>it's

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/38492412/

The "pilot" for anyone who did not see it, as it were.

>>38515359
KNEW there was something wrong about the spelling somewhere in there. Green text throws me off more then usual.

'Okay...,' you mutter as the console of the fallen machine you boarded begins to scroll down the console.

The OS on this thing is weird amd the interface looks almost totally unfinished; it's spitting code and technobabble phrases you don't get even as the linear cockpit lights up and shows the outside.

At least the controls are relatively straightforward.

>WDYD?

>[Let's try just standing up first....]

>[You have GOT to fix this OS before you go into a fight....]

>>38515559
>>[You have GOT to fix this OS before you go into a fight....]
giant wild flaying, uncontrollable death machine is not a effective death machine

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'Rrgh!' you grunt in anger as you fiddle with the keyboard.

The controls are GM-standard basically, but you don't know what any of them actually DO without the OS or a goddamn manual at the very least!

You can hear, or rather feel the battle outside in Anaheim City going on. All it would take is one stray shot or someone deciding to take a potshot while you're down to kill you! Lunar Titanium isn't THAT strong....

'Okay let's bring up..the....Macros....,' you pause as the screen scrolls up the new information and you stare slack-jawed.

The macromove program bank for this fallen Gundam's operating system is blank. It's AMBAC is active so it can stand and keep balance but it can't say, grab things or do proper maneuvers of any kind.

No WONDER that other guy crashed it..it's like trying to....what was that Earth phrase? Ride a horse without a saddle, bridle, or spurs.

'Tchakovsky, are you solid in there? We saw that Titans ship docked, we can't fuck around too long!' a stern voice comes from the communicator just as an option pulls up on the console.

>ACTIVATE REI?
>Y/N?

>WDYD?

>[Bluff the guy calling you]

>[Try to fight the HARD way; on the fly]

>[Type Y. Maybe THIS is the Macro list?]

>>38516068
>>[Bluff the guy calling you]
Also Wulin Sage WHHOOOPPP

>>38516068
>[Type Y. Maybe THIS is the Macro list?]

Did I start the thread too late again?
Shesh. Timezones man....

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>38516068
Rolling for tiebreaker

1 > [Bluff the guy calling you]
2> [Type Y. Maybe THIS is the Macro list?]

>>38516495
I don't know it's 1 in the afternoon PST so maybe it's a bit early and people arnt off work/ school

>>38516495
>>38516574
Yeah its a little earlier for a large number of anons. Hopefully more will join soon, and if your willing to take the time you can always string out the first few choices.

>>38516574
I'm on PST too.
It's 4 and 3-ish Central and East Coast, which is by law of averages likely where most of 4-chan's American population is grouped simply because of overall population density....

>>38516068
>[Type Y. Maybe THIS is the Macro list?]

Well we're not a Jesus Yamato, so i'm guessing the attempt to control it on hard mode will fail badly, and talking to black-ops people with secret Gundams is more likely to get them to attack us to destroy evidence.

>>38516658
So I'm guessing you're already tired of writing Wulin Hero Quest again?

>>38516787
Hah! No.
It will continue on Tuesdays and Thursdays as promised. The only reason I missed this Tuesday is because for some reason pretty much half of Seattle couldn't access 4chan and by the time the problem was resolved I had ended up going to take extra hours at work and couldn't post anymore.

This will be a "sometimes" quest only.

Since we have another tie I'll just do both answers. Posting now.

>>38516068
Got a phone and some internet access? See if we can't google some labor-class or civilian robot giant robot programs. Some of it has to be on the internet by now. It's all roughly the same inputs and actions, and while it won't work right it might make pedals and keys do stuff. At least move around.

>>38517036
Taking shit from the internet and putting it into an untested superpowered death machine seems like a bad idea, especially when we're in a residential area.

You begin to fiddle with the communications to cause more static then would normally show up on the channel. Anything short of a direct contact link should be scrambled and hard to make out, and your image won't show. Hopefully the Minovsky static will make it harder to ID you.

You sure as shit hope Tchakovsky is NOT a girl's name.

'The OS on this thing is screwed up!' you say into the distorted comm channel, covering your face as you speak to muffle it. 'There's nothing in the AMBAC's macromove database, I have to manually input the controls to fight or move!'

You CAN do that too; you heard lots of One Year War aces did shit like that with Zaku's since the Zaku's-II's initial macro list was so limited, but doing that on a mobile suit with overall capabilities you aren't even sure of yet is a little like picking up a gun blindfolded and trying to shoot with one hand.

'Christ,' the voice says, clearly as surprised as you. 'We KNEW the Vist Foundation commissioned it new. It must be at factory defaults! Do you need to be carried? Nohman wants to avoid too much public attention of he can manage it, and this is NOT incignito! Lowe is causing havoc in Redwing over there but he can't be in two places at once!'

The Vist Foundation?
The hell is the Vist Foundation?

'Do you need us to carry you back to the ship?'

>[Accept their offer of 'Help']

>[Yeah, fuck that. You'll fight manual rather then get captured by crazy mobile suit terrorists]

>[Might as well turn on REI, what's the worst that could happen?]

>>38517270
>Downloads .bat from internet
>Deletes system32.Gundam.
oops

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>>38517270
I have had bad experiences with things called Rei.

>>38517316
>>[Yeah, fuck that. You'll fight manual rather then get captured by crazy mobile suit terrorists]

>>38517316
>[Might as well turn on REI, what's the worst that could happen?]

>>38517316
>[Might as well turn on REI, what's the worst that could happen?]

>>38517316
>[Yeah, fuck that. You'll fight manual rather then get captured by crazy mobile suit terrorists]

We've got a name from them, so let's ruin all their plans.

>>38517316
>[Might as well turn on REI, what's the worst that could happen?]
I, for one, welcome our new giant robot OS overlord.

>>38517316
>[Might as well turn on REI, what's the worst that could happen?]

>>38517316
>Accept their offer of 'Help'

The guy's admitted that they're trying to avoid attention, and hopefully that includes fighting. The only thing trying to fight them off, with or without assistance, is going to get people (probably us but not necessarily) hurt. Besides, princess carry in a giant robot is my fetish.

>>38517316
>>[Might as well turn on REI, what's the worst that could happen?]

>>38517423
>Besides, princess carry in a giant robot is my fetish.

That's a weirdly specific fetish.

>[might as well turn on REI, what's the worst that >could happen]

We Layzner noa

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You stare at the option screen again, pausing.

>ACTIVATE REI?
>Y/N

'Fuck it,' you mumble, tapping Y.

The suit makes a humming sound and the target acquisitions system spins up, locking onto two MS on the other side of the park; looks like a pair of those 'not Zaku' bootleg Hizacks that have been popping up outside the Republic of Zeon. Every colony that wants a basic self-defense force seems to be buying them these days.

Also terrorist groups too you guess.

>REI ACTIVE
>HOSTILES DETECTED
>ENGAGE?

'Fuck yeah we're gonna motherfucking engage!' you say, making the Gundam stand up, the entire machine suddenly highly responsive!

>WDYD?

>[Lure this guy in closer and surprise him!]

>[Open up the engines and head for the hole they blew in the roof; WAY too many civilians down here!]

>>38517633
>[Lure this guy in closer and surprise him!]

>>38517633
>[Lure this guy in closer and surprise him!]

>>38517633
>[Lure this guy in closer and surprise him!]

Just don't hit the reactor or we'll get docked some of our pay.

>>38517633
>>[Lure this guy in closer and surprise him!]

>[open up the engines and head for the hole in the roof; WAY too many civilians down there!]

Hopefully we can also avoid destroying the entire colony.

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>>38517633

>[Open up the engines and head for the hole they blew in the roof; WAY too many civilians down here!]

Considering Gundam tropes, it would be an absolutely atrocious idea to have a fire fight in a civilian area after we just had a date (with a Newtype, even!).

Like, literally, the worst possible idea you could ever fucking have. Of all time. Holy shit, it ranks #1 in the bad ideas list. The only thing you could do that ensures tragedy even more is shout "It's a Gundam!" and not be Tobia Arronax.

>>38517633
>>[Lure this guy in closer and surprise him!]
"Uh, yeah, I think you need to come and carry me"

>>38517633
>[Open up the engines and head for the hole they blew in the roof; WAY too many civilians down here!]

>>38517729
But how can we have a moving and elaborate guilt trip if we don't accidentally kill millions of people?

So as a person who has never watched gundam before. What's a good place to start?

I've honestly found myself dancing around gundam, having watched gunbuster 1&2, patlabor, KoS etc.

>>38517805
Depends.

You want a War Drama, Realistic War Drama, Heroes Smashing Robots, Street Fighter Gundam Edition, TOP GUN BUT WITH MECHA (and less gay), post 2000's shiny laser shit war drama, or post-modern terrorists as heroes?

>>38517805
I'd guess the original Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy.

Really they're all fairly simple to watch stand alone, aside from maybe the rest of UC (Zeta, ZZ, Unicorn may require some previous knowledge)

>>38517783
By NOT being written by Timono in the 80's and early 90's I guess?

>>38517805
AUs like SEED and Wing are standalone and can be watched however you want, if you want to get into UC the original is best, although it is quite dated. You could also watch the MSG film trilogy.

>>38517861
...fuck. Let's see the last mecha anime I watched was Valrave but that was shit so Break Blade was the last good one and that was Heros Smashing robots war drama.

Okay. I remember bits and pieces of the series that ran on Toonami in the early days which had a flash game made after it. Attack Wing was the game name iirc

>>38517990
That's Gundam Wing, the first one that came out in the states.

It subtly recycles much of the overall plot of the original Gundam shows up until Char's Counterattack with protagonists that have plot armor so thick you need to squint to see them at all.

It's an easy series to get into thanks to it's overall simplicity even if it's rather misleading in some ways; in many Gundam shows the titular mobile suits while certainly special aren't the invincible army-trashing war machines seen in this series, which unfortunately relies heavily on stock combat footage because it was made in Japan's mid-90's economic anime slump.

It's heroes are rather simplistic, but definitely badasses (seriously, half of them are ice cold motherfuckers) even if they basically look like the Backstreet Boys when they pose.

>>38517937
Eh, there always seems to a slightly horrible event that causes the pilot to realize what they're doing, Lalah's death, Four's death, The blonde one from wing blowing up a colony, Garrod firing the Satellite cannon the first time, the nuke in Turn A, the shuttle in SEED.

>>38517990
Gundam Wing is the series you mean, and probably the series that most anons started with. It's quality is fairly mediocre, but with some nice mech design and a fantastic character in Treize.

>>38518167
Zechs is alright too.
Despite being A CHAR he actually managed to have his own personality; he's much more about the whole chivalry thing then Char was, and LOATHED unfair fights.

Char was much more about strategy and trickery.

>"In war one must always think two or three steps ahead."

Anyway, posting response!

>>38518152
>>38518167
>>38518235
Wing gets a lot of stick (probably from memories of watching the same goddamn episode 5 times on Toonami then missing two and having no idea what's going on beyond Gundams Blow Shit Up), but on rewatching it actually holds up really well. And has the interesting dynamic where the 'token pacifist' character actually comes within a hairs breadth of succeeding in ending a war through diplomacy failing only because of Giant Orbiting Doom Fortress out of nowhere.

Wing's real crime? The fucking Oz suits. The most beautiful MSes of the entire Gundam franchise. No fucking Gunpla of anything other than the Tallgeese. Enjoy your recasts of B-Club resin kits!

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'Yeah, I could use a hand..,' you smirk as you push the suit to it's feet, trying to make the action look clumsy.
It's not easy; whatever this REI OS is, it knows how to move an MS damn well.

The nearest Hizack flies over with a leaping jump armed with a bog-standard Zaku-style 120mm machine gun. It leans over and picks you up.

The comm channel opens up and you see a man in an older pilot suit talking to you.

'Come in Tchakovsky, we'll have you...hey wait. You're not him!!' he accuses.

'Nice observation dumbass,' you mumble.

>WDYD?

>[Use your manipulator, fuck up his cameras and blind him!]

>[This thing has GOTTA have a beam saber, right?]

>[Use the beam rifle in the right manipulator!]

>>38518614
>[This thing has GOTTA have a beam saber, right?]

BEAM SHANK

>>38518614
>[This thing has GOTTA have a beam saber, right?]

>>38518455
To be fair, we not exactly swimming about in Victory, G Gundam, X Gundam, and Turn A grunts either are we? I mean the series is what 20 years old, we're unlikely to get any new kits.

>>38518614
>[This thing has GOTTA have a beam saber, right?]
"Surprise motherfucker!"

>>38518614
>>[This thing has GOTTA have a beam saber, right?]

>>38518681
Sure, but we're getting rereleases (delocious FLATs). The Oz suits NEVER (to my limits of googling in moonspeak and scouring Gunpla photoarchives) got HG kits even during the original. Or even 1/144 non-grade kits. Nada.

>>38518761
Eh. my favourite MS is the Bertigo from X, and that never had a kit, never will get a kit, and will fade into obscurity.

>>38518982

Hold on to hope, Anon. A new Build Fighters series has been confirmed, and if there's anything Build Fighters is good at, it's giving old kits new life by basing new in-show kits on them.

Vertigo will have its day.

>>38519049
Eh, maybe but we've still not gotten a proper R-Jarja. And it's also not a Gundam or from 00 so the new Build Fighters won't give a shit about it.

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You flick the usual place for the beam saber switch and your mobile suit reaches towards your right hip and and grabs a much larger then average grip, pulling the crackling plasma blade free in a flash of cobalt light as you swing it at the Hizack as it hastily backs away, the blade taking off it's left arm and most of it's head!

'Surprise motherfucker!' you shout into the comm, bringing the blade down on it's right arm and chopping it off at the elbow while taking apart the machine gun it carries as well!

You COULD have just tore right through it's midsection, but that would hugely breach reactor containment, which is NOT something you want to do inside Anaheim.

A final swing removes it's legs, leaving the Hizack a crippled mess with just a torso!

'You say there buddy. I'm feeling pretty lenient today for a guy who you just blew a hole in the top of his home,' you order, putting away the saber.

>WDYD?

>[Get outside, make THEM chase YOU!]

>[Find the next Hizack!]

>>38519229
>[Find the next Hizack!]

>>38519229
>>[Get outside, make THEM chase YOU!]
save the civi's

>>38519229

>[Get outside, make THEM chase YOU!]

Nina will make his eat the bill on a knuckle sandwich if we damage Anaheim any further. And while I'm not a fan of advocating the pussy-whipped option, it would stop a lot of civilian casualties.

>>38519229
>[Get outside, make THEM chase YOU!]

Can we not contact our base and tell them we're kicking ass? Also space means it's harder to BLAM! the colony.

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You open up the throttle and take off, feeling yourself slam back into the seat as you leave the ground and head for he central elevator at the middle of the city!

BTW, anyone ever notice how the otherwise good about justifying artificial gravity Universal Century moon cities ALL have livable gravity conditions? What's up with that?

You fly alongside the main elevator, and your radar picks up two more marks on your back, another Hizack and a Hizack Custom!

'Haha, COME AND GET ME!' you shout, juking into a spin so you begin spiralling around the city's main elevator making you a harder target to hit!

You see machine gun fire trace your path up the side of the huge elevator, sending debris falling down around you which you easily move through!

Holy SHIT this thing can move! The central elevator as that least gravity of any part of the station except the surface, but you still feel like you're pulling 1.4 G's!

>WDYS?

>[Return fire! They're maneuvering how YOU want them now!]

>[Keep dodging!]

>>38519582
>[Return fire! They're maneuvering how YOU want them now!]

Artificial gravity generators?

>>38519582
>>[Return fire! They're maneuvering how YOU want them now!]

>>38519582
>[Return fire! They're maneuvering how YOU want them now!]

>>38519582
>[Keep dodging!]
Still have to be mindful of civilian casualties.

>>38519618
Universal Century specifically doesn't have artificial gravity of any kind, just simulated Gravity that the space colonies have.

Pegasus-class ships have an internal residential area that rotates outside of combat to simulate Gravity, but even that is pretty much phased out as time goes on; the Argama is one of the last ships to have an gravity block.

Probably just an acceptable break from reality.

>>38519582
>>[Keep dodging!]
Yeah, firing downward into the city. That is a great plan.

>>38519720
I can only guess they either artificially increased the Moon's mass some how, or it is at lower gravity, and people are just so used to it they don't just jump around everywhere or make a fuss about it

>>38519720
While i wouldn't even guess at the cost or practicality for increasing it by artificial means (The idea of a moon city being on a spinning disc or centrifuge is a hilarious concept) one would think that all the dust and other mass on the moon would make generating more gravity except through truly bullshit scifi means near impossible as opposed to an unobstructed colony in space.

>>38519788
Given the degenerative effects of low gravity they must have some means of providing near 1G to sustain a viable population.

>>38520053
True enough I suppose. I just like the idea that all the people living on the Moon are like "God, jumping about in low gravity is such a touristy thing to do"

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You deep dodging in a spiral, nearing the top of the shaft where the hole they busted is, and you revolve in the air and point the beam rifle in your right manipulator downward, slowing down just slightly enough to let them catch up with your spiralling ascent.

The two mobile suits come into view and your targeted screeches a lock-on at you, and you fire a cobalt-blue mega particle stream at the Hizack, blasting a hole clear through it's torso!

It falls away in the open shaft at the center of the city, it's fusion reactor going critical and blowing up harmlessly in the air and away from the central elevator! The Hizack Custom fires it's beam launcher in retaliation, a near-miss that impacts against the ceiling!

You turn around again, heading for the hole in the ceiling where they got inside.
'How the hell did they make that? None of the Hizacks have that much firepower and it's not like we have a window Luke a colony does...what, do they have a battleship out there or something!'

You pop out into open space, the Earth hanging above the glowing white of the moon, and a familiar silhouette shows itself against the planet in the sky!

'Oh. I guess you're still out here, huh?' you say, dodging to the left across the city just as the red winged Gundam fires it's main gun!

The blast is HUGE, comparable to the mega particle cannon on a Musai cruiser, strafing just above the elevator! The Hizack Custom fails to dodge in time and passes close to the blast, which apparently is enough for it's armor to bubble and warp like a hot dog in a microwave before dramatically exploding!

'Holy FUCK!' you shout in surprise.

'One chance; get out of the Gundam and make your way back to the colony,' the man in the Gundam commands.

>WDYD?

>"Why the hell are you doing this?!"

>[Return Fire, keep dodging!]

>[Get close so he can't use that God damn cannon!]

>>38520182
After you hit your head on the conventional-height ceilings/doorframes/etc for the umpteenth time, you learn not to jump about like a loon.

>>38520199
>[Get close so he can't use that God damn cannon!]

Phone might die soon BTW, but I'm heading for a charger as I type this.

>>38520199
>>"Why the hell are you doing this?!"

>>38520199
>[Get close so he can't use that God damn cannon!]

>>38520199

>"Why the hell are you doing this?!"

"Oh behalf of Anaheim Electronics I have appropriated this suit in the defense of our Colony. Please give me an excuse to test it at it's full potential"

Make it clear we're not the original owners of the suit and he might back off. Probably not, but it's worth a shot.

>>38520199
>[Get close so he can't use that God damn cannon!]

We have no choice. Our shield can't repel firepower of that magnitude.

>>38520348
>Our shield can't repel firepower of that magnitude

Heh. Good one.

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You dash in close, firing your beam rifle at the Redwing as it jukes and jinks away from your first two shots! The third however corrects for his dodging and impacts on his shield, the fourth shot hitting there as well!

'Damn, whoever build the macros into this thing knew what they were doing!' you say in surprise.

You drop the rifle and draw out your beam saber just as he does the same, the green and blue beams crashing against each other!

'Who the hell are you people?! Why are you doing this!?' you shout at him through the direct link.

The sharp features of a handsome but almost mechanically cold-looking man show up on the screen.

'I don't answer to you, Lunarian,' he says icily. 'Your company sells weapons to every side and thinks there won't be consequences to it's actions?'

'What are you TALKING about!?' you growl as you swing the saber against his, trying to overpower him.

Holy shit, this REI OS even knows how to fight with beam sabers properly? What the hell was this machine you're in BUILT for originally?

'If you're that ignorant of your company's own war profiteering I'm under no obligation to explain anything to you,' he says, cutting the transmission and pushing you away!

'Aw, come on! What happened to good old One Year War chivalry? Don't you want to argue about conflicting philosiphies first before fighting?'

The Redwing stows it's beam saber and kicks the buster rifle up from the dirt.

'I guess not...' you mumble.

>>38518167
Heero was okay, if only for the character growth at the end.

>>38520701
Wait a min.... how does he know we grew up on the Moon?

>>38520873
Well OK doesn't really stand out for me. Most Gundam characters are OK. I'd rather praise the exceptional ones like Treize, Loran or .... OK I'm stuggling here.... Grodek?

Turns out Gundam doesn't have many outstanding characters.

>>38521070
Oh Harry Ord and Kihel too I guess.

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He's about to fire his cannon again (the computer's ID-ing it as a "buster rifle") when another beam shot from the side blows apart his shield into worthless fragments!

'Rush!' Ohara's voice says into your comms, and you turn in your linear seat to see her GM Sniper and Leon's GM Custom!

'About time you guys got here!' you say.

'Sorry Arkbird, it's not like we're military or anything! I was literally asleep at my apartment when Setsuko called me!' Leon points out.

'DODGE!' you shout, interrupting both, and Setsuko's GM Sniper leaps aside with a flare of it's thrusters pretty much the second BEFORE you shout.

Leon's doesn't.
The beam weapon strafes between where Setsuko and Leon where both standing, the superheated particle beam melting the GM Custom like it was hot wax. You momentarily hear Leon's screams of agony before they mercifully end just when his machine explodes.

>>38521196
THAT MOTHER FUCKER HE KILLED A FRIEND . . . WHO OWED US MONEY TOO.

he must die

>>38521196
Oh OK. I was assuming this was going to be Ridden testing us. Turns out it's just someone that magically knows we grew up on the Moon and knows we work for Anaheim, who is murdering our colleague.

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'BASTARD!!' you shout, kicking your thruster up as he aims, adjusting to hit Setsuko's machine!

You bolt up in front of it, trying to tackle her out of the way, hoping you can push her out of the way, maybe deflect SOME of the shot with the anti-beam coated Luna Titanium of your shield!

The buster rifle charges again and you grit your teeth as you flash in front of the GM Sniper....and then your console bleeps out a command you're having a hard time processing.

>PARTICLE DENSITY CALCULATED
>EMERGENCY ACTIVATION AUTHORIZED

>I-FIELD ENGAGED

'What?' you say as suddenly the fin-like wings on the back of your Gundam extended another meter or so before folding down into an opposing set, making a large X shape onto your back and beginning to glow like the sun!

There's this huge humming sound filling the cockpit as the buster rifle fires you see it's golden crackling beam STOP nearly 4 meters from your MS as it hits an invisible barrier!

'An I-Field Barrier!?' you say in shock, recognizing the effect, having seen it in theory but not in practice. 'On a machine THIS size?!'

>>38521486
im guessing an inertia field barrier is what was deployed; im not sure if thats right i dont really know gundam that well

my question is how does it stop an energy weapon that doesn't use inertia at all.

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The buster rifle's energy stream stops and the glow from the wings fades as they fold up back into their original compacted position!

The Redwing pulls back, breaking open it's rifle and discharging a glowing hot e-clip and replacing it, but then is rocked by an explosion that hit's it's side, flying back!

A red and black mobile suit of Zeon design looking like a customized Kampfer holding a huge bazooka pointed at the red gundam lands nearby!

'Wearing MY colors on a FEDDIE suit design? Damn, that's violating. I feel violated. I'm pretty sure there's some kind of pilot's code somewhere that obligates me shooting you down now,' the voice from the Kampfer says.

The red wing seems like it's going to keep fighting, but gets another transmission to it's pilot.

'Lowe. Stayer says this whole op is a bust. Get back to the Aruakles before this whole thing goes tits-up. There's EFSF and Titans ships on the way,' it says.

There's a pause, then the gundam leaps up and again makes the transformation to mobile armor mode, flying off across the lunar surface!

>WDYS?

>"So are we going after him or what?" [Inquire Pilot]

>"Thanks for the assist." [Thank Pilot]

>>38521659
The "I" in I-Field stands for interference, not inertia. It's basically a cloud of the same particles the beam is made out of that causes so much EM static in the area that the beam can't penetrate.

>>38521794
>"Thanks for the assist." [Thank Pilot]
Always cool to get assistance from Led Weyline. Seriously, Ridden, that's almost as bad a pseudonym as "Quattro Bajeena". Not quite as bad, but it's up there.

>>38521794

>"Thanks for the assist." [Thank Pilot]

>>38521794
>>"Thanks for the assist." [Thank Pilot]

>>38521794
>>"Thanks for the assist." [Thank Pilot]

>>38521821
ok thanks for the clarification.

>>38521794
>>"Thanks for the assist." [Thank Pilot]

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'Nice flying kid,' the pilot says, his face appearing in a comm window now, a blonde man in his late 20's or early 30's in civilian clothes like you are.

'Thanks for the assist,' you say with a nod.

'No problem. Never got the chance to dance with the Gundam back during the war, so this was kinda too good to pass up,' he says with a smirk.

You blink at that.

'You're....Char Aznable?' you ask in total disbelief. Nobody's seen the legendary Red Comet in fifteen years since, same with Amuro Ray!

His face takes a flat, totally unamused cast, like he is both profoundly displeased and also unsurprised at the same time.

'No,' he says flatly. clearly not happy with being confused for Char for some reason.

'Oh. Sorry, I just-' you begin and he waves his hand to brush it off.

'It's alright kid, I'm used to it. I'm Led Weyline and I'm a special consultant for Anaheim Electronics,' he explains. 'I actually was here to meet you specifically tomorrow, but all this shit went down before we could get a proper introduction.'

>WDYS?

>"Me? Why me?" [Inquire Anaheim]

>"Led Weyline? Seriously?" [Inquire Ridden]

>>38522339
>"Me? Why me?" [Inquire Anaheim]

>>38522339
>"Led Weyline? Seriously?" [Inquire Ridden]
Also apologize for your classic blunder.

>>38522339
>>"Led Weyline? Seriously?" [Inquire Ridden]

>>38522339
>>"Me? Why me?" [Inquire Anaheim]

>>38522339
>>"Me? Why me?" [Inquire Anaheim]

>>38515327
>President Garma Zabi
What is this nonsense.

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>>38522533

Do you have a better candidate in mind, then?

>>38522533
Amalgamated alternate history universe combining several Gundam series at once.

>>38522533
What can I say? He's a Garma chameleon.

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'No offense "Led",' you begin, raising an eyebrow at the pseudonym, 'but why me?'

'A job offer I'd guess. Same one I'm getting most likely. Your cute friend over there is getting it too. Best let Wong explain the details,' he says, his Kampfer taking off and heading towards the hanger at the top of Anaheim City.

'Rush...he's Johnny Ridden, right?' Setsuko says as you both follow the legendary One Year War ace towards the crater.

'Anyone can paint their mobile suit red,' you admit with a shrug towards her image. 'But I'd say "yes" if I had to make a guess.'

'Why change his name then?' she wonders.

'Tough to say. I THINK it's because he's living outside of the Zeon Republic. One of the stipulations for the One Year War peace treaty was to have Zeon hand over any war criminals to see Federation justice. Some of the guys on the list were just really successful aces whom the Federation didn't want running around in the Zeon Republic retraining all of it's pilots during the peace. That's probably one of the reasons why the Red Comet vanished instead of sticking around the new Republic of Zeon, especially after he got outed by Garma as being Zeon Daikun's son in disguise. Shin Matsunaga went missing too I think,' you note.

'But, Ridden was listed as KIA I thought?'

'Officially, yeah. But nobody claimed credit for the kill and the Battle of Solomon was so huge that there's no way to prove he died. Mobile suit kills are messy as hell what with the reactors going critical once punctured, so half of the time there's never any bodies, just debris.'

'But...then why's he here?' she asks, clearly suspicious.

'Beats me. You're the Newtype here, I just fly."

>WDYS?

>"Hey uh....are you okay?"

>"You don't trust Weyline?"

>>38522751
>Garmeleon

>>38523023
>"Hey uh....are you okay?"

>>38523023

>"Hey uh....are you okay?"

>>38523023
>>"Hey uh....are you okay?"

>>38523023
>"Hey uh....are you okay?"

>>38523023
>>"Hey uh....are you okay?"

>>38520053
Where do you think Newtypes come from? (we all know it's Minovsky radiation)

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'Ohara,' you say, your voice gentler as you approach the hanger and land on the elevators. '....Setsuko, are you okay? Wasn't time to check back there and...'

She draws in a shuddering breath.
'Leon....'

'Yeah, I know. I'm going to pay back that bastard in that Red Wing for that," you decide right there.

'I'd rather not fight him at all. He was...cold. Even from here I could feel it,' she admits.

'I'm not much comfortable with the idea of hunting him down either, but what the hell else can we do? Leave it to the Titans? We had some in-city and they couldn't get their shit together long enough to help out.'

'Right. Londo Bell seems like it genuinely wants to keep peace but it's constantly butting heads with the Federation government at Jaburo. Meanwhile the Titans get more and more funding every day even though they just make the tensions between the separatist colonies even worse....,' she says sadly.

'I'm still trying to figure out where we stand in all this,' you admit to her. 'I'm not a soldier and I'm not colonist. I'm a Lunarian. So...who do I support? Zeon? The Federation? I mean, we sell weapons to EVERYBODY...'

'Maybe we don't have to pick sides?' she asks hopefully.

'I get the feeling that if you don't pick sides the side you're on gets picked FOR you. That's how it ended up during the One Year War too."

The elevator takes you to the hanger bay, where the restrainer ramp lowers in front of the gundam's torso, letting you get out anytime you want.

>WDYD?

>[Go talk to Not-Ridden about this job offer]

>[Stay inside of this thing and try and figure out where the hell it came from. Or what it's called, even.]

>>38521297
Maybe we just have a moon accent?

Also, we work on a moon base, maybe he just assumed.

>>38523826
>[Stay inside of this thing and try and figure out where the hell it came from. Or what it's called, even.]
Ask ohara if she feels anything about it.

>>38523826
>>[Stay inside of this thing and try and figure out where the hell it came from. Or what it's called, even.]

>>38523826
>[Go talk to Not-Ridden about this job offer]
We know what it's called, it's the Ashsaver. And figuring out where it came from will take a while, best not keep Johnny waiting.

>>38523826
>>[Stay inside of this thing and try and figure out where the hell it came from. Or what it's called, even.]

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You open up the cockpit to get in some fresh air and unbuckle yourself but stay in the seat, beginning to play with the console.

'So....what are you called anyway?' you inquire, pressing a few buttons.

You can't seen to call up registry number or ID for the gundam, but you know it's part of the "Ashsaver" program according to it...whatever that means.

Setsuko floats over, joining you in the cockpit, looking at what you're doing as you frown.

'So where did it come from?' she asks, just as curious.

'You're the Newtype, you tell me," you ask, looking over your shoulder at her.

'That's not how it works. It's just a machine, it has no....no 'feel'. And I don't really control it or anything, it's like having eyes or ears; you can't just make them stop working whenever you want,' she explains.

You guess that sorta makes sense.

'It's got a whole bunch of technicobabble I can't identify. The OS isn't set up yet, so I have to work it from base coding. Even the macromoves are factory reset,' you say with a shrug.

'But earlier you were flying, weren't you?' she asks.

'Yes, but the macro cache is STILL empty,' you say, motioning towards the screen with your hand. 'I activated a "System Rei", or whatever it's called. It basically appropriated the macromove computer functions into itself, and did it really well at that.'

'It says....System Rei is a...huh...,' she says, pressing a few buttons herself. 'What's a "Learning Computer"?'

'A sophisticated fuzzy logic computer,' you say, scratching your chin and frowning. 'It does what you tell it do and then remembers the action and later extrapolates what you need from previous input. They're only common with really high-end computer models since a basic agent software is usually as smart as anyone needs to run a computer. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone putting it in a mobile suit before though....huh.'

>>38524737
> I don't think I've ever heard of anyone putting it in a mobile suit before though....huh.'
Aside from the RX-78-2? Or is that not common knowledge?

>>38524893
The technical specifications of the Original Gundam aren't popularly known, and note how they stop mentioning the Learning Computer almost entirely as the original series goes on and focus on Amuro's own piloting skill instead.

History was much the same way in this setting; the Gundam is famous for being a figurehead and an icon of impossible heroism in war and for it's famous pilot, not it's individual systems.

But there's other ways to spell "Rei" in the English language, isn't there?

>>38524976
Oh god, do we have one of the biocomputer brain-clones of him from Crossbone Gundam?

>>38524976
So this thing is an Amakusa or F90-AR.

Not exactly, obviously.

>>38524976
Oh, I thought it was the Japanese word "rei." Didn't help that the other Gundam was called Red -Wing-.

'So you're saying the Learning Computer...System Rei, it...what, knew how to fly the MS already?' she asks.

'Yeah, basically. It would take a really long time for it to accumulate the experience needed for it to be able to pull it off though, since all Learning Computers are basically blank slates when installed. It can't drive ITSELF or anything because it's not hooked up to the actual controls, just the AMBAC and how the controls interpret what the pilot does. Whoever programmed this one was a good pilot. A REALLY good pilot,' you admit.

Better then you.

'What was that thing it did earlier, when you saved me?' she asks, pushing some of her brown hair behind her ear in a way that's really super distracting. 'It looked like-'

'A Minovsky particle I-Field Barrier, I know. The computer even SAID that's what it was, but that's gotta be impossible. You don't put I-Field barriers on mobile suits, you put them on mobile armors six times this thing's size with a fusion reactor large enough to fuel a battleship almost. I thought those fins on the back were just wing binders like you find on some high-mobility/high-performance mobile suits but they seem to be some kind of projector for the I-Field lattice.'

'How?' she asks and you can only shrug in responsed.

'You got me. I may be an engineer but that's a Minovsky Physics question, not an mechanical one. I get the feeling that the wing binders might do something else too though, because I can't find any commands in here for a listing of an I-Field barrier generator. The entire mobile suit is a goddamn black box," you say in frustration.

And I gotta stop here for tonight again, apologies.
I'll be back Tuesday for more Wulin Hero Quest!

>>38525102
Well, it sort of is. Amuro Ray is named that as a reference to the Mistubishi Zero fighter plane. "Rei" is zero, and with the homophone that makes Amuro fit with the other aviation references among the cast of the original series. Well, technically it's WW2 references, but a lot of them are aviation-themed. Except for Char, he's named after a French lounge singer whose career started during WW2, Charles Aznavour.

>>38525322
thanks for running

>>38525322
Thanks for running!

>>38525322
Thanks for running, WS, this was fun. See you Tuesday.

>>38525368
That was the reference I was drawing from as well actually; inverting Amuro's name backward's along the reference line to make "Gundam Rei".

>>38525368
I was insinuating something else that used the word zero. As in ZERO System, the learning computer that can drive pilots psychotic.

>>38525368
>>38525632
Actually I was referencing both, heh.

Mass Effect Quest when?