rolling

Rolled 10, 17, 10 = 37

>>22545359
Was not expecting this today.
3d20's.

Rolled 24

>>22545455
And one d100.

>>22545455
It has been 25 degrees outside every morning for the past few days. I wasn't sure I'd get around to it either.

But hey! At least you're pleasantly surprised, yeah?

>>22545463
Hahahaha! /tg/ dice, at it again!

This is fairly important, so I'll let you guys get awaus with best two out of three, or you can burn an NTP for AUTO SUCCESS if you wish.

Rolled 14

>>22545493
One more d100.
Guys, if we space out the rolls enough, we should be able to get different seeds.

>>22545493
How important is this? Because, it looks like the dice roller is going to be rolling low for today and we might need to use that NTP.

Rolled 19

>>22545493
Slow morning, is it?

I'll add a roll, but only count it if it hits higher than the rest of yours, or if no one else rolls.

Rolled 15, 8, 20 = 43

another participant
here's 3 d20s

Rolled 31

and the d100

>>22545595
At this point, I think the auto-success is preferable.

The seed that the diceroller is using for d100's is weighted low this morning.

>>22545621
Nat 20~

That's NTP buff for bright, isn't it?

Also, Char you forgot to update the NTP tallies from that Nat 20 you rolled in thread 4.

Rolled 42, 56, 80, 87, 59, 28, 93, 33, 71, 12 = 561

Let's see what the current seed is like.

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Rolled 9, 32, 76, 31, 86, 5, 80, 36, 97, 54 = 506

>>22545669
The /tg/ dice, trolling players again.

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Rolled 85

>>22545591
This is one of those situations that I'm not sure how much info to give out.

So, I'll try to drop some hints before bludgeoning you guys over the head with "ARE YOU SURE"s.

The things you need to perfectly pull off a 'False Flag Captured Zudah' operation are as follows (list if from an earlier thread, so it's not cheating):
Earth Federation Black Ops Documentation
Earth Federation Uniforms
Earth Federation Forces Vessel - such as a Salamis pattern cruiser or a Magellan pattern battleship.

And here's the hint: proper credentials (or something that looks p[roper) got American spies into and out of East Germany via the Berlin Wall with minimal fuss and bother. This is a similar situation.

>>22545659
Yes, it would burn off Bright's NTP if you used an NTP Point for this.

And you're right - I copied the intro from thread 4, so here's the Proper
CURRENT NTP TALLY
Gihren Zabi now has .5 NTP!
Garma Zabi now has 1 NTP!
Kycillia Zabi now has .5 NTP!
Dozle Zabi now has .5 NTP!
Char Aznable now has 2 NTP!
Bright Noah now has 1.5 NTP!
Amuro Ray now has 2.5 NTP!
Sleggar Law now has 1 NTP!
Sayla Mass now has 1 NTP!
Lalah Sune now has 2 NTP!
South Burning now has 1.5 NTP!
Cima Garhou now has 1 NTP!
Argile Delaz now has 1 NTP!
Anavel Gato now has 1.5 NTP!
Shiro Amada now has 1 NTP!

>>22545493

have another crappy roll. also
STORY BOOK can be found here;
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14XYreb5rbo-xHUm6joMh5LpOgQFXSYalNwJn1b4j67k/edit
as always, i look after the needs of new players by providing the update posts, in chronological order, so they don't have to trawl though the threads. it also makes referencing a breeze!

>>22545726
Voting for auto-success.
The dice roller is in a trolling mood today.

>>22545726
And then I leave MY dice on. Damn it.

If you guys want to use the 85 there, it'll cost you .25 NTP.

>>22545747
Faceless, I'm working on a 'Narrative' version of my DOC file for Bright Quest, with some story fixes and pulling out a few of the 2nd / 3rd perspective flubs that are in the Sup/tg/ version. Can you give me your email, so I can send you a copy when I'm through with it? That way, you can use that for your Google Doc version.

>>22545787
Oh, we can use that?
Then I vote to use the 85.
.25 NTP is easier to recover than a whole point.

Rolled 18, 14, 6 = 38

If it's allowed, I'll make another rolling attempt.

Rolled 68

and the d100

>>22545787

e-mail in field. Did you want me to make the appropriate adjustments to your updates for the addition to the Google Doc?

also, i am fine with paying .25NTP for the 85. it is a small cost for a potentially high pay-off. that, and it still leaves us with 1.25NTP after...

>>22545833
Basically, the 'Narrative' version is the full thing, with grammar, 2nd / 3rd person fixes, and additional story bits added in here and there to improve flow and overall story telling. I freely admit to making a lot of mistakes (an admit I'll be making even more, I assure you) with this, and the fact you fine fellows / ladies are willing to play my silly little game of Giant Robots both honors and amuses me.

So, you can probably cut / paste the entire thing into the Google doc, and have everything including today's. Once I finish it.

>Actual Important Stuff
So, two calls for burn .25 NTP to keep the 85 I rolled? DONE.

Bright Noah now has 1.25 NTP!
Fate has changed for the better! Roll of 85 out of 100 for Document Credentials!

I will now eat my delicious sammich, and write you all up some delicious exposition.

Rolled 4, 4, 3 = 11

Rolling for JUSTICE!

Rolled 88

Hoo Ha!

>>22546173

NTP! NTP!!!

Rolled 53

>>22546173
>Finish Delicious Sammich.
>Start Writing.
>Update - New Post.
>20's suck, whatever...
>Update - New Post.
>88.

WELP.

Bright Noah now has 1.75 NTP.

Too bad it wasn't a 90 or above, yo. But them's the breaks.

>>22546230
>Guass Rifle Is Ambivalent To The Situation.

Figures.

>>22546230
>Too bad it wasn't a 90 or above, yo
Wait, does that mean that success required a 90 or above?

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>>22546250
No, no see >>22545938 .

An 85 worked. An 88 is marginally better, but not like a roll over 90 would have been. It DOES save you the .25 NTP, and even GAINED Bright .25 NTp. So there's that, at least.

Also: there's success, and then there's rolling a natural 100.

>>22546286

and then there is what happens when gihren roll to fire the colony laser and gets nat 1.

And there was much rejoicing. Yay

So. I just rolled up some random names for your guy's commando units, and I kid you not, the following two names came up:

Moon Breakers
Hammer Slammers

You want those?

>>22546426

yes. Jean will enjoy playing 'insubordination' with them...

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>>22546426
>Hammer Slammers
Oh yes. We'll take those.

>>22546426
yes

Hammer Slammers, plz.

>>22546516 >>22546476 >>22546556 >>22546654

S'what I thought.

>INCOMING

Bright picked up the phone as it rang. “Noah, go ahead.”

“Mohai here,” said Bret, “Your commando teams arrived – their awaiting inspection in cargo bay 3.”

“Copy,” Bright said, eyeing the clock. “I’ve been expecting a Captain Conty for the past few minutes, now. If she shows, escort her to the war room, would you?”

“Sure thing, Captain.”

“Noah, out.” Bright said, and made way to the third cargo bay. Upon arrival, he found several men and women setting up camp. Cots were being lined up and attached to walls with magnetic strips in an orderly, if somewhat reserved, fashion.

A man and a woman were overseeing the operation, and Bright approached them. They wore the standard Zeon infantry uniform, one with Sergeant Stripes and the other with a 2nd Lieutenant’s pin on his collar. “Welcome aboard,” he said, returning their salutes. “I’m Major Bright Noah, commanding officer of the ‘Siegfried’. How are you settling in?”

“Second Lieutenant Lannie Kissick, CO of the Hammer Slammer’s, sir,” offered the stoky man, who held his hand out for a shake. They did, and the woman also shook Bright’s hand, offering “Sergeant Coralie Romera, of the Moon Breaker’s, sir. Pleasure to be here.”

“Roomier than I thought it’d be, Captain, what with all the parts being loaded up and all,” Lannie continued. “Thought for sure you’d be stuffing us in an air lock or in the Kommusai bay, or somethin’.”

“Hey now,” Coralie said, smacking her fellow commander, “None of that. The accommodations are fine, sir.”

Bright shook his head. “I admit, from the outside, the Siegfried looks a bit cramped, but she’s nearly twice as wide as a regular Musai. There looks to be plenty of room to spare for everyone.”

>>22546789
“Twice, sir? Really? It looked big, but, I didnea know it was that big,” Coralie replied.

“You could say she’s got a really large bust, then, and gams that coul-“ Coralie smacked Lannie again. “-och! What? I’m just… alluding, is all. No harm meant,” he said.

“The Captain’s right in front ouch ye, yah bloomin’ idiot.”

Bright sighed. “I’m willing to over look a little here and there – you men and women are going to be a great asset to have, and the ship won’t mind a little joshing. Just keep it respectful, please.”

“Right-o, sir. And speaking of, to what death defying missive have we been posted here for? If you don’t mind me asking?”

“Well, Lieutenant, we have been ordered to sneak aboard Side 7, and steal intel and material from the feds,” Bight said. “I requisitioned your squads to help facilitate that.”

The two let that settle for a moment, before Lannie asked, in an Irish baroque so thich Bright could have cut it, “Canae we bring the tanks?”

“Lannie!”

And God Said:
[ ] Let There Be Tanks
[ ] There’s Room, but not THAT much room.
[ ] Other

>>22546798
I...I want the tanks. But I can't think of what we could use them for. Or how we're supposed to sneak TANKS into a colony.

[x] Let There Be Tanks
I'm sure we'll think of something. Even if it is to use them as giant kinetic weapons by having a Zaku throw them at a Magellan.

>>22546798

ask them how THEY intend to get tanks onto side 7, but don't mention anything about the surprise Zudah though. after all, it is a surprise.

if they can provide a reasonable or ingenious way of doing it, then they can have their tanks. though the Ex-filtration of the tanks afterwards will be their responsibility. Zudahs can fly. Tanks cannot.

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>>22546880
>Ex-filtration of the tanks
Why exfiltrate the tanks?
Fill them with explosives and set them to self-destruct in the hangar bays, slowing down pursuit.

>>22546880
why not use the MS carry them back to the ship once they drive off the station into space?

>>22546946

to quote a speech that has not yet been made;

"Compared to Earth Federation, the national resources of Zeon are less than 1/30th of theirs"

so WE will not waste valuable military assets doing a job that 'The Red Comet' has been assigned to do.
he is capable of that himself

>>22546987
So...what? You want the Commando Teams to use the tanks to break into the colony ship docks, steal themselves a ship, and destroy everything else as they shoot their way out?

>>22547006

i mean, if they can plan their way in, then they can plan their way out. i was not suggesting that we don't bother picking them up...
we might not even be able to get the tanks ON side 7 yet... so everything is currently plans, assumptions and theories.

>>22546798
>n Irish baroque so thich Bright could have cut it, “Canae we bring the tanks?”
>“Lannie!”
>And God Said:
>[ X] Let There Be Tanks

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Okay, the tanks they have are Magella Attack Tanks.
You can find more info on them here:
http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Magella_Attack_Tank

The top half can fly. The main gun can punch through a GM's armor. It has a tri-barreled machine gun for anti-personnel.

While it IS true the Zeon forces have fewer resources, the Odessa Mining operation is at full swing, sending Zeon materials at a prodigious rate.

Building a tank is cheap when compared with building a Zaku. Also, I'm flat out prepared to say 'If Char can get 3 Zaku's IN Side 7 without anyone the wiser, you can get 4 tanks in no problem.'

Also, you can attach signle use solid fuel rockets to ANYTHING. Steering it might be problematic, but catching stuff is what you have Zaku's and Zudah's for.

This is entirely up to you, guys. Do you want tanks for the infiltration op? Think worst / best case scenario.

>>22547112

best case scenario - Side 7 becomes a territory of the Principality of Zeon.
worst case scenario - Everybody dies. Feddies advance the GM project. Zeon is utterly destroyed.
Funny case scenario - Federation Mass Produces Zudahs

>>22547112
Worst case, they have to fly out with only the top half. I mean, besides they all die, or their presence is detected before our Covert-Zudah reaches the research facility.

Best case, they shoot up the ship docks, steal a ship, and we get the Gundam.

>>22547148
Your Jib. I like the cut of it.

So, I have two votes for tanks. So, there's tanks.

Think on how best to use them.

>>22547172 is close to a very, very good use for them.

>>22547201

YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!!!

The commandos shall LIBERATE WHITE BASE!!! while we LIBERATE GUNDAM, GUNTANK & GUNCANNON!!!

i am now going to hunt down a map of side 7, and construct a skeletal plan.

the operation needs a code name. since naming things is not my forte, i leave it to the rest of you.

>>22547277
Operation Double Fox. Or Doublefox.

>>22547277
Hey, I didn't say it. Anon did.

Hell, I wasn't even thinking of Tanks until the Hammer's Slammer's reference popped up thanks to random name generation.

Also, I'm thinking the Moon Breaker's are an expert demolitions corps. Fits with the name.

Tanks and Semtex for EVERYONE!

It's like Burn Notice, but better! I love this game!

>>22547341
Intereessting. Why for the name, oh Anon?

>>22547201
>detach tank turrets
>store tank bodies and tank turrets separately in large shipping containers
>bring shipping containers to secret Feddie research hovels
>ENGAGE OPERATION TROJAN HORSE
>tank bodies burst out of containers and suppress infantry
>tank turrets provide air support
>Zudahs come out of nearby walls and microwaves to blow stuff up as well
>in the chaos, all Feddie secret things are stolen

>>22547374
Because we have two separate teams we're going to use to outwit the Federation. The mobile suit users, and the commandos. Two foxes.

>>22547381
>Three days later, at Jaburo.
>General Revel Reads Reports.
>Takes notice of Unit Insignia Description.
>"CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDD!!!!

>>22547401
Nice. if everyone like's it, then that's what the Tank Op's name will be.

Now, also, you can name your False Flag Zudah Op, if you'd like, and we could also use unit names for Jean's Zaku wing and Lourie's Zudah wing, if you guys want to continue the naming game.

Sorry I'm slow today - it's still barely 30 degrees here. Warm room, and scarf is helping, but gah.

>>22547450
Zudah: Operation Midnight Insertion.

Or, if that's too ridiculous, Operation Sly Blade.

Jean's Unit: Star Hunters

Lourie's Unit: Burst Falcons

>>22547609
I like all of these things. Although...

>"Operation Sly Blade is go for Caesar. Repeat, Sly Blade is a GO for Caesar, over."
>"Brutus copies, command. Et Tu, and all of that."
>"Lannie!"

>>22547609
How does Mousetrap sound for the name of the operation?

Or is that too obvious? I've got no problems with the unit names, though.
Also, fucking anti-spam algorithms.

>>22547673
Was it really that sly? If I recall correctly, Brutus just walked up and stabbed him, and was then joined by other stab-inclined people.

>>22547749
First blow came from the direction it was least expected, though. Thus the 'Et tu, Brutus?" bit.

I was just dropping what my brain gave me.

>>22547696
I'd save Mousetrap for later, when we're doing a pincer attack in space with Char as the bait.

>>22547749
It was a good day for the people with a stab heavy portfolio.

>>22547788
It makes sense, then. Now Bright's forged credentials are going to call him Brutus Sharp.

>>22547450
Hi OP,

Did you check your email yet?

>>22547824
THEY ARE NOW.

Muahahahahahaha!!

That's actually awesome and you're awesome for posting it.

>>22548094
or Berny Arnold

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>[X] Let There Be Tanks

[Rolls: First 2 of the three 20’s earlier. Average 14.3 and 13 – Commandos above average in competency, but have quirks.]


“And just how do you intend to sneak tanks onto a Federation colony?” Bright asked.

“About the same way you intend to get Zaku’s in there. Just a fair bit smaller, easier ta hide, and more maneuverable, is all,” Lannie replied.

Bright did some quick mental calculations on space verses tonnage. “I’m going to need most of your men to be scouts and infiltration assets… but I think we can manage four tanks. The Megalla’s are single seaters, right?” Lannie nodded. “Then let there be tanks,” Bright said.

“From the mouth o’God to the ears of babes,” Lannie said with a grin.

“I swear, tha mouth o’ yours is gonnea get us inta trouble,” Coralie griped, but shrugged. “Wha’ do I care? Save fer all the extra semtex I’ll be carryin’ to get your fat ass outta the mud.”

The phone on the side of the wall rang, and a commando answered it as Bright watched the two carry on, half amused. The fellow came up to Bright, saluted, and said “Sir, Lieutenant Bret is on the horn for you.”

“Thank you,” Bright said, nodding, and took the call. “Noah.”

“Captain, your Major Conty is awaiting you in the war room.”

“Thank you, Mohai. Noah out,” Bright said. He bid goodbye to the two Commando CO’s, who only paused in their good natured argument to salute him, and headed aft for a ring elevator to take him to the War Room and CIC under the bridge.

Meeting Jane there was also a handy excuse to tour the Combat Information Center of the Siegfried, which he had yet to see in person.

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>>22548485

It did not disappoint. It was a fairly large room, about half the size of the bridge, with several screens which would display the known positions of enemy ships and units when active, along with a large computerized table that would allow for inputting information, searching the ships’ database, issuing text commands to various operators’ consoles, and zooming into the graphical sensor data.

The table was on, and was currently displaying an animated logo of the ship’s name, along with a spinning Zeon icon. On it was a manila folder, which was rather large, and two steaming cups of coffee.

And an attractive blonde. Although she was sitting at the table, rather than on it.

Bright offered her a smile as he said, “Major Conty. A pleasure to see you again.”

She rose, and offered Bright a salute, which he returned, before gesturing towards the coffee, and the file folder. “Yes. Sorry for the delay, but I think I may have found something you’ll like more than the coffee I owed you.”

“Oh?”

She gestured to both the coffee and the folder, and said “Take a look.”

[Roll of 88 of 100]

>>22548495
"I'm not a big fan of their font."

>>22548495
This is about to get real.

>>22548495
>The EFF, Jaburo High Command, and EFEMIRAL bodies agree the Zeon Mobile Suit program posies a direct threat
>posies

"I am not a florist, Major."

>>22548495
Excellent, we've got the orders. Now we just need the Feddie ship and uniforms.

Also, we need to rehearse our story and make sure that we use believable stories.

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>>22548585
I typo. I sowwy.

i'd give you the DANGAR G3 GAS cylinder image, but I don't have it.

have DANGAR, HIGH VOLTAGE instead.

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>>22548674
It happens to the best of us.

Bright sipped at the coffee and opened the folder with his free hand. He skimmed the document.

He then put the cup down, before he dropped it.

Top Secret.

Offical EFEMRIAL Use Only.

Operation ‘Chimera’.

He read the document in silence, Jane settling in around her coffee with a slight smile on her features, like the cat that got the canary.

The EFF Op Orders detailed the creation of a special team to overlook Pezun while hidden in the Loum Shoal Field, and to capture and analyize any and all Zeon MS equipment they could get their hands on – from Pezun, or presumably from the Debris Field itself.

It also went on to state the commander of the operation was to report to Luna II if under duress or with significant findings. If they were cut off from Luna II, however, orders stated to fall back to EFF Forces located at Side 7.

And while signed by a Rear Admiral Jamitov Hymen, there was no issuance date.

Bright put the OpOrd document down and looked at Jane. She raised a single eyebrow at him as he considered what to say.

>What Say To The Nice Lady, Bright?

>>22548847
"I have to say that I am impressed. But what happens if they try to verify the orders by contacting this Rear Admiral Hymen?"

Does the document also include the necessary authorization codes and ciphers?

>>22548847

"If this is a recent document, then it could solve all of our Infiltration requirements. If not, then the federation may have made more advancements to their V-Project than we initially believed. Either way, the Loum Shoal Field was our planned route, so no time will be lost searching for the SFT Midnight Insertion. it could even be combined with the test runs on the Zudahs. This infomation gives me a great deal to think about and plan for."
head to leave the room, but before doing so;
"Oh, and Thanks for the Information"

in other news, i am finishing off the Operation Specs, though no map will be provided due to A. piss poor quality and B. it has a very crap layout.
Wall of text cumming soon.

>>22548847
>Jamitov Hymen

Seriously?

"This is exactly what I needed, Major. Is there any backing to this piece of paper or will I be executed as soon as it's read by a competent officer?"

I don't follow this quest and am just dropping in, but why on Earth don't you get 1 NTP point for rolling a 100 on a D100. Also, RAW, characters would get .5 NTP if they rolled a 20 on a D100.

>>22548970
I think these are the forged orders we had asked for.

>>22548847
Seriously?

This won't withstand any healthy amount of probing, and then I'll be naked in the grasp of the enemy. I need something more vigorous to ride in on.

>>22549023
>Why not 1 NTP on Roll 100 with 1d100
Because they have 10 times the opportunity to gain .25 NTP while reaching a target number, and I count all doubles in all rolls made in the thread - unless everyone's rolling everywhere all the time.

This isn't QUITE Orgre Civ Quest, just yet.

If anyone actually got a 100, they'd get either .5 NTP and Success OR Above Automatic Success. The latter is very, very powerful.

I'll adjust the rules as written though. Thank you, Wild Anon!

>>22548989
According to the Char's Deleted Affair Manga, Jamitov Hymen was a rear admiral during the OYW. To the best of my knowledge, Jamitov has enough power and clout to issue orders like this.

Am I wrong? Please, if you know something I don't let me know.

>>22548970

here is the operation specs.

Operation Midnight Insertion

Objectives;
1 - Infiltrate Side 7, V Project Facility
2 - Capture/Destroy all Project resources

Second Objective becomes active at the same time Operation Doublefox and Meteor Shower Commence. Upon Capture of V-Project materials, use any available heavy movers to advance on the Hanger Access Elevator. This should coincide with Operation Doublefox as Access to the Hanger bay should be available. Load all captured resources and the infiltration team onto the Transport secured by Doublefox.

Operation Doublefox

Objectives;
1 - Ex-filtrate Operation Midnight Insertion
2 - Capture/Destroy Federation Warships
3 - Cripple Side 7 Military Plausibility

Prior to Operation Meteor Shower commencing, the Moon Breaker Commando Unit is to infiltrate Side 7's Hanger Bay through the use of Maintenance Airlocks, and prepare to seize control of both Hanger Door Control and the Heavy Loading Elevator Controls. Upon commencing of Operation Meteor Shower, both the Hammer Slammers and Burst Falcon Squad assault the Hanger Bay through the Doors which should rest in our control. At least one Federation Warship must be captured in order to assist with the Ex-filtration. Upon Departure, Moon Breakers are to detonate Explosives to either Destroy or Cripple the Hanger. All forces with then randevou with the Seigfried to return to Zeon Controlled Space.

Operation Meteor Shower

Objectives;
1 - Disable enemy communications
2 - Distraction of External units

Char Aznable. enough said.

my apologies if i got the wrong end of the stick there. ignore the post if it is based on incorrect assumptions then.

>>22549190
https://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Jamitov_Hyman

He's a real character, but if you spell his last name Hymen, it sounds too much like a joke. I was confused because it would have fit the tone of the quest if you'd made up his name.

>>22549303
If you think about some of these names, the designers clearly had the jokes in mind. I mean, look at Quattro.

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>>22549303
Quattro Bajeena. Slender. Denim. Jean.

But, being fair, that WAS another typo. It and all other instances should read 'Jamitov Hyman'.

In the middle of a Paragraph, Ramba Rahl forgot to Type! My mistake!

Also, I needed to use a real, named EFF Character here. There are plot reasons.

Are there any other reasons it shouldn't be Jamitov, while we're at it? Or was it just the typo that threw you?

>>22549418
It was just the typo. I know there are plenty of joke names, but a dude whose last name is Hymen just seemed too strange.

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>>22549464
Still, I thank you for clarifying your concern. I may know more than is good for me about Gundam, but it wouldn't surprise me if a Wild Gundam historian or Apologized showed up, saying "No, no no - Jamitov was on a sabbatical on the Moon the entire time! He can't issue that!"

Right. Back to writing.

Considering I'm being slow today, I'm aiming to continue this until about four or five pm, pst. or until I drop unconscious. Sound good? if the thread is still up tomorrow, we'll pull a Hobo / Ass Quest and keep on keeping on.

>>22549526
Sounds good.

>>22549786
Bright double checked the authorization codes section, and found three sets of challenge / counter-challenge ciphers, but no other codes. The name of the vessel to be used for the operation was not stated either, but that wasn’t surprising. Black Ops, and all that.

“While this appears to be, well, exactly the documentation I felt I needed for the plan I outlined to you,” Bright said, pausing.

“I sense a ‘however’,” Jane said.

Bright ducked his head in acknowledgement. “I have a few concerns. There’s no issuance date, but it’s signed.”

Jane nodded. “The order was indeed written by Admiral Hyman – it was shelved, though, in favor of accelerating something called the ‘V-Project’. As for the signature,” She shrugged, “I’m not sure where my contact got it. But signed orders are signed orders. And if presented during a high level of Minovsky radiation, they’d need to be taken at face value, wouldn’t they?” she asked.

“Then the federation may have made more advancements to their V-Project than we initially believed,” bright said, tapping his chin in thought. “Either way, the Loum Shoal Field was our planned route, so no time will be lost searching for sings of an EFF espionage team around the general areas overlooking Pezun.” He thought on it some more, and chuckled. “Heh. It could even be combined with the test runs on the Zudahs. This information gives me a great deal to think about and plan for. Which leads into a question – if these were to be verified, would they pass?”

“On Side Seven, Locally, yes, thanks to the signature. But, again, it isn’t on the books, officially. I was attempting to convince my contact to work a little hacking magic and pre-date this thing, getting it into electronic circulation so it could past a cursory inspection, but…” she shrugged. “I wasn’t able to convince him the information I could offer in exchange would be worth the risk.”

“Which leads me to another question,” Bright said. “What are these documents going to cost me?”

Jane held up an SD card between her fingers. As soon as bright saw it, she flicked it to him. He caught it, and inserted it and his hardware encryption key into the data slot on the table.

Transfer papers for one Conty, Jane, Cpt. Zeon Intelligence to the Siegfried, indefinite term, opened up before him. Signed by… Kycilla Zabi.

Bright’s brain froze for a moment.

He looked up to her. “Well. Pleasure to be working with you, Major.”

“The pleasure is mine, I assure you, Captain,” she returned.

>Did I cover everything adequately?
>Any further questions for your new Intelligence Operative?

>>22549858
The Federation uniforms, and any way of either getting a working Salamis, or the parts needed to fix one up in the Loum Shoal Field?

>>22549908
That is important.

> The Federation uniforms, and any way of either getting a working Salamis, or the parts needed to fix one up in the Loum Shoal Field?

“Were you able to secure any Federal Issue uniforms?” Bright asked.

Jane shook her head. “Sadly, no. The few that are available in space are ‘prized war trophies’ from rare ramming and ship to ship insertions.” Another of her little, one shoulder shrugs, “I couldn’t pry them out of their owner’s cold, dead hands. You’d have better luck fishing at Loum.”

Bright nodded, thinking to himself. He knew that full repair of a derelict hull was going to be impossible outside of a drydock facility. But if they were able to find a ship with minimal damage, say a strike on the main bridge, but else wise intact, or a few hits to the forward bow – his mechanics, and the techs on loan from Pexun, should be able to patch one up enough to be mobile. This particular set of Op Orders actually allowed for a ‘derelict hull’ disguise, and as such worrying about cosmetic fixes was tertiary, leaving only air tight and capable of moving at speed as the main goals.

Bright also knew most spacecraft utilized similar parts. The Republic of Zeon had only declared it’s independence eleven years prior, and the current Magellan battleship and Salamis cruisers were twenty years old. Many Zeon ships tended to use the same engine parts, if he remembered correctly, so as long as he had enough spare, the main thing he had to count on was luck.

Or patching up a Kommusai from a derelict Musai cruiser, and claiming they stole it from Pezun, along with the MS. That was always a fall back option. He added it to plan A23, and C22.

>>22550199

“Fair enough,” he replied at length. “Do you know of any major changes to EFF vessel parts manufacture?”

Jean nodded, taking Bright by surprise. “Funny you should mention that. An agent stationed in Von Braun reported an increase in lunar Titanium, and some very specific parts orders issued to Anaheim Electronics. He was unable to secure copies, but said it wasn’t anything he’d seen requisitioned for a Salamis before. Something about a ‘Craft system’, he thought.”

“Huh.” Bright grunted. Interesting, but uninformative. He quickly typed out a note requisitioning extra engine parts and tools, and sent it to the ready room for someone to fill.

>Anything else? Or Skip to 1900, and take off?

>>22549908
>natural 20
If the first 2 d20s were for the commando crew...wait, does that mean that last d20(my nat 20) transferred the Major? Because holy shit that's awesome. It's like we're forming a Zeon version of londo bell.

>>22550210
I had ment to mention that.

[KBT's Nat 20 directly influenced Kycilla Zabi's interest in Bright and what he is doing. Jane Conty is now assigned as your Int. Officer.]

>>22550208
Let's show the Major her quarters. It appears that the Zabi family wants this ship to be as crowded as possible.

>>22550208
Any briefing materials that ZIRCON can provide about how EFEMRIAL and the EFSF. Specifically, things like how they talk, any specific jargon they use.
Also, we tell the team to use a cover story that they can use, such as saying that they're from the Moon. And if you say some place on Earth, learn about it first, such as what the weather is like at that place right now.

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>>22550270
The Siegfried is pretty big, like Bright was telling Lannie and Mohai. It's not as tall, but it's a lot wider. Not all that hull tonnage can bue fuel, you know. I've never seen an internal technical readout / drawing for a Musai's main hull - just the MS bay, Kommusai, and bridge.

As such, I'm doing whatever I feel like with it, until someone tells me otherwise. So, when you roll well, boy howdy. There are no brakes in Candy Land.

God forbid you roll a one. there are no brakes on the Rape Train, either.
>NTP's! NTP'S!
Oh, god damn it.

>>22550285
Or wither or not it still, you know, exists.
>I am talking about that guy.

Oh, and just a quick reference to the resource issue noted about the Magella Tanks from someone who plays G-Gen

As of Overworld, units costs of what we have are:
Magella Attack Tank: 10700
Zaku II: 12700
Zudah: 15300
Zudah Unit 1(Commander Type with 135 cannon): 15600

>>22550270

well we work for Dozel, Jane works for Kycilla, all we need now is to be assigned a crewman by Garma and Degwin. and for the 'Zabi Family Favorite' achievement, Gihren...

>>22550422
>Gihren assigns a new officer to the Siegfried

"Captain Bright Noah, may I introduce you to Lieutenant Genocide."

>>22550374
You know where to find me on IRC.

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>>22550388
How? How are those dang tanks so expensive?

Let alone the Zudahs? They Explode!

>>22550577
I'm going to toss this one out there, because not everyone has read the Gundam Novel by Tomino. Ramba Rahl, according to the Novel, was Gihren Zabi's Special Forces Adjutant and Assassin.

If you can get Ramba onto the ship, along with an observer from Deagwin and Garma, I'll give you the Achievement 'All In The [Extended] Family'.

Good luck with that.

Also, Pic.

>>22550577
Nah. As the most decorated fleet captain of Zeon Ghiren will obviously offer us command of a Dolos Class Supercarrier. Which will mean that every dude around us will be a sycophant.

>>22550577

"and his aide, Sargent Teacup"

Char, is us getting Mobile Armors a likely situation, or is that something you are going to tease us with, like the mass production of a certain model of MA which is directly endorsed by Lord Dozle...


>>22550705
if our plan succeeds and we liberate the gundam and white base, then we instantly improve the odds of survival of the majority of Zeon Ace pilots...

we must also tell those damn newtypes to stop giving us headaches. though we should at least be thankful that they are trained military combatants not a rabble of teenagers with issues...

>>22550740
AND it will explode. Because Dolos have NO point defense. Those giant guns on the side? TUBES. Worthless, Worthless TUBES.

>>22550705
Look at those stats!
Though we'll have to be careful around her, and never forget that she's an Intel spook.

>>22550705
Did... Did you roll for that PASS? Because i am unaware that Zeon hat another Red Comet level pilot...

>>22550763
Then we glue some Magella Tanks to the Dolos hull to provide point defense! We will probably be forced from earth by then anyways, so noone will need them!

DOLOS STRONK!

>>22550770
KBT's Natural 20, dude. I knew she was an ace pilot, but it's my job as a GM to not say anything.

>>22550772
Zeon has several Char level pilots. Just not all of them Survive the OYW. Let's see... Anival Gato, Shinn Matsunaga, Johnny Ridden, Ken Bernstadt, Brown, Jane Conty, Kusco Al, Chalia Bull, and Lahla Sune.

And those are just the ones I can remember. There's probably more in the fluff.

Char's just famous.

>>22550705
Tanks have fuckton damaging cannons and outrange typical MS at the downside of having a huge firing range gap...or did(it used to be in the previous few incarnations that the tanks would have a blind spot in the range of 3-4, cannons going 4-6 or 5-7 and the machineguns covering 102) Rated Damage on the cannon is comparable to Neue Ziel's smaller beam cannon, PRIOR to factoring Unit Attack Stat.

Additional Unit Costs for reference:
Zaku I: 11700
Gouf: 14600
Dom: 15400

Oh, and cheapest unit/most expensive on my list so far?
Dopp: 9500
GP03D: 128800

This is only a 70%-ish completion, so none of the endgame boss stuff.

>>22550847
Still, this is interesting material.

I was just planning on using the MSM Stats for damage / armor ratios. I'm going to use you as a resource for this type of information from now on, if you don't mind.

>Char has gained an Intelligence Asset!
>Char is Still Down Two Wingmen.

>>22550895
Alright, so aside from the infiltration briefings and dossiers, maps of Side 7 and colony, I think that's everything.
Anyone else want to requisition more stuff?

>>22550895
If you want some Capital Ship information, most of it is available right off the bat.

Most Expensive: Turn A's Soliel, Princess Diana's personal ride, at 900,000
Least Expensive: Gallop, at 60,000

In between for Zeon/EF for OYW and possible reference material for your siegfried.

Gallop(menutioned above)
Jotunheim-class transport(from IGLOO): 61,200
Salamis: 64,800
Musai: 66,300
Magellan: 72,000
Gaw: 73,200
Big Tray: 96,600
Gwazin: 287,700
Doros: 300,000
Zanzibar: 461,700
White Base: 470,700

Prices are based on weaponry and size it seems, the main factor seems to be terrain capability.

>>22551048
A dolos being cheaper than a zanzibar? I am not convinced this should be used. I mean, yeah, the dolos isn't as good a ship as a zanzibar, but it should still consume far more resources to build.

These costs seem to be heavily gameplay oriented.

>>22551123
That they are. Sadly, G-Gen currently only allows 5 or 9 measly MS to a ship, no matter how large they are. And the friggin' Dolos is supposed to be a ship with a 100 MS force.

The first game of the current system, the UC-only spirits, allowed for 12 MS to a ship, but they downgraded that to make room for ship-board master units.

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>>22551047
Maps of the sides are something I'll probably need to make from scratch. I am willing to give it a go, but it'll take time. Expect it to be done sometime next week.

In the mean time, have a look at this youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zBIQCm54dfY#t=13s

That is an artist's rendition of Arthur C. Clarke's Rama from Rendezvous with Rama. Rama is 30 miles long, which is half again the size of a classic O'Neil Island 3 Spherical Colony, but gives a good representation of what a closed type, like Zum City or the rest of Side 3, would look like.

>>22551173
This is the Okawara art for the Musai Kai's MS deck.

I have no idea what they were thinking.

Flip them sidewways, head to toe on the walls, and you could fit 4 Zaku II's in there, easy. it's SPACE. There's no gravity. A simple loading arm and push / retrieve and load an MS just fine.

Sigh. Now you know why ZUDAH BAY.

Still, the information has merit as a starting point on required resources to make things in the UC universe - which I was a bit lacking in before. As such, greatly appreciated, KBT.

Anything else you guys wanted, other than briefing (being written)? Dossiers on who? What? Side 7 maps - I'll make them for next time. Requisitions?

>>22551246
Dossiers on any suspected members of this V Project and EF agents.

>>22551295
Ah. Humn, I'm not sure Jane would have that.

Three of you: Roll me a d20.

Rolled 11

Here hoping luck will hold...

Rolled 4

>>22551295
Let's see if ZIRCON can meet our expectations.

Rolled 13

>>22551327
okay. Have at you.

Rolled 10

>>22551327

following orders.

>>22551345
>>22551351
>>22551353
>>22551355

looks like no intel for us on this one... at least we get NTPs for the 11...

WE NOW HAVE 2 NTPS!!!!!!!!! AT THIS RATE, THE V-PROJECT WILL BE OURS!!!!

why yes, i AM having a power trip...

I guess my luck did hold out for a little bit more.

>>22551389
I think this is getting kind of out of hand. We are amassing NTPs far too fast in my opinion. I mean, i want this to be challenging, not Bright stomps them all through being a newtype thrice as powerful as Amuro.

>>22551450
I'm betting there will be an increase in opportunities to spend NTP, once this mission really goes tits-up. Which it will.

It's very easy to adjust the "difficulty" to match the amount of NTP available.

>>22551450

this quantity of NTP's, for us, is just a representation of the amount of thought, effort and planning we are putting into the operation.
i would assume that our chances to use the NTP's would be limited to when we can use them. one example is that we could spend 1 NTP on getting Jean behind enemy lines to flank them. we could not use our NTP on getting Jean to take them all out OR if we were in a MS, we could not use a NTP on attacks.
We are a Tactical Genius, not an Ace MS Pilot.

>>22551481
Yes, but the EFF are incompetent.

Whereas the /TG/ dice are 'Equal Opportunity Antagonists'.

I expect the majority of Bright's NTP to be spent as a 'undo the bad roll' button or 'No, Auto Success FTW'.

Also, the effectiveness of the spent / burned NTP is entirely situational. It will make a grand plan better, but make a weak plan only passable. It can be used to increase the susceptibility of a certain character to be persuaded (they can spend NTP to prevent this) or reduce plot armor.

They're FATE points. And they can only be used when the majority votes them to be used.

>>22551655
Yes, /tg/ dice.

Our guest awaits in the room.

“Would you mind giving a briefing to the infiltration team?” Bright asked. “Particularly on Earthnoid slag, speech patterns, our EFERMIRAL documentation clearances-“

“The works?” She asked with a smirk.

Bright shrugged. “You’re the intelligence officer. They need intelligence,” he paused, thinking. “Especially Jean Hatzenbuehler. He needs all the intelligence he can get.”

Jane laughed slightly, and gathered herself up. “I’ll put a briefing together then. It should be ready at about sixteen hundred hours,” she said. “May I be dismissed, sir?”

“Of course,” he said, typing out directives on the table for the commando teams, pilots, and command staff to meet in… let’s see, Cargo bay five was still mostly empty? How? Oh well, Cargo bay five, in one hour.

He then finished his coffee, which had cooled significantly since he had set it down earlier. It was very, very good.

Bright set about to do the few tasks that remained for him in the mean time. Organizing personnel, issuing warnings, listening to Jean complain about Pamila, and seeing Pamila not care in the slightest…

At 1550 hours, Bright entered cargo bay five with a few crewmen who had a podium, projector, and chairs. He set the projector up himself as the others set the podium and chairs up. Jane entered a few minutes later, followed by the rest of the requested personnel.

Lannie was still getting ribbed by Coralie, and shared a long suffering look with Jean, who was sitting between an annoyed Pamila and an amused Lourie. Maryln was in the row behind them, next to Wyatt, and both looked concerned.

>>22551707

The briefing began, and Jane provided a detailed and informative overview of the behavior, linguistic quirks, and jargon expected and in use by EFF personnel. The expected ‘Zeek’ was mentioned, but the fact ‘Dude’ and ‘Mac’ were still in common use was a bit surprising.

[Commandos, Pilots, and Command personnel are now Informed! They will ass muster if questioned by, or talking to, EFF personnel!]

As Jane finished, Bright took the podium, and began his own briefing. “The EFF assemble their troops from across the colonies and the globe. We have some information on the various colonies from before the information blackout in double-oh seventy eight, and also a plethora of information on Earth. I want each of you to pick a location, somewhere, and create a back story for yourself. It doesn’t need to be extensive, but it needs to pass causal conversation. I expect you to hold background checks with each other over the next few days. Do not skimp on this procedure. And for the love of Zeon, do NOT say you’re from Australia,” he said, staring at Jean.

“What? It was the one time. The ONE time! She was cute!” the man protested.

Bright sighed. “Any questions?”

There were none, and Bright allowed them to leave. As they did, he walked to Jane and asked, “Any word on the personnel transfers that tipped off your agents in Side Seven?”She shook her head. “Just that there were a lot more scientists and materials engineers than a single under-construction colony would need,” she paused, and thought a moment. “Several reports did mention civilians were being displaced from their homes near the south dock by the EFF soldiers stationed in the base which had been constructed there last year. Many of the civilians were resentful for it.”

>>22551733
“Displaced….” Bright said, thinking.

“It means, ‘forcibly moved’,” Jane added helpfully.

Bright gave her a wry look, but continued, “That’s probably where we need to focus our efforts. The civilians were most likely moved out to keep them from seeing things.”

“Why not build them underground? Or in a base hangar?” she asked.

Bright shrugged. “I know that’s what I would do. They’re probably thinking of putting their prototypes on display before rolling them out, and painting them some Daikun-awful color combination that looks pretty but would stick out like a sore thumb on the field.”

>>22551744
Bright assigned a crewman to escort Jane to her newly allotted room before he bid her goodbye, and returned to his own room. Checking the computer, he noticed an email from both Christine Ask, the Pezun Technical Sergeant, and also from Char.

He opened the missive from Char first. It was a simple acknowledgement of the Bright’s pervious email to him, an agreement to set for Side Seven at 1900, and a bid of ‘good luck’.

Christine’s email was more involved, with a bit of math on stress tolerances and cable length, but the gist of it was: his idea on testing the Triple by attaching it to the hull had merit, and the Pezun crew were figuring out how best to do it. They needed six hours to work on it, as well as another four for the second Zaku – Zudah tether unit.

1900 Hours came, and a shipboard announcement was issued across the comms. “The Siegfried is now leaving Solomon. Repeat: The Siegfried is now leaving Solomon. All on duty personnel to stations.”

The great ship was lifted off deck by powerful hydraulic lifts, bringing it above the blast line, and the retro rockets flared.

A few minutes later, the Siegfried was in space. She turned about gracefully, and opened her engines for Loum.

>>22551744
>...and painting them some Daikun-awful color combination that looks pretty but would stick out like a sore thumb on the field.”

I see what you did there.

>>22551928

and after 4 and a half threads, we finally LEAVE Solomon. and now we shall spend 6 THREADS at Loum....

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>>22551952
I get that a lot.

He he he.

>>22551928
Okay, Zeeks! Roll me a d6 for travel time to Loum. Also, I need a d20 for Stealth! (HAHAHAHAHA!)

Rolled 5

>>22551997
d6

Rolled 15

>>22551997

STEALTHY LIKE A GUN-DOM! A YELLOW GUN-DOM...

Rolled 10

>>22551997
And now we stealth EVERYTHING.

Rolled 5

travel time?

Rolled 8

and STEALTH!

Rolled 5

>>22551997
D6 for travel time

Rolled 18

>>22551997
And here's stealth.

>>22552020
>>22552065
>>22552092

three straight 5's for travel time? does this confer NTP's or is it just a blessing for Char meaning we don't spend too long traveling...

>>22552065
It was stated in the previous thread that no one really knows how fast the Siegfried is.

Bright refused Christine's suggestion to do a full burn to Loum, due to the high chance of hitting something. He decided to go at Fleet Speed, which is 80% power, I believe.

>>22552092 >>22552065 >>22552020
And By /tg/'s dice, 5 hours it took. t would normally take 9 at this speed for a regular Musai. That's pretty fast!

>>22552115
While I am just as amused as you - no. They're not doubles. Was .5 NTP not good enough for one thread? (No)

>>22552152

so this is one of the times where getting low was good... like with the TZDS?

we do need to test the TZDS...

>>22552252

so if we got a 1 on the TZDS it would have detonate the Zudahs on launch?

>>22552216
Yeah. 9 hours travel time to Loum from Solomon is standard for a Musai. Rolling a d6 is a minimum 30% speed increase over a regular Musai 93xFaster! Ha!) if you rolled a 6. Less = Faster. In this case, 33% Faster? 38%? Something, I cannot into the maths at the moment.

1 would have blown an engine, though. Because 1 is always critical failure.

>>22552271
No, I had a minimum modifier attached to that roll. a 1 there would have been ludicrous, however, and I would have re-rolled it.

It's already ridiculous by UC Standards as is. 27 seconds to launch 5 MS? 36 Seconds to RETRIEVE all 5 of them? Two minutes to re-arm, tops?

You have the revolving door of Musai's, man. Ceff is an evil, evil genius with machines.

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Also, nap time.

I will archive the thread, just in case. if it dies, I'll make another one once my brain has recovered.

(Thank god we're finally off Solomon!)

Did you sneak by the EFF picket at side 4 undetected? The average roll was 12.75....

>>22552393
I can add to that horror.
Get the Pezun Engineers to alter the zudah bay doors to not be a pop-top(thus blocking the guns) and make it a split hinge.(the doors will provide extra armor to the side while folded out)

Result: the Guns keep going, the only thing blocking them are Zudahs coming and going.

>>22552539
Actually, it is a side hinge - the capacitors that drive the armatures and the Zudah Dias' (Heh, heheheheheheh) are the same ones that collect power to fire the guns.

Lots of power = lots of movement, very quickly.

>>22552576

why not just make a giant MS gun which actually FIRES MSs. they can be kept in 'Magazine Racks'. then to re-enter they just jump into an empty Rack where automated machines rearm and reload them so they can be fired out again...

>>22552576
Ah, so it's just a power distribution issue...

I just had another disturbing thought to speed up resupply. If it is a side hinge, how wide does it go? Because if we secure some weapon/ammo racks to the ciieling....

>>22552611
That's a good idea. And the kind of concept you build the ship around. Like the A-10 warthog. or the Nazca class carrier ZAFT uses in Seed.

http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/seed/nazca.htm

The grey bands open up to reveal a magnetic accelerator, which basically makes the MS catapult for the Nazca class a Rail Gun that Fires Mobile Suits. And the ship is built around it.

>>22552675
I jokingly said that it was effectively a prototype of the Big Rang's Oggo repair, rearm, reload setup. So, yeah. It's kinda a prototype of the Big Rang's Oggo RRR setup, just without the conveyors and built into a Musai's center dorsal.

http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/msigloo-a0079/ma-05ad.htm

Go look it up on Youtube. It's in MS IGLOO Ep. 5 or 6 I think.

>>22552760
episode 6, IIRC, G Gen Spirits did an extensive episode by episode version for MS IGLOO, and Big Rang was the finale ep.

So here's the next question.

What is keeping Bright from just leaving the doors open? If everything is locked down, there shouldn't be any issues...right?

>>22552883
Space debris flying in at high speed?

>>22552916
Balls? Having the M-Particle envelope generated by the main cannon fry all the motors that run the dias' if you leave the armor open?

>>22552951
why'd it suddenly stop?

>>22554206
He forgot to call it a night?

>>22554206
>>22554488

see >>22552426
Char is sleepy and slow so he's going to do a HoboKing and sleep, wake up and then continue if the thread is still here.
hopefully he won't go all the way as then he will return, have about 3 hrs of off topic banter, say he's going to update, then fall asleep again...
then disappear from the face of the earth...

>>22552675

find a way to give the deployment system it's own generator. maybe bolt several Zaku reactors together...

>>22556247
Pezun Engineering Handbook Section 5 Subsection 10

"Solving Power Distribution Problems"

>add more reactors
>add more cables
>repeat until problem is solved

>>22556499

if it works, it works. if not, then we have made the new model of Zudah.

>>22557616

Oh God No! not more Zudahs! we don't know if the one's we have are even safe yet!

>>22559138
Not just any model of Zudah. We will have somehow created Zudah Beam turrets similar to GM Sniper Custom(hooked up to an external generator)

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>>22559900
DOZLE: Which will then be strapped onto the Big Zam for point defense! BRILLAINT! You'll Make Admiral For This!

Right-o, I have returned. It's still 20 degrees outside. bah.

>>22562789
Speaking of which. The reason the Doros was so bad?
1) Not enough launch catapaults(20 minutes for 7 catapaults to deploy 136 MS)
2) very few point defense implements.

So...how do we remedy this? Zudah point defense!

>>22562845
Or have the entire top open up and MS MISSILE EVERYTHING EVER.

I'm writing. I swear.

>>22562955
Hell no, crank for full burn!

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>>22563044
Sorry, screwed up my directions. Bah.

Two hours into the trip, the sensor operator called out, “Sir! Minor sensor return at nine o’clock, high ten, sir!”

“Distance!” Mohai snapped.

“Nine hundred, forty four meters, and falling behind, sir!” was the reply.

Mohai whistled. “The Longfellow was only able to pick things up at the seven hundred met
“Quite the improvement,” Bright said. “Minovsky radiation density?”

“Currently low, sir – background emissions from Solomon at our six o’clock, and some interference from something at twelve o’clock 11 high, sir.”

“Probably some radioactive debris from Loum, scattering out,” Bright said, thinking.

>Enemy at long distance sensor range! Direction: Side Four’s Loum Picket Line.
>He is falling behind! At current speed, you will out pace him easily!
>Do you wish to engage?

>Also, this is a rough diagram of how your sensor's work.

>When given the first direction (9 o'clock) the grey sphere centers on it, so that 9 and 9 are the same position. The second descriptor, 'High ten', means it is above the middle of the ship, at the 'ten o'clock' position of the grey ring.

>12 o'clock, 11 high means the Loum Debris is in front of you, at a 45 degree angle.

>>22563044
And if I don't get another vote for actions in 20 minutes, I'll go full burn until you're out of sensor range of the enemy ship. That will cut an hour off your trip to Loum, as well, putting you there in 4 hours.

>>22563335
I second it.

>>22563376
Bright came to a conclusion. “Give me full power to the engines, until we lose them. Current distance to target?”

“Nine fifty, sir, same position.”

“Engage full burn,” Bright ordered.

A brief claxon wailed, with: “Warning! The ship is to make a full burn, all hands to secure positions!”

Mohai strapped himself into his oversize chair as Bright buckled his own belt. “Think they strapped it down tight enough?”

“We’ll find out shortly,” Mohai said.

Another warning klaxon, and the ship surged forward, the Siegfried’s engines blooming like a newborn star.

“Enemy at nine five five…. Nine six oh, nine seven two… Nine ninety. Enemy lost, sir!”

“Reduce to fleet speed,” Bright ordered. The pressure against him eased as the ship returned to a more sedate speed. “Heading?”

“Two degrees off target, captain,” the helmsman said, adjusting the great wheel that directed the ship. “Adjusting now.”

>Roll 1d20 for continued steath!

Rolled 17

stealth?

>>22563531
stellated bright whit ship the Feds wear right no one think any one could be dumb enough to paint a ship like that so they don't even see it

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>>22563531
Yes. That.

[DC 15 Pass]

One hour and forty five minutes later, bright is awoken by the phone. “Bright,” he mumbled.

“Sir, we’ve arrived at the outskirts of the Loum Shoal Field,” the on duty comm. officer stated.

Bright let that sink in for a minute. “On my way.”

He arrived on the bridge, rubbing sleep out of his eyes. “Status?”

“We’re holding speed relative to the shoal field, sir. Sensors are analyzing the debris, looking for a way through.”

Bright nodded, and started out the window. Before him, the seemingly endless expanse of space was filled with thousands of tiny, glittering motes – and several large shadows, the remnants of the colonies that once called this place home.

He sat down to do some math at his workstation. 4 hours to Loum, 3 of it on fleet, twenty minutes of full burn… Assuming the Siegfried could cut though Loum easily, they might well end up at Side 7 in 14 days.

Which gave him time to test the Zudah’s in the debris field, if he wanted.

“Route analyzed,” the sensors operator called out. “Switching to Computer Assisted Piloting.”

“CAP engaged, aye,” repeated the helmsman, stepping away from the wheel, but keeping a sharp eye out for any debris that might swing into their path to quickly for the computer to adjust for.

>What are your orders?
[ ] Find a calm place in the Shoal Field (Broken Colony shell, stable debris section) and test the Zudah’s.
[ ] Continue through until you find the areas that overlook Pezun, search for the Midnight Insertion team your stolen Black Ops Orders referenced.
[ ] Keep an eye out for usable debris (Roll 1d100, since you’re in a ship at the moment)
[ ] Send Zaku’s out to escort the ship, keeping eyes open for usable debris (roll 6d20’s)
[ ] Other

Rolled 47

>>22563774
[X]Find spot to test zudahs
[X]Eyes open looking for debris on the way
[X]Zaku Escort/Search as well(we need more time for the techs to get the harnesses ready)

Rolled 14, 9, 12, 5, 16, 2 = 58

>>22563834
and the zaku search

Rolled 7, 14, 8, 15, 2, 7 = 53

>>22563774
[ X] Keep an eye out for usable debris (Roll 1d100, since you’re in a ship at the moment)


>[ X] Continue through until you find the areas that overlook Pezun, search for the Midnight Insertion team your stolen Black Ops Orders referenced.

do this as we go
[X ] Send Zaku’s out to escort the ship, keeping eyes open for usable debris (roll 6d20’s) they can also look for the team

then look for
[X ] Find a calm place in the Shoal Field (Broken Colony shell, stable debris section) and test the Zudah’s.

so you know do it all

Rolled 10

>>22563860
>>22563860
rolling for our bright eyes

maybe educe speed to 75%?

>>22563834 >>22563860

And who do you send out in the Zaku's?

See pilot list here: >>22562789

Also: two of the Zaku - Zudah tethers are complete, and though this might not be the best time to use them, they are available.

Rolled 8, 10, 4, 14, 3, 14 = 53

>>22563900
Laurie, Pamela, and Kareem

Let's put that newtype mojo to work and give Laurie some needed eye recalibration.

Rolled 98

>>22563774
[x]all of the above
rolling d100

>>22563928
gah, note to self: turn off dice. And yeesh, /tg/ is weighted low this morning.

Rolled 7, 2, 19, 9, 6, 1 = 44

>>22563942
rolling d20s

>>22563942 >>22563959
Holy shit. /tg/ dice were not having any of it until THIS GUY.

So, Laurie, Pamila and Kareem? Sound good?

>>22564024
are they the new types if o then yes

Rolled 5, 18, 14, 16, 2, 1 = 56

>>22564024

i am happy with these pilots.

adding some more rolls to the pool.

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Bright picked up the phone and called to the ready room. “Jean,” came the swift reply.

“I want a close escort of the Zaku’s while we enter the debris field,” Bright told him, “Send out some of the rookies, and let them get some space. And tell them to keep their eyes peeled.”

Jean groaned, but said, “Fine. I’ll have Lourie head them up.”

Bright hung up, and a few minutes later, his comm. officer reported “Captain Seabrooke, Sergeant Councilman, and PFC Pheonix report ready to launch, sir.”

“Launch Zaku two’s.”


The tree Zaku’s launched from the hanger behind the bridge, and flew into an escort pattern, a broad delta formation that placed Laurie at 12 o’clock, with Kareem at 9 and Pamila at 3. “Eyes open, people,” Lourie said.

“Of course,” was Kareem’s reply.

“Understood,” said Pamila.


Bright watched the window like a hawk. He felt a bit uneasy, and knew Luom was a harsh, unforgiving place. Thankfully, the radiation levels were still in the safe zones, for now.

Ten minutes went by, as the Zaku team swooped and dodge, pushing larger pieces of debris from the ship, and radioing back status reports before Bright spotted something.

“Two o’clock, seven low!” he snapped, seeing the movement.

Pamila’s Zaku immediately swooped in to investigate, finding… [98: Salamis light cruiser!]

“Sir, I’ve found a derelict ship,” Pamila’s voice called over the comm., “Minor damage to the hull midships, and some damage to the engines.”

“Full stop!” Bright called. “Zaku’s: See if you can haul that wreck closer to the Siegfried for a closer examination.”

“Aye aye, full stop,” the helmsman repeated, pulling the throttle down.

“Roger,” came Lourie’s reply.

Sending the Moon Breaker’s in, in case obstructions needed clearing, and also having the mechanics and techs from Pezun head over to investigate reveals…

[Hull integrity: 47%. Engine damage: 90% (10% usable)]

Christine used a small portable Minovsky generator to bring the Salamis’ comm. suite back online, and reported their findings. “We can probably patch the hull up in a few hours – there’s enough air left in the tanks that we can repressurize. The engine, though… We have the parts to fix it, but that will take 56 hours, minimum.”

>Take the Salamis?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No

>>22564653

the salamis is in acceptable condition. we should tow it to the Zudah testing area so repairs can be effected while the Pilots get used to operating them. though the techs should focus on the remote control tests first, so that we know it is safe for our pilots.

>>22564653
I'd take them, but then I have a fondness for the philosophy the Salamis and Magellians represent.

Rolled 43

>>22564757
and be on the look out for a better engine

>>22564653
Take it! Besides, we do kinda have some time to spend here. The issue is how much time do we have total to patch and test? Because you'd think we can divide the Pezun techs to multitask and make things go faster...right?

Crazier Idea: Test the Zudah Triple using the Salamis!

>>22564653
not sure with how damaged the engine is unless we can fix it up a bit, or tow the ship, other wise it might slow us down too much

>>22564874
You requisitioned enough parts from Solomon to rebuild the Siegfried's engines from the ground up. The parts for Zeon and EFF engines come from the same manufacturers, and while built differently, your shipboard mechanics are more than capable of faking a Salamis pattern engine block.

It will take 3 days for your shipboard mechanics to fix the Salamis by themselves. With the Pezun tech's help that can be shaved down to 2 days.

>>22564816
You could try that idea. You have no real notion on how much thrust the Triple puts out, and the idea was to link it to the Sigfried in order to test it. If it DOES explode, while attached to a scrapped ship, that would certainly minimize potential damages to the Siegfried. It's up to you. The ship to Zudah tether will be done in an hour, I believe.

You can always tow the derilict behind the Siegfried, using the Zaku's for fine movement - although the Zaku pilot's won't appreciate it much.

>>22564795
You can still roll to find debris. The battle of Loum destroyed 70% of the EFF Space force, after all. That's a lot of Scrap. There's a reason Delaz holed up here.

>>22565002

we shall tow the Salamis with the Siegfried. we can switch out the Zaku pilots to pull Scrap finding duty and assist with moving the Salamis when needed.

Rolled 19

d100 search for bright

Rolled 6, 8, 16, 10, 12, 18 = 70

>>22565057
and zaku search.

Rolled 50

>>22565057

more searching

>>22565057
>>22565063

The dice do not like us today...

Rolled 41

more searching
d100

Rolled 74

>>22565002

Rolled 17, 11, 20, 13, 1, 13 = 75

>>22565302
zaku search

>>22565319
a 1 and a 20 do they negate each other

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>>22565319
... and you JUST got bright another .75 NTP's.
Bright Noah now has 3.25 NTP!


In this instance, no. First two 20's are Lourie's search and spot checks, 2nd pair are Pamila's, third are Kareem's. So, I think Kareem just got smacked with something.

Roll 1d20 to evade, Kareem!

Rolled 98

>>22565332
no

would be interesting results

Rolled 2

>>22565446

Rolled 2

>>22565446
Oh god! What's going on!

Rolled 13

>>22565549

Kareem is now to act as MS Support Operative. He will provide tactical overview of the engagement and forward necessary information to the teams.

>>22565599
I was only rolling because no one else did. i am amused that the other fellow got a 2 as well.

Rolled 14

kareem, no!

>Take the Salamis?
>[X] Yes

“Get her linked up to the Siegfried,” Bright ordered. “We’ll tow her until we can find a calmer area to work in. Captain Seabrooke.”

“Yes, sir?” Lourie asked over comms.

“Good job. Keep a sharp eye out for any other useful debris. If you or your pilots become fatigued, come back – we’ll swap you out with someone fresh.”

Lourie smiled. “Roger that, sir.”

****

Another few hours passed, as the two ships made a slow, careful trip deeper into the shoal zone.

[16] At one point, Pamila realized the large cylinder she had been moving away from the scrapped ship’s path was actually a Salamis engine nacelle. She radioed her find to Christine, and brought it in, where the techs lashed it to the side of the hull. [-4 hours repair time!]

[18] Kareem spotted something, and radioed permission to investigate. A few minutes later, he returned, towing an [RB-79 Ball]. Lourie’s Zaku kept its mono eye on the two machines for a long moment, before she flew off to her position at 12 o’clock.

Kareem brought the ball to the Salamis, where a tech hopped in and clamped the manipulators to the hull. “Thanks!” he said, waiving. “This will speed up the heavy moving!”

[Ball improves repair speed! -5 hours!]

[50] An hour passes, with no immediate dangers present.

[41] Another hour passes. A chunk of debris Lourie missed slips by, and cuts one of the Salamis tow cables. It is repaired in short order.

>>22565749

[74] Another thirty minutes pass, until Bright called Mohai over, and pointed out the window. “Are you seeing that?”

“Looks like a section of Colony wall, sir,” Mohai said, nodding.

“Sensors, give me a sweep for debris.”

“Wait one, sir…” [Roll of 98] “Debris appears stabile. It extends beyond our sensor grid, sir. Set course?”

“Yes. Let’s see what we’ve found.”

****

[20] Pamila spots something! It’s a Magellan battleship!

Kareem followed Pamila, saying “You cannot simply fly off, you must ask permission to break formation first.”

“I don’t follow your orders, old man,” Pamila snapped.

The Magellan was booby trapped! The main cannon fires!

Kareem rolled a 2 + 5 (piloting). 7!

Pamila rolled a 13 + 8 (piloting). 21!

Pamila felt the oncoming danger, and quickly blasted out of the way. Kareem, coming up behind her, had barely anytime to dodge at all. A quick prayer to his ancestors and allah, and a reliance on his knowledge of where he should be, put him just outside of the beam cannon strike.

The green bolt sizzled closely by, eating through his Zaku’s left leg power connector! Thrust is reduced by 2!.

“This is why you do not move without permission, child!” Kareem snapped at Pamila, his hands shaking on the controls with the adrenaline of a near miss. “Now, back to the ship.”

A chagrined Pamila complied, reporting the location of the Magellan. Lourie, Pamila, and Christine in the RB-79, tow it in towards the Siegfried.

[Magellan found! Condition: Hull 33%. Engines 40%. Main canons slagged from failed capacitors and booby-trap discharge!]

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>>22565761
The Siegfried pulled the two derelicts under the protective cover of the colony wall. This particular piece seemed to be about 3km long, and would provide a nice sheltered area to make repairs and test out the Zudahs. He watched as it continued to rotate slowly, the tall, dark forms of old buildings and frozen water tearing into the void like the maw of a hungry beast.

Bright shook himself. This place was creepy enough without him making allusions to things that bite and tear.

>>22565749
I figured you might want some Feddie unit numbers now, since we ARE going to be nabbing Project V.

Gundam: 19,100
Guncannon: 16,500
Guntank: 14,200
Core Fighter: 11,000
Core Booster: 14,900
Type-61 Tank: 9,700
Ball: 10,800
Ball-K(from 8th MS Team): 10,500

Also:
High Mobility Zaku Test-type(Aina's Purple Zaku): 13,800
Oggo: 11,200
High Mobility Zaku(MSV): 13,500

All Ace versions of Zaku(Char, Johnny, Garma, etc.)s are the same cost as their base unit.

>>22565761
I don't know, which would be better, the Magellan, or the Salamis?
The Magellan, we could say we got into a fight with an MS team as we made our escape with the captured Zudah; that might help in keeping people from looking too closely at our credentials, and any discrepancies can be chalked up to battle damage.

Rolled 82

>>22565869
give Pamila a reprimand have her help fix Kareem s Zaku and + 5 hours training with him till she followers orders quickly lots of sharp turns and playing in the junk field

>>22565869
Since we have a more wrecked Magellan, we can use that to test the Zudah triple instead of the infiltration Salamis.

>>22565967

i second this idea

>>22565967
This sounds good.

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>>22565903
That's interesting. Ace suits cost the same? The extra tuning they require to get the specks up higher must be half pilot skill and half extra maintenance time, then.


So, I assume the plan would be to salvage the usable parts off the Magellan's engine to repair the Salamis BEFORE strapping a potentially explosive mobile suit to it?

Or do you want to scrap the Salamis for the Magellan? The Magellan is larger, and has more armor, but a slower top speed. here are also fewer of them left than the Salamis pattern cruisers.

>>22566141

which one would make a bigger explosion if we detonated it's engines?

because we could have the infiltration craft double as a bomb, that way we could take out the majority of their garrisoned fleet without having to engage in direct combat...

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>>22566141

>>22566141
The Magellan has slightly lower hull integrity, but it has 30% more engine remaining.

On the other hand, with there being less Magellans remaining, it would have been more likely for a spec ops unit like Midnight Insertion to be given a Salamis, especially because the cruiser is faster.

>>22566141
That's because the Magellan was a Battleship to the Salamis' Cruiser. However, neither ship was ever built with MS Hangar in mind at this point in time, as apparently GMs and Balls were just locked to the side of the ship until it was time to deploy.

Besides, the Salamis gets the better deal, staying in service through upgrades and retrofits for 80 years.

Additional idea: use the Magellan as a "shell" for the Salamis.

Magellan spec: 307 meter length, 102 meter width, 96 meter height

Salamis spec: 288 meter length, 68.5 meter width, 61.3 meter height

>>22566195
The Magellan has 4 engine nacelles, with 4 verniers each. That would be more explosive than the Salamis, with it's single engine nacelle, and 4 rocket verniers.

>>22566237
It's kind of an either / or situation. you guys have been finding a lot of good stuff - keep it up, and you'll get either one of them movable, if not parade worthy, in a day or two.

But only one. We told Char bright would arrive at least 9 or 10 days before the Falmel, and you do want to start that intel op...

You might also want to roll for searching the interiors of both ships, btw. So far, the techs have been busy with scouting out repairs.

>>22566289
You'd need to cut it in half (Do-able, with Zaku's), hollow it out, and snap it together somehow.

And everyone would see the seam lines.

It would be better to salvage armor plating off one or the other.

I think I need to stop for the time being.

>>22566358
Nah, don't need to split it. Just make it so that a frontal and side view won't give it away and slot it in from behind like a cover piece.

Rolled 77

>>22566358
have the commandos search the ships

Rolled 17, 8 = 25

And rolling for interior search. We need feddie uniforms.

Rolled 7

>>22566358

hmmm, how many suspected military hangers does side 7 have and how large are they?

we don't want to completely destroy their fleet assets as that would put a rather large hole in our extraction plan. depending on the size, use whichever one could destroy/cripple 50% of the hanger and it's docked ships.

rolling d20 for Magellan Search

Rolled 9, 11 = 20

>>22566358
Rolling to search these babies.

Rolled 2, 10 = 12

>>22566358
d20's for the commando's to search the ships.

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>>22566446
According to your intel, the EFF on S7 took over the entire 'south dock'.

In this image, that would be the dock where the mirror's meet the colony wall. There is also a North Dock, which is a bit smaller, and tends to receive civilian shipments, as well as ship out the various goods manufactured by the colony. Food from the Ag Ring, stuff like that.

I think there are eight hangars in the South Dock block.

>>22566468
>>22566402
NTPs! That puts us on par with Amuro!

>>22566687
Actually...
Bright Noah now has 3.5 NTP!

Bright issued orders for the Hammer Slammer’s and Moon Breaker’s to suit up and search the Salamis and the Magellan battleships before he turned in for the night.

[17, 11] [Commandos found: 77 Uniforms with various rank insignias! Two months worth of food and water, unspoiled! Ten days worth of air on the Magellan! 9 Days worth of air left on the Salamis!]

And that’s the last post for the day. Thanks for playing, everyone!

Check the twitter at 3xFaster for general updates. I’ll try to get a BQ running Thurs – Sun, 9:30 am PST, at least once a week.

>>22566619

how long would it take to get the Magellan into good enough shape to have it limp into side 7?

if there is enough time to fix it while testing the Zudahs, then i say we go with the Magellan.

rigging the engine with remote explosives should be enough to shut down one of the hangers. then Operation Doublefox can destroy /take over another dock(s) while Operation Meteor Shower can tie up any deployed forces.


>>22566736

a most excellent session Char. I await those documents you said you would be sending me.
Hopefully by the next thread, i should be able to make the necessary adjustments to keep it flowing.

>>22566779
You're currently at 47 hours for your ship's main repair crews to fix the Salamis.

The Magellan's engines are about the same state of repair as the Salamis - there are more engines, on it, after all. So, say 55 hours to fix it, with just one crew, and no other useful debris found.


Also, I sent the document before starting back up. It should be in your inbox.

>>22566878
don't forget to copy the new NTP totals into the prompt.

>>22566878

excellent. i shall have it ready for the next thread then.

Just sayan, the Salamis is likely to receive less attention than the Magellan. The Salamis is the feddis workhorse, while the Magellans are battleships, and thus mainly used in battle.

A infiltration unit would more than likely use a Salamis rather than a Magellan. So, you can count this as a vote for using the Salamis.

I don't think we want the Magellan anyway. It's primary virtue is is heavy beam armament (which should be used to target MS Carriers btw). Since I think the Salamis still has weapons we should get that, so it will be marginally useful in a fight