Re: [restart point] Mission 2
Kotori would have replied to Yukari, but Asher immediately jumped into the fray. The pounding fist made Hinoto, whom was sitting at the same table, yelp in alarm.
"The reality, Westwood-Hei, is that Nimura acted to insure that her side would win and my side would lose. She went to an extreme, did everything to strip my chances of working up a counter and beat me," Kotori asserted. "The argument is not about the credibility of the move as to real-life situations, but rather the spirit of it."
"You wish to know what being ruthless is? I'll give you a scenario you people had the power to do:" Kotori scowled. "Armors are assigned, technician takes advantage of the rapid-reloading function of the Mindy IIs and has them all sport the captured Black Mindy double-charge teleporter and the missile packs of the Death Blossom configuration - the rest are Daisies, really."
"Miharu enjoys being an unknown ship design to Black Spiral, so, it is difficult for them to just teleport in the ship and attack weak areas - they are only aware of volumes or the lack of it with their RDD scanners. This means that their first intrusions are slower as they probe for ideal target areas. You use the Daisies to spread out around the ship to search and engage the enemy units - and once you make contact, you harass them defensively and try to keep them busy and engaged against you while trying to incur as little losses as possible."
"Meanwhile, all Mindy IIs teleport inside the Meng Po, whom is depleted of power armors at that point, and attack vital systems just like they were trying to. We have an advantage: we know the layout of a Nozomi scoutship and the majority of the other vessels the Daughters of Eve use, even. With the missile payloads of each Mindy II, the scoutship should incur crippling damage at key areas which would make it unable to continue confronting the Miharu."
"At that point, the Black Spiral forces involved are tied between continuing their assault, or returning to defend their ship. Black Spiral vessels had as important objective to avoid capture at all cost, so, defending the mothership is much more a priority than capturing our own. The Wing Leader of the enemy team - under the pressure of suddenly being in command, would have little choice but to try and defend the mothership, some - perhaps many if not all - of the Black Mindy use thier second charge to teleport back to fight the Miharu's Mindy IIs, whom are more than capable of holding their own against the Black Mindy as long as they use aetheric weapons."
"Our Mindy armors teleport out to focus on a lingering threat, such as the NIWS, and pool their effort to destroy it. Meanwhile, the Miharu turns her weapons on the Meng Po and destroys it. All enemy power armors inside have expended their ability to teleport and thus cannot escape. They are destroyed along with their ship."
"By that point, the battle is more or less already won. With the NIWS disposed of either from being destroyed along with the scoutship or by being killed by the concerned effort of our powered infantry, all armors then proceed to eliminate all remaining enemies so to minimize the damage done to the Miharu. A win should follow quickly after that."
The Taisa narrowed her eyes. "That is taking the choice out of the enemy's hands - the example Nimura set for you. You were all people whom were more or less waiting to be victims of big bad Taisa Kotori's power armor simulation and not people whom were trying to snatch victory out of my grasp... just how many of you had already given up before the simulation even started?" Kotori snorted. "We cannot move forward if we merely survive fights; we will prevail only if our victories are resounding ones. Victories implying little sacrifices on our side are the only ones worth having, the only ones which can insure the success of our mission."
"Anything less will not stop our enemy because our opponents are driven by that sort of determination as well," Kotori shook her head. "I do not agree with Suzuka-Shosa: we hold no moral superiority over our opponents anymore - this is not just a black-and-white clash between good and evil. This is a battle between two sides whom both do not have the luxury of the word 'justice' any longer. We have different perspectives and motives, and it would be foolish to believe that Eve's followers are misguided, stupid and foolish because they obviously believe in what they are doing... however nefarious their scheme might seem to us. Death is the ultimate way to control other people when all other means to change them have failed and that is what our opponents are subjecting us to, so, we owe it to ourselves to defend what we believe we must stand for, what we care for and what we wish to call home - and to do so in the best manner possible which would serve out own interests."
