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Post by Oberst on Mar 17, 2019 22:52:07 GMT -6
Within the perimeter of the Federation expeditionary force to Mars 25th of April UC 112
Three days after rumors Commodore Marina Von Witzland treason spread something unexpected happened within the Federation chain of command. All of a sudden 2/3rds of their officers went AWOL taking fully armed mobile suits, weapons, explosives and a sizable amount of vital Helium 3 reserves along with them. The battle group EWAC coverage all of a sudden had very wide and deep holes which the Martians would surely exploit once this was known.
Lt. Commander Lorena Seydlitz prepared to launch when all of a sudden she turned her weapons on the F90 prototypes, carelessly opening fire on the two of them with a beam smart gun blast that tore a hole on the Hidalgo's hull. Her aim had been set on destroying both prototypes which she'd swiftly accomplished. The Delta Kai blasted it's way out of the hangar bay afterwards.
A couple of Rezels had been sent to intercept her but they would meet a swift demise at the hands of Lorena's swift beam saber onslaught.
Not even 15 minutes into the onslaught, a formation of a dozen Doven Wolves lead by Captain Isami Aika made their presence known behind the Federation sensor array coverage. Each mobile suit would fire a couple of anti ship missiles at the Federation battle group from nearly point blank but as they advances more reports came of Federation mobile suits opening fire on their own comrades.
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Post by vgraumann on Mar 18, 2019 5:32:41 GMT -6
Jacob had barely been discharged from the sickbay for half an hour before all hell had broken loose. He had just received the first hot meal in three days when the ship rocked violently and alarms began to sound.
The next fifteen minutes were hell for the ensign. After having to launch his Jegan manually from the Hidalgo after the damage done to the hanger and catapult he found himself thrust into the middle of what must have been some kind of mistake as he watched friendly mobile suits and craft fire on each other and fall out of position. He himself was attacked by a Rebel in the confusion but managed to retaliate but he had managed to lose both his long range beam rifle and one of his subarm attached shields in the struggle. He had continued to hold his position guarding the bridge of the Hidalgo for the next several minutes until there was fire coming from outside their own forces for a change. The Hidalgo was still part of the foreword forces in the formation so it was among the first targeted by the incoming Mars Zeon attack, but by a matter of luck Jacob was already in place to defend the ship from the missile attack. He was able to catch one of the Doven Wolves as it moved past but didn’t count it as much even while the machine pinwheeled lazily from where his beam carbine had blown open sensitive hardware.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Mar 22, 2019 18:22:55 GMT -6
The Close In sensors in the midst of this Chaos of blue on apparent blue would pick up on the incoming missiles, and the targeted Federation ships would very quickly putting up a wall of close in weapons fire. Explosions and beams trailing behind the anti ship missiles before catching them. The screening ships managed to do their job for the most part it would seem. However said screening ships on the outskirts did take some hits and a few missiles did in fact penetrate deeper in. Rear Admiral Ronan Mahoney was on the bridge of his command vessel furiously trying to figure out what in the hell was going on when CIWS fire caught a missile a bit too close to the bridge. The hull cracked and air began to leak out so emergency sealant was released."I need a status report! What the hell is going on?" he demanded shouting into comms the communications officer awkwardly shuffling to the side."Ah, there you are old man! Was wondering when you would take notice!" a familiar voice rang out. It was that of Eamon, his own flesh and blood."Sorry to say, but you and your lazy old brain made a massive mistake." Eamon would say before cutting off communications as he piloted a Rezel away from the ship."Get my mobile suit ready." Ronan said rather sternly yet less loudly to one of the officers next to him.
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Post by Oberst on Mar 22, 2019 19:28:47 GMT -6
" It appears their defenses haven't completely collapsed. This should be interesting!" Isami knew this surprise attack had gone through so very easily. He cared little for the Federation units shooting at each other until he saw a very unique Jegan in a dark gray and sporting an specialized weapon load out. It was easy for him to deduce this was some kind of enemy commander so taking it down would dramatically lower their moral for certain.
" Dagger, this is Dancer. Focus your fire on their screening cruisers. The sooner we get rid of their forward elements the better. I will keep their escorts busy, Dancer out." Dagger was the detachment of a dozen or so Doven Wolves under his direct command. His yellow marked Doven Wolf made a bee line towards Jacob's Jegan, wanting to get within optimal range for his missiles to acquire a solid lock.
This Jegan had already taken down one of his subordinates so far but this had bought Isami enough time to get within optimal range, firing ab raage of four heat seekers which quickly broke off to get ahead of the Jegan while Isami's mobile suit maneuvered in the opposite direction to avoid any incoming return fire. The war head on those heat seekers was bog standard HE-FRAG, more than enough to compromise a simple Jegan's armor.
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The Delta Kai itself began an attack run on the rear admiral Ra Cailum command ship using the high velocity provided by its wave rider form. Lorena would aim the beam smart gun at the catapult itself, wanting to cripple it's capabilities to deploy anymore suits now that Eamon hiself had taken off and decided to join their flight.
" I'll keep your old man busy, Eamon. You must go and rendezvous with the commodore." Lorena would advise the rebellious son while avoiding the Ra Cailum AA fire.
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Post by vgraumann on Mar 22, 2019 20:00:39 GMT -6
Jacob had the moment’s grim satisfaction when he watched the wing of enemy mobile suits pull away from their attack vector on the Hidalgo as a single unit changed its angle straight for him. He had already kicked off from the ship’s structure and brought his enhanced engines to power, putting a safe distance between himself and the ship’s structure as the rockets fired from the Doven Wolf he had correctly identified as a commander’ variant changed direction after him. He reached out with the free left hand and pulled the MG-79 free.
Jacob gave the missiles a few seconds to readjust their aim and close some of the distance before two panels on each of the Jegan’s shoulders blew open, jettisoning flairs. He traced the path of the missiles with short bursts from the machine gun, clipping two and blowing a third apart while the third detonated against one of the flairs before rattling his remaining shield with shrapnel. He wasn’t able to trace a good bead on the Doven Wolf with his carbine but he eyeballed a possible vector for the machine and fired both of the grenades stored in his right grenade launcher, hoping one of his HE frag grenades would be lucky enough to score a hit.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Mar 22, 2019 20:20:51 GMT -6
Ronan stumbled as he scrambled to get his pilot suit on wanting to waste no time as he entered the hanger airlock. Sealing his pilot suit up he was knocked into the wall as the ship was hit. Close in defenses opened fire on the attacking mobile suit. However it was chaos out there with it being difficult to tell friend from foe. Ronan would after getting through the airlock make his way to his RX-94 Mass Production Type ν Gundam. The cockpit already opened he would slip inside, the hanger crew having already turned it on for him. Now buckled in the cockpit closed and he took the controls. Maneuvering the Gundam towards the catapult he got ready to launch."This is Rear Admiral Mahoney to Bridge Comms. I need you to establish a long range comms link with Earth. Tell them that we are currently--" he would start to say as he launched down the catapult, but did not get to finish. A beam interrupted him slamming into the catapult his mobile suit sent spinning off and rocked violently by the suddenness of it.
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Post by Oberst on Mar 23, 2019 22:08:25 GMT -6
Lorena's shot was masterfully aimed at merely disabling the platform itself, keeping the beam from damaging the MP Nu Gundam but not keeping it from spiraling out of control.
" That should keep them off our backs for a few precious minutes."She would mumble to herself as the Delta maneuvered mid flight, changing its direction to head towards their own rendezvous point. There was no need for her to even attempt to sink the Villa. Betraying her comrades did leave a bitter taste in her mouth only being able to find some solace in the thought that it would be the Martians the ones delivering the killing blows.
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Isami was able to see the Jegan fire two grenades at them in quick succession. The Doven Wolf backpack boosters flared up giving them enough thrust to power through the explosion, the shrapnel peppering the fuselage but failing from causing any major damage due to the distance involved.
Since Isami's Doven Wolf was turning away from the Jegan, he had to go for a wide turn in order to re-engage Jacob once again, taking that opportunity to draw a beam saber on it's left hand. As soon as they were facing the Jegan he would let out a three round volley from their beam rifle at a Jacob, aiming each one ahead of the enemy projected path.
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Post by vgraumann on Mar 24, 2019 2:16:41 GMT -6
The Jegan had began a roll after both of the grenades had been fired from the wrist mounted launcher and as the Doven Wolf opened fire with its beam rifle Jacob gritted his teeth and thumbed the stud for one of the still loaded panels, firing a cloud of anti-beam chaff ahead of his mobile suit as he altered his course and fired a dummy balloon from a finger launcher between himself and the cloud.
The beam rifle shots crackled and burned the chaff and ripped into the balloon without having much cohesion when they tore through the balloon which exploded on impact but didn’t cause much damage to the Jegan proper which had altered its course. Jacob fired three more grenades from his skirt as he released the near empty machine gun from his left hand and drew one of the two combat knives instead. He turned his vulcan pod towards the Doven Wolf and opened fire with the 60mm gun, aiming for its beam rifle.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Mar 24, 2019 20:17:22 GMT -6
Eamon took Lorena's advice and began to pilot his RGZ-95 ReZEL out of the chaos that was the task force. He would look back, their sudden betrayal having left the task force open to what appeared to be a Martian sneak attack? It wasn't his problem anymore, his old man had it coming for ever even entertaining the notion of trusting the word of the Martians. Plus Eamon realized somthing else as he grew further and further away from the Federation ships. This meant that the Federation would take the Martians seriously now, and send an effort to stomp them out once and for all. It was perfect he realized with a smirk. In the end he knew that Marina's efforts would be exonerated, and that the information the Martians had would be lost to time.
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Ronan jammed his controls and breathed rapidly as he managed to just barely stabilize his grandam. He had seen a flash of beam and then an explosion before the destroyed catapult hurdled him off into space. Looking around he saw a flash of thrusters and then focused in on it. The tail end of a mobile suit, but he could not tell if it was the one that had shot at him? He raised his Beam Rifle and zoomed in on the target as mobile suits slowly flew out of his ship. Unaided by the catapult their departure was far slower then usual. They were taking damage and causalities, and right away he knew their advance into mars would be stalled for some time. Bastards.
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Post by Oberst on Mar 26, 2019 17:47:24 GMT -6
" What are you trying to do?" Isami was truly puzzled while his Doven Wolf was peppered by the Jegan's single 60mm vulcan. The rounds and tracer bounced off his mobile suit frontal armor plating. The additional explosion from the grenades caused a more substantial damage, slowing it down mid flight. The 90mm rounds struck near the torso embedding themselves in the plates and spalling secondary pneumatic and hydraulic lines behind.
His cockpit might have been rattled badly but he'd managed to avoid any damage to the more sensible components. The beam rifle was still holding and now it was his turn to counter attack. The beam rifle deployed it's extended barrel, connecting to the socket in the torso so it could draw energy straight from the reactor for a fully cahrged mega particle blast fired almost point blank range.
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The Delta Kai was struck in it's left feet unit by Ronan's return fire, losing a bit of thrust on it's way out. " Hell of a shot for an old man ... " Lorena muttered to herself.
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Post by vgraumann on Mar 26, 2019 19:55:19 GMT -6
Jacob had expected the Doven Wolf to come at him as soon as he had deployed the chaff and opened fire with projectile weapons but he had underestimated the armor on its beam rifle, expecting it to be more fragile. It was his first run in with the Doven Wolf and it was more durable than he had imagined. He kept firing with the vulcan, changing his target from the rifle to it’s head and upper body.
Seeing the machine come through the cloud he had already begun to move, throwing the half empty beam carbine as the mega particles charged and deployed the last of his chaff. directly between the suits. He fired off another dummy balloon as well for good measure and was able to clear the cloud as the Doven Wolf’s rifle fired. The mega particle attack was blunted by the anti beam chaff giving him enough times to barely evade as the additional chest armor boiled under the heat from being so close. The non-explosive reactive bolts fired, pushing the machine away from the attack and the heat knife flew from behind the Jegan’s shield in a throw aimed at the enemy’s monoeye.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Mar 27, 2019 17:34:12 GMT -6
Ronan gritted a smirk at seeing the beam connect with the foot of the Delta Kai. Well, if their advance was going to be slow, he was going to make sure someone paid! Traitors first, Martians next? Maybe both at the same time soon enough. But for now, that Delta Kai had slowed down considerably. Pumping his controls he began to make a straight line for Lorena Delta Kai. Surely gaining on it now that he had damaged a portion of its thrusters Normally it would have no issue with outpacing the Mass Production Type ν Gundam in terms of speed, but his skill with a beam rifle had not failed him."Seems you didn't know! The mobile suit I killed the most Zeons with was a GM sniper!" he said over an open mix as he raised his beam rifle again. The zoom window centered on that Delta Kai as he started to slowly squeeze the trigger and breath out. Leading the shot tracking her attempts to evade he would pull the trigger sending another shot out aimed at thrusters.
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Post by Oberst on Mar 27, 2019 18:31:01 GMT -6
" Damn it, old man. I didn't want to kill you!" Lorena cursed out when she noticed the MP Nu gaining in on them. Even with an entire leg booster out she could still attempt to maneuver out of the way of incoming fire. The now rouge Lt. Commander rolled the Delta Fuselage around so any beam would struck components that would withstand the beam rifle fire or at least not cause anymore crippling damage. The beam landed on the right side wing root, piercing it straight through reducing it's performance further in MS mode.
At her wits end, she would activate the NITRO system, causing blue psycoframe ethereal flames to burst out of the Delta Waverider form. The two fin funnels would deploy simultaneously, maneuvering around to flank the MP Nu from two different directions.
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The Jegan's knife struck Isami's mobile suit head. By some miracle the weapon lacked the momentum to penetrate deeper into the armored cockpit or else that would have been the end of him.
" Beaten by someone who relies too much on their counter measures!" With his main camera out of commission, he saw no other alternative but to beat a hasty retreat. The Doven Wolf would now fire a barrage of dummy ballons from it's finger launchers in front of the Jegan before turning around, discarding the fully extended beam rifle and boosting away in the direction of their carrier.
The rest of the Doven Wolves continued to oppose the cruisers making up the task force front screen. With their ships busy reacting to them it was time for heir second wave of attack to make it's entrance.
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Post by vgraumann on Mar 28, 2019 6:40:12 GMT -6
Jacob grinned slightly when he saw his knife strike true and sink into the Doven Wolf’s head. It had been a long shot but the throw was enough to drive the opponent off, unfortunately the little scrap had been a closer fight than Jacob had expected after only going up against pirates and it had cost him more supplies than he’d expected.
Jacob halfheartedly pursued the Doven Wolf, tearing through the dummy balloons with his vulcan pod or pushing his way through the ones that got in his way. He raised his Jegan’s left arm and fired one of the four fly by wire missiles loaded into his shield. The HE-frag warhead on a proximity detonator wasn’t the preferred kind of warhead to use against such a heavily armored machine like the Doven Wolf but it could certainly be effective if he manage a hit near the backpack or the less armored knees.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Mar 29, 2019 19:26:38 GMT -6
Ronan watched as in the distance the Delta Kai went into NITRO and launched two funnels. The funnels splitting up and heading in two directions to get at him from two sides."Tsk..." Ronan uttered annoyed by this as he would reach over and activated somthing to counter this turn of events. He proceeded to launch his two INCOM Units to perform an intercept. Trying to project as best he could the Quasi-Psycommu System picked up on his brain waves and the two INCOM units maneuvered out controlled via wire. Heading out in two directions all while he continued pursuit. Sweat formed on his forehead as he concentrated trying to keep both the funnels in view as he went. The INCOM units zigzagged out to intercept the fins! If she wanted to have free reign with those fins she would have to deal with those INCOMS.
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