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Side 3> Port 1
Ginga

Marie Wellington




Space. A vast and near empty frontier. Out by the colonies there was little between the cylinders while encroaching upon the Earth you might begin to see a glint of floating metal or a resting beacon. The debris belt which encircled the Earth held the majority of its content close but a few pieces could be flung out, making the progress towards the one reliable space port the colonies held at the belt very arduous and grueling for those those unaccustomed. All Marie had to occupy her time were the numerous reports to review and the occasional media from the past. Little was made in the way of their movies or music since everyone was busy working on the colonies. Everyone had a job, even the youngest had to learn to prepare for work. Any citizen acting defiant would be subjected to enlistment, or enforced labor which just brought the process full circle with corporal punishment.

Even so, Marie looked over when she heard music from one of the chair sections, an assistant who finished her work and began playing the tunes over a smaller tablet she had. Marie recognized the lyrics from an older song, but the voice was clearly someone new. Marie pulled herself from the chair and floated over to see the artist, the letters A and I being the only indication. Marie shook her head before pulling past her towards the bathroom. No use investing in some child whose obsession with the music lead to recasting her own voice over the original's. "Funny. I always thought Clyne's music was too optimistic compared to the ending."

Port-1
Hangar

Hanson Seuclid




Hanson was grumbling to himself as he checked his suit over before floating off for a set of maintenance gear and returned to his suit for some minor adjustments. Some bolts here, a missed scratch from debris there. Fighting in the debris belt meant small dings and marks where bits of metal clashed against the suit or were tossed away from a collision somewhere inside the belt. Better than being hit by the occasional explosive left behind only to be discovered by a curious pilot. Hanson let out a sigh in how decimated the area around the Earth had become since the glory days of the Titans. Maybe they'll set in motion some kind of clean up gig after this pissing match with the ground. Do something useful for the Earth for once. He shook his head to the thought. In that shaking, he spotted the two pilots from the cafeteria floating through the catwalks towards the simulator pods. Most preferred to use the simulation program in their own suits, but the added effect of the simulator's servos and pistons helped hone the senses more.

Port Algec
Launch Tower

Tyr Fin, Everin Skye, Gabriel Seth, Deryk Orgs, support personnel
@CMDR Adamantium@Crosswire



As the open elevator rose up, the girders around them fell down, exposing the outside for a clear view if one could ignore the red braces that would pass by. Tyr looked to the other tower in view, from its position he guessed it contained the second team, which he knew included Nathaniel, Ulesses, and Roose. The second tower he could see had an unusual pairing, with a newtype pilot recruited by the general and his assigned bodyguards as additional mobile suit pilots in a Genoace II and Blaze ZAKU Warrior. Poor Tear was left in rocket 5, assigned to guard duty over the rest of the giant cylinders. All the pilots who'd gone to space on combat ops could be distinguished by their lack of enthusiasm compared to the rest, expecting things to be as much fun as their training launches and simulations. Tyr's attention was taken as the most important civilian on base spoke to him.

"Ah, of course. A pleasure to make your acquaintance sir Seth." Tyr reached his hand out to shake, retracting it back to holding his helmet after the introduction. "Of course, although I'm aware this is your first salvaging job in space, so it will be more normal to us than to yourself. We're not going to be digging, but expect to be cracking open some doors since they rarely have the power running. And this all hedges on us not running into any dolls still detecting IFF signals." He sighed at the thought of one hollow mobile suit screwing up the operation. "Now then, what did you have in mind to streamline the operation?"

Port Algec

Briefing > Launch Pad & Command Tower
George Eltz, Tyr Fin, Launch Personnel > Dr. Charles Edwards




After letting his response rest for the men, there was light murmurs filling the room, ranging from concerns of Tyr's experience for command to the concern of a swift colony counter attack. Tyr looked to the remote in his hand and cutting out the display of the scene over to an image of the Empire's emblem. "You've all trained and fought for the empire, those who are new here will learn the dangers of space, while the rest of you remember the capability of the colonies in a drawn out fight. We will continue to lose if you let this be a war of attrition, while every mobile suit and vessel we bring back with us bolsters our side. There will be a time for us to charge straight on through the debris belt and consider retreat a last resort, not the next step. You have all been selected by the general not just for your skills but your capabilities, I will expect for none of you to let him down and step inside of that rocket today. Dismissed." He turned and most of the gathered personnel stood up and began to leave the room to the changing rooms for their pilot and EVA suits.

Tyr approached the general immediately, whose gaze was focused on the door as a couple of men in security gear were leaving the room. "Of course there is no great first briefing. It would have helped if I knew more about the status of our supplies." The centurion let out with a sigh, following the general's gaze with curiosity before the man spoke and gathered his attention. "There is no such thing as a great briefing, you're bringing these soldiers to battle expecting not all of them will return. It's best you remember and accept this when facing them all head on, before it is too late. Your own father wasn't very skilled at this either." At the mention of Tyr's father, the centurion tilted his head down in contemplation, thinking back on his current position compared to his father. He was sure his father would be proud of him.

"I will be in the command tower, you had best join your comrades." The general's voice broke Tyr from his reminisce, looking up into the blue eyes of his superior. "Of course sir. I will see you again for the debriefing." Tyr gave his salute to the general, who turned and walked down from the slightly elevated stage and along the path towards the command tower. Joining him were several attendees of the briefing, operators and mission coordinators following suit to man the bays of terminals to relay all information for each of the five shuttles. In the briefing room the soldiers of Team Delta stood up, with Deryk Orgs patting his chest with a big breath. "Let's get moving kiddos. I want to grab a good seat on the trucks before the rest." The older soldier patted his hand against Roose and Everin, leading them forward out of the room while giving a kindly smiled nod to the woman. "If you will excuse us young miss, we have a rocket to catch." It wasn't long before Tyr followed suite out to the trucks, five, one for each rocket with the team's name plastered on the side in graffiti.

As the soldiers switched into their suits, they began loading themselves onto the trucks with those lucky enough taking the padded seats while the rest sat in the open flooring of the truck bed as it filled up. Tyr had grabbed ahold of the side of the truck among others, near Deryk who gave him another humble smile which was reciprocated. When a truck collected its fill its engine was revved before the machine moved along the long path out to the towering metal containers. The trucks passed by a convoy occupied by a series of much larger, purely flatbed vehicles holding up the various mobile suits from the hangars. Carefully moved along since the beginning of the base announcement, the mobile weapons would be brought to each rocket and loaded by a crane attached to the launch tower. Tyr looked up as the long chassis of his own mobile armor came into view, the metal of its railgun gleaming as they passed it. Some of the soldiers hollered as they saw their own, or an ally's mobile weapon. A tradition since the very first mission, although it didn't prevent the occasional small brawl over some machines. Still, Tyr looked forward as the road stretched out to the five structures.

In the command tower, the personnel sat down swiftly and began their tasks, filling the room with chatter between the tower here and the crews at the launch pad. The general stood at the top ledge looking over the personnel. From behind he heard the sound of a cane against metal. Only one threat could create that sound, which made the hairs on the general's neck stand tall as a voice creeped out to him, like death itself lending its voice. At least to the general. "There you are young Eltzman. I was surprised when you had the young northerner give the briefing today, you haven't reached my age yet." The general turned to see the elderly man appearing from the doorway along with another, much younger collogue with white hair. "I hope you won't mind I invited miss Yashia to join me up here, I could need help getting down from here once all is said and done." The sarcastically older man gave a youthful smile as he held onto his cane. Of course he was still able to navigate but it was clear his age was beginning to affect his physique. "Of course doctor. I'm sure she would like to be aware of any immediate cases for our soldiers." His eyes turned to the woman and looked over over.

At the launch pad, the trucks separated along the circle of towers and disgorging their passengers. Tyr looked over to his fellow pilots, two he recognized as Everin and Otter with Gabriel Seth. Along with them were 8 support personnel who were tasked with piloting the rockets and maintaining them in missions, along with cargo manipulation. Each rocket had a pair of small mobile workers used for loading any recovered salvage into the empty compartment of the vessel, allowing for up to 8 mobile suits to return in total along with smaller salvage, if they were lucky. Tyr stepped into the elevator of the tower as the rest did, bracing as it rocked its way upwards. He fumbled with the older helmet in his hand out of boredom like others did.

Port-1

Hangar
Hanson Seuclid, Celeste Tropis




"What the hell do you mean I've missed a quota? You don't even look like you know what that is!" The voice of the Brute could be heard through the hangar as he shouted at the young girl, who had to adjust her glasses while floating up and away from the head of the Kallisto. "Of course I do! You just don't listen to our requests! You need to start bringing things back, you leave with stuff and come back empty handed. At least bring back some rifles or beam sabers, you can even get them from the earthlings." As she reached the scaffolding of the mobile suit racks, Celeste steadied herself and pushed off towards the taller man. While short, she didn't care about sizes between the soldiers of the colonies. "Don't start spouting off like the rest of the stiffs running this place. If I want to bring shit back I'll bring shit back, but this suit is all I need." Hanson pounded his hand on the nanolaminate armor of his mobile suit, forcing him to float away from the useless catwalk.

"Then do it for the tickets." Celeste somersaulted and pushed against the shoulder arm of the suit to redirect her body towards the man, passing by him and gripping the railing of the catwalk as the man adjusted himself, vectoring towards the arm of the suit again. "You never know what we'll find out there that you might want, and this beauty isn't easy to maintain, we have no reliable supply of nano laminate armor after all. What you get is whatever they are willing to give you, but if you bring us some good toys, I can always sweet talk them into opening up the paint cans. Like I suggested, you don't have to scrounge for them just pick them up from the enemy if you can and fly on back to the ship, they'll take note of anything you bring to them. Sound like a deal?" The girl gave a big smile as she looked to the ancient man who sigh and waved off his hand to her. " Whatever, just don't touch my suit again."

He turned away and grabbed onto the arm of the mobile suit, moving over to the head to check if she had indeed opened any panel like he suspected. "Good, I'll take that as an affirmative Corporal Seuclid!" The girl said with a giddy voice before pulling along the rail towards the next suit. Of course she performed a quick inspection of the suit but saw that it was still in working condition. Considering it was a custom suit from their knowledge of the post calamity suits, Hanson had been taking car of it quite well with minimum support from the rest of the staff. Still, Celeste still needed him to pitch in to stock up on her armory for the distribution of tickets.

Port Algec

Briefing
George Eltz, Tyr Fin, Launch Personnel




After giving the opening, George stood behind and to the side of Tyr, giving him a good view at both the centurion and the rest of the personnel. He watched as it began more bluntly than his own, the Centurion pouring out the information like a faucet on full. He could see some in the audience were skeptical already of his ability, despite many performing plenty of missions with him before. At the first chance, immediately he saw the one person in the room to question any action not related to fighting. He let out a mental sigh, expecting the flight won't be as smooth as George hoped. "An interception would be running head first into full mobile suit teams whose pilots have trained all their lives in the absence of gravity. How many the colonists deploy and where they come from is not something we can predict accurately, spreading ourselves too thin can lead to us being isolated and eliminated. We will not make the situation easier for the enemy at all, not to mention the possibility of a full ship of dolls activating, forcing the few mobile suits to engage them without support. Each team will play their role, the defense team to protect the shuttles for the retreat and provide guidance, the search teams to collect supplies and the middle team to string each section together while busying the colonists."

The Centurion replied directly to the girl, looking to the remote and switching the images to those of past encounters, with colonists suits attacking allied mobile suits and mobile workers. "We are not cleared for an assault mission yet by the general, only a scavenging operation. That is our objective, and anyone failing to follow their role will be disciplined appropriately. That said, we will not be sitting in the open, those of us on the middle team with me will be taking up hidden positions around the area where you can find cover. You are clear to fire upon any mobile weapon without an Imperial marking on its armor but confirm any symbols first. They have been seen with similar weapons to us, and friendly fire is just as much a possibility as it was against the Gols." Murmurs began from those who had experienced incidents of the Gols using guerilla tactics and fallen suits in ambushes, either utilizing captured mobile suits and parts or painstakingly copying the symbol onto their units in a false flag effort. "Still, by the time they have arrived the scavenging teams should have identified whether the contents of the vessels are worth recovering or not. We will also attempt to secure a vessel should any prove viable, so prepare to gather and guard whichever we may reclaim for the Empire's use."

Port Algec

Briefing
George Eltz, Tyr Fin




Giving them some time to observe the screen, Tyr switched to the image of the smallest vessel. "This is the smallest vessel, and from its dimensions we expect it to be either a small freighter or a shuttle, possibly capable of carrying a mobile suit. We don't expect much from it so a two mobile suit search should suffice the craft with support personnel in EVA gear. Its origins are unknown as well, forced entry may be required but it appears otherwise intact so retain is possible integrity for retrieval." The screen changed again to the Alexandria-Class, with a noticeably darker sheen than any recognizable ships to those familiar with UC spacecraft. "Judging from the forward section of the ship we've determined this one is an Alexandria class from the early Universal Century era, although its darker coloring is concerning we expect it could contain some useful suits or supplies. We are all away of how plentiful the militaries of the Universal century were. As such, the possibility of suits with the doll program are high so Otter will be taking the lead into the ship." The man's codename lit up at the selection along with the others listed.

"This next vessel is another from the Universal century, although much later from our estimates." The large and elaborate Marilyn class appeared on the screen with plenty of damage along the two protrusions at the front. "While not a warship, this is a resupply ship from all related records. If it has been lucky to survive until now, it could contain plenty of parts and weapons for our campaigns. There are no records we can find of carrying mobile suits, but be prepared for any dolls nevertheless. Onto the final vessel..." The screen showed no more than a large side of a ship, even without a full view the size was very generous compared to the others. "From the ports along the side of this, we expect it to be some shipping or supply vessel. We can't tell the era nor the originator but its structure appears to be intact from our view. As such it will be the second focus. If it is possibly a mobile suit transport, then the utmost care shall be taken to investigate all suits and determine their value before retrieval. This container is where the head of the scavengers team now employed directly by the General will be headed to, and guarded."

Tyr looked over to the man sitting down in the auditorium, with no one nearby and receiving some looks from others as an outsider to the military and this unit. "Inside sir Seth will be in charge of determining any items worth collecting and any junk to leave behind. Time is limited as you know, and any seconds wasted questioning a rational order from him means more time for the canners to come for us. All precaution inside against dolls or, pray tell, awaiting alarms will be taken and dealt with swiftly by all parties. The rest of us not assigned to the vessels will act as look outs and guards. There will always be something floating out there, if it catches your eye you may collect but remain vigilant. The canners have always had the first strike against us on their battlefield. Any questions."

Port-1

Cafeteria
Hanson Seuclid, Sirius Free, Ayame Izumi




"You're welcome to try and complain to them, not often you get a response outside of vulgarity or national banter. Whatever the case of us soldiers, old men start wars and young men fight them as the saying goes. Why this all started may be pointless by the time it ends, it's not our concern though. We'll be fighting it, and we just have to survive until the end. Just don't become anything less than a soldier, a cog in the machine can do more harm than any bullet. Now if you two need to take the time to digest all that, your bed is always welcoming." Hanson grinned as he stood up, grabbing his tray and moving to the disposal, emptying the contents before pushing the bowl inside the chute and being taken away for cleaning. His business concluded, with the bonus of scaring a couple of young bloods, Hanson moved over to the exit of the cafeteria and proceeded back towards the hangar, now wanting to find the young scientist in charge of processing funds, since his tickets were just recently confiscated...
Alright, I finally got Beloth's pre-teen dressed up and ready to be showcased. Introducing -drum roll- SAGI PLUTON!!! The Merciless Wolf of Beloth





Ah yes, the wolf is accepted!

Port Algec

Briefing
George Eltz, Tyr Fin




Teras nodded and looked to Ulesses for confirmation as well before they walked with the Lion to the front, and introduced the man code named Otter to him, only to sit down next to him along with Nathaniel. They looked at the stage, expecting the 'fish' to come down and join them when the general turned away and made a whistle, loud even over the chatter about as the doors were closed and the general took center stage. "Attention!" The general slammed his heel into the stage, the sound of which sent the trained personnel to their feet in a salute. "Sit." The small crowd lowered themselves to the chairs as the general grabbed their attention. "Let us begin. As a first order of business Team Delta will be moving leadership from Centurion Orgs unto Centurion Fin." The general motioned over to the newest centurion who gave another salute. "Along with this we have a new compatriot joining the operation, Gabriel Smith. Him and his men will be assisting in the operation within their respective field." The general held out his hand to present the man in the crowd, to which some heads looked over. With that the general looked to Tyr and turned away, walking to the side and observing.

"One week ago intelligence isolated a section of the debris belt revealing the remains of four vessels." Tyr walked up and immediately began the briefing, using a hand remote to activate the screen behind him, revealing the first of the images showing the blurred view of the ships. "Four vessels have been identified in the debris, we have identified two of the vessels from the universal century while the last two remain undetermined." The screen showed a profile of the two known ships, the Alexander class and Marilyn class, while the other two showed a highlighted section of the exposed ships. "We've determined the larger vessel to be a freighter, and as such is one of the prime targets for our operation. The other will be the Marylin class, and the remaining two will be examined last as time allows it. The colonies response times have been improving with each launch, so we are racing against the clock to inspect the craft and transfer cargo. Should any craft be worthy of recovery, Gabriel's team will signal with the appropriate flares and be given priority for protection."

Tyr changed the screen again showing the code names across the screen and directing them to a vessel, the middle of the field and one to the side labelled as 'Defense'. Among the code names in the middle were Kraken and Small Sky, the ones to the unknown freighter included Seth, Lion and Roc. "The Defense group will be in charge of rocket guard duty should the colonies wish to intercept our transports while the units sent to each vessel will be tasked with investigation and scouting of the ships. Utilize your flares appropriately, red to indicate any dolls reacting, blue for non valuable cargo or bust, and orange for a possible salvage. All units remaining will be tasked with observing for any colonist actions and mobile suit units. They hold the advantage in space so remain within range of allies should contact be made. We are tasked with staving off the can-colonists until all teams are able to retreat with their cargo. As usual we will only have one hour for a complete orbit, any longer and we risk our re-entry."
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