LAST TIME ON ZEONQUEST

"Quickly flanking around to avoid detection, and before the enemy can redeploy, you strike quickly and decisively at the enemy snipers before they can spot you.

You move in close, for a kill that won't attract attention. With your beam saber drawn you spot and kill an enemy with it's back to you.
Zol takes out another with his Gundam hammer, but Zol being Zol, the GM Sniper explodes rather impressively.
There goes your surprise advantage. You begin to weave from cover to cover searching for the final sniper. You actions save your life as a ruby line slices cleanly through space you had just occupied. The three of you begin to close in on where the shot came from before your target fired from. But at that point, the GM Strikers mob you, to try and stop you from doing this. They come in over a piece of covering terrain giving you little time to react. The three of them attempt to gang up on you alone so as to stand the best chance of taking you out.
Your GM shield takes bullets one of them fires at you as he advances, you spin away from the seconds lunging charge leaving you in an excellent position for the thirds charge. However his angle of attack is comprehensively thrown by having a Beam Lance tossed through him sideways by Zolomon. What's left of the enemy is flung sideways.

You see an Elmeth bit dash too and fro in front of you before firing. There's a shower of sparks and an impressive fuel explosion where the beam hits a piece of broken ship at an angle.

A red beam shoots past your head from close range. From that self-same piece of terrain if your any judge. Evidently the bits fire had put the enemy sniper off target.
Elaine begins to shoot at the now located target with her own beam rifle. But you have your own problems to deal with as the other two GM Strikers are coming in for a second attack. This time however, Zolomon is close by, and the Bits are beginning to craze about you.

You counter-charge."

What if you applied some sort of star map to the card game idea?

TIME TO GET US A FUCKING GUNDAM HEAD, BOYS!

Engaged on both sides, you charge forwards, giving the enemy little time to coordinate and work together. Your Beam Saber drawn, you knock aside the enemies beam spear, it sprays you with bullets from it's head vulcans in response. You counter, jamming your shield into the enemies neck. His bullets bounce of the shield and you return fire with your arm mounted Beam Spray Pistol. Normally not an attack that causes much damage, from this close range even the weak beam gun fitted in your arm proves lethal. Slagging GM Strikers torso block. You pull back to avoid the explosion and then turn to face the other. You barely manage to parry his charge and are forced backwards into a piece of debris. Despite the impact your beam sabers stay locked with each other, sending sparks fizzing across the two of you.

>>14286227

I dunno man. I mean, I could see it working as a Board Game as well, but...

>>14286320

perhaps as alternate rules?

I do like the general idea.

rolled 7 = 7

>>14286227
>What if you applied some sort of star map to the card game idea?
And Battlefleet Gothic minis? No wait that's getting a bit too far away from a card game.

>>14286293
Heat kick!

>>14286293

Bullets from your head vulcans spit at each other from close range as your GM shield, knocked loose by the impact, continues to float gently away.
You chest armour holds, but your Nacht-Zaku's head starts to record a growing litany of injures on your computer. Zolomons Gundam Hammer slamms at full speed into the side of the enemy, knocking him away from you, breaking the clinch. Although he seems badly damaged, the Mobile Suit still appears to be mobile. Evidently the additional armour of the GM Striker has kept him alive this time.
Moving out from your indentation in the large piece of debris, you pull out your Beam Rifle and charge after the wounded enemy before he can recover.
Now badly wounded, his MG fire is erratic and woefully off target, your return fire is not.

Elaine to your left continues her assault on the enemy Sniper, her constant harrassment eventually bearing fruit, allowing one of Nells bits to finish the enemy off.

The enemy Strikers and Snipers appear to have been taken out. Leaving the continuing battle between the GM's and your Heavy MS Companies.

YOUR ORDERS?

>Char has a gundam

>We could get the Zeong

/whisful thinking.

>>14286370
We should go and help the Heavy Companies. After that well I guess it's back to the OH for rearm and repair.

>>14286370

How damaged is our unit's head? Any systems malfunctioning?

>>14286350
Optional rules for including them would be nice. Maybe it'd give GW a reason to actually start pushing the label again. Though that's not necessarily a good thing.

>>14286370
Anyway, move to reinforce elements from Red Company. We may want to move up our reserves from Blue Company to bolster the satellite defenses and cover our losses in the debris field.

>>14286370
Take stock of our damage and collect our shield before we get back into the thick of it. Ask Zol and Elaine for damage checks too. I sure hope Jolyne is making herself busy wherever she is.


In the middle of battle might not be the best time to ask this but... Were any Gigans being built in space and being shipped down to Earth? There seemed to be a fair number of them both in Odessa and at California Base. It'd be relatively easy to swap their wheels for thruster tanks.

>>14286383

Funny you should mention that...

WHO'S THAT MOBILE SUIT?

>>14286412


had to

>>14286402

Not really, most Gigan manufacture occurred in California, New York and Peking. Any working examples of the Gigan in space would be found, if anywhere, in Pezun, given as they developed that mobile suit there.

>>14286401

Actually fans and Jervis are still working on improving BFG. Only recently updated lists for various fleets finally finished the drafting process, and update might well be in the works.

Although in my mind, any correspondance between Jervis and fans of this game is done in a similar process to CIA agents getting information across the iron curtain.

However, the point of the CCG concept was that you weren't a Rogue Trader, but rather the head of the Trading house with many rogue traders as a part of his mighty guild. So things would be a little distant. Endevours like securing a trade route would take so many turns (or possibly successful tests) and would then start to generate Profit Factor for you, which you could use to buy ships and other stuff.

Also, different endevours would also give you prestige, and points in various things (like smuggling xenotech weapons would also give points in Xenos, Cold Trade and Heretech. Whilst supplying a Shrine world would counter net you points in Faith and Prestige etc etc.) and if you have enough of these things you would eligable to high more prestigious Rogue Traders and Explorers, or eligable to get investigated by the Inquisitor or the Navy.

>>14286425
>>14286412

It would help if I remembered to post the image as well...

>>14286466
Looks like some kind of Gelgoog or Rick Dias variant. I didnt watch all of Zeta or ZZ so I dont recognise the binder configuration.

>>14286391
Seconding. Don't forget to pick up our GM shield before resuming the fight.

>>14286466
Crossbone Gelgoog Zolomon Custom?

>>14286485

I'd be more than a little disturbed if you did frankly, considering I just made it for DelazQuest this evening.

Note: This does not confirm that I will be doing DelazQuest (or whatever we decide to call it in the end) but that doesn't men I can't have ideas about it.

Gentlemen, say hello to the MSN-14JG Gelgoog Gespents Jaeger.

>>14286518
[SHOUT NOW]
GESPENT KICK

>>14286402
>>14286396
>>14286391

the Head has taken some damage, a couple of the sensors are offline (IR at least appears to be offline) Your long range comms laser has been knocked out of alignment, although you could probably compensate for that with a few minutes work from your cockpit. That appears to be the extent of the damage.

You quickly manage to salvage the GM shield without problems and call for a damage report from your other wingmen. Zolomon reports no problems, and Elane reports no major damage, but that she is low on ammo from harrassing the enemy sniper.

>>14286518
Nice. Very GP01-meets-Crossbone. What'd you use for the binders?

>>14286585
Alright, let's sweep up the remaining GMs and Balls.

>>14286518

Ugly as shit.

>>14286585

What is the Nacht zaku's ammo status?

If we're getting low, we may need to fall back to the OH for rearming. Kill any enemies on the way back, possibly leave Zol if he doesn't need any repairs or rearming.

>>14286608
At least it's not a gaza-c

>>14286602

This.

>>14286603

Last recon reports you had were that the Balls were coming in from the edges of the debris field, and had yet to meet up with the GM companies already in combat with the Rick-Doms behind you.
Essentially, there are balls to the front of you, GM's and the rest of your lines to the back.

Which way do you want to go, back to the GM's and then to the Outer Heaven to rest, rearm and repair?

>>14286635
Let's finish cleaning up the feds then take some rest

>>14286635
Back to the GM's, wipe them out, then back to the OH for repair and rearm.

>>14286635
Also it's been what 4/5h since the start of the battle? We should allow nell some rest too.

>>14286653

You sweep into the enemy GM's from the rear. Already, Balls are beginning to filter into the combat zone, but it's matter of too little, too late. Backed up by allied Zaku's the remaining Rick Dom's of the Heavy Company appear to have boxed the enemy in through weight of numbers. The three of you carefully infiltrate the area, you spot an enemy GM moving quickly between cover, you signal to Zolomon to outflank him, and for Elaine to watch your backs as you advance to take the enemy by suprise.

Taking cover in the lee of a large asteroid chunk, it's luck that he happens to notice you before you can get too close. You dodge the first attack he makes with his Beam pistol, and return fire with your own Beam rifle. He attempts to block with his shield, but this is a futile effort as your attack burns clean through the shield and severs his arm at the shoulder. His ownly long range beam weapon floats away with it. He attempts to flee, but mid dash he's caught in a trio of lightning fast shots, there's a blur you recognise to be Zolomon making a high speed pass, and the GM explodes.

I'm all for taking potshots as we go- but we're starting to look worn down.

A little bad luck here and that goes from "worn down" to "blown out". Gawd, we abuse every suit we get into with Lister...

...tempted to skirt around the main part of that fray and scare the living hell out of the GM's, plug a few as we go to shake them up further, then rearm.

Plus see if Rance and Option are up and running again.

You wouldn't happen to need a bunch of "Zeonified" character portraits, I apologised on 4chan?

I put together a whole bunch from various SRW portrait packs way back last year and forgot about them.
If you still have need for any this late I could post a .png for you in the thread.

>>14286834

*I* would like to see them, at least.

>>14286801
It would really help the MS Heavy Company out if we help to take care of these GM's before the bulk of the Balls arrive. I think it's effort well spent if we do so.

You turn back to check on Elaine. You see her roll over, thrusting backwards to avoid a pair of enemy GM's, firing her own Beam Rifle in response to their attacks.
You immiediately swing back to deal with this new threat. Concentrating on Elaine as they are, they don't notice you moving forwards. The first hint they have of your advance is when your Beam Rifle takes one out. The other to his credit, realises the position he's in and attempts to flee. But his reaction is panicked, and Elaine takes the inititive, dealing a fatal blow to the last GM.

You regroup a few minutes later.

"There's some Balls moving in en-masse from the sides, but without the GM's to help them, I don't think they're going to be much of threat. I think the friendlies have the rest of this fight well in hand. I've already seen several Zaku's beginning to encircle the enemy."
Zolomon reports.

"You think those three we took out were the rearguard?" Elaine asks.

"Most likely" you reply.

"You think we should circumvent the fighting and just return to the Outer Heaven?" Zolomon asks you.

"I think they've got the matter well in hand." Elaine states.

YOUR ORDERS?
ALSO BRB DINNER.

>>14286801
>Might as well get a new suit after each engagement

>Ookawara's endless nightmare

>>14286937
Do it. The entire team needs some rest and repairs at this point. The ship might be able to give us some updated operational information as well.

>>14286937
We're down to near empty on ammo as it is. I think we should try to circumvent most of the fighting and head back to the OH.

Of course, if we see a Zeon unit in trouble, we should go in and assist.

>>14286937
Get everyone back for repair and ressuply, Get Blue to relieve Red and the garrison so they can have some rest and do the same. Reinforce the position in the debris field. Find out what we can expect on our side for the near future and prepare to launch out at a moment notice.

>>14286943

>mass production run of the NachtZaku

>mfw

>>14287005

Might as well try and be vaguely canon, and help diversify Zeon's production lines to the point of retardation and help bring about their just and sensible defeat by the Federation.

>>14286937
>>14286997
>>14286986
>>14286978
Agreed. And might as well snag a few Federation weapons off of wrecks on the way if we spot any. Atleast that way we'll have some ammo if we run into trouble.

>>14287005
>only one known pilot David Lister
>At the end of the war went through more MS than his whole team

>>14286837
Not all of them are from SRW packs but they should be pretty easy to tell.

Bonus mecha points for being able to tell from which show each character head comes from.

>>14287005
So would our MS bay look like the wardrobe in the pic, except full of Nacht Zaku's?

>>14287068
>used SRWZ
>No John Smith
>I am disapoint

>>14287038
Maybe some more GM shields? Or Beam Rifles?
Maybe we'll get lucky and snag a Sniper Beam Rifle?

>>14287082

exactly.

>>14287178
I am the bone of my Zaku

Steel is my body and Minovsky is my blood

I have created over a thousand variants

Unknown to Death

Nor known to Canon

Have withstood sleepless night to create weapon

Yet those hand will never hold a Gundam

So as I pray, unlimited zaku work

>>14287082
It would if our ship was a Dolos carrier. Speaking of which I've come up with various modifications that would make that ship more troublesome for us to deal with that apologised could implement.

>>14287039
I forget. When was this stated?

So many threads...

Also: any word on a Hamburger special(s) covering his mission in Loum?

>>14287290
It's a bit weird how they go all "7 catapults not enough!" for a carrier with 182 MS in it, considering how many catapults a Nimitz class (4) has vs number of planes (90ish). Not like Mobile Suits spend a whole lot of fuel just hanging around in space around the carrier compared to fighters on earth.

Would make a bit more sense to complain about the ridicilous mega particle cannons all over that thing (instead of say, several beam spray cannon arrays).

>>14287294
Wait Just thought of something.

Hey, Apologized? Can we get a word file or something with the omakes/little tidbits/whatever that you've added in along the way to fluff things up?

>>14287343
That's one of the major problems with the design. The Dolos has massive firepower but terrible firing coverage. It's got twice the number of cannons of a Gwazine but is totally unable to direct them all at one target, since they're all broadsides.

That and it has nonexistent AA defenses, but I suppose with that many MS it doesn't really need very much. Still, a single machine gun turret for the entire ship is downright pitiful.

>>14287412
>Still, a single machine gun turret for the entire ship is downright pitiful.
That put to mind the image of one man, in a vacuum suit on a simple 50 cal MG being tasked with the entire ship's AA coverage.

Poor sod.

A "100 MS" sized Dolos, say 5 catapults, with machinegun/beam spray turrets all over it would rock some feddie ass, you know it to be true.

>>14286204
is that voltron?

>>14287427
I wouldnt want any less than 8 catapults so that you could get them into the field quicker if you needed to.

>>14287470
Obviously.

>>14287475
Thing is, in space you can just have say 20 of them hang around ontop/bottom of the ship and another 20 gliding along through space on the energy the catapult launch provided without spending any fuel at all.

Why the fuck would a 100+ MS carrier have them all stored inside unless its doing wicked drafting around the moon or something? Not like it would be opperating alone either, parked inside a fleet of 20 Musais its pretty damn safe no matter what its MS compliment is doing.

Just look at how our current fight is going, 4+ hours spent and our ships are quite safe, you telling me a fat ass Dolos couldn't have launched all its MS by now?

>>14287227

Nonononono. Revil is Archer.

And it goes:
"I am the Bow of my Salamis"
"Jet engines my body, fuel is my blood"
"I have created over a thousand planes"
"Unknown to victory"
"Or defeat"
"Have withstood 5 phases a turn to create countless Mobile Weapons"
"Yet this hands of mine shall never glow with an awesome power"
"So as I pray"
"Unlimited Fly Manta Works"

... and time was, when that was a perfectly viable strategy to completing the OYW as the Feddies in Gihren's Greed.

Gihren would be the Gilgamesh if anything.

>>14287533
>Just look at how our current fight is going, 4+ hours spent and our ships are quite safe, you telling me a fat ass Dolos couldn't have launched all its MS by now?

The main problem with the Dolos is the guy's captaining them basically went "This ship is huge! Therefore it must have huge guts! RIP AND TEAR!"
Only to discover that it had next to no armaments and get horribly killed at A Boa Qu.

>>14287533
Post Monovsky particle world. If the ship suddenly found itself engaged it would need to be able to launc them quickly. Fedration Carriers have 2 catapults for their 8-9 MS. You want to more than double that.

>>14287082

And then, Ookawara would say:

"I am the bone of my Zaku.
Steel is my body, and fire is my blood.
I have created over a thousand mobile suits.
Unknown to death.
Nor known to life.
Have withstood pain to create many weapons.
Yet, these hands will never pilot anything.
So as I pray, 'Unlimited Zaku Works'."

>>14287556
Hey. Could you address this? >>14287356

I apologised on 4chan got it right though, Minovsky particles or not (you can tell if those are increasing ahead of time), with a huge ship like the Dolos-class you don't run them up alone in close combat like a Pegasus-class (or is that White Base?) on its own.

And as I've already said, you can solve the issue with lack of catapults the Federation way, by strapping half your suits on the outside of the ship.

Zeon had some "issues" with its officer quality by the end of the war.

>>14287356

Sure. I guess I can do that.

>>14287578
Well most of the questionable officer are now on gihren's side...

>>14287594
We need to unleash Char in his Gundam on the Loyalists. It might scare the crap out of them enough for smaller units to surrender.

>>14287514
I want to be the helicopter. can I be the helicopter?

>>14287591
Sweet. Thanks.

>>14287594
Good for us, I guess... its a bit alarming how Gihrens crew is just sitting around doing apparently nothing though.

We could really use some of those Ships against the brunt of the Federation fleet. By the end of the Side 4 battle we'll be down to our last battalion of MS or something freakish like that.

>>14287616
>Voltron
>Helicopter
You brain damaged son?

>>14287622
And that's probably the only troop Revil can spare. That's why we need to win this one and the push them back to Luna 2. Then we sue for peace and make an alliance to take on Gihren.

So, remind me, you said to just go back to the OH, as we think that the forces here have everything well in hand?

Revil got like 50% of his fleet here, we got barely 2 battalions here and then a bunch of damaged ships and maybe a few hundred MS sprinkled between Solomon, Pezun and Granada.

Meanwhile Gihren is sitting on 2 billion zeonoids and can just shit out Gelgoogs for weeks until Revil bothers to do something about it (surprise, COLONY LASER bearded asshole).

Leave us alone Revil ;_;

>>14287644
Propose to allow blue to relieve red... other than that I guess that's all.

>>14287644
Aye.

Switch out the damage companies between blue and red, yeah (without leaving a gap in our defenses). Need to refuel, rearm and do whatever patchwork repairs we can before the enemy shows up for reals.

The question is now... will we push and try to defeat the feds or will we try to bog them down for as long as possible.

>>14287644
Make our way back to the OH for repair and rearm, staying away from most fights.
Help out Zeon units in trouble.
Otherwise, try to snag some GM shields, Command Beam Rifles, and a Sniper Beam Rifle.

>>14287736
Wait until a half to 3/4 of the Federation fleet has moved into the debris field, then attack their flank by coming in at an arcing trajectory.
Their advancing units won't be able to fall back fast enough to help defend their remaining units, and we can be away before they organize a counter-attack.

>>14287564
>>14287537
What we need is Unlimited DefSat Works.

Set those sumbitches to 'Batshit Crazy', arrange staggered fire and bleed their force dry.

>>14287774
If we do that, we'll either be sandwiched in between this wave and the next, or there'll be far too many of them for us to deal with as they smash our lines to pieces.

>>14287805
But defsat only work if there is no beam chaff

Have we used our kilsats yet? If we haven't, we should wait until Fed forces begin to emerge from the debris field and start using the sats to pin them inside. Then we have some mobile suits move in from the sides and back to pin them all down inside.

>>14287813
They have missiles.

>>14287666

Right.

Skirting around the worst of the combat, you decide to head back. Circling to your right seems the safer option as Balls are still filtering through to your left, although whether they'll stop at some point when they realise that they're operating alone is unknown.
You'd imagine so though, even the Federation aren't that willing to just throw pilots away for no reason.

It takes roughly 10 to 15 minutes to finally reach the Outer Heaven, stationed at the engineering company. Which has become a rallying point for squads in need of repairs.

Once inside you see that Option and Rance made it all right. Heavy work is being done on both of their Mobile Suits. You see the two of them drinking from sealed water bottles as you dismount. Neither one seems injured.

You talk to Ookawara about the state of your mobile suits.

"It's getting pretty bad, luckily the Supply ships got numerous spare parts aboard, which has been a real boon. But even were getting pretty pushed at the moment. Rance's Zaku is going to take at least two more hours to fix, Options Shield is a finicky job that's at least an hour, and I haven't even looked at you guys yet. None of which factors any mechanicals that the Elmeth has picked up... prototypes are notoriously high maintenence as I'm sure we all remember."

"Would trying to nab more engineers from other vessels help? Most of Blue Battalions ships are simply twiddling their thumbs at the moment."
You ask.

"It's also a question of Hangar space, which is at a premium everywhere at the moment. Will make do with what we've got, but if you want something prioritised, make sure to tell me..."

The current state of battle looks like this.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>14287812
Well, if there is another incoming wave, then yes, the plan is unfeasible.

But I think that a high-speed strike against the half of the enemy force still waiting to enter the debris field could still inflict worthwhile enemy casualties, and with the necessary slowing down of the enemy advance through the debris field, we can still get back to our line before contact is made between our defensive line and the advance elements of the Fed force.

>>14287855
Reinforce the bottom bit there where the balls and ships are getting close, using whatever mobile suits we have available. Otherwise, wait for repairs to go on.

Option, if he's just waiting on his shield, should get out in his suit and act as a defense man for the engineering area.

Prep the satellites to fire once we need them.

>>14287855
None of Nell's recon bits or any of the Recon Zakus have seen evidence of Revil shenanigans, right?
If that's the case, I think we should move up Blue Battalion, except for 1 MS team and a Musai just in case.
That should provide us with the extra engineers and hangar space we need.

Ask ookawara if the fleet was informed of of how many ships are on the other side of the debris field.

Then check if they've loaded up up some shuttles with mines. IF we got time, we should be able to mine at least the right-most part of the debris field ourselves if we sortie.

Also, ask if we can spare a shuttle forsome nachtmaren. I've got a solution to last week's "Push asteroids to fleet and fuck shit up" problem.

>>14287924
How about instead of just saying you have a solution, you say what it is.

>>14287891
I agree with advancing Blue Battalion. Once those ships hit the debris field, we're going to be swimming in GMs and Balls left and right.

The little stuff we may just have to deal with, vs. just slapping fresh armor plates in where we can and calling it good.

While we're there, let's at least work on that comm laser ourselves and see if we can't get it back into alignment. And Rance is probably out of this one unless we can get a lull in. That hit just totaled his suit.

See if anyone's got any spare suits at this point that are lacking a pilot? We've got a man, just not a machine to ride.

Also, consider in a pinch swapping a GM shield in for the damaged one on Option. Less firepower, but it'll at least give him some functional protection.

CHECK ON NELL. Combat fatigue for a kid is a serious concern, and if she's out there for much longer, we're gonna need to get her in for at least a little naptime. In fact, we might want her to do a quick bit sweep and return to the OH and bunk down for at least an hour or two, get some food, and get out of that Elmeth long enough to stretch.

>>14287855

Priority to any repairs that can be done in under 30 minutes on the NachtZaku and Elaine's Gelgoog. (And Zol if he has any damage that needs repairs)

Rearm all 3 suits.

Get status reports from Jolyne and Nell and grab some chow/water if it is needed.


Blue group should move forward and join the main defense line while Nell relocates to the colony immediately behind our defense line.

Option and Rance are not to launch until their MS are repaired. When they do launch, they are to defend the OH and Nell until ordered otherwise

>>14287993
Agreed on checking on Nell. The Elmeth probably needs some maintenance as well. Have her come in with the Blue Battalion to get some rest and necessary repairs.

>>14287924

The fleet was informed by Heavy MS Company units of the reinforcing enemies on the other side of the debris field.

It's one of the factors as to why they've put as much effort into loading those ships you requested with space mines. Although those ships are still finishing their loading, and it will take some more time for them to arrive from the colonies.

Also, you recieve word that Jolyne has finally run out of ammo and she's returning to base to rearm.

Do you want to order Nell back in to rest and to check out how the P-Elmeth is doing?

>>14288070

Yes, bring Nell in for at least a half hour, preferably an hour or longer if she's badly fatigued.

I shudder at the thought of how that kid is holding up to this prolonged combat

>>14287629
no, is yours?

>>14288070
Yes, order Nell to come in and rest. Also, her Elmeth will undoubtedly need some maintenance and fine-tuning.
Have Nell rest for an hour, more if the ship's doctor thinks she needs it.

gah capcha ate my post. Wait I'll try and get it again...

>>14288083

You order in Nell as well. She gives her ETA as 20 minutes.

In the meantime, Ookawara comes back with a diagnosis on your three Mobile Suits.

"Well, you've taken some nasty knocks to the head, and various other parts of the body are showing combat fatigue, luckily you haven't taken and major hits. Even the Shield is holding up pretty well. Zolomon is showing no major damage, although he's getting through those Beam Lances fairly quickly... man, tell him to use the beam guns in his shield more, it's what it's there for after all. Elaine's got some persistant scorchmarks and some large caliber bullet holes that's going to take a little time to patch up, but it looks like there's no major damage. Overall, I'd say it'd take us about 30 minutes to get all of your suits up an running. Plus the times I gave for the other two."

It looks like you might have some free time. What do you want to do now?

>>14288145 again this is my crazy plan for >>14287943

...okay?

Well, first off, the original plan called for pushing the asteroid big enough to use as cover towards the fleet and use those as cover. Of course, it'll just get chewed up by missiles/lasers/what-have-you as soon as they see it, so that's a no go.

Then I remembered we have Elmeth/Railgun sniper pair with Nell/Jolyne. So:

Nel/Jo/anybody else people can spare - Engage the fleet from the side with distraction while;

Everyone else - Start pushing Asteroids. As many and as quick as can be sent there.

With any luck(I.E. Apologise's prerogative) the fleet would be busy with dealing shit on two side to really worry about the ship shooting the asteroid, and let the GMs handle them.

Hopefully GM-4 and GM-5 are with them.

cont.

>>14288181

So 2nd phase of the plan involves engaging the MS sent to clear those asteroids(hopefully). Since we're using those as cover, afterall.

If the two Gundams are there, we try and kill them off OR steal the suit/gun(I'm more inclined to steal the gun...I just want to use it once, anyway.) Otherwise, keep dealing with the MS until we're near enough of those ships to engine-kill them. And then take care of the AA gun/missile, whatever defense that ship has.

If they concentrate fire on us, they'll be wide open for Sniper Jo and Elemth bits to be picked apart, so hopefully between that and semi-meta plot armor, we can get this part done.

Hopefully, we kept the whole fleet busy, that they don't notice a matte-black painted ship rushing to the ship we just disabled. Hopefully, we can keep the whole fleet busy for the Dragoons inside that crippled ship to take it over and get us ourselves hostages.

By then it's a simple matter of broadcasting we have ourselves PoWs and demand they back off. If that plan falls use that ship as cover as we ride back to the debris field and mine that fucker up. Push it back to the fleet, and detonite the mines inside(after stealing every peice of GM rifle/shields/whathave you.)

Is it crazy? yes. Is it standard Nachtmaren fare. Not the part about taking hostages, no. But hey, we're down to the wire and we need to pull a bullshit plan through.

Just hope to Thor it works. Any ideas?

>>14288179
Have Zolomon forgo repairs and have him keep watch in his suit outside.

Go off with Jolyne once she gets in and get to banging.

>>14288187

>>Sniper Jo

THAT'S IT!

PAINT JOLYNE'S MS GREEN AND GIVE HER A FUNKY SHIELD! Otherwise this plan depends on how many people can you convince to go along with this...

>>14288181
>>14288187

Is this as well as seeding the debris field with mines?

>>14288187
What cover are you going to provide for the diversionary attack force (Nell/Jol/everyone else), seeing as the Fed reinforcements haven't launched their Balls or MS teams yet?
Not to mention the massed Beam Cannons on all of the Salamis as well as the Pegasus carriers is more than enough to deal with any asteroids sent their way.
Our Dragoons are back at Grenada and possibly some at Solomon; it would take them hours to get here, assuming that a straight lasercomm network relay is still available to get back to them.
Finally, you underestimate the willingness of Federation crews to overload their engines, self-destruct their ship, or otherwise fight to the last man at this late stage in the OYW.

>>14288104
It may be after seeing that...that abomination.

>>14288237
No.
Seed the debris field with mines, that's okay.
The other plan, though, I feel would be a waste of manpower in a futile and foolish attack.
Instead, I think it would be better to engage the enemy as they enter the debris field, where their massed capital ship guns won't be of much use to them.

>>14288273
Seconding this.

>>14288179

Snack and a piss break. Combat catheters are a bitch and paste tubes are NOT snacks. They even look the same coming out the other end, for fuck's sake.

Then maybe just sitting down with a comm headset on and list(er)ening to the comm chatter from the bridge feed, just to get an idea of how everyone else is holding up. We need to rest a little too.

After seeing if anyone's got a spare suit we can get Rance in, assuming we can shuttle him to it. Getting pasted by a mega-sized cannon isn't his fault, the fucker was firing for effect and got lucky.

>>14288237

1)If we can mine the debris field(I thought last thread we said we'd mine the right...or was it left?....part of the field) so we'd be sure no one can use that part...except for Sniper Jo who'd be there, of course...and the Elmeth...Everyone else who wants to join in on the long range distraction would have to be using the other side. But the Balls. Balls everywhere situtation has got me doubting that'd work, so;

2)If we can't seed the field with mines then those shuttles would do in a pinch for Dragoon shuttles...BTW, is there any chance we think vertically? This is space after all, so we:

a)paint one shuttle matte black;
b)have it filled with dragoons;
c)tell it to go OVER the debris field;
d)wait 'till we've cleared the debris field outselves and started the distraction...
e)It's Dragoon time!

>>14288302

We don't have the Dragoons with us right now.

>>14288302
How many times will it have to be said before it finally sinks in: WE DO NOT HAVE THE DRAGOONS WITH US!

>>14288302
As it's been pointed out before, we don't have our Dragoons with us. They're chilling in Grenada or Pezun so they're nowhere near us.

And how is painting a shuttle black going to make it any harder to spot? We haven't relied on line-of-sight based warning systems since World War I. Without the cover of the debris the shuttle is just going to get shot out of the sky. And that's even assuming we can get the whole thing painted in a few hours, which is time and resources better spent on reparing mobile suits.

>>14288273
>>14288289

Meh, it was a crazy plan anyways, and depends entirely on scaring the fleet shitless from all sides.

The Only good thing to come out of this is maybe having a shuttle for the dragoons to ride in and maybe getting Jolyne's MS colored green and naming her Sniper Jo.

Flashbacks of Megaman, coming right at me...

>>14288313
Or shuttles, unless you count Komusais, which are basically reentry capsules. Or that much paint for the matter.

Even if we did have the Dragoons, the last time they executed a boarding action against a Pegasus, they took over 70% casualties. They can't take and hold a ship effectively.

So first this >>14288294
then this >>14288273
I think that's what most people are leaning towards now.

>>14288289

Okay, about 10 minutes into the repair work you have Zolomon sortie for short range patrols around the ship. Around this point you receive word from the colonies that the cargo vessels loaded with space mines are ready and are being launched. You can expect the operation to begin in about half an hour. At this time, the engineering Zaku's will not be able to reposition the defence sats any further, as they will be working with the ships to deploy those mines in the debris field.

Meanwhile, your Heavy MS Companies have caused a full scale retreat from Debris field for the federation. The badly damaged Heavy MS company is moving back for repairs whilst the Medium MS company from Blue Battallion moves up to keep the pressure on the retreating enemy and to set up defensive positions in the debris field.

How well could the Elmeth thin out those clouds of balls? I'd imagine those big cannons the balls have aren't too good at pin-point shooting those bits and without that GM Sniper support they will have an even worse time of it. I'd imagine the Elmeth alone could really tie up their firepower.

While the Elmeth is doing that we can have the rest of the team searching the debris field for the fuck-off cannon gundam as well as helping out friendly forces against the GM rushes.

>>14288531
I don't think we want to move the Defense Sats any closer than they already are.

Also, I think we should have the entire Nachtmaren lurking in the debris field, specifically tasked with finding and destroying the two gundams. The Federation is sure to use them again to try to spearhead their next assault, and we should take the opportunity to kill them.

>>14288547
>How well could the Elmeth thin out those clouds of balls? I'd imagine those big cannons the balls have aren't too good at pin-point shooting those bits and without that GM Sniper support they will have an even worse time of it. I'd imagine the Elmeth alone could really tie up their firepower.

The elmeth would be pretty good at it, but there's a lot of balls to deal with, so the real issue is how long it would take.

>>14288258
ah yes lion, aka "kiddie" voltron

>>14288547

Using a cutting edge MA to swat Balls? Might want to save the Elmeth's limited (per bit, as they have to recharge) beam firepower for point defense and support.

Besides, Nell is taking a break for the moment. When she's gotten some rest (and a lookover on the Elmeth by the techs whilst this happens), we'll know the tactical situation better and can deploy her accordingly.

You know how combats do a pilot in. We go in for a few hours, and it feels like it takes weeks of effort... :)

>>14288626
I'd imagine the Elmeth wouldn't even have to destroy all of them to keep them out of the fight. The mass confusion caused by their center formation getting blown to smithereens would cause them to either commit to trying to skeet shoot with a rocket launcher or retreat back to the safety of the Fed fleet.

>>14288658

More time passes. Jolyne eventually returns to the ship.

"How'd it go?" You ask her as she dismounts from her Gelgoog Cannon.

"Getting a clean shot at targets inside the Debris field is difficult as hell. Especially since there's too much interering terrain to tell friendlies to get out of your line of fire. Just making the shots was difficult. Next time I'm doing it from a closer range. Hows everyone else doing?"

"Nell's been helping out, and I've got her coming in for a rest now, the rest of us are doing okay, apart from Rance who managed to lose an arm and a leg to enemy Megaparticle fire. He's going to be out for at least two more hours. We've got space mines from the colonies coming to seed the debris field with."

"It'll be difficult to operate in the field for us as well if we do that, are we abandoning the debris field?"

"We'll abandon it in stages, when the field is properly seeded we'll move back to the defence sats and have them pound anything that makes it's way to the other side."

"Sounds like a plan, so what will we be doing?"

WHAT WILL NACHTMAREN DO NEXT?

>>14288815
I'm still behind the plan of sending in all of Nachtmaren into the debris field to hunt down the gundams, while taking out targets of opportunity.

>>14288815
Well, the most sensible thing would be to go out and provide protection for the engineering theams. Either by just babysitting them, or in the more traditional Nachtmaren fashion, draw enemy attention away by flying into their formation and wrecking shit.

>>14288815
I'd say Nachtmaren should probably start hunting and killing any Fed teams that want to get a clear picture of our fleet movements from around the debris field.

I imagine that now that Zeonic forces are withdrawing from the mined debris field that Revil will try to pull a fast and ballsy move of moving the Unit 4 and 5 as well as sniper teams into the mine field in order to strike at our forces. If he does this we can use the Elmeth's bits to flush them into thick mine concentrations and cause explosive chain reactions. Either the Fed teams in the mine field get blown up by mines or they get flushed out for Nachtmaren to deal with.

If they try to do a ball rush from around the debris we can have the def sats and heavy MS teams start slagging them into storms of molten metal.

>>14288815
Nachtmaren should pose as a team. Cause shit just got real.

(ok that wasn't really funny, moving on).

>>14288905
>>14288868

So basically, you want to move into the debris field again?

>>14289000
Yes, but after we have all of Nachtmaren ready. So that means fixing Option's shield, and either fixing Rance's Zaku, or finding him another suit.
That should give everyone enough time to rest up, especially Nell.

>>14289000
Unless the recon zakus are seeing small teams of MS moving in from a different direction as if the Unit 4 was trying to sneak up to use its fleet killer megaparticle cannon on our def sats and fleets then we might as well go where the action is.

I think the more unattractive we make this avenue of attack for the Feds the better we can make them divide their forces as they try to find weaknesses in our defense. By dividing their fleet into more bit-sized morsels we can begin killing that fleet by a thousand cuts.

The Bigros still haven't deployed yet right?
Do you guys think the fleet will split or stay together when the figure out the field is mined.
We should keep in mind that there are three directions that they could come from: Left, Right, and Above.
They could just try to go over the field entirely.

>>14289239
Well, that's what our Recon Zaku's are for.

>>14289239
They could go around the field (in 3D space) where they will be in sight for our defense sats and fleet cannons. The Feds wanted to go through the debris field because it would have shielded them from our fleet's fire but now they gave us time to turn it into a death trap.

If I was Revil I would probably try to move the fleet in one direction and have the Unit 4 with a small team of aces for protection strike with its cannon from the other direction. This way he can split our fleet and crush us without committing to the mined field of death. Thus I think Nacthmaren should prioritize hunting Unit 4 whenever it shows up to prevent this option from Revil and force him to split his fleet for finding weaknesses in our defense. In the meantime we should wreck the Feds Ball and GM rushes as well as protecting the engineers setting up those wonderful mines.

>>14289315
So essentially move into the debris field, and be on the lookout for the gundams while we wreck the Federation's shit and protect the engineers.
Pretty much the same plan that's already been suggested.

>>14289277
I wasn't suggesting that the Bigros do the scouting, was just wondering if they have deployed yet.
>>14289315
Isn't Unit 5 still out there as well? Didn't we just chase him off?

>>14289359
Unit 5 is still probably protecting and spotting for Unit 4. Where he is you can bet Unit 4 is looking.

>>14289357
Unless the recon elements are saying anything new then I wouldn't imagine the plan needs to change. We can't respond to shit we don't know about and we can't anticipate where exactly a small MS team could be hiding to launch a nasty assault except for they won't be where we would see them right now.

>>14289057
>>14289063

After another 10 minutes, Nell and her Elmeth finally arrive. She dismounts without a word, sits in a corner, holding her knees to her chest and falls asleep.

"Is that normal?" you ask one of her handlers.
"More or less. She'll stay like that for about 20 minutes maybe more.

"Could we wake up if needs be?"
"She'll probably wake up before you manage it."

A few minutes later, Ookawara tells you that the work on the your mobile suits is finished, Options suit has about 30 minutes left and the arm on Rance's Zaku is finally finished being connected and they've started work on the leg.

It's around this point that you get an updated recon report from the friendly forces in the debris field. (pictured) The enemy ships are spreading out, possibly to envelop you, they've also begun launching Balls to cover them. No Mobile Suits just yet though.

Three carge ships with space mines have arrived, they will begin seeding the debris field momentarily.

It will take an hour for Rance's Zaku to be finished, and it's not certain if there are any spare Mobile Suits just lying around right now. Option will take 30 minutes, and Nell will take 20 minutes (so far the Elmeth doesn't seem to have any problems that need urgent fixing, knock on wood.) more or less.

When do you want to go out? Now? 20 minutes from now? 30 minutes from now?

>>14289421
I'm voting to deploy in 30 minutes, and that we target the southern concentration of enemy ships and balls.
This deployment is subject to change as soon as we get confirmation of where the gundam is deployed to; as soon as we get a confirmed location, we go after the gundams.

>>14289460
But wait, don't those Trojans in the center seem somewhat exposed with their escorts?
With the full team, might we be able to take them out? The assault carriers are the most important ships that the Federation has, after all.

>>14289460
Agreed. Are the defense sats set up to try and take out any ships that are going around the field?

>>14289476
Hardly. They haven't launched MS yet, and they're not exactly easy targets to begin with. They're likely being used as a spearhead to clear out the debris field.

>>14289421
Whoever is ready should go and help the mine layers and when Nell wakes up she should either help hunt for Unit 4 or start wrecking any of those ball clusters that get too close to the engineers.

>>14289476
Unless I'm reading the map wrong they seem pretty well embedded into those Salamis groups. We'd have to navigate through the Ball groups fire as well to get to them.

>>14289476
That's too obvious of a trap. If you look carefully, you can see the entire fleet formation is set up in a V formation. If we or any unit tries to punch in, the flanks will just swing shut around us and we'd be trapped between the Pegasi and whatever they're carrying and shit tons of Salamis and Balls.

We should go pound the southern flank. That seems like where the greatest concentation of their forces are right now.

>>14289476
No, that's likely a trap set by Revil.
A way to lure the Nachtmaren into a kill-zone, while his overwhelming numbers of conventional forces steamroll over the Zeon defenders. And if we don't take the bait, then his Pegasus carriers are able to get through without being torn up by the Nachtmaren.

>>14289476
But that's 4 trojans, with who knows how many Mobile Suits left in them, at least 2 haven't deployed to our knowledge. That's a rather big job to do by ourselves.
Unless you want us to bum rush them, but that leaves the colonies and our fleet more or less defenseless.

>>14289508
>>14289482
>>14289460
Alright, so majority is that we hit the southern salient.

But what about time? 30 minutes will give us both Nell and Option, and is probably the best compromise between timeliness and being able to hit as hard as we can.

I just remembered watching the first thread, sweet Jesus.

>>14289548
Yeah, we should wait for 30 minutes. With Rance effectively out of action for now, we need all the manpower we can get.

Hey Apologised, I hope you're not waiting on us, because we've pretty much agreed on our next course of action. Surprisingly fast, too.

>>14289476
>>14289572

Okay. 30 minutes it is.
Roughly 24 minutes in is where Nell finally wakes up. She starts sluggishly floating around looking for food. Presently one of her handlers get's her some.
Six minutes later, bang on time, Ookawara and his team report that they've finished Options repairwork. Not a moment too soon, as the engineering team and the mine ships are just about to begin seeding the area with mines.

Also, more disturbingly, the tactical situation has shifted again. The enemy have begun to launch their mobile suits. The Trojan Horse have deployed 14 (!) Sniper II model GM's, backed up by Heavy Arms class Guncannons and GM Cannons as fire support. They appear to be operating in fireteams of 4 and 3.

Aside from that, the conventional cruisers and battleships have launched their own GM contingents as well. Light and Standard RGM-79's rub shoulders with Balls and yet more GM Cannon units. However, as of yet they have not begun to advance. They appear to be taking up a holding pattern, escorting their ships.

No sign of the Gundams so far.

The three minelaying teams have split to cover more ground, and are represented on the map by the Zeon symbols. Which one do you want to escort? Top, middle or bottom?

>>14289873
Bottom.
That's where the Fed forces are closest to entering the debris field.

Also, the GM Snipers shouldn't be a problem until they enter the debris field. If even Jolyne had problems with her sniper role, then the Fed sniper teams won't fare any better.

>>14289873
Definitely bottom. That's where the Fed presence seems to be the heaviest.

>>14289917
Seconding this. We still need to be close when the Sniper teams breach the debris field, as those things will makes short work of the Rick Dom teams.

>>14290088
>>14290075
>>14289917
Alright, I think that's enough for consensus, since no dissenting posts have been made in 20 minutes.

>>14289917

You give the order, and launch heading towards the lower mining team, since it's closest to the enemy. You order Nell to launch and to back you up. The Elmeth is is still recharging, and there might be a brief five minute delay before she launches. Regardless you quickly make your way out towards the third minelaying team. On your way you pass through the third Heavy MS Company, several squads of which are still circleing between their motherships for repair. They give you the thumbs up as you depart, and wish you luck.

Presently you reach the debris field and meet up with a small cargo ship and it's surrounding team of Zakus. The two of them are currently attatching the motion sensitive mines to various pieces of relatively stable debris. They see and acknoledge your presence.

"Glad to see you could make it sir! We're currently doing this as quickly as possibly, but any help you could give would make the job go faster. Well, if you've got anyone with engineering expertise. The middle group have gotten the the 8472nd Company to help them out, so they'll probably be done before any of us."

"I've got some enigneering background, and I've laid down terrestrial and space minefields before, should I help out sir?" Elaine asks you.

Note that if she does decide to help out, she won't be able to patrol the area. But it will make the job go quicker.

>>14290227
Sure.

Besides, David and Zolomon are due for some Double Dragon style back to back fighting. Just like their days in Mexico.

>>14290227
Do it. We should be able to cover for her.

>>14290227
Yes, have her help out. The sooner the job is done, the sooner these engineers can get back behind our lines.

>>14290258

Uh, well, you have taken Jolyne and Option with you as well. That's why you opted to wait it out.

You give Elaine the go ahead and start your patrol.
To begin with, all seems quiet. Allowing your engineering teams to work in peace, as usual however it's not to last. You catch a glint of movement in the distance, an enemy unit perhaps, infiltrating past the defending companies? Do you investigate? This could be a decoy? You're certain it's a mobile suit, but you can't get a clear look, and you get no response on radio, more likely due to minovsky intereference than anything else...

YOUR ORDERS?

>>14290434
Have David and Zol check it out while Option backs up Elaine and Jol readies up to help out either party.

When do we expect the Elmeth's bits to arrive?

We and Zol check it out, with Jol and Option sticking with Elaine.

>>14290434
David and Zol to check it out.
Jolyne and Option to stay with Elaine on standby, just in case this is a diversion.
If it's not, then the massive explosions should tell Jol and Option that they'll need to come and help the dynamic duo out.

>>14290434
hold the line and ignore.

As soon as Nell Launches, have her send a bit over to check it out.
In the meantime, call out the spotted anomaly and assume defensive positions

>>14290722
But what if it's 04 or 05?
Jol and Option are more than enough to cover Elayne and the engineering team. We should check it out to see if it's the gundams or not. Even if its only a regular GM squad, David and Zol are enough to wipe one out, and it would keep them away from the engineers.

In nearly 40 minutes we've had 3 for going to explore, and 1 dissenter.
I don't think you're going to get much better than that, Apologised.

>>14290503
>>14290520

You split the teams between yourself, zol and Jolyne and Option. You push forwards into the debris zone to investigate. After about five minutes of searching. You come up with nothing.

"You sure you saw something boss?" Zolomon asks you.

"Absolutely. He's here all right, but I guess he isn't looking for a fight." you state.

"So a recon unit? trying to get a feel for our forces?"

"That and strike any targets of opportunity, like that big giant ship full of explosive mines back there... or a lone Mobile Suit splitting off from it's wingman."

Zolomon guesses where this is heading.

"That's pretty risky David, if this guy's any good..."

"If you're not attacked you double back to rejoin with me in about two minutes. I should be able to survive that long at the very least."

"What if he doesn't attack either of us?"

"Then we'll have to think of something else. But let's cross that bridge when we come to it."

Despite his misgivings, the two of you part ways in an attempt to bait the enemy. For about a minute you're beginning to think that the mobile suit you saw must have moved on, then it attacks.

>>14290975
You barely dodge the beam as it whizzes past your head. The enemy GM is light-armour model, and it's moving at blistering speed, in an attempt to avoid getting hit. You manage to dodge his initial hit and run strike with his Beam Saber and then pursue, intent on putting pressure on the speeding enemy, hoping to cause him to make a mistake. Your beam shots lance back and forth at each other as you dash amdist the debris and asteroids. You both run out of ammo for your Beam rifles at the same time (which is something to remember, a Light Armour GM's beam gun has only 12 shots.) and you take advantage of the situation and start shooting at him with your arm-mounted beam spray pistol. He clearly wasn't expecting you to have mounted beam weaponry as his hand and arm take damage, and he loses his grip on his Beam rifle. It's not enough for a kill however.
Seeing himself at a disadvantage, the enemy then charges in with his remaining beam saber. The speed of his advances is impressive, and you almost don't manage to draw your Beam Saber to parry his. He continues his policy of high speed fly-by strikes, but by the third time he tries it you've got the timing down, and you catch him with your heat rod. The grapple latches on and you jam the red button and discharge coruscating electricity through the mobile suit. Stunning it, so it has no response to Zolomons charge, spare Beam Lance in hand, that shreds the enemy clean in two.

Meh we should have planed to have Nell harrass the left flank and have our bigro to harrass the right one. /late

The running battle with the enemy GM had actually taken you quite far. Certainly further than you had planned to patrol.

"We'd best be getting back, they're going to be worrying what happened to us." Zolomon states to you.

Your answer is cut off by a massive explosion to your right. Followed by several more secondary explosions.

"What the hell was that!?" Zolomon asks.

"It looks like it came from the central minelaying team. But what could have happened?"

"An engineering mistake? If they had unskilled people working with them..." Zolomon posits.

"Or worse, enemy action... think about it, if those Gundam are in the area, either one of them could have easily done that." you reply.

"Yeah, but those guys are as flashy as hell, no way would they be able to resist not plowing through the enemy instead of sneaking past..." Zolomon points out.

Well, you realise, I guess there's really only one way to find out...

TO BE CONTINUED.

>>14291095
Hey, Gouf Guy here. This thread went slow, and although you gave plenty of opportunities for input, IMO it would be better to condense any posts where there is little/no input to save time, and to provide options (though the advice of squadmates) to encourage participation.

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>>14291186
Oh shit oh shit oh shit.

>>14291186
WTF?

Somehow i blame girhen for this

>>14291186
Shit. I knew Revil would be up to something, but I didn't think he had the audacity to attempt a breakthrough of the Side 5 shoal zone.

>>14291136
Concerning the slowness of the thread, and participation, most of the decisions were easy ones to make.
With that, consensus was easy to build, and the extra time waiting for any dissenting posts was wasted, in my opinion.

I understand waiting an hour or so if there is a furious debate going on between multiple choices of action, but when a clear majority comes up and isn't swayed in 30 minutes, I think that's enough to move on with.

>>14291095

Are we going to be chased by these fuckers while piloting training zakus?

>>14291095
...8472...8472...8492..........FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!

>>14291095
y'know, as the guy who posted >>14290722
all I have to say is I TOLD YOU SO

fucking bait and switch, oldest trick in the book. We shoulda hung back, we shoulda protected the engineers, we shoulda gone with the one suggestion just stupid enough to make sense

>inb4 that philosophy gets us fucked 9 times out of 10

>>14291186
Lovely. So this could be either Gihren's fleet OR the second half of the Federation fleet.

Oh well, atleast this should mean we dont have to sit in this debris belt for too many more episodes.