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Post by vgraumann on Jun 4, 2019 10:26:13 GMT -6
Cornelius had a feeling he had been spotted when he was able to see the two GM Guard Types change position, but he was a little surprised when they moved away from his location but the feeling changed into certainty when he saw a third light detatch from the cruiser. Under his command the Kampfer accelerated into a speed more suitable for combat. The incoming GM might have the advantage in support and equipment but the Kampfer was a far greater performance suit than the GM Command Space type.
Seeing the barrel of a beam weapon poke around the edge of a shield, he grunted and threw his mobile suit sideways, using the powerful thrusters on its shoulders. In this aspect the Kampfer’s thin armor worked to his advantage and thought the first shot passed square through where a bazooka would be if he had one but the second shot went wide.
The Kampfer continued its counter-rotational curve up the side of the colony’s outer wall and rolled onto its back, tracking its target with a slight gap between the first pass and the time it would take to bring the GM’s shield into position. There was a flash in the vacuum of space and a small rapport of vibration within the machine as Cornelius fired the 192mm shotgun. The weapon bucked and let loose a cluster of luna titanium 00 buckshot, aimed towards the center of mass of the GM type. This type of round could tear through a more heavily armored target at great range, making it ideal for this kind of engagement.
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Post by Oberst on Jun 4, 2019 15:58:49 GMT -6
The GM Guard types ha only in mission: to protect the Salamis from any further enemy attacks. Sonia was now heading in to engage the Kampfer but more importantly there was another mobile suit coming straight at their cruiser which also needed to be dealt with. Sea-Hawk second element now behind the Zeonic suit remained on standby, knowing that by maintaining it's position the Kampfer could only engage Viper leader ( Sonia's GM Command.)
Sea-hawk-1( The team leader) decided to go after the Zaku II type. it's shield raised as it maneuvered into position to start accelerating into Sig's mobile suit estimated vector of attack. This reinforced shield was built and designed specifically for the purpose of defeating heavy Zeonic bazookas to protect the far more important ships.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Jun 6, 2019 17:50:16 GMT -6
Due to being fired in space the cluster of luna titanium buckshot did not have any spread. Instead the pellets stayed packed together after leaving the 192mm shotgun. Regardless, Sonia had been keeping an eye on the Kampfer as she re-orientated herself towards it. She saw then turn to face her as she was moving the shield in place, and then the flash. Knowing that the arm would not move fast enough even with AMBAC she let out a burst from her Attitude Control Verniers, a simple twist of the controls and release. The whole mobile suit suddenly jerking to put the shield in the way. THUNK! The thick cluster of pellets impacted against the shield, or well the outer edge of it. A large hole about 190mm in size give or take had been punched and torn into the shield. The pellets taking a section of the shield with them as they whizzed over the arm and out back behind the GM."Well then! Thats what you are packing then?" Sonia said as she pushedthe throttle of her thrusters putting some more range between her and the shotgun wielding mobile suit. The shield practically useless against what were essentially slugs was tossed aside as she took careful aim at the Kampfer. Squeezing the trigger getting further away from it she fired center of mass. Sonia also knew one other thing, to watch out for pumps. She knew that would telegraph their shots.
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Sig was closing in on the Federation ship, his eyes locked on it as he got closer and closer. But, somthing got in the way soon after and caught his eye. A GM was moving to intercept him? He focused in on it, the thing was a Gm Guard Type, and it had it's shield pointed at him. Sig breathed out, he knew that the pilot knew what he was up to. Only way he was getting to that ship was through them. Keeping his momentum up Sig adjusted course! Now he headed straight for the GM Guard type! Once he was within maximum effective range he brought his MMP-78 Machine Gun up to bear and unleashed a burst of fire. He wanted to keep them suppressed while he approached.
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Post by vgraumann on Jun 6, 2019 19:26:30 GMT -6
Cornelius gritted his teeth when the shotgun hadn’t worked like hr’d expected. He had never fired this type of weapon in space before so the behavior of the pellets was something he had not expected, though it gave him ideas as he chambered another round. “Peregrine to control, I’ve got a problem. This damn gun’s too slow as a pump, tell me if there’s something more to this than I’m missing!” By this stage he was frustrated by his lack of preparation for what he had walked into. It wasn’t the worst scrape in his career but it certainly felt unlucky.
He had seen the GM take aim at about the same time it discarded its shield. The horizontal thrust from the torso and left shoulder was enough to jar him in his harness but he gritted his teeth and opened fire with the 60mm vulcans mounted in the machine’s head. The beam gun shot missed the suit’s torso and sheered through the left shoulder pad. The machine trailed molten metal as the central spike was caught in the blast and vaporized. “Typical federation, blowing holes in colonies!” Cornelius raised his shotgun one handed and pulled the trigger though this time his target wasn’t the opposing mobile suit. He had taken a rough aim at the Salamis with the sight of his shotgun and fired. Between the shotgun blast and the flash of his thrusters he broke off of his original trajectory and moved again to his left, passing through his opobent’s last line of fire before they could fire again.
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Post by Oberst on Jun 7, 2019 21:42:33 GMT -6
" If you need to use it in semi auto make sure you load higher pressure shells like Slugs or else it's going fail to eject the spent casings." Clara remained on standby, ready to support either of them with advise. The Chivvay was making good progress since Cornelius and Sig seemed to be stalling that cruiser coming after them.
" Don't get too carried away or else you won't have enough fuel to make the trip back!" it didn't take a newtype to know that Cornelius would have most likely disabled the limiters she'd installed on the Kampfer to get every ounce of performance out of that machine disregarding it's very high fuel consumption. Sig's Zaku II Kai on the other hand had no such handicap.
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The GM's slab of a shield was durable enough to shrug off those high velocity 90mm shells, deflecting them into the cold endless void. The pilot kept tracking the Zaku Kai, firing a couple of beam carbine rounds in return.
The Salamis opened up with a barrage from its defensive turretts with a couple of guns shelling the area around the incoming Zaku Kai with fragmentation type 100mm shells. Getting close was not going to be as sraightforward. Since the end of the OYW the Federation had invested heavily in upping their ships defensive fire power.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Jun 12, 2019 18:28:38 GMT -6
"I see you!" Sonia said having seen the Kampfer chamber the next round and start to take aim. The movement was distinctive, and so preemptively she tried to dodge their aim. However, as she made the maneuver, which was simply to thrust to the right, she noticed something off. They were not aiming at her! Rather, they were taking aim at the ship! She couldn't stop her maneuver in time but decided to take a pot shot as quickly as possible. While the Kampfer was aimed at the ship, she aimed at the Kampfer and fired. However, she did not aim directly at them as she had aimed the beam gun, but rather just a bit off recalling how he had dodged her shot last time. So, she aim3ed in the same direction. Her intent was to hit of course, but she wanted to see if it would work.
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Sig closing the distance felt before he saw the hostile intent of the GM Guard Type's pilot, but merely a split moment before. They took aim at him and sig entered his Zaku II Kai into a Barrel roll maneuver. The beam shots going around him where he had been or past him. The maneuver required the use of multiple thrusters and control Attitude Control Verniers in order to enter a helical path with a complete rotation. He completed it with a much tighter roll as he noticed the ship was now engaging him directly. He couldn't have that as flak fire began to go off around him, large bursts of smoke and fragmentation quickly dissipating into the void of space. It wouldn't be long until they had him zeroed in... but... He looked at the GM GUard type and its shield. Kicking thrusters full on he knew they could not risk hitting their own unit and quickly set about closing the gap. As he did so, he reached back to his storage rack and grabbed his Heat Hawk Type 5 while laying down a suppressive fire. The blade began to glow his eyes wide open reflecting the bright lights around him as he stared at the GM that he was fast closing in on.
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Post by vgraumann on Jun 15, 2019 19:39:53 GMT -6
The predicted beam shot went wide from the Kampfer at large but ripped through the weak armored lower legs and melted through the thruster bell and narrowly missed the engine itself as Cornelius evaded upward instead of on a more lateral path like before. The machine slewed slightly as the engine belched freely now that the focusing cone had been vaporized by the beam weapon. A direct hit to the torso would have been crippling to the lightly armored machine but he had managed to avoid the worst possible outcome by a nanosecond twitch in his reflexes. The machine spun into a climb and came away from the colony structure before rotating with a mix of thrust and the AMBAC system to bring its weapon to bear as it’s momentum pushed it into a relatively overhead arc.
“Semiautomatic... slugs... This all would have been great to know before I even climbed into this thing.” Cornelius muttered to himself as he opened fire again with his head mounted vulcans. While the 60mm guns barked he cocked the shotgun and slam fired two more shells from the weapon. With the belts of his vulcans rattling off and the two clusters of pellets acting as slugs he had aimed to spread out his damage and hopefully remove the beam gun from the equation in the process.
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Post by Oberst on Jun 16, 2019 20:47:05 GMT -6
The Cruiser heavy skin shrugged off the shotgun pellets without much issue. Not even minor damage was registered though the crew was on edge as the fight drew closer. The post war Salamis Kai was better protected against mobile suit attacks, it's turrets now covering a wider area, leaving less blind spots on their coverage. If Cornelius and Sig dared to get closer they would find themselves facing against a withering barrage of 100mm APHE upon getting into close range.
The GM Guard type facing Sig's Zaku would keep it's shield raised, attempting to slam it against the monoeye mobile suit. it's beam gun had been holstered now holding an specialized short beam saber with a thicker blade but less reach. After the shield bash the shield would be tilted at an angle, allowing the Guard type to take a stab at the approaching Zaku, knowing it could overpower that heat hawk at close range.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Jun 17, 2019 18:10:08 GMT -6
On the final approach Sig would cut thrusters and engage AMBAC as well as his Attitude Control Vernierss to point himself feet first at the GM GUard Type. With that done he quickly engaged thrusters to slow himself down. The Monoeye of his mobile suit locked onto the Gm Guard type he slammed into the shield of the GM. Thrusters burning the surface of the shield as the knees of his mobile suit bent. The momentum from this would no doubt push the guard type back, but from there as he sunk into his seat Sig kicked off from the shield downwards. What he had done gave very little time or ability for the GM Guard type to actually pull off it's stab as he then rocketed bellow the Gm Guard Type and it's angled shield at a vertical direction. Sig proceeded to aim up with his machine gun and unleashed a torrent of close range fire at the underside of the Gm Guard type.
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Sonia jammed her controls at seeing the Kampfer direct it's attention back at her. First pointing her legs in the direction she had been drifting and sending out a pulse, while then also with her left arm covering the sensative main camera of her mobile suit. 60mm Vulcan fire arced it's way up her mobile suit rocking it and pitting the armor in bright sparks. One or a couple rounds made it past the forarm of her mobile suit and impacted the forehead sensor sweat breaking it instantly. While that had been happening she had distinctly noticed that distinctive movement and flash. The first shot during evasive maneuvers impacted gouging a hole through the upper right shoulder/chest vent. The next while not hitting the beam gun fully, did probably what was intended as the pellet cluser impacted the right hand of the Gm Space Command type destroying the handle and hand of the now spinning mobile suit which she began to try and stabilize immediately.
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Post by vgraumann on Jun 21, 2019 18:49:30 GMT -6
The vulcan guns clicked empty as the last of their ammunition was spent and Cornelius felt himself hesitate for a moment as he watched the GM founder for a moment as he brought the Kampfer about in a circle with the damaged machine in the center. He knew he had already spent five shells, which left him with another four in reserve. If he was going to assist Sig in any capacity he knew he was going to need all the ammunition he could get so he was hesitant to fire on the damaged GM even though he knew it was borderline suicidal not to do so. He leveled his shotgun towards the machine and chambered his sixth shell before sighing. The fight was clearly in his favor now that his foe had lost its primary weapon but he could neither afford to turn his back on a mostly intact foe or spend any of his remaining ammunition on it either.
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Post by Oberst on Jun 21, 2019 19:19:40 GMT -6
At point blank the 90mm barrage ripped the GM Guard type fuselage apart, striking where it's armor was the weakest. The machine ceased operations, drifting lifelessly into space as a hail of anti mobile suit shells came down on the Zaku II previously recorded position. The Salamis class cruiser was now gaining on their Tivvay class, it's main armament aiming at the Zeonic made cruiser and firing a four round volley that mostly missed but it wouldn't be too long for them to score true hits with their next salvo.
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The GM Guard type that remained operational rushed to Sonia's aid, it's shield raised as it used it to cover the Lt.'s banged up GM Command space type.
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" Goddamn! That's too close for comfort!" Clara's hairs stood on end when she saw a barrage of mega particle beams streak past their battle bridge. Cruisers weren't exactly nimble space craft, yet she still cranked the controls all the way left to keep their gunners guessing.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Jun 21, 2019 19:33:12 GMT -6
Sig's eyes lit up at the sight of his shells impacted the enemy GM, sparks flying as his shots ripping up through it. Then following those sparks, nothing, the scene in front of him dead and his eyes stared on at the now drifting GM. However, before he could dwell or sink on what he had done he was jolted back into reality. His mobile suit shook as a shell from the Salamis detonated close to him. A hail of shrapnel pitted his machine which he could practically hear through the hull. Any closer and it would of done some even worse damage. But, under that rain of fire it was going to be able to put out... there was no way he coudl approach right? he felt a hostile aura trying to oppress him, but then he recalled something. His best shot of getting in close was right in front of him! He discarded his rifle and with some maneuvering flew up. He took the shield of the GM Guard Type and with some manipulation ripped it from the lifeless hands of the GM Guard Type. Then, he placed it between himself and the ship before pushing his throttle all the way up! He was going to go right towards the the Federation Ship at full speed! Explosions rocked his mobile suit, debris and shrapnel pitted the shield as he got closer and closer. Sig knew he needed to take out the bridge or engines, what ever he could get to first.
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"Thanks! That thing is tougher then it looks!" Sonia said over touch comms as she placed the left hand of her GM Space Command on the shoulder of the Gm Guard Type."I still have a beam saber, if we can get in close we can overwhelm them. Your shield is our ticket to do so." She said trying to figure out a way to put that Kampfer out of commission. It was fast, and those shots made for powerful slugs out in the vacuum and weightlessness of space. Just getting his a little had cost her the main armament of her mobile suit.
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Post by vgraumann on Jun 27, 2019 5:23:06 GMT -6
Cornelius kept his distance from the two GM’s and bided his time, watching how they would react. The GM Command type was limited to its close combat weapon and the other machine still had its impressive shield that he would have to contend with. Af far as he knew Sig was coming close to accomplishing his task, which left him with the task of holding these two GMs in place, and that was going to be harder than it sounded. He accelerated and came into another pass, laying his machine flat to present the least amount of silhouette possible.
The shotgun barked again, targeting the GM with the shield, and the recoil was felt as a dull thud that could be ‘heard’ in the cockpit as the vibration travelled through the Kampfer. Cornelius was sure that the massive slab of armor would be enough to absorb the attack but the act of firing was a psychological play to keep them pinned.
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Post by Oberst on Jun 29, 2019 9:54:53 GMT -6
The Salamis tower received extensive damage upon being rammed by that heavy slab of a shield head on. While the hull did not crack, its electrical circuitry was compromised, causing power outages in their sensors, effectively preventing them from getting a bead on the fleeing Tivvay. Only two of the cruiser bow defensive turrets could engage the Zaku at this close range. The twin barreled 100mm ball mounts rotated in position, wanting to get a clear shot and prevent any damage to the structure of their own vessel.
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As expected the shotgun blast failed to do significant damage other than sending them back a few yards upon impact.
" Take care!" The GM Guard type handed over the shield to Sonia. So far his unit was the least damaged one so it was up to him to handle that Zaku that had gotten dangerously close to their ship.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Jun 29, 2019 17:02:44 GMT -6
Sig shuddered his chest hurting terribly as the restraints kept him in the cockpit seat. His vision momentarily darkened and lights flickered from the impact. But he could feel it, they were on him within moments and as he drifted back from the impact. Sig breathed out and kicked the control pedals sending him upwards. His shield was dented and crumpled in a couple of spots. But, looking down he saw the damage done to the bridge."I've done some damage to the bridge. Going to retreat now." Sig would inform his comrade as he brought up his bazooka and poked it out from being the shield. Now flying backwards away from the ship trying to keep the shield between him and the turrets he fired. Unloading his bazooka towards and around the bridge. When he had finished he would store the Bazooka on the back rack and beat a hasty retreat.
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Sonia took the shield and would begin to make a B line towards the Kampfer wanting to get in closr.
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