Fred
Retired Staff
Re: Mission 5: Amaya's Gate
@Miyoko:
"Hoshi's CIES ready to take over. Shutting down," Miharu's voice announced in its scratchy voice.
Miyoko heard the hum and gentle whirrs of the quantum computer gradually fade as peripherals went offline one after the other. Finally, it was only the central processing unit that was left.
"See you later," Miharu's AI added, and then the computer quieted, the shutdown sequence complete.
@Tom:
"Stored shots isn't a problem - that's all in the remaining capacitor bank," Ichigo said, as went ahead to service the main gun, practically plugging the plug on it.
A few tense moments passed as the heat sinks and heat radiators - still glowing red - wilted from the heat saturating them, slowly bending under their weight as they were close to their melting point. With Tom having cut off coolant feed to the unit, the conduits around it stopped acting up.
They had averted a potential crisis... but the main gun as it was had been so warped from its overheating that it was practically destroyed. Tom could take a week or two to fix it piecemeal, but at this point if he at all had the supplies it would probably be less trouble to just remove it and build a new one in its place.
@Nao:
The ventral unit's EM containment indications were someway less stable, arrows indicators twitching across the green-yellow zone. After some finger tapping on the dials failed to solve the potential problem, Nao got on the job herself.
Using the nearby rudimentary button, lever, sliders and nubs console nearby (rudimentary in comparison to glassy touchscreens or hovering volumetric displays... but they were also the least prone to electronic failure thanks to their simplicity) she manually readjusted the electromagnetic fields of the container back into the green zone.
* * *
@Kyou and Asher:
Removing their capacitors to have them individually recharged was not such a great idea. With the machinery they had on hand, what they could do was replug their power armors on thier armor racks in order to see them recharged, but they had nothing to plug in and individually recharge the capacitors alone on hand.
* * *
"Tom, you might want to send people after this coolant leak," Kotori suggested to her chief engineer. From her vantage, there were two thick greenish trails of coolant that were leaking out from the ship from where Miharu had been struck at the starboard capacitor bank.
At that moment, Takumi blossomed into a expanding ball of plasma fire. Briefly, the radiance of the explosion whitewashed over Miharu, but then it faded away, with a cloud of gasses and spreading debris the remaining vestiges of Eve's command cruiser. The rejoined Miharu, now over 100 000 kilometers distant, seemed safe enough from the explosion, only suffering for it with a slight jostle.
On the bridge, Takumi's tactical indicator turned gray. Mara whooped victoriously, pumping both arms up, while Hinoto made a more demure sigh in relief.
Kotori looked at what lingered from Eve's destroyed vessel, not sure of how to feel about her victory against her nemesis, the criminal she had been hunting down for the previous four years. Much of her drive in even obtaining command of Miharu had been to get vengeance on Black Spiral and the Daughters of Eve by extension. Now that she had effectively defeated Eve, her vessel effectively singlehandedly crushing her organization, she was in a position where she and her crew had accomplished something no one before had managed to do. She-
Hold on! she thought to herself in alarm, her eyes widening at the spreading cloud of gases and debris. They had been more than 5 kilometers away when Takumi exploded. With Surtur's amplifiers inactive there was no way she might've had the range to collect Eve when she died in the explosion, and Kotori had no seizure similar to when her NH-23 original had also expired.
The Taisa grinded her teeth together in frustration. In our haste to get to safety, I wasn't close enough to put a term to Eve once and for all. We've been cheated out of that victory. She turned Surtur around and had it walk across Miharu's dorsal armor, seething. So much work to then just have Yui's archnemesis slip through her fingers. I had her, damn it!
If Miharu's shields had only still been active, they probably could've afforded lingering close and ensuring Eve's destruction. Miharu had not attained a truly decisive victory in regards to the Gate seeing how they still had Melisson to deal with. With Eve's financial information still only known by Miharu, if they never left the Blue Rift Expanse, Eve would eventually rebuild her assets.
When Surtur reached the lip of the hull breach that had opened up the wardroom to space, her eyes widened - her anger turning into incredulous disbelief.
Down at the place which had once been the observation deck stood another Akuma - identified as the Ev-M1-1B Akuma "Vermillion". Its wings matched the schematics of the teleporter wing-attachments they had discovered in the Bowhordia core, explaining why they had not seen its arrival coming. Flanking it were two Black Mindy power armors. One bearing two distinctive saber-rifles, and the other an aether submachinegun.
Kotori didn't have to guess whom they were. At this juncture, Meni and Mani - respawned, or originals if those guarding Amaya had been clones - could only be escorting one person.
If one cheek had not been covered with a large, crusty scab, Kotori might've grinned. Here she had been, frustrated over missing her opportunity to finish Eve once and all all, and then 'poof', Eve dropped in right on her lap. Was it luck? Or was this an instance where the saying 'be careful of what you wish for' applied?
Seeing a mechanical bestial face and helmeted heads look up at her, the Taisa figured she had no more time to muse around the issue. First, she needed to stall for time to warn Nyton and give him time to mobilize the Black Knights: she opened a wide-band communication channel. "Criminal Eve, by the authority of the Star Army I place you under arrest. Cease hostilities, call off your subordinates, and surrender now!"
@Miyoko:
"Hoshi's CIES ready to take over. Shutting down," Miharu's voice announced in its scratchy voice.
Miyoko heard the hum and gentle whirrs of the quantum computer gradually fade as peripherals went offline one after the other. Finally, it was only the central processing unit that was left.
"See you later," Miharu's AI added, and then the computer quieted, the shutdown sequence complete.
@Tom:
"Stored shots isn't a problem - that's all in the remaining capacitor bank," Ichigo said, as went ahead to service the main gun, practically plugging the plug on it.
A few tense moments passed as the heat sinks and heat radiators - still glowing red - wilted from the heat saturating them, slowly bending under their weight as they were close to their melting point. With Tom having cut off coolant feed to the unit, the conduits around it stopped acting up.
They had averted a potential crisis... but the main gun as it was had been so warped from its overheating that it was practically destroyed. Tom could take a week or two to fix it piecemeal, but at this point if he at all had the supplies it would probably be less trouble to just remove it and build a new one in its place.
@Nao:
The ventral unit's EM containment indications were someway less stable, arrows indicators twitching across the green-yellow zone. After some finger tapping on the dials failed to solve the potential problem, Nao got on the job herself.
Using the nearby rudimentary button, lever, sliders and nubs console nearby (rudimentary in comparison to glassy touchscreens or hovering volumetric displays... but they were also the least prone to electronic failure thanks to their simplicity) she manually readjusted the electromagnetic fields of the container back into the green zone.
* * *
@Kyou and Asher:
Removing their capacitors to have them individually recharged was not such a great idea. With the machinery they had on hand, what they could do was replug their power armors on thier armor racks in order to see them recharged, but they had nothing to plug in and individually recharge the capacitors alone on hand.
* * *
"Tom, you might want to send people after this coolant leak," Kotori suggested to her chief engineer. From her vantage, there were two thick greenish trails of coolant that were leaking out from the ship from where Miharu had been struck at the starboard capacitor bank.
At that moment, Takumi blossomed into a expanding ball of plasma fire. Briefly, the radiance of the explosion whitewashed over Miharu, but then it faded away, with a cloud of gasses and spreading debris the remaining vestiges of Eve's command cruiser. The rejoined Miharu, now over 100 000 kilometers distant, seemed safe enough from the explosion, only suffering for it with a slight jostle.
On the bridge, Takumi's tactical indicator turned gray. Mara whooped victoriously, pumping both arms up, while Hinoto made a more demure sigh in relief.
Kotori looked at what lingered from Eve's destroyed vessel, not sure of how to feel about her victory against her nemesis, the criminal she had been hunting down for the previous four years. Much of her drive in even obtaining command of Miharu had been to get vengeance on Black Spiral and the Daughters of Eve by extension. Now that she had effectively defeated Eve, her vessel effectively singlehandedly crushing her organization, she was in a position where she and her crew had accomplished something no one before had managed to do. She-
Hold on! she thought to herself in alarm, her eyes widening at the spreading cloud of gases and debris. They had been more than 5 kilometers away when Takumi exploded. With Surtur's amplifiers inactive there was no way she might've had the range to collect Eve when she died in the explosion, and Kotori had no seizure similar to when her NH-23 original had also expired.
The Taisa grinded her teeth together in frustration. In our haste to get to safety, I wasn't close enough to put a term to Eve once and for all. We've been cheated out of that victory. She turned Surtur around and had it walk across Miharu's dorsal armor, seething. So much work to then just have Yui's archnemesis slip through her fingers. I had her, damn it!
If Miharu's shields had only still been active, they probably could've afforded lingering close and ensuring Eve's destruction. Miharu had not attained a truly decisive victory in regards to the Gate seeing how they still had Melisson to deal with. With Eve's financial information still only known by Miharu, if they never left the Blue Rift Expanse, Eve would eventually rebuild her assets.
When Surtur reached the lip of the hull breach that had opened up the wardroom to space, her eyes widened - her anger turning into incredulous disbelief.
Down at the place which had once been the observation deck stood another Akuma - identified as the Ev-M1-1B Akuma "Vermillion". Its wings matched the schematics of the teleporter wing-attachments they had discovered in the Bowhordia core, explaining why they had not seen its arrival coming. Flanking it were two Black Mindy power armors. One bearing two distinctive saber-rifles, and the other an aether submachinegun.
Kotori didn't have to guess whom they were. At this juncture, Meni and Mani - respawned, or originals if those guarding Amaya had been clones - could only be escorting one person.
If one cheek had not been covered with a large, crusty scab, Kotori might've grinned. Here she had been, frustrated over missing her opportunity to finish Eve once and all all, and then 'poof', Eve dropped in right on her lap. Was it luck? Or was this an instance where the saying 'be careful of what you wish for' applied?
Seeing a mechanical bestial face and helmeted heads look up at her, the Taisa figured she had no more time to muse around the issue. First, she needed to stall for time to warn Nyton and give him time to mobilize the Black Knights: she opened a wide-band communication channel. "Criminal Eve, by the authority of the Star Army I place you under arrest. Cease hostilities, call off your subordinates, and surrender now!"
