Quote:Well, yes, but he hardly knows that...
Indirectly Kira is related to someone important.
Looking forward to more? Look no farther, at least for now.
The Captain of the Ichthys was a slender woman of average height, whose ordinary-looking brown hair and rugged features made her stand out against the more striking looks of her crew. Her voice, clear as any actor or singer's, cut cleanly through the inevitable slight machine noise of any vessel her ship's size. "Commander le Creuset is currently meeting with ORB leadership regarding the details of our next mission, but the general shape of it is clear.
"The three stolen prototypes were taken aboard an Atlantic Federation light carrier after their escape, but the decision was apparently made to retain that combat asset in ORB waters and they were shortly transferred to a bulk freighter which proceeded, under escort, due east towards the American coast. An elite squad of ORB mobile suits was dispatched to sink the vessel and, hopefully, slow down their efforts to duplicate the units.
"None of that squad returned. The laser armarments of the Phobos and Ares class suits require sustained fire to inflict critical damage on something as compartmentalized as the Morganroete designs, and all five of those units are apparently fitted with a specialized form of energised armor which severely retards the effectiveness of any projectile weapons.
"Lieutenants Yamato and Attha's units are, at present, the only assets available to us which possess the high-intensity particle beam weapons neccessary to engage the stolen prototypes decisively." She touched a control on the lectern and brought up a high-angle shot of the three Federation mobile suits in flight in close formation over a dark background. "This picture and several others like it are why that fact matters. The Blitz's mirage colloid particles might have been able to conceal all three of them from conventional orbital cameras sufficiently well to render enchancement and image processing impractical, but the Broad Axis Multi-Sensor Optical Array Telescope on Aprilus Nine is an instrument that they apparently never considered might be applied to military purposes.
"Thanks to BAMSOAT and the astronomers who suggested applying it, we know that, rather than keeping the prototypes in the mass driver complex in Panama, they've placed them at a small research facility in Baja California Sur, relying on secrecy and the units themselves for most of their security.
"We'll be making a rendevous off of Hawaii tomorrow to take on a sonic colloid module and various weapons that have been put together by Morganroete's outlying facilities or sorted out of what was rescued during the pullout, then proceeding directly to hit the research facility.
"The current plan is for the le Creuset Team to engage and destroy the fixed defenses, then provide support while Yamato and Attha terminate the target units. Once those have been neutralised, the entire facility is to be leveled." She paused, and looked out at the six teenagers sitting before her with a combination of sympathy and stern resolve. "There can be no escapees, and no survivors. If even a single person can escape and carry the data this project has gathered back to their superiors, then the entire mission is wasted and thousands of ORB, ZAFT, and allied personel will die when the mass-production suits hit the battlefield."
"Understood," Kira said, sadly. "We have to slow them down at any cost."
Round Two! Ding ding.
Ja, -n
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