Plus Uraki's.

>>33869431
>>Arrange with Karen and Synapse to order a false 'patrol' for tomorrow morning, see if you can catch him trying to sabotage your machines
>>Arrange with Synapse and Nina to draw Orville away from his quarters, and look through his personal effects while he's out

>>33869431
>>Arrange with Karen and Synapse to order a false 'patrol' for tomorrow morning, see if you can catch him trying to sabotage your machines

>Arrange with Karen and Synapse to order a false 'patrol' for tomorrow morning, see if you can catch him trying to sabotage your machines

>>33869431
"I'm going to ask Karen and Captain Synapse to schedule a patrol for tomorrow morning," you tell her. "Can you make sure Orville is assigned to run the checks on our Gundams tonight?"

"Sure," Nina replies. "But why?"

"So that Reiko and Noin can raid the shit out of his quarters, and see if they can't dig up some evidence."

Nina nods to you. "Understood. I'll see to the preparations."

As you leave the office, you see Uraki cast a nervous glance in your direction. When he notices that you've noticed him, he immediately tries to look busy.

"So, what you're saying is that we've ended up inheriting Anaheim's mole problem?" Captain Synapse asks you several minutes later. The man seems distinctly angered by the notion of a traitor being aboard his ship, rather than Monsha just being a vindictive twat.

"That's correct," you tell him.

Karen nods in your direction. "I'll pass the orders to Noin and Carya."

"With your permission, Captain," she adds.

Synapse frowns, but eventually gives you a salute. "You better be sure to catch that son of a bitch," he growls.

>Brief Haman and Carya on what they might be looking for?
>Bide your time by interrogating a sub prisoner?

>>33870045
> Brief Haman and Carya on what they might be looking for?
Lets deal with this first. The prisoners can wait.

>Brief Haman and Carya on what they might be looking for?
No use getting them in if they don't know what to look for.

>>33870045
Briefing.

Laptop. Papers. Encrypted flash drives. Directional laser comm. Camera. Film. If it looks suspicious catalog it. His kiddie porn, we never did check to see if the Good Captain's indian porn had any hidden rar files.

>>33870045
>>Brief Haman and Carya on what they might be looking for?

>As you leave the office, you see Uraki cast a nervous glance in your direction. When he notices that you've noticed him, he immediately tries to look busy.
Does he think there's a thing between Nina & Dom? Should straighten that out for him. Hopefully it's that and not that Orville's a red herring and Kou's the mole.

>>33870119
second, Id ignore the last about the Captains Indian stuff since we deleted it if i remember correctly.

>>33870045
Ask South if wants in on the rat hunt.

>>33870045
>asking him to work on the Gundam
>in the hangar
>where he can easily steal a GM or Gundam

You fools. You've doomed us all.

>>33870244
Yeah, except we put some security on our gundams, because we were tired of people stealing them.

>>33870429
An engineer with a wrench and preptime will take out the redshirt security.

>>33870244
Why would we ask him personally to work on it, that'd just arouse suspicion.
Just slate him for routine maintence work on a variety of stuff, including our Gundam.

>>33870045
Moving down to the the ready room, you find Haman sitting in one of the chairs. You can also feel that the sisters have left your quarters and are on their way to join you.

"Hey, Haman," you greet her.

Haman waves at you. "What's going on?"

"We're moving in on Orville," you tell her. "I'll wait until the sisters are here to give you the briefing."

Haman nods, and settles into her chair to wait. In a few moments the sisters arrive and immediately vault over the back of the couch, landing on their back.

"We going to make a move?" Catrina asks eagerly. "Cause I'm dying to nail this rat bastard already."

"Good," you reply. "We're going to need the to of you to raid Orville's quarters while we've got him out looking at our Gundams."

Haman and the sisters both sit up a bit straighter. "Okay," Haman tells you, "what are we looking for?"

"His laptop, hard drives, unauthorized weapons, any paper records," you tell them, "and watch out for any traps he may have set. I don't expect any problems, but it won't hurt to be careful."

"Got it," Carya tells you. "And destruction of property?"

"Knock yourselves out, so long as you don't destroy any evidence."

Catrina licks her lips. "Love it."

You have a bit of time before the mission is announced and Orville is called to the hangar. You could
>Set up some "insurance" with South and the security teams
>Interrogate the sub prisoners

>>33870628
>Set up some "insurance" with South and the security teams
I dunno what this means, but it sounds interesting, so I'll vote for it!

Rolled 82 + 20

>>33870628
>>Set up some "insurance" with South and the security teams

Sub prisoners aren't going anywhere.

>>33870628
>>Set up some "insurance" with South and the security teams

>>33870628
Insurance? Making sure he can't run? Setting Monsha loose on him? Uploading kiddie porn so he's ostracized by the rest of the ships' cre?

Could get Blitzen to start a psyche evaluation of the POWs for us. Figure out which ones could easily be turned for our gains.

>>33870628
>Interrogate the sub prisoners

I honestly think if we try to do too much around this guy he's gonna bolt and we'll get nothing. But then again we're terrible at interrogations, we'd not be much use there either.

>>33870628
>Interrogate the sub prisoners

>>33870628
> Set up some "insurance" with South and the security teams

>>33870628
>>Set up some "insurance" with South and the security teams

>>33870628
"Excellent," you tell your teammates as you turn to leave. "I'll have Mora shoot you a text on my phone when I think it's time."

On your way from the ready room to see South about getting something of an 'insurance policy' for dealing with Orville, you hear the announcement for your team's phony mission. Good, now all Nina needs to do is get Orville into the hangar in about fifteen minutes, and all the pieces will be in place.

"Hey, South?" you ask the veteran pilot as you walk onto the bridge.

"Yeah, Commander?" he replies, tucking a clipboard under his arm to give you a salute. "What is it?"

"I want you and a pair of MPs to set up a sniper nest in the hangar," you tell him. "Make sure that if our guy tries anything stupid we have some thirty-caliber insurance."

Burning throws you a lopsided grin. "Can do, Dominic. I'll get them in position right away."

"Double time, South," you tell him as he turns to hustle down to the security section's armory.

Heading down to the hangar, you pass by Nina on her way to grab Orville, and give her a curt nod. When you arrive in the hangar, you can't see the sniper team, but you can feel the tension in their minds as they wait with Burning at the top of the cavernous space, right near one of the floodlights that illuminates the hangar. Brilliant thinking: they're actually using the light to hide.

Orville arrives in the hangar with Nina.

"Commander!" Orville greets you. "I wasn't aware you'd be joining us."

"I'm a funny sort of a guy," you reply off-handedly. "I take my own machine's maintenance very seriously."

"A consummate professional, aren't you?" he laughs. "I can respect that." Haman was right, this asshole is practically strutting around the hangar like he owns the place, quite secure in his own confidence that he's managed to avoid suspicion.
(1/2)

>>33871256
That being said, you can also tell that behind the affable facade, this is a man who truly hates you. It's not just a personal hatred, but a hatred of you and everything you happen to be associated with.

It's pretty clear now that he's the one you're after.
>How do you proceed?
>Play it cool, chat, talk shop?
>Try and get him to slip up?

>Play it cool, chat, talk shop?
Not our job to get the confession, just buy time for the smash n grabbers

Rolled 10

>>33871292
>>Play it cool, chat, talk shop?

>>33871292
>Play it cool, chat, talk shop?

Part of me wants to kinda troll him by talking up the Kampfer, and mentioning that Zimmad suits couldn't hold a candle to Zeonic company suits. But i think that would probably blow our cover.

>>33871292
>Play it cool, chat, talk shop?

>>33871292
"Fucking Monsha, huh? South's been pissed. I'm just glad we have trusthworthy engineers like you looking out for us grunts."

"So, have you noticed anything new? I mean, Monsha was one guy, doesn't mean he was working alone. Shit, I bet his lackeys are planning something right this instant!"

>>33871361
Hmm, maybe we could ask him if he has a favorite mobile suit?

I would assume that isn't something unusual to ask in-universe, right?

>>33871427
Thats, kinda bad. If anything we should be talking about his work with the core fighter.

>>33871427
good God, that's so transparent it's almost as if... YOU'RE A ZEKE SPY

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>>33871427

>>33871454
"What about that Zudah eh, looks great, but what a piece of shit!"

>>33871427
>>33871467
These are both bad, because they'll make him more suspicious, he needs to believe he's gotten away with it.

Rolled 3

>>33871292
>Ask him how he likes Anaheim and the MS he's worked on

I roll to seduce.

>>33871538
>he needs to believe he's gotten away with it

He's intelligent enough to know Nina would run down the list of her ex-Zeon contractors after she cooled off and started thinking.

>wait a second, Monsha's a perv. Not a murderer.

>>33871623
Except he's not, atm he's as cool as a cucumber. We can see that through his interaction with us. His smugness is because he believes that we've arrested Monsha for his crimes.

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>>33871467
>>33871479
>>33871514
>>33871538
I thought it was obvious that was sarcasm. I guess I need a reaction image next time.

>Play it cool, chat, talk shop?
I was thinking about discussing the Lilium's preformance in the last battle, and discuss ways of improving a suits beam resistance.

I was thinking about swapping stories about our work, we could bitch about the quality of the AE subsidiaries on earth, mention that our targeting computer was useless, and blame fucking temps or something.

>>33871292
“Let's start with the actuators in the ankles on each machine, and work out way up?” Nina suggests.

Orville nods. “Sounds fine, Miss Purpleton.” As the two of them get to work, you try to flag down the dusky chief engineer... to no avail.

Shit, Mora's not getting the message that you want to pass your phone off to her... time to improvise.

“Hang on,” you tell Nina and Orville, just got a text. You take out your phone and pretend to take a keen interest in it. “It's a picture from Lieutenant Marseille. Heh, nice.”

“Can I see it?” Orville asks. There's only mild suspicion there: mostly he just wants to seem friendly and interested. Two-faced little prick.

You shake your head. “It's... not exactly something a gentleman should be sharing,” you tell him in response. “If you catch my drift.”

“Ahhh,” he replies. “So it's THAT kind of photo, you lucky little shit.” Good, he bought it. Even Nina rolls her eyes, apaprently not realizing that it was a ruse. “Pigs,” she mutters under her breath.

You quickly enter a text to Haman and the sisters, but keep up the charade. “I'm going to have to remind her not to send me stuff like this when I'm working,” you tell Orville and Nina.
>Time to get to work
“It's just too distracting for a healthy young man.”
>SEND

“So, what's your favorite mobile suit?” you ask Orville as you join the technicians in inspecting your Gundam's foot.

“I'm a bit partial to the old GM Sniper-II,” Orville admits. “It wasn't an RX-type, but it was a goddamn piece of art from a designer's perspective.”

“Doninic actually piloted one,” Nina offers.

“Oh yeah?” Orville asks. “How'd you like it?”
(1/?)

>>33871686
You shrug and snag a spanner off the tray sitting next to you. “Should have had magnet coatings on the joints,” you tell him. “The response time of the limbs was too slow relative to the maneuverability of the whole body, made it difficult to shoot and move at the machine's full potential.”

"Huh," Orville responds quietly, with some apparently genuine interest despite his hatred towards you. "Well, good thing we corrected that with the GP series."

For several long minutes you chatter quite amiably, and you can sense a thrill of excitement from your smash-and-grab team, who speed down to the hangar deck.

"Hey, I need a favor," you tell Orville, rising to your feet.

"Sure thing," he replies, also standing. You need to get him into a position where Burning's sniper team can cover him.

"One of the pistons in that pneumatic actuator looked shot, could you help me find a replacement?" You walk over to the small cache of replacement parts at one end of the hangar. Orville, not suspecting anything out of the ordinary, accompanies you... until Haman and C.C. walk through the hatch to the hangar floor. Haman is carrying Orville's laptop and a portable drive, along with some papers, and both women have triumphant looks on their faces.

"You kept physical notes?" Haman asks a bewildered and furious Orville. "How quaint."

"Not to mention stupid," Catrina replies.

Orville, after a moment of indecision, goes for something in his pocket... you can sense aggression and desperation in the man's mind.
>Draw your own sidearm, shoot to disarm (d100 - 20)
>Draw your own sidearm, shoot to kill (d100)
>Bum rush and tackle (d100, runs the risk of a free shot by Orville)
>Other? (QM will set the difficulty if a write-in suggestion wins)

>>33871943
"SOUTH! SHOOT THE FUCKER!"

>>33871943

>Bum rush and tackle (d100, runs the risk of a free shot by Orville)

Let's not risk murdering him when he's got all that info we can exploit.

Rolled 13 - 20

>>33871943
Shoot to disarm.

>>33871943
Can we throw something at him if there is anything by us?

Rolled 14

>>33871943
>>Bum rush and tackle (d100, runs the risk of a free shot by Orville)
LEEEEEEEEEEROY

>>33871943
>Spit in his face

He'll try to wipe it off.

Rolled 58 - 20

>>33871943
>Draw your own sidearm, shoot to disarm (d100 - 20

Rolled 94

>>33871943
>>Bum rush and tackle (d100, runs the risk of a free shot by Orville)

Rolled 23

>>33872011

Whoops, forgot my roll.

Rolled 98 - 20

>>33871943
> Draw your own sidearm, shoot to disarm (d100 - 20)
Oh God.

Rolled 63

>>33871943
>>Bum rush and tackle (d100, runs the risk of a free shot by Orville)

Rolled 53 - 20

>>33871943
Draw your own sidearm, shoot to disarm (d100 - 20)

Rolled 74 + 20

>>33871943
>Shoot to disarm

>>33872000
This. We got sniper support for a reason. Bum rushing will prevent them from taking the shot

Rolled 68

>>33871943
Quickly approach and make a jab for his throat. Kick his knee out then break his wrist. We're not bum rushing when we can play smart.

Rolled 63 - 20

>>33871943
>>Draw your own sidearm, shoot to disarm (d100 - 20)

Rolled 98

>>33872037
Throw a can of green paint on him.

>>33872077

sheeiiittt

By the way, never actually do this in real life. You always shoot to stop the threat, which pretty much means kill.

Rolled 92

>>33872111
Somehow I completely forgot that already
>>33872078
Switch this to Sniper support

>>33872027
>>33872059
>>33872077
Disarm, score of 78
>>33872039
>>33872063
>>33872073
Rush, score of 94

Who dares 78?

Rolled 83

>>33871943
>>Bum rush and tackle (d100, runs the risk of a free shot by Orville)

>>33871943
Did we pick up a plasma cutter when we were doing maintenance? Could we use one to cut off his arm?

Keep his mouth open, make sure he doesn't swallow.

>>33872153
And at this point, that's half the reason for the penalty: Dominic would have to fight his training to shoot for center of mass while trying to line up a shot at speed.

>>33872267
I can't believe people forgot the insurance we set up. That's the whole point for insurance.

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>>33872302
I like to think it's because we were channelling the spirit of Kamille.

Rolled 21, 50, 20 = 91

>>33872267
>Calling it at 19:40
>Disarm
>>33872027
>>33872059
>>33872077
>>33872081
>>33872106
>>33872144

>CQC
>>33872011
>>33872039
>>33872063
>>33872078
>>33872113
>>33872187

CQC wins with a 94. Rolling for everyone else...

>>33872365
Ow.

>>33872302
Well the insurance is only to prevent Orville doing something truly stupid and dangerous. If we can disarm him, we can interrogate him since he'd break like a little bitch.

>>33872365
We'll actually keep the spare core fighter? There's another butterfly. Zekes won't shoot him down now. Break him and get his codes. Start sending false data.

>>33872365
>CQC wins with a 94. Rolling for everyone else...
Did we just unlock Hokuto Shinken or something?

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Rolled 23

>>33872494
And Dom just grew massively and now sports a badass beard...

But probably we're SOLID SNAKEU now.

>>33872549
>SOLID SNAKEU

Well, we are chasing a Metal Gear...

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Rolled 38

>>33872562
>Haman: "Dom, do you think love can bloom on the battlefield?"

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>>33872562
Shit youre right. I cant believe I didnt see the nanomachines.

>>33872365
You, Haman, Carya and Catrina all leap into action at the same time: just a few milliseconds before the actual threat itself arises. The ladies each move to sidestep, knowing that it will be much more difficult to hit moving targets than stationary, and that they're currently silhouetted against the doorway. The sisters eyes burn in a rich amethyst as their minds act in unison to draw their sidearm. The movement is far faster than Orville could ever dream of matching.

By the time his own .25acp clears his pocket, a .357 round has already buried itself in Orville's side. The speed of the draw and her lateral movement must have spoiled Carrina's aim, and her frustration makes it clear to you that she knows her shot went a little wide, but it's still enough to cause Orville to lose his grip on the little pocket pistol. The weapon slowly falls towards the floor, where its momentum causes it to skitter away.

Which is when you come in.

The sniper behind you realizes that his shot is no good, and his finger eases off the trigger. You can tell he's decided to let you play your own game rather than risk hitting a friendly. You'll have to thank him later, you reckon.

First, you decide to slam your foot into the side of Orville's knee, causing his whole left leg to buckle under his body weight as the patellar ligament ruptures from the lateral impact. But you're far from finished. You could keep kicking him for fucking days on end at this rate, but you feel like you'll be forced to settle for a few more good shots.

Next, you pull your leg back in across your midline and deliver an explosive snap-kick with the side of your foot that crushes Orville's nose and sends him reeling backwards. A cloud of pinkish-red blood wafts over your uniform's trouser leg as the back of Orville's head slams hard into the deck with a sickening thud that reverberates across the hangar.

He's out cold, but he's not quite dead.
(1/2)

>>33872782
All this takes place in the space of about two seconds.

As Carrina moves forward in what you realize to be a center axis relock stance to cover Orville's fallen body, South clambers down from his sniper nest by the floodlights.

"Holy shit," he mutters. "Seems the Young Master's grown up into something pretty scary."

>Hand Orville over to South and the crew of the Albion
>Interrogate him yourself
>Joint interrogation

>>33872782
Open his mouth, don't let him swallow.

Rolled 12

>>33872889
>>Hand Orville over to South and the crew of the Albion

And get Monsha released, thank him for his cooperation

>>33872889
> Hand Orville over to South and the crew of the Albion
> Interrogate him yourself

>>33872889
>Joint interrogation

>Joint interrogation
It was you he tried to kill, after all

Rolled 90

>>33872889
>>Hand Orville over to South and the crew of the Albion

Plus >>33872905

>>33872889
>Joint interrogation
We seem pretty good at this interrogation thing.

>>33872889
>>Joint interrogation
Let Monsha out too

>>33872889
>>Joint interrogation

>>33872889
Hand him off. We want to look at his computer with Audrey and Nina.

>>33872889
>Hand Orville over to South and the crew of the Albion

He hates the shit out of us. We felt that hate, he won't say a damn word if we're there. Do agree with >>33872905 we should go get Monsha released and thank him, I hate the guy, but we do need to apologize to him regarding this plot.

And then we deal with computers.

>>33872889
>Hand Orville over to South and the crew of the Albion

>>33872905
This

>>33872905
This

>>33872889
"Damn right he did," you tell him.

"What do we do with this sack of shit?" Carrina asks you as she secures Orville's weapon.

"I'm handing him over to you and Captain Synapse, South," you decide.

"You sure?" he asks you earnestly. "He did try to kill you, and I thought you'd want to come to some kind of understanding..."

"Hell no," you cut South off. "I can understand that he hates my guts, and that I'm not gonna get shit out of him."

Carrina relaxes her stance a little. "Being a Newtype doesn't mean you've got mind control, Lieutenant Burning," she explains. "It's usually a heightened awareness and sensitivity to the world around you, including the people around you."

Haman glares at Orville. "That man won't respond to any of our team. He's too consumed by his hatred of the Gundams and their pilots. Someone else may stand a better chance at getting him to talk."

South sighs. "Fine, but can I at least let Monsha go now?"

You shake your head. "If you must..."

"Well," Nina interjects, finally working up the courage to interrupt, "we've got some intel right here. Want to work through some of it?"

>Work on the laptop
>Work through the paperwork
>Something else?

>>33873347
>>Work on the laptop

>>33873347
>Work on the laptop
Nina is probably better at understanding what the paperwork means.

Rolled 7

>>33873347
>>Work on the laptop

>>33873347
Blitzen on the paperwork. Secretary, ho!

Nina and Audrey on the laptop.

Go raid his personal locker with Haman. Pick up a crowbar on the way.

Rolled 87

>>33873347
>>Work on the laptop

>>33873347
>Work through the paperwork

This is an oddity. Paperwork is incredibly unusual in this day and age, and the fact that Haman mentioned it, means it's probably important.

>>33873383
>>33873391
>>33873397
>>33873408
>>33873412
Seriously? The asshole was taking notes on paper. Notes about his activities. It's right there, unsecured, in plain English.

>>33873453
It's all gonna get sorted through. Chill.

>>33873453
Multitasking. We've a team. We're the second-in-command. No point we can't delegate.

>>33873347
>>Work through the paperwork

Rolled 97

>>33873347
>"Nina, how about you work on top of my lap?"
>Work on the laptop

>>33873408
This

>>33873541
Damnit, Let Kou have his shitty waifu. We have enough pussy as it is.

>>33873651
Why?

>>33873651
Sitting them both down like adults would speed up the process. Or alleviate the inevitable betrayal.

Better yet, let's just leave Nina on Earth. No worries about her shooting anyone.

>>33873666
>Nina as waifu

NOPE NOPE NOPE sloppy Gato seconds nope

I'd rather take Nena Trinity even though she'll kill me during our wedding.

Rolled 62

>>33873651
You can never have enough pussy Anon.

>>33873708

Things are different in this quest, who's to say that she was with Gato this time?

>>33873745
While our presence has changed a lot of the canon I don't think Nina's previous love life was affected at all.

>>33873745
Then she'd be with Kelly, and Kelly is sort of a bro.

>>33873745
Is this the time when she was with Gato in canon?

WAIT! Could we have killed Gato at Solomon/A Boa Qu or something?

Please don't turn this into another shitty generic harem quest.

inb4 'the girls are totally okay with it!'. It doesn't make it any less awful to read through.

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>>33873666
Not that anon, but Nina is a horribly psychopathic bitch with no redeeming qualities. Although King is writing her consistently better than the source material. And besides, she's not even a Newtype. We couldn't possibly make her our Queen.

>>33873708

Wait, Nena doesn't seem like that. Well, she did, but she was all over Billy in Awakening of the Trailblazer, and i can't really conceive her harming Billy with how dere she was.

>>33873789

Our queen is C.C.

Let Kou have his Nina

>>33873821
Uh, Nina Trinity is the one who killed Louise' family.

I haft to wonder. South only found the piece of paper incriminating Orville because he was injured. If we hadn't tagged along on the Pointless Earth Arc, would they have found evidence incriminating Orville?

Makes you wonder.

Rolled 18

>>33873788

Paptimus Syrup had a harem and his wasn't shitty and generic, whose to say we can't do the same?

>>33873780
I forget if KOH said something about that or not. I'm almost certain he did but blanking out on the answer.

>>33873847

And i hate her for it. But i can't imagine her just killing Billy without at least a somewhat decent reason.

>>33873347
You quickly walk over and key the mic on the comm station. "April, Hollinger, Blitzen, report to the hangar," you order before turning to Nina.

"Nina, I want you and Audrey to work the laptop," you tell her. "And get your mind out of the gutter," you add, to her embarrassment.

"Haman, Carya," you turn to address the rest of your team, "we're going to visit Karen upstairs. And Carya?" you ask the still-fused sisters.

"Dom?"

"Grab a crowbar, we're going by way of Orville's locker space."

"Got it."

As you pass Orville's locker and a group of stunned crewmen, you smash the lock off the front of the locker. "Haman, search the locker and catch us up."

"Right," she replies.

Along the way, Rossweisse joins your group, seemingly interested in the sudden burst of adrenaline triggered by your encounter with Orville. The three of you step onto the bridge of the Albion, and salute Karen and Captain Synapse.

>Offer your report?
>Ask them what happens now?

>>33873879
>>Offer your report
>>Ask them what happens now

>>33873789
Are you sure you're not confusing Nina for Nena?

>>33873879
>>Offer your report?

>>33873879
>Offer your report
Gotta inform them of what's going on before we do anything else. Then,
>Ask them what happens now

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>>33873745
>>33873541
No, Nina's a backstabbing crazy bitch, just because she hasn't fucked up everything now, doesn't mean she won't in the future.

>>33873789
Pic related.

>>33873826
Funny, you mispelled Haman as 'C.C.'

>>33873879
>>Offer your report
>>Ask them what happens now

Rolled 2

>>33873879
>Nina the perv.

I...never thought I'd see a Nina I liked before this quest. But I do love this one.

>Offer your report.

We iz prufesshionals. Beehaves like it.

>>33873869
I did not.

>>33873788
Too late, anon. Enough people expressed interest in Haman to raise the issue with the sisters.

Due to the fact that they're two separate people and that they were based on an ace pilot notorious for his 'antics' means they have an unusually complicated stance on monogamy. At this point, the issue is in the air.

>>33873908
Pretty sure. It's a special of petty evil to murder a wedding, but you hold the world title of self-center bitch when you let your ex drop a colony on your planet.

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>>33873879
>Offer your report?
>Ask them what happens now?
Uh can't we pick both of these? It seems silly to not do both

>>33873908
I'm not going to deny that Nena Trinity is a horrible bitch, but at least she was kinda hot, and she was probably close to becoming an Innovator, probably because she was going through the same drug-treatment as Louise. And considering Innovators are pretty much newtypes with a fancier name and glowey eyes.

>>33873968
>that whole sentence
I speak English reel gud.

Rolled 65

>>33873945

Doesn't mean she will go nuts for sure either.

>Haman ' s the queen

Indeed she definitely is, but who is to say we can't have two (well 3) Queens?

>>33873879
We should've got a one-liner in while we were breaking his knee.

"AND THAT'S FOR THE ANIMAL CRACKERS!"

>>33873945
Funny you mispelled Rossweisse.

>>33874040
Can we be a closet animal cracker craver?

>>33874046
Funny, you misspelt 'Gundam'. For it is the only acceptable waifu.

>>33874066
We're not Setsuna anon.

Although a Gundam 00 quest mite b cool.

>>33874059
Can we be closeted if everyone knows it?

>>33874090
Alright, a Denying Animal Cracker Craver then

>>33874066
Huh, you also seem to have misspelled Qubeley.
Perhaps you should get a new keyboard?

Rolled 12

>>33874066

Setsuna plsgo

>>33874066
Did mobile suit pilots ever have the equivalent of nose art on their machines?

We paint the best waifu onto our Gundam's shield or pauldron.

The Lilium

>>33874122
Recursive Gundam art

>>33874089
I always thought that, but it'd have to be set in the Solar wars rather than anything that actually happens in 00. And the problem with that is that there is pretty much no info on the solar wars other than the fact they happened.

>>33874178
Solar wars?

Rolled 45

>>33874122
No. We paint a Quebeley and some Zeon MS designer sees that art after reading reports of the Devils Jester. He'll then think to himself, "Damn, that's a beautiful design, I'm gonna make a MS out of it!"

And that's how we're gonna make the Quebeley.

>>33874178
Having it set during the show could work. Although the MC wouldn't be able to join CB right away.

>>33874259
I say screw CB, they're too arrogant for their own good. Maybe some secret noncanon MS project?

>>33874215
Well before the series. There's mentions of the Wars that happen before, like Smirnov getting his title, and Kujo's boyfriend getting killed. There's wars for resources before and during the Orbital Elevator construction. So you'd have fights between AEU Hellions and HRL Tierens over land and natural resources. And Union popping about going "Fuck yeah!" in their suit that wasn't the Flag.

>>33874339
Meh maybe a veteran?

>>33874230
And then we steal it!

>>33874390
Steal it? THATS ILLEGAL IDIOT
We accidentally drop into the cockpit

>>33873879
"Sirs," you begin. "I'd like to report that operation 'whack-a-mole' was a huge success." Rossweisse stifles a single laugh, and the two of you bump fists.

Karen grins manically. "Now that's what I like to hear! Good job team! I assume that pun means you put the smack down on our friend Orville?"

"Beat him like a rented mule, ma'am," Carrina replies. "And I gut-shot him, too."

"Nice touch," Karen tells her. "Interrogations?"

"I'm letting South handle it," you explain. "I don't think he likes me much."

"I can understand why," Captain Synapse replies. "I assume your team also gathered the necessary material to make a case for his guilt?"

"And hopefully to tell us where to go looking for the GP-02," Carrina replies. Rossweisse seems a little excited at the prospect of a battle, but a little nervous as well.

"So it's all a matter of waiting," Karen confirms.

"Helm, maintain present course, but stand by for further instructions," Synapse barks.

The Albion continues on its way. It only takes a few minutes for Haman to meet you on the bridge with a report that there was nothing in Orville's locker but sweaty socks and a normal suit that the man's had no need to use.

Your team's secretaries, on the other hand, have a minor breakthrough to report.

"Kinbareid Mine," Reiko tells you over the intercom. "It should be on the maps."

>What questions do you have about the mines itself? Audrey and the secretaries can try and get you more intel on the location itself
>Focus on another task?

>>33874390
We can still fall into the cockpit as we're a teenage psychic. Stealing it will be harder to pull off.

>>33874404
Right.
Don't want to break any laws after all.

>>33874375
Could work. You start off as a rookie pilot for the AEU, and you get into a fight. CB testing the 0 Gundam or one of the others decide to intervene. You survive the battle, but get court-martialed because of CB's information control and the fact no-one believes your story about a super suit. Cue the series start, and you get released once the Gundams become public. Cue anger at CB and shenanigans.

Rolled 47

>>33874390
Exactly. We steal Haman's Quebeley. Analyze and make one for Rossweisse and the Sisters.

Hell let's get rid of the Gundams and make a masculine Quebeley for Dom while we're at it.

>>33874422
>>What questions do you have about the mines itself? Audrey and the secretaries can try and get you more intel on the location itself

What do we know of it? Background, maps (even if they're out of date).

Can we get satellite pics on it? Otherwise we need a high altitude surveillance plane on it.

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>>33874046
Haman's the Queen of /m/, /tg/ dice, and my heart.

>>33874422
>What questions do you have about the mines itself? Audrey and the secretaries can try and get you more intel on the location itself
What kind of mine, do we have any satellite images, maps of the tunnels, inventory of the equipment and possible explosives there.

>>33874422
>What questions do you have about the mines itself? Audrey and the secretaries can try and get you more intel on the location itself

Layout, location, and information on the mines and the surrounding areas?

>>33874472
I don't mind this, but I'm fairly sure the scientist guy said Rosseweisse couldn't use a psycommu like a normal newtype. Also we should just mass-produce the Nu instead.

>>33874422
>nothing in the locker

Didn't figure there would be anything. Never hurts to be too paranoid though.

Who owns them? Shell company?

What does the mine produce? Copper? Uranium?

Presently occupied by whom? Federation? Zeon? Unknown?

How remote are the mines?

Any nearby civilian dwellings?

Satellite maps? Thermal? Radar? Ground penetrating?

Any increase in activity reported?

>>33874422
Nearby feddie forces?

Rolled 100

>>33874422
>Where's the large entrances where a MS or ship of any size could enter?
>What's the estimated Zeon force around there?


>>33874489
Mah nigga.

>>33874472
I like the way you think.

Rolled 23

>>33874534
The Hi Nu in Nu's colors surrounded by cuties in Quebeleys?

I can dig it.

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>>33874632
Actually thinking about it, we could just Pilot a Bertigo, the Nu is a bit advanced. The Bertigo is just a sexier Quebeley anyway.

Guys, what if we recruited Amuro, and got him to design us a Gundam based around our talents?

Wait, nvm, a Gundam that's designed around seducing enemy pilots doesn't seem that practical.

>>33874805
>Wait, nvm, a Gundam that's designed around seducing enemy pilots doesn't seem that practical.

You'd be surprised.

>>33874422
“I'm heading down there right now,” you tell her before motioning to your team. “C'mon, let's let slip the dogs of war.”

Karen nods. “Right. Captain Synapse?”

“Captain Joshua?”

“You may want to have the Burning Team ready for combat patrols, along with Uraki.”

“I'll see to it,” Synapse replies.

Upon reaching the hangar level, you find the whole space churning with technicians seeing to various tasks. Your twin hyper rifles are lifted into their cradle, and fresh grenades are loaded into the Kmpfer's rifle and the arms of the Lilium, Iris, and Viola. Last minute touches are made to the sensitive sensor suites in your machine's head sections as gantries haul drums of 60mm rounds to feed your vulcan pods.

“What do we have on the Mine?” you ask Audrey as you approach.

“Satellite overheads here, sirs,” Reiko reports. Karen stares over her shoulder at the image on her screen.

“The Udzungwa mountain range is in our way to the south,” she reports. “Tough terrain for mobile suits. Slow going.”

“How about airstrips?” Carrina asks.

“Take a look,” Audrey replies. The sisters take a moment to deliberately separate their minds again before turning their attention to the screen.

“Shit,” Catrina mutters. “They could launch Dodais from that dirt strip.”

“That'd make a slow climb up over the mountains a deathtrap,” you muse. “Welcome back, by the way.”

“Thanks,” Carya responds.

“So how about going around?” Haman asks. “It seems like an open plain up here, north of the Selous game reserve.”
(1/2)

>>33874919
“Last choice,” Karen replies. “No cover there at all, it'd leave the Albion wide open to counterattack if we're not careful.”

“It would also let the Liliums abuse their hovering capacity,” Haman observes. “High risk, high reward.”

"Not all of us have that," you remind her. "I'd trust Rossweisse to make it through, but the Burning team would be SOL."

Rossweisse points to a visible gap in the mountains: a pass that could be navigable by the Albion if an MS team cleared the way.

“It feels like a trap,” Carya replies, “but that's because it's clearly the best approach from the south.”

Rosweisse nods. "Probable."

“I was thinking that too. I'm not sure I like it," Haman adds.

"Hit it in the right spot with enough strength and any wall will come crashing down," Reiko observes.

"How strong a presence are we expecting?" you ask. "From the size of those sunken hangars by the mining pit itself, I'd say at least twenty MS, plus some number of Dodai?"

"Sounds about right," Catherine replies. "Based on typical wartime team formations and wing grouping schemes. I'd have a tough time believing hard-core fanatics would change their order of battle that much."

All eyes shift towards you.
>Take the pass
>Take the open plains to the east of the Udzungwa mountains
>Go up and over the mountains
>Other

Feel free to add your own takes on the pre-existing options. I'll work popular ones in, assuming they seem reasonable.

>>33875074
What nearby Federation forces are there? Could we get some saberfish from nearby airbases or something?

>>33875074
>>Other
They're probably waiting for their extraction.

Perhaps we could get the details out of our spy and our captured crew. We might be able to lure them to the coast and catch them in a trap.

>>33875074
Uh where are we in relation to these places? Could we not detour to the west and through lake Malawi?

Rolled 47

>>33875074
>Take the pass.

Fuck you Gandalf. WE. SHALL. PASS.

Rolled 54

>>33875178

Best if we can do this.

Lure them out of their castle and annihilate them.

>>33875074
Can we get rough travel times between each location?

>>33875234
Addendum; travel time over land to reach the mining facility. We can't get too close as they'll obviously pickets set up to warn of incoming Feddie scum.

>>33875182
To go west from where you are along lake Malawi would add 2-3 days to your trip, only to place you somewhere that would have the same issues as moving in through the north of the Selous reserve.

>>33875074
Couldn't the Liliums scout out possible ambush locations while Albion goes through the gap?

>>33875296
That's what is meant by "clear". Send an MS team ahead as scouts, then move the Albion into firing range of the mines.

>>33875074
I'd say take the plain.

Send Uraki in the Gundam with us in the Kampfer as backup. We broadcast on Zeon channels that we've hijacked the 01 and we're looking to defect. They'll bring us right to them to kill us or the hail us as heroes.

Rolled 37

>>33875196 here

This would be the fastest route right?

Remember how in 0083 Gato was able to escape because he had enough time? And we got pinned down in the plains an all? We need to bumrush them and prevent them from launching the HLV.

>>33875074

Hammer-Anvil time

Our team takes the open plains.

Albion + Burning Team goes over the mountains.

Time our assault to begin shortly before Albion/Burning crest the mountains.

They become the hammer to our anvil, and while hitting from an unexpected direction will sow confusion.

If we can get the Federation to launch an airstrike to hit launch sites/ground batteries, even better.

Or even get some aircover to intercept escaping transports.

>>33875074
>Go up and over the mountains
>Other
What's the situation with the base jabbers development? If one team is gonna foot slog, the other could provide air-cover against any Dodais using those.

>>33875109
No. You're going to be in the heart of Zeon turf, and there are no air assets that have the range to get to Kinbareid, strike, and stand a chance of making it back to Federation-held territory.

>>33875426
Splitting your forces would be unwise given the distances involved. Setting up for such an attack will take extra time.

That said,
SUDDEN DEATH VOTING. Link this post and put a number. Anything not fitting this format will be ignored. Five minutes.

1 - Pass
2 - Plains to the east
3 - Up and over the mountains
4 - Split forces

>>33875516
1

Rolled 14

>>33875516

1 - Pass

>>33875498
Base Jabbers were put on hold to prioritize repairs to your gundams after the battle for La Vie en Rose.

>>33875498
1

>>33875516
1

>>33875543
Take off your dice, no text aside from the number.

>>33875548
Link >>33875516

>>33875516
2

>>33875516
1 - Pass

>>33875516
1
We take what they throw at us

Split the forces.

Albion drops Burning's team with Rossweisse at the pass. They lay low and move as close as they dare waiting for us. Classic pincer manuever.

>>33875545
Thanks. That cleared up what I'm voting for. Abandoning that mountain plan on my part then.

>>33875516
1

>>33875516
4

>>33875516
1

We'll have a hard time breaking out of an ambush if we're all bunched up like that. The pass is an easy chokepoint. Same with the mountains. Better to have open terrain where we can put our superior maneuverability to use.

>>33875617
Cutoff is here.

>>33875617
One vote for 4

>>33875615
>>33875557
>>33875540
Three votes for 1.

>>33875569
One vote for 2.

>writing

>>33875676
“We'll go through the pass,” you decide. “It may be a trap, but it beats getting picked apart in the mountains or getting outnumbered and outflanked on an open plain.”

Karen nods to you. “I hate to say it, but I think you're right. I'll speak with Burning and Synapse. Reiko, you're with me. Dump that intel to a portable drive and bring it with.”

Reiko salutes Karen, and in a matter of moments they're off for the bridge.

“We should arrive at the pass on the 22nd,” you tell your team, “late in the evening. We can attack just before dawn on the 23rd.”

“Roger that,” Carya replies. “But one thing... what is the GP-02 pilot planning to do from there? It's just a big hole in the ground...”

Audrey sighs as she pieces something together. “It's the side of the mine itself,” she says. “Perfect pitch for a launch ramp.”

“You mean the resistance there might have an HLV?” Haman asks.

“It's possible,” Catrina admits. “The remnants are probably planning an attack on a target in space. It's the only thing that fits.”

Nina, however, shudders as she uncovers something on Orville's computer. "No..." she mutters to herself. "The Slattern data?"
(1/2)

>>33875838
"Slattern?" Audrey asks. "Wasn't that from an old pre-UC movie?"

"Yes," Nina replies sheepishly, "we ripped it off whole-cloth, but forget that. The data for it was on Orville's computer, and I can't tell whether he sent it to anyone! Fuck, this is bad..."
>I'm sure it'll be fine
>What is the 'Slattern', and what's so bad about it?
>Is it a Gundam?
>Slattern a worst, Knifehead a best
>Other?

>>33875902
>What is the 'Slattern', and what's so bad about it?

>>33875902
>>What is the 'Slattern', and what's so bad about it?

>>33875902
Wait, Slattern? As in kaiju Slattern or am I missing something?

>>33875942
Yes.

>Slattern a worst, Knifehead a best
Then, seriously
>What is the 'Slattern', and what's so bad about it?
Sounds bad.

>>33875902
>Slattern a worse, Knifehead a best

"He has good tastes in movies."

>>33875942
It's a rather appropriate name.

Rolled 56

>>33875973
This.

>>33875902
>liking Knifehead

Shittaste.

>>33875902
>>Slattern a worst, Knifehead a best

>>33875902
>Other?
"Please tell Anaheim is working on a Jaeger. Please. You have no idea how much I want to pilot Gypsy."

>>33876031
>>33875973
It took me a moment to remember where they were from. Movie a shit. Worldbuilding was pretty good though.

>>33876031
>>Slattern is the Codename for the tech that makes the nuke magic
This is now officially my headcanon.

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>>33875902
“Knifehead doesn't get enough love,” you insist. “But seriously, why is it so bad for the data to get leaked, as opposed to the GP-04?”

“You don't fucking understand!” Nina cries, and you can feel her panic mounting. “The GP-04 would be nothing, NOTHING compared to what might happen if the data on the Slattern gets out!”

“Why don't you just show us?” Haman asks. “That way we can see for ourselves.”

Nina quickly turns Orville's laptop around so that Haman can see it, and you can practically feel the poor Newtype's eyes widening. “This is...”

The rest of your team crowds around the screen.

It's an upgrade package for a Lilium-type machine, and you can immediately see why they picked the name of a monster for it. This thing... it's terrifying in its potential applications. Four thrusters on the backpack, similar to your present machines, but extended outward beyond the machine's center of mass to increase its turning time and allow the thruster nozzles to swivel forward and in reverse at will. There's a second generator that nearly doubles the total power output, along with docks along the thruster arms for a total of eight funnel weapons. Some of the rest of the power runs to the tandem cockpit, while more of it apparently powers a stealth jamming system and a micro-sized version of the Minovsky Particle Interference Wave Searcher system. The optics visor has been replaced by a fixed version to work in tandem with the new sensor suite, and the thruster power has been increased as well, offset by large external tanks. There's also a list of hypothetical applications for the extra power from the secondary power plant, including a small-scale I-Field generator and something called a “beam shield”, as well as much more powerful particle weaponry that could be added to the base suit's armaments.
(1/2)

>>33876395
Nina sighs as you struggle to comprehend the implications this sort of weapon could have for the future, and shudder to think what would happen if Zeon built it first.

“It's the single most overpowered machine we could design,” Nina explains. “The zenith of every individual trend in current mobile suit design paradigms. It's mechanized death so powerful and complext to operate it needs TWO newtypes to bring out its full potential.”
>Responses?

Rolled 100, 36, 23, 79, 79, 52, 10, 100, 99 = 578

>>33876426

"...shit"

>>33876455
those wasted rolls.....

>>33876395
>something called a “beam shield”
Oh shit

>>33876395
"Wait, so you managed to make something MORE terrifying than the Dendrobium?

Are you people mad?"

>>33876426
"...sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiit"

>>33876426
"...Does Zeon still have two Newtypes of sufficient skill left to deal with machine? Except for Char, most of their top tier aces are retired."

>>33876426
"Looks like our best bet is to assume that he leaked the plans and its in production. Time to start working on countermeasures."

>>33876426
"Assume worst case and they have the blueprints, resources, and manpower. How quick can they build it at best speed? What do we have to counter it.. when they field THAT? How quick can you build it to counter theirs?"

>>33876484
Wait didn't Audrey show us plans for one of those earlier?

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>>33876426
Sheeeiiiitttt

>>33876426
>Responses?
So... another money sink super prototype?

>so powerful and complex to operate it needs TWO newtypes to bring out its full potential.
This is simultaneously worrisome and cringe inducing though.
Worrisome in that, if it is fully realized, there'd be a mad scramble for any current and potential Newtypes on both sides from here on out.
Or barring that, a point of reason to accelerate any Cyber-Newtype research program no matter the cost.

It's cringe inducing because it's the equivalent of putting ALL the golden eggs in one basket.

>>33876523
>Except for Ridden
FTFY

>>33876426
"...shit"

WAITWAITWAIT.

Two Newtypes?
Hypothetically, could C.C. pilot it without aid?

>>33876523
Dude, Char died at the end of the OYW, now everyone just impersonates him to keep up the illusion he's still alive.

Ridden > Char, we at least know Ridden was alive when we last fought him.

>>33876426
"Well, what it comes down to is you'll haft to put that pretty little head of yours into coming up with a counter machine. Rock beats scissors, right?"

>>33876523
>>Except for Ridden
Fixed

>>33876426
"It looks like you took every upgrade that had ever been proposed for the Liliums and put them all on one suit. And this works? Damn. What does it have to do with the GP02, though? Do you think they're going to go after the Slattern next, using the nuke as leverage?"

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>>33876426

>>33876554
We've actually been shown the plans for everything on this suit at one point or another. They literally just took every possible upgrade for the Lilium and put them all on one Gundam.

>>33876681
>What does it have to do with the GP02
Oh fuck me they're going to upgrade the GP02 with this shit

>>33876714
The modular backpack would've been a hell of a lot more cost effective instead of this monstrosity.

>>33876728
They wouldn't be that stupid...would they?

>>33876779
It's Zeon.

>>33876779
Do not question the sanity of insane people.

>>33876728
I doubt it. The GP02 is a purpose-built machine, using it for anything other than heavy artillery bombardment is a failing prospect. They might apply it to a different mobile suit, though. And then have two Ples pilot it. Bezini did say in the cutscene that two clones had been completed already and ready to be put to use. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the project they were making them for.

>>33876779
This should be us. >>33876793 should be Carya

>>33876825
>I wouldn't be surprised if this was the project they were making them for.
Meh, they'll have no actual combat experience.

>>33876889
You say that like it's ever stopped Zeon before.

>>33876426
"So let me get this straight," you tell Nina. "You made a machine more pants-shittingly terrifying than the Dendrobium?"

"Might have done, yes."

"Are you people insane?"

"Might be, yes," Nina admits.

You sigh. "Okay, can the Zekes build it even if they had the materiel?"

"Probably not," she tells you.

"And do they really have enough Newtypes left who can handle either side of the system?" Carya asks. "The remote weapons and the suit?"

"Maybe, probably not."

"Okay, so all you need to do is design a few countermeasures and keep the lid on these ones," you tell her. "Have them ready in case Orville really did leak the intelligence."

Nina sighs, somewhat put at rest. "Okay, you're right. I mean, even with all our resources we can't put these into the field just yet, and it's a lot of money for one machine. I'll get to work finding something to use against a Slattern-modded suit."

"Just don't go and add that countermeasure to the Slattern itself? Please?" Audrey moans. "Try and fight the urge."
(1/2)

>>33876979
say, when zeon builds one won't we have like, 30 of those?

>>33876979
The date is October 22nd, UC 0083. The Albion is nearing Kinbareid mine, and the crew is rapidly preparing for the coming assault.

"So he still hasn't said anything?" you ask South as the two of you walk to the hangars.

"Nope," your friend admits. "No new intelligence. I hate to say it, but someone in Intelligence services would probably have to torture him to get him to even say his shoe size."

"So, who leads this op?" you ask as you reach the point to split ways for the port and starboard hangars.

"I was thinking you could send our team up on point," South tells you. "I've okayed it with Karen, told her I'd like to have your machines behind us as a fast response unit. Move you up quickly as a surprise."

What do you think of South's deployment plan?
>We'll go with your plan
>Suggest an alternative

>>33877097
>>We'll go with your plan

>>33877097
>We'll go with your plan
Works for me. We've got fast suits, and the ones that aren't fast have extreme range capability.

Speaking of our speed, who among our unit has the heel thrusters? Is it just the Lilium itself, or have the other two Gundams been outfitted as well? Because if we can all hover dash...nasty stuff, there.

>>33877097
>We'll go with your plan

>>33877147
Everyone has them except Rossweisse, but her suit's running speed is almost as good.

>>33877097
"I don't like you out there all by your lonesome with one Gundam. Take one of us and reinforce your squad Just In Case, eh?"

"Any overhangs where our two snipers could set up and cover the pass?"

"Has our recon flights turned up anything new?"

Rolled 15

>>33877097
>We'll go with your plan.

SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER. GM HEAD GUNDAMS + 1 KAEMPER GONNA WRECK YO SHIT.

Except if we don't.

>>33877147
Too bad we don't have an extra Dom to Dom-slide with Dom and dominate them

>>33877097
Attach psychomines to the back of the GMs shields. They can throw them like grenades and Haman and direct them. Save on travel time.

>>33877217
So cut into their already limited ammo supply against a numerically superior opponent?

I'll tell you now, even if South approved, the rest of his team wouldn't go for that.

>>33877161
Yeah, I wasn't including the Kampfer because it already can hover. Neat, then. We are very fast.

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>>33877189

>"YO dang we heard you like Doms. So we put a Dom in yo Dom so you can dominate people while you dominate people!"

Or there could be a movie with Dom in a Dom.

Dom and Domber

>>33877252
>not having hard points on the skirt armor for crackers

Seriously. It's the one thing the Zaku did right.

>>33877283
The psycomines aren't grenade-sized, though. They're pretty big. It wouldn't fit, I think.

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>>33877283
>crackers.

Too soon man. Too soon.

>>33877329
I imagine their roughly the size of a model suits head.

>>33877346
Snrk.

>>33877359
>their
>they're

I need sleep. Or to stop relying on autocorrect.

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>>33877097
>Suggest an alternative
I think Burning should bring at least one Newtype with them to anticipate any ambush with Newtype dangar senses.

>>33877097
"We'll do it your way, South," you tell him before turning to your own hangar.

Before you mount up into your mobile suit, Haman approaches you.

"Dom, don't you dare get yourself killed," she tells you sternly before kissing you on the cheek. "And don't let any of our team die either. And remember I'm watching your back from here."

“Alright,” you radio your team as you drop down to the sandy, scrubby turf below the Albion, “let's do this clean. Don't bunch up, but keep each other covered. No mistakes, nobody gets hurt. I'll take point for our team, I want Rossweisse on my left and the sisters on my right. See if you can't bunch up our enemies and I'll blast them with my rifles. I want you and your rifle in the center and slightly behind, Audrey. Pick targets of opportunity.”

"Haman?" you add. "I'll leave all our backs to you. So sit tight, and I'll spot your fire." Although it's much more difficult to aim remote weapons under gravity, you get the feeling those mines at Haman's mental 'hands' will be invaluable.

You see several green lights on your comm system wink in acknowledgment: it seems your team is taking this especially seriously. You've never seen them all use that method rather than verbal responses.

Ahead of you, you can see that the Burning team has taken a wider formation: Bate is on point with Monsha and South on his flanks and Keith and Adel in the way-back with their GM-Cannon IIs. Uraki and his Gundam are in the center of the formation, likely as their own dedicated fast responder.

Cautiously, your two teams push onward into the wide gap in the mountains...
>Roll d100, taking the THIRD roll only

Rolled 56

>>33877426
Like who? Every Newtype on board hates Monsha and Monsha would cause shit with them. Either by sexualality harassment or flat out not getting along with Dom.

Rolled 18

>>33877458

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>>33877458
I hate this Third roll only bullshit.

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>>33877458

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>>33877458
Third roll is a go! I think. Maybe.

Watch me get a Nat 1