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sunshine_maiden) wrote2012-04-01 07:29 pm
sunshine_maiden) wrote2012-04-01 07:29 pm
March Activity - Super Robot Wars: Unlimited Generations Alpha
[Sitting on Sora's desk is a letter, hand-written with a graceful script, and an envelope next to it bearing the coordinates and name of Fairy Park, specifically its director. Although the window of time it's aboard the ship is limited, this is IC. There's a more standard list of everything at the bottom for convenience.]
Professor Himesaki,
I'm sure you haven't been getting regular reports from Nanohana and Eri about what's been going on here, so I'll try and get monthly communications out with information about the state of activities on the ship. Nothing confidential, you understand, but some of this might be helpful to understanding the trials our girls face in deployed duty, or may insipre changes to future PreDesu machines. If nothing else, it'll keep you informed you on how we're doing, when we can't visit.
I haven't been gone for very long just yet; I arrived on the White Chalice a few days ago. There are a lot of mecha in the hangar here; I'm not sure we ever realized how many people are aboard when we first had contact with them months ago. Upon arrival, I met with several people almost immediately: Eri, who'd apparently enjoyed herself a little too much at a wedding party the night before but was happy to see me; a small lizard-looking construct called Tatsu that was apparently learning how to be human from Nanohana; Alessandra, champion of House Consenesco (whatever that is), who apparently thinks my looks qualify me to be Irgelion; and Nanohana. The meeting with Hana in particular was difficult because she's having severe self-esteem issues. While I agree that keeping her behind at Fairy Park for training was not the right idea, she hasn't grown well in her time here, at least not as well as I'd like. The support structure for pilots on the White Chalice is all wrong, and she's got a lot of pent-up frustrations. While I was able to... help her vent them in a relatively safe manner - I'm fairly sure the bruise will fade in a few days - it can't stay like this. And if something comes along to make the situation worse, all of us will suffer. I am, however, pleased to note that her power is just fine, and her emotional expression is extreme when angered, which I am certain will lend significant power to Desu Tsubomi if her mental state is just so.
After letting Hana take out her frustrations on someone that wouldn't snap like a twig as a result, I talked to the ship's XO, an AI named Dan - a reasonable sort, if a bit dense; I'm not sure if you talked with him before - and was assigned a room relatively close to the girls. From there I posted a video introduction to the network, and talked to a number of other pilots aboard the Chalice. Julia, an Irgelion if Alessandra is to be believed, though I didn't talk to her very long; Laura, one of the mechanics, who was a little curious about how I became a pilot for Project PreDesu; Werter, who uses a small robot called Prometheus, and who apparently didn't realize I was female the first time he saw me, which I rectified quickly.
And then, once I thought the network was finally quiet, I heard from one last pilot, Kamille Bidan. We've been severely underestimating what's been going on aboard the Chalice. There are some seriously crazy pilots here - the "terrorists" in Celestial Being, significant members of Zeon's Axis faction, the 501st out of Fuso (the Strike Witches, you may recall)... it's a staggering set of groups all coming together, and I'm amazed the ship hasn't collapsed under the weight of all of their combined issues. Then there's the hostage incident Kamille told me of, a few weeks ago; two girls were kidnapped and held for ransom, the price being one of the mecha aboard, an iDOL called Imber, whose pilot had bonded to it, rather significantly; I am informed iDOLs are, on some level, sentient. In the process of the rescue operation, there were... issues, and Imber was stolen and used against its pilot, without resisting. Her iDOL Key was crushed, leaving her unable to pilot Imber should we retrieve it, and then the kidnapper left in Imber. The story Kamille told me, which I'm leaving parts out of for privacy (and because I don't know the whole story myself), was heartbreaking, and I swear that it won't happen again on my watch.
That's where I stand, three days after arriving on the ship. I've been taking it easy; there's not a whole lot for us to do right now, but everyone's on edge. I think we're going to be in for a fight soon. Please keep in touch; I would like to keep appraised on the status of the girls I left behind to train, and on Seiren. I fear that, whatever my personal feelings about her are, we'll need her strength in the weeks to come.
Sora Myoudouin
Links, in order of appearance:
- Shine 1 | The Third PreDesu Pilot Arrives!?, with... a whole bunch of tags; probably over 50, certainly over 20.
-- Thread with Eri
-- Thread with Tatsu
-- Thread with Alessandra
-- Thread with Nanohana
-- Thread with Julia
-- Thread with Laura
-- Thread with Werter
-- Thread with Kamille
Professor Himesaki,
I'm sure you haven't been getting regular reports from Nanohana and Eri about what's been going on here, so I'll try and get monthly communications out with information about the state of activities on the ship. Nothing confidential, you understand, but some of this might be helpful to understanding the trials our girls face in deployed duty, or may insipre changes to future PreDesu machines. If nothing else, it'll keep you informed you on how we're doing, when we can't visit.
I haven't been gone for very long just yet; I arrived on the White Chalice a few days ago. There are a lot of mecha in the hangar here; I'm not sure we ever realized how many people are aboard when we first had contact with them months ago. Upon arrival, I met with several people almost immediately: Eri, who'd apparently enjoyed herself a little too much at a wedding party the night before but was happy to see me; a small lizard-looking construct called Tatsu that was apparently learning how to be human from Nanohana; Alessandra, champion of House Consenesco (whatever that is), who apparently thinks my looks qualify me to be Irgelion; and Nanohana. The meeting with Hana in particular was difficult because she's having severe self-esteem issues. While I agree that keeping her behind at Fairy Park for training was not the right idea, she hasn't grown well in her time here, at least not as well as I'd like. The support structure for pilots on the White Chalice is all wrong, and she's got a lot of pent-up frustrations. While I was able to... help her vent them in a relatively safe manner - I'm fairly sure the bruise will fade in a few days - it can't stay like this. And if something comes along to make the situation worse, all of us will suffer. I am, however, pleased to note that her power is just fine, and her emotional expression is extreme when angered, which I am certain will lend significant power to Desu Tsubomi if her mental state is just so.
After letting Hana take out her frustrations on someone that wouldn't snap like a twig as a result, I talked to the ship's XO, an AI named Dan - a reasonable sort, if a bit dense; I'm not sure if you talked with him before - and was assigned a room relatively close to the girls. From there I posted a video introduction to the network, and talked to a number of other pilots aboard the Chalice. Julia, an Irgelion if Alessandra is to be believed, though I didn't talk to her very long; Laura, one of the mechanics, who was a little curious about how I became a pilot for Project PreDesu; Werter, who uses a small robot called Prometheus, and who apparently didn't realize I was female the first time he saw me, which I rectified quickly.
And then, once I thought the network was finally quiet, I heard from one last pilot, Kamille Bidan. We've been severely underestimating what's been going on aboard the Chalice. There are some seriously crazy pilots here - the "terrorists" in Celestial Being, significant members of Zeon's Axis faction, the 501st out of Fuso (the Strike Witches, you may recall)... it's a staggering set of groups all coming together, and I'm amazed the ship hasn't collapsed under the weight of all of their combined issues. Then there's the hostage incident Kamille told me of, a few weeks ago; two girls were kidnapped and held for ransom, the price being one of the mecha aboard, an iDOL called Imber, whose pilot had bonded to it, rather significantly; I am informed iDOLs are, on some level, sentient. In the process of the rescue operation, there were... issues, and Imber was stolen and used against its pilot, without resisting. Her iDOL Key was crushed, leaving her unable to pilot Imber should we retrieve it, and then the kidnapper left in Imber. The story Kamille told me, which I'm leaving parts out of for privacy (and because I don't know the whole story myself), was heartbreaking, and I swear that it won't happen again on my watch.
That's where I stand, three days after arriving on the ship. I've been taking it easy; there's not a whole lot for us to do right now, but everyone's on edge. I think we're going to be in for a fight soon. Please keep in touch; I would like to keep appraised on the status of the girls I left behind to train, and on Seiren. I fear that, whatever my personal feelings about her are, we'll need her strength in the weeks to come.
Sora Myoudouin
Links, in order of appearance:
- Shine 1 | The Third PreDesu Pilot Arrives!?, with... a whole bunch of tags; probably over 50, certainly over 20.
-- Thread with Eri
-- Thread with Tatsu
-- Thread with Alessandra
-- Thread with Nanohana
-- Thread with Julia
-- Thread with Laura
-- Thread with Werter
-- Thread with Kamille