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REPORT 008 :: FIREFIGHT // ACTION
[As soon as SPARTAN-023 is allowed out of bed rest, she suits herself up in her MJOLNIR Mark IV armor, a seven-feet tall behemoth of metal and red with a golden faceplate. Once again inside of what she thought of as her second skin (Even with her white wings stuffed beneath the gel layer), she returns to the Battle Dome.
Not to rest, of course. She wanted to test the facility.
The Chief Petty Officer, upon arrival into one of the chambers, doesn't just load enemies and shoot away, but chooses to fiddle around with the options, inspecting every alternative, every selection, and every way to insert data. While her senses had been reduced while in Luceti, she was patient enough to spend nearly an hour to analyze the programs, and even discover a way to make the damage real: An option she ignored, both for the strength of Covenant weaponry, and because she cherished her armor too much to damage it in a mere training session.
After all, Shirou and Rin were gone.
Once satisfied, she sets the gravity to 1.08G -Reach's-, inputs information about her weapons, materializes a forest environment -Luceti's-, and inserts a new entry on the databases that, if her intel on the previous draft was correct, was similar in power and tactics to the foot soldiers of the Third Party Cult.
SPARTAN-023 prepares herself. From beyond the woods, abominations with hind legs, four jaws, and ornate armor, spawn with their alien weapons, sometimes even blades of energy. All of them calling out for the blood of the Spartan.
She begins.]
Not to rest, of course. She wanted to test the facility.
The Chief Petty Officer, upon arrival into one of the chambers, doesn't just load enemies and shoot away, but chooses to fiddle around with the options, inspecting every alternative, every selection, and every way to insert data. While her senses had been reduced while in Luceti, she was patient enough to spend nearly an hour to analyze the programs, and even discover a way to make the damage real: An option she ignored, both for the strength of Covenant weaponry, and because she cherished her armor too much to damage it in a mere training session.
After all, Shirou and Rin were gone.
Once satisfied, she sets the gravity to 1.08G -Reach's-, inputs information about her weapons, materializes a forest environment -Luceti's-, and inserts a new entry on the databases that, if her intel on the previous draft was correct, was similar in power and tactics to the foot soldiers of the Third Party Cult.
SPARTAN-023 prepares herself. From beyond the woods, abominations with hind legs, four jaws, and ornate armor, spawn with their alien weapons, sometimes even blades of energy. All of them calling out for the blood of the Spartan.
She begins.]
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Reformed UN, but not the same Administration.
But most of those Colonies are of one-city, meant to extract resources and the like.
[And the reason a lot of people are pissed with the UNSC and those Inner Colony rich boys.]
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The colony fleets aren't much bigger, really. Except for the first few, all of them consist of one big island ship that houses the main city, and a dozen or so auxiliary ships where the farms and recycling plants are maintained.
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...May I ask, sir? [She needs to know. She calmly goes for water while she asks.] What is the situation in your world?
[Her world as the Insurrection and the Covenant. Not a good one.]
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[He cuts his next thought short, remembering that nobody not from his own world would get any meaning from that word.]
-The Zentradi were also created by the Protoculture, but while we were to be the successors to their culture, the Zentradi were nothing more than 30ft tall living weapons.
[And now the constant smile on his face fades slightly.]
The fleet I was with ran into another over-sized creation of theirs in the Vajra. Picture disturbing a hornets' nest the size of a star system, and you should have the basic idea behind what we were dealing with.
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And with the expression that suddenly soured, she felt she knew how was that war going for them.
With a hiss of oxygen, she removes her helmet, revealing a human woman. She drinks from the bottle.]
Humanity's existence always seems earned. [Daisy mutters to herself. With anti-humans running around, that was what she was getting the idea of.] But that tech... The Protoculture. What we would do for that.
[Again, if only she had known more.]
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If it wasn't a pipe dream, I'm sure NUNS would gladly trade for your terraforming technology. As it is, 90% of the difficulty in getting colonies established is simply finding hospitable worlds.
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It wasn't until 2080 when the solar system was colonized. It's keeping worlds prepared... until they're ready.
[Though the pipe dream raises a question.]
But now that you mention it. Is dimensional travel possible?
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I think it's safe to say the Malnosso have that capability. I've wondered at times if there are any similarities to the technology we use for faster-than-light travel... but I have a feeling information on how our hosts get us here and send us home again would be the last thing they'd ever let slip.
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[She pauses, sheepishly holding her bottle with both hands. The Chief knew there were others with way more knowledge about slispace physics than her.]
...It's what puzzles me the most about Luceti, sir.
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...That, and the massive differences between the laws that govern how peoples' worlds work. There are people here who know all sorts of magic-
[He pauses to ponder her words again.]
And it may just be a matter of technology working on different principles- but fold engines run into exactly the opposite problem. Increasing the size of the object you want to move into super dimension space exponentially increases the energy requirement.
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You are right, Lieutenant. Adding to that, the energy required would be even bigger.
Many here think none of this speaks "natural phenomenom", but to amass that quantity of energy, not to mention that people get entire doctorates just to understand a part of our dimension...
You bring a good point.
[Daisy is liking you, Michael.]
[Action] sorry for the delays, busy weekend
[As content as he was with just having a second chance at living here, Michael had never pursued the why of things before... but he was starting to wonder if finding a few answers might not make Luceti a little more pleasant.]
[Action] These things happen -- seems to be exams' time around here...
The Chief loks back at Michael, and notes the Sniper rifle once again. He was centuries before her, but some arts of war never changed, it seemed...]
My apologies for the change of subject, sir, but are you a marksman?
[Action] I'm almost to exam time. One more month!
Yeah. I try to keep polished on the basics... though a weapon like this doesn't see much use when most of the hostiles you face stand upwards of twenty or thirty feet.
[Action] Sod. We still have some time to go before we get them. Good luck, mate.
Five hundred years later, occupation forces will still be needed. Snipers, especially.
I never mind having one covering me.
[Action] FFFFFFFFFuck this week. At least it's over now?
Never said Snipers were obsolete- just human infantry. Most of the actual combat I saw was from the cockpit of my VF-25. Newest, most advanced variable fighters in the galaxy, and I got the honor of field testing the sniper variant.
[Action] I still have two weeks to go before spring break. Alas.
Not to mention the MJOLNIR could reveal a person's gender. Contrary to what Eric Nylund wrote in his books. Thank you, Reach.]I don't understand. [She shakes her head.] Throughout history, infantry has always been needed as an occupation force. Even with advances on war tech. But for something that can replace it...
[SPARTAN-023 does find strange that a vehicle would be marked as a "sniper".]
What do you mean with "sniper variant" when you referred to it, as a vehicle?
[Action] Mine was over and gone before I realized it.
[He raps on the shoulder of her armor with one knuckle.]
In a way, I guess they are our infantry in battroid mode. Same end purpose as your armor, but scaled up to go toe-to-toe with Zentradi forces.
[Action] Too fast, and too slow at the same time. ;_;
It makes sense. [Her head turns aside. A suit that could be mass produced that could even fly would render the MJOLNIR obsolete.] That way, warfare could change completely. But for it to be mass produced...
[She has envy.]
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Hah, if warfare hadn't changed as completely as it did for us, we might never have managed it. Development started on the first valkyries because the SDF-1 had accommodations that hinted at the existence of Zentradi. Still, the technology had a long way to go when they actually found Earth.
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But... the last sentence strikes an even bigger cord.]
They found Earth? [She sounds worried. She tries to mentally rationalize the problem.] Didn't humanity have a plan against it? What happened to the infrastructure?