"270)}XR-2 Longku 290)}XR-2 Longku" "314)}XR-2 Longku 338)}XR-2 Longku" "355)}XR-2 Longku ...which had lost the Flag's trail." "a full-scale effort to regroup and rally was underway at the UN's frontline base." "loading." "it checks!" "I'm getting swamped here!" "creaking sound had enveloped this country." "connection is good." "Confirmed." "Skip ahead to #84 next." "It's true that Lt. Ichiyanagi personally requested to attend the hearing." "He probably intends to take personal responsibility for the lost HAVWC." "boss!" " Don't rush it." "Just pay attention and do the job right!" "sir!" "you haven't set foot outside the base since you arrived." "I bet that you were going stir-crazy." "It feels like all the air in my body is being replaced with fresh air." "Those white things are called yurts." "They're mobile housing used by nomadic people." "They live by moving from place to place in search of grass for their sheep to graze on." "wars seem so pointless. they're all the same sky." "That's so cute!" "Wait!" "so you get winded really easily." "Namaste!" "too. ...so we have to run patrol flights like this one." "but I got some great pictures because of it." "G-area patrol complete." "Returning to base." "roger." "the way people can be living... tranquil lives so close to the base." "They're the ones who were living here first." "It's our own base that is the intruder here." "that's right..." "Miss Shirasu." "That was the first time that I heard you laugh so loudly." "Cut it out!" "Subasci means "source of the river." "two rivers met here." "Rivers are the tears of the god of the heavens." "and many wars were fought." "the god of death was born." "I think Command HQ is just getting impatient. ...their precious Flag retrieval unit has been sidelined with unanticipated losses." "69 points." "I want to see what its transient tracking characteristics are like." "Can I do that?" "go ahead." "We're checking to see if the HAVWC is accurately responding to his neural impulses." "The direct control system works using his nervous system's electrical impulses." "It responds to his thoughts?" "Basically." "But he's operating an exoskeleton that's far bigger than his own body." "So it's necessary for his senses to correct for that size." "so let's take her for a spin." "Nerve signals that indicate a given motion... ...so we have to make sure that the pilot and the HAVWC match up." "right down to his quirks." "I guess." "It's no easy task for the two of them to operate as a single entity." "Lieutenant!" "On the other hand..." "Precise movement plus controlled power." "he could pick up an egg without breaking it." "what say we start the outdoor testing?" "sheep and the nomads." "Yurts on the steppes." "These are fine pictures." "The yoghurt they make from sheep's milk around here... it's incredibly rich." "you've got to try the butter tea!" "I know..." "It's tea that has butter melted in it." "Miss Shirasu." "You will?" "Thanks!" "Let's start off with the vertical gyro check." "we'll go to the walking balance test." "Huh?" "A lamb!" "It's a lamb!" "not again!" "Those nomads' sheep wander in here all the time." "Is it dead?" "I thought you finished the gyro balance matching!" "it was the base that was out of place." "huh?" "North and south of my hut the spring waters flow." "Good times will come." "Miss Shirasu?" "Let us drain the jug dry." Well?" "Care to join me?" "is that lamb?" "no one at the UN hotel in Subasci got any sleep. ...so I'd left the front lines of the scoop war and started doing some digging. ...an unofficial combat action was being waged at a temple some 400km to the west." "And the existence of a top-secret weapon that had been airlifted into the country." "And the disk that Shirasu had left with me." "Footage of the bipedal robot." "The Flag." "who seemed uncertain about something." "I started my investigation with intel related to bipedal robots." "But I didn't turn up anything but ridiculous fabricated stories." "I knew perfectly well that it wouldn't be easy to get info on a top secret weapon." "that temple out west... right?" "What?" "This is seriously dangerous." "I suggest you don't dig any further." "I don't want any part of this!" "Ru Pou's faction?" "Don't touch that!" "Stay away." "Back away from there." "Got it?" "Don't go any closer. everything we did today will go up in smoke." "sir." "I won't go any closer." "Don't touch it!" "I'm not gonna touch anything!" "Huh?" "You almost gave me a heart attack!" "What's up?" "you aren't going to paint a moth on this one?" "I only paint that on my own machine." "But isn't this yours?" "It hasn't accepted me yet." "I'm still a foreign object. ...was being held at Ru Pou's temple." "the Thanka that covered the giant temple slope is a giant mandala... the reincarnated Buddha." "it looked like a giant battle flag meant to intimidate the bugs at their feet." "one thing that was slightly unusual happened." "No go." "Looks like the daily briefing has been cancelled today." "right?" "There's something... but something is moving slowly but surely." "Maybe the bad feeling in my gut is because of that huge mandala." "We're installing the last of the files. ...and then finish up by verifying everything." "It sounds pretty complicated. ...so we can't let even the tiniest bug slip in before we're done." "what would happen if the computer stopped in the middle of the transfer?" "including the files we'd already installed." "too." "I'm going on patrol at 1500 hours." "Would you like to come?" "Sure!" "I'll come!" "I'm planning to fly over the area where the nomads have set up camp today." "huh?" "It's possible." "Three helicopters have breached our security line and are heading this way. ...so there is a chance that this is a sneak attack by armed insurgents." "I have them on Doppler radar." "120 knots." "100 feet above ground level." "Four anti-air vehicles have scrambled. ...while the other is a 5-rotor cargo helicopter." "25 minutes." "25 minutes. ...but leaving a gaping hole in our defenses like that?" "It's like something a rank amateur head coach would do." "okay?" "Will do." "Those are AAVs?" "That's right." "Command base to AG1." "over." "India has set down just outside echo line." "Think they're planning on deploying ground units?" "Unknown." "We'll reach the intruder's touchdown point soon." "so hold on tight." "Right." "SC1 to Command Base." "I have visual on India." "Now beginning approach." "SC1 to Command Base." "Have spotted vehicle being lowered from India." "Type is... object is not a vehicle!" "Object is a bipedal robot like the HAVWC!" "ma'am." "Send us a visual ASAP." "Roger." "Visual feed from SC1 received." "Unit appears to be an XR-2 Longku." "I just dispatched a HAVWC your way." "avoid engaging the XR-2 if possible." "Concentrate on halting the advance of the armed helicopters." "roger." "AG1 is hit." "It was an open secret that the Russians and Chinese had been jointly developing a robot weapon." "But the UNF was caught completely off guard by the deployment of a weapon that had yet to be officially adopted into service." "1500 and closing." "fall back to secondary security line." "Hercus 1 's ETA at delta line is 50 seconds." "wait for instructions and switch to anti-air support activity." "Hercus 2 isn't coming?" "It won't be configured in time." "Longku has entered engagement area." "Longku is attempting to sneak in from 3 o'clock." "AG2 is hit!" "move to its left flank and attack its path of travel." "provide rear defense." "Hercus 1 to SC and AG units." "I'll keep it busy." "Disengage immediately." "I'll aim for its legs with my grenades." "Provide targeting assistance." "Roger." "Linking targeting systems." "Longku is attacking." "Targeting drift corrected." "You can attack without compensating." "Roger." "L-T!" "I'm all right." "I'll draw the Longku's fire." "Lieutenant." "come back here!" "Lieutenant!" "Lieutenant!" "Lt. Ichiyanagi?" "I'll take it from here." "I'll cover you." "Target its manipulators." "Roger." "there's a civilian behind the Longku!" "India is attempting to retrieve Longku." "India is departing engagement area." "Guess we'll have to start again from square one." "huh?" "Nope." "Huh?" "But he..." "He piloted the HAVWC as-is without any customization or calibration." "it's like your camera! ...without using any auto controls or custom presets." "so that's what it's like..." "The only guy who could pull that off in the middle of extreme battlefield conditions is the Lieutenant." "Looks like he's out of the woods." "I hear that Ichi hesitated for a split second when he saw this man." "the one thing we're sure of is that it wasn't Ichi's attack that hurt him." "What do you think it means that they sent a Longku to attack us today?" "That their main objectives were reconnaissance... not to attack us." "What in the world were they doing with a Chinese robot?" "they demonstrated that they have ties of some sort to the P5." "politically." "He painted it!" "just one is enough." "0)}I want to see a beautiful light. 0)}..." "I don't need anything else." "0)}"Please don't let me be swallowed up by sadness." "0)}"Please let me have some purpose in my stride. 0)}...wish for a light to erase the shadows that have come upon us." "I'm pierced by the pain... 0)}...of losing a little bit of myself. 0)}...and I'm able to wait for the stars once again." "238)\cHFEFEFE\3cH080E03}Presented by Gray_Phantom{\fs24\fnBellGothic BT\b1} #Gray_Phantom @ rizon 238)\cHFEFEFE}Presented by Gray_Phantom{\fs24\b1\fnBellGothic BT} #Gray_Phantom @ rizon" "81)\fnBellGothic Blk BT\b0\3cH142308}Next Time 0 0 9 Yurts and the Land\h 81)\fnBellGothic Blk BT\b0}Next Time 0 0 9 Yurts and the Land\h" "The SDC returns the injured man to the steppes." "she encounters the nomads' smiling faces... thrust upon her."