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[guardian-lynx.livejournal.com]

[Voice]

Alright. Like Hayato said last week, everyone who plans to fight in Zero-G needs particular training. So far we've only run into trouble with people stupid enough to fight inside colonies, but there's always a chance we'll have to engage someone in an orbital battlefield as well.

Anyone who plans to fight while we're in space, report to the hangar for training. This goes for our new Mobile Suit pilots, too. Those are designed to fight in space, but you still have to get used to the lack of gravity. Make sure you've got proper oxygen seals and install some of the Thruster Modules we bartered from Nergal if your unit isn't normally spacefaring.

[Action]

[Unlike her few training sessions on the surface, of course, Calvina's assembling the crew inside the hangar. She's also going over final adjustments on Bellzelute for training - she might as well get some of her own practice in instead of just watching the kids play. It was a fairly simple task to turn the limiters up to the point where the energy weapons became simply tracers and to load the missile pods and rifle with paint rounds...]

Comments

[hammersteintime.livejournal.com]

Golly gosh, in space, even Hildebrand can fly. THat's going to be different, that's for sure.

[guardian-lynx.livejournal.com]

Don't think of it as flying, because it's not quite the same. You're moving in truly three dimensions, no gravity or lift to account for.

[hammersteintime.livejournal.com]

Welp, to me those things are close enough. I don't really know the difference~

[guardian-lynx.livejournal.com]

Never flown before? Well, certainly not in your unit...

You added some of the add-on thrusters, right? You can't just walk in space.

[hammersteintime.livejournal.com]

Zwei Hildebrand Kaiser always had thrusters. I don't really know why but gee, we weren't going to futz up the design.

[guardian-lynx.livejournal.com]

Jump thrusters, I guess. Well, if they've got the same power-mass ratio as a mobile suit's, they should do the trick.

[hammersteintime.livejournal.com]

Isn't that just grand~

[guardian-lynx.livejournal.com]

Go ahead and get ready to deploy. I'll be following in my own unit.

[hammersteintime.livejournal.com]

[ZWEI SUPER HILDEBRAND, KAISER OF MODERN WAR, GOOOO~]

[Leaps into space. Keeps going~] Whee!!

[guardian-lynx.livejournal.com]

Enthusiasm is good. Just be sure to counterfire your thrusters before you run into something. Use small thrusts until you match the ship's velocity.

[hammersteintime.livejournal.com]

{THRUUUUUST~--]

What!? Oh, small, thrusts, huh? [GOING THE OTHER WAY FAST]

Gee, thrusters sure are fast in space! [Starting to try and rectify all this with little thrusts]

[guardian-lynx.livejournal.com]

In space, there's no force acting on you but your own thrusters. You have to be careful, and aware of 360 degrees of your surroundings at all times.

[hammersteintime.livejournal.com]

But how are you supposed to do that? Just think, driving a car is hard enough and you don't even have to look up or down!

[guardian-lynx.livejournal.com]

Some people say that people are developing expanded consciousness just to deal with the openness of space.

Really, it just takes some focus and practice. Before you learned to drive a car, did you ever think to look up to see behind you? This is that to a larger degree.

[hammersteintime.livejournal.com]

What am I supposed to do though?

[guardian-lynx.livejournal.com]

Try moving around the ship without smashing into it. I'll lead.

[Calvina's already out in space with the Bellzelute, easily stabilizing her own, smaller mech in an arcing course.]

[hammersteintime.livejournal.com]

[While the Bellzelute moved in smooth arcs and curves, Zwei Hildebrand Kaiser... well, it moved more in some irregular polygon.]

[guardian-lynx.livejournal.com]

Gentle movements!

[hammersteintime.livejournal.com]

I'm trying! I'm trying~!

[guardian-lynx.livejournal.com]

[Calvina shuts up and gives him time to stop panicking. Really, with any mobile weapon - let alone something ancient and bulky like his unit - you just have to get a feel for the controls before you can manage a proper course.]

[hammersteintime.livejournal.com]

[After a while he manages to come to a slow but still imperfect course going around.]

There's no trick to this huh?

[guardian-lynx.livejournal.com]

Not really. Just training. It's a whole new way of moving.