Discovery #36

[saikyocivrobo]

Damnit. I am not going to let that happen to my gaming buddy! Another point on my ever-increasing To Do list: "save Gainer".

[Werter walks down the corridor towards the deck with a determined expression, Prometheus running after him.]

I'm taking Prometheus to the Yapan Exodus settlement. I'm going to ask the Five Wise Men all they know about the Overdevil. Or should I say, the Three Wise Men And One Wise Woman... Doesn't matter. If there's anyone who knows how to destroy it, it's them. That thing is going down!

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[hominilupusinexilio]

Resnick never liked Gainer, but he at least recognizes his value to the ship...and to Adette, of course. He walks with him.

"I suggest asking them about their mobile fortress too. It gave us...some trouble during the...liberation of the domes."

He walks beside him, eager to hear what they have to say.

[saikyocivrobo]

Mobile fortress? Indeed I'd have to ask, considering I know nothing about it.

[hominilupusinexilio]

"Aff, it was the size of an Overlord and made of some kind of crystal. Our encounter with it was short but in that time none of our mechs' weapons penetrated."

He remembered the crystalline mountain, looming over the people of the domepoli. They'd need some big firepower to crack that. Naval scale, unless it had some obscure weakness.

[saikyocivrobo]

Oh great. I'm sure the Overdevil won't use a fortress immune to artillery fire in this upcoming fight, or anything.

...It must have a weakness, though. I just need to find out what it is.

[hominilupusinexilio]

"Well we did not hit it with naval scale weaponry...The risk of friendly fire was too great. Perhaps there is a weakness a small unit could exploit? A heat vent that could be blasted closed?"

Aaaaaand he invents the Death Star trench run.

[saikyocivrobo]

If it even has heat vents to begin with... The Overdevil doesn't seem to care much about classic thermodynamics.

[hominilupusinexilio]

"Any vehicle of that size must generate some heat. Even Getter Dragon vented it through its 'mouth'. I am confident of our victory though. The Railway Company has consistently proven their wealth does not make up for tactical incompetence."

He smirked, convinced it would be a replay of the battle at the Domepoli.

[saikyocivrobo]

Don't underestimate the opponent. This is not the incompetent Siberian Railroad and their crappy Silhouette Engines we're talking about. This is an ancient, ridiculously powerful and possibly sentient Overman. One that already stole two really good pilots from us.

...But yes. We'll win this. I'll make sure of it.

[hominilupusinexilio]

"And those pilots were Adette's trothkin. It will not be in an enviable position when she finds it, quineg?"

Still, mentally they were Sillhouette Engines to him. He'd only fought an overman once and while novel (and annoying) the effect hadn't exactly been that dangerous...

[saikyocivrobo]

Yeah. With any chance, her wrath alone will be enough to melt the Overdevil into a puddle. That'd simplify matters.