Kagami Galaxy
Near Kuvexian Border
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YSS Kaiyō II
Wardroom
"It makes sense," Hoshi said with a voice that demanded attention from the front of the wardroom. She set her face straighter and repeated herself, as these were her first spoken words since the crew had filtered in besides curt greetings to those that had approached her. "It makes sense that the ship is abuzz, and has been, as Love Day is only tomorrow. But those thoughts of anticipation for... Those thoughts of anticipation must be set aside for the time being. The ship is also fast approaching an event of a different kind. Of a different magnitude." She nodded as her head looked over her shoulder and the epic Hinomaru faded away and from the wall grew a volumetric projection that took shape as it grew in size. The structure, which appeared to be a cut-out of a clustering of installations of different types within one station-like protrusion in space, had moved from the screen behind Hoshi to be able to be observed by everyone in the room.
"This is what we will be incapacitating today." She breathed out, a heavy sigh, to look away from the almost crystalline structure and down at her crew. "Our cloning facilities, Yamataian cloning facilities make our own people. This one," Her deep blue eyes flickered up, then seemed to fill with animosity as she scowled, "Clone the races that Kuvexia has subjugated, but, it goes deeper." The volumetric projection began zooming in on a region nearest Hoshi, showing a series of bulb-topped temples. "The Kuvexians have replicated these alien race's places of worship, sort of shrines, and made them into, well, cloning facilities to recreate the leaders and," Hoshi searched for the word as the projection moved on to another place of worship on the structure, of which there were five in total. "The Kami, but that is not quite right. The deities and Gods of the races, the figures that the races worship. The Kuvexians clone them here. Some of these um, these churches," Hoshi looked to Eden, who nodded and continued, "these churches are built on the rubble of older ones. This is not something new, but it is something they are doing, for whatever reason, and have done. It is a way for Kuvexians to subjugate the races they have enslaved or allied." The projection began to show the third, then fourth place of worship as Hoshi walked about the room.
"It is, frankly, disgusting to me. I didn't ask for this mission, for the opportunity to release these aliens from the torment they must feel, but I would have if I could have. As it stands, I will accept nothing but complete mission success. That will not be easy, but it will be what we do. It won't be easy because of many reasons, such as civilian casualties. We want to avoid those. But, it won't be as easy as killing or capturing only Kuvexians. Some aliens of these subjugated races will be working so closely with the Kuvexians that they, too, will be threats. We also don't have a central location determined as where any head of operations will lay. It seems all five of these structures will need to be incapacitated individually. Some of the installations have known failsafes, such as this," Hoshi said and a steepled building was presented closer than the rest of the projection. "Others do not, so we will we be relying on a mixture of brawn, brains, and beauty. Speaking of," Hoshi bowed her head to look at Eden, who again nodded, "The Chusa Teien Eden will be leading the ground team. I want her to field any questions after she gives her own short brief."
"The armor team will," Eden began without a beat of rest, "be deploying in half an hour to an hour, depending on helm. If we were coming from Kuvexian space, it would be an easy entrance, but our trajectory to it means we will have to navigate an... interesting series of debris rings before we can make a power armored approach to the station." Eden nodded to Gravity, "I am preemptively thanking you for getting us through it. If anyone can, I believe it to be you, Nitô Heisho." She smiled, then looked from the blue skinned Nekovalkyrja to the blueish glow in the middle of the room.
"My team will begin here," Eden said as the volumetric projection zoomed in on the bulbous-topped temple structure. The volumetric projection clamped together, like a clam would. "This is what the station looks like from the outside. It has minimal armaments and a maintenance access point we will exploit above this shrine," the projection moved about ambiguously through the maintenance point and into the station to look at the bulbous-topped temple. "Which we will call 'Location 1' for the sake of the mission. Once we are through the maintenance access point and to Location 1, we will need to deduce whether we need to secure a failsafe for the cloning facilities, convince the aliens there to do so, or destroy it outright." The volumetric projection moved on to the other places of worship. "The same with Location 2, 3, 4, and, finally, 5. The second and fourth ones have failsafes," the projection showed a large lever located behind a tall statue in the second location and a trapdoor in the ceiling of the fourth that led to a large series of equipment, which had a large round button as the central point of focus of the projection, though the button was mixed in with lots of others much like it.
"What we know of the Kuvexian language, I am sending to your minds or Mindy, though the knowledge is few and far between. Mission objectives have been sent, too. We don't know much about the alien races being cloned here, we'll be learning as we go in that regard. Rights of first contact can be read when we have secured their freedom, namely after complete mission success. Any questions?" Eden's lower lip moved into her mouth momentarily as her expression became focused on the crew, scanning each face.
Near Kuvexian Border
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YSS Kaiyō II
Wardroom
"It makes sense," Hoshi said with a voice that demanded attention from the front of the wardroom. She set her face straighter and repeated herself, as these were her first spoken words since the crew had filtered in besides curt greetings to those that had approached her. "It makes sense that the ship is abuzz, and has been, as Love Day is only tomorrow. But those thoughts of anticipation for... Those thoughts of anticipation must be set aside for the time being. The ship is also fast approaching an event of a different kind. Of a different magnitude." She nodded as her head looked over her shoulder and the epic Hinomaru faded away and from the wall grew a volumetric projection that took shape as it grew in size. The structure, which appeared to be a cut-out of a clustering of installations of different types within one station-like protrusion in space, had moved from the screen behind Hoshi to be able to be observed by everyone in the room.
"This is what we will be incapacitating today." She breathed out, a heavy sigh, to look away from the almost crystalline structure and down at her crew. "Our cloning facilities, Yamataian cloning facilities make our own people. This one," Her deep blue eyes flickered up, then seemed to fill with animosity as she scowled, "Clone the races that Kuvexia has subjugated, but, it goes deeper." The volumetric projection began zooming in on a region nearest Hoshi, showing a series of bulb-topped temples. "The Kuvexians have replicated these alien race's places of worship, sort of shrines, and made them into, well, cloning facilities to recreate the leaders and," Hoshi searched for the word as the projection moved on to another place of worship on the structure, of which there were five in total. "The Kami, but that is not quite right. The deities and Gods of the races, the figures that the races worship. The Kuvexians clone them here. Some of these um, these churches," Hoshi looked to Eden, who nodded and continued, "these churches are built on the rubble of older ones. This is not something new, but it is something they are doing, for whatever reason, and have done. It is a way for Kuvexians to subjugate the races they have enslaved or allied." The projection began to show the third, then fourth place of worship as Hoshi walked about the room.
"It is, frankly, disgusting to me. I didn't ask for this mission, for the opportunity to release these aliens from the torment they must feel, but I would have if I could have. As it stands, I will accept nothing but complete mission success. That will not be easy, but it will be what we do. It won't be easy because of many reasons, such as civilian casualties. We want to avoid those. But, it won't be as easy as killing or capturing only Kuvexians. Some aliens of these subjugated races will be working so closely with the Kuvexians that they, too, will be threats. We also don't have a central location determined as where any head of operations will lay. It seems all five of these structures will need to be incapacitated individually. Some of the installations have known failsafes, such as this," Hoshi said and a steepled building was presented closer than the rest of the projection. "Others do not, so we will we be relying on a mixture of brawn, brains, and beauty. Speaking of," Hoshi bowed her head to look at Eden, who again nodded, "The Chusa Teien Eden will be leading the ground team. I want her to field any questions after she gives her own short brief."
"The armor team will," Eden began without a beat of rest, "be deploying in half an hour to an hour, depending on helm. If we were coming from Kuvexian space, it would be an easy entrance, but our trajectory to it means we will have to navigate an... interesting series of debris rings before we can make a power armored approach to the station." Eden nodded to Gravity, "I am preemptively thanking you for getting us through it. If anyone can, I believe it to be you, Nitô Heisho." She smiled, then looked from the blue skinned Nekovalkyrja to the blueish glow in the middle of the room.
"My team will begin here," Eden said as the volumetric projection zoomed in on the bulbous-topped temple structure. The volumetric projection clamped together, like a clam would. "This is what the station looks like from the outside. It has minimal armaments and a maintenance access point we will exploit above this shrine," the projection moved about ambiguously through the maintenance point and into the station to look at the bulbous-topped temple. "Which we will call 'Location 1' for the sake of the mission. Once we are through the maintenance access point and to Location 1, we will need to deduce whether we need to secure a failsafe for the cloning facilities, convince the aliens there to do so, or destroy it outright." The volumetric projection moved on to the other places of worship. "The same with Location 2, 3, 4, and, finally, 5. The second and fourth ones have failsafes," the projection showed a large lever located behind a tall statue in the second location and a trapdoor in the ceiling of the fourth that led to a large series of equipment, which had a large round button as the central point of focus of the projection, though the button was mixed in with lots of others much like it.
"What we know of the Kuvexian language, I am sending to your minds or Mindy, though the knowledge is few and far between. Mission objectives have been sent, too. We don't know much about the alien races being cloned here, we'll be learning as we go in that regard. Rights of first contact can be read when we have secured their freedom, namely after complete mission success. Any questions?" Eden's lower lip moved into her mouth momentarily as her expression became focused on the crew, scanning each face.
