ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Operator¹]

why bombs?

[Ad Bot]

[Mr. Hurricane]

why bombs?

cheap heavy missiles that you can throw


Jaakko collects his items in the locker room and walks out to his hanger, the dogs shadow him anxiously. In the hanger he orders them to stay. He gives them parting scratches and they sit outside, looking on at the odd object that makes a lot of noise, and all the peoples tending to it.

 The techs are finishing their work prepping the Fenrir. A few of them are toying with a PPC on an ordnance cart, lifting and securing it in to the nose of the aircraft. He shakes the hand of the crew lead, and climbs in to the Fenrir.

Jaakko fits his oxygen mask and breathes in the cool air from the aircraft's life support package. He begins the startup procedures with the crew boss' directions. They spool up at one at a time. Jaakko looks down the flight line. Other aircraft are doing the same. The engines whine and scream as they are forcefully turned over by the starter. The process takes a minute before the first engine turns over and is sucking enough air not to suffer a flameout. The second starts without a hitch. He sees that the dogs have run off due to the noise.

Both engines whistle while Jaakko drops the canopy, and is left with silence and darkness, only the light of the roosterpit instrumentation. The screens turn on with their company's logo briefly making an appearance. He can see everything- almost. Aside from where there are control panels and his kneeboard. It reminded him of an obscure Kintharian space show about mechs in space used by reliquary to quell evil belter space colony uprisings.

His train of thought was interrupted by neutral chatter, the crew boss having him check his hydraulics. The marshaller began to take him out of the hanger, and beings the drive to the runway.

[Operator¹]

if you're going to attack a ship you should do it right

[Tayasaurus]

Tippy preps for the flight

[Gojira]

In the meantime, Yui watches everybody leave the ground and wonders why she wasn't chosen. She figures it might have something to do with how she used the G-Scram in the duel with Djuriskas flight, and pushes the thought aside.

[NoZoner]

Lorens flips through the kneeboard in his hands. "[What was command thinking?]," he says to no-one in particular behind the comfort of a language barrier, scratching his head as he tries to work out the all the details. A cacophony of metallic clangs and whirs finally tears Lorens' focus away from his materials. He looks up in time to see the technicians raise a factory-new Gauss cannon into the A-10's coaxial slot, which until now was occupied exclusively by the Avenger.

Poking out of the shroud where the familiar seven-barreled muzzle once was, there now lay only a single barrel, surrounded by the end-housing of what he guesses is the final coil in the linear motor. It was a foreign sight, to be sure.

With all the weapons now in place, Lorens puts on his helmet and makes a cursory pass over the pylons before climbing into the roosterpit. He spools the engines, warms up the avionics and hails the tower for clearance to taxi. The marshaller shows him out the door, and he rides the 'Hog onto the tarmac.

Lorens lets his eyes wander as the A-10 comes up behind several other aircraft in line for a minimum-interval take-off. "[This is going to be one hell of an operation]," he mutters to himself.

[blockguy™]

Caesar sits in his room and becomes jealous of his comrades. Then he falls asleep for a few minutes.

He wakes up and realizes that he needs to change.

"Perhaps I'll try a little harder, pay more attention. Read more books. I'll get more sleep at night, so I don't fall asleep during combat, out of all situations. Over these next few weeks, months, however long it may take, I'll get better."

He strangely says all of those words to himself. Anyone walking by his room might have thought he would be insane.

[Mr. Hurricane]

"[Indeed]," Jaakko replies to Lorens.

[Gojira]

hes not in the roosterpit tho

[NoZoner]

Lorens blinks quizzically, trying to identify the voice he just heard.

"... Crash? Were you the one that said that?"

[CypherX]

easy mission, flight leader mjolnir is omnipresent

[Operator¹]

psychological warfare

[CypherX]

why haven't the zents done ATGM EMPs yet

they have the bomb, seems like a logical step up

[Qwepir]

Mjolnir and allies take off and fly south, eventually reaching the Rostig Mountains. The AWACS present points everybody to the targeted patrol group, and soon you have it in your sights. Due to the extended radar, you see them before they see you.

: You're up first, Mjolnir. Take out those fighters so the rest of us can get in there and smash the place!

[Mr. Hurricane]

Lorens learns that Jaakko can speak Mercanan, but not without an accent.

"Weapons free, the fighters are priority, let the strike package choose which destroyer we don't take home with us,"

Jaakko looks between his flight's aircraft.

"I wish we would have brought RGMs," he laments.

He thinks to himself that it is a critical oversight.