Joining the fleet (Pregame 2 EE Cafeteria)

[Mei-Ling Zhou]

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"Oh I grew up on a planet called Bithinia in the CC, it's basically a pleasure world for the rich and powerful. It's...interesting there, we weren't rich but my parents were a successful enough duo that we lived comfortably enough. I pretty much grew in a mech repair bay watching my parents and their friends tinker and fix things, argue about power output and loadout specifics. There was one guy, Uncle Ivan, all he ever wanted was to put mining-drill knuckle studs in the fists of his Black Knight. I want to go how and fight in same arena my folks did but I may go straight to Solaris instead. Depends on if I can get the mech I want or not. My mom piloted an Awesome and the new model that just came out is sooooo cool."

[John Slaktare]

He ate from his little food pouch, nodding along with Mei.

"The Awesome, that's such a good one. Never got to pilot one but I did fight one," that your favorite model? What do you like about it?"

[Mei-Ling Zhou]

"Well mostly to honor my mom, she was very proud of her Awesome but ended up selling it to help pay the bills after dad got hurt and it helped pay for my Talon. I love long ranged weapons and the new one. Whew, 3 ER-PPCs plus it has 2 Streak SRM-2, a medium pulse laser and a small laser. The thing is a beast and with double heat-sinks it can actually use that much firepower. I figure it should crush shit in an arena ." She said glowing at the thought.

[John Slaktare]

"It'd do good. But it all depends who's in the cockpit. Prolly be a waste for me to pilot it compared to lots of other folk."

[GM Yuusha]

In time the large fleet of dropships would come further into view. There were dozens of them. Some of them were larger vessels, similar to the Angel's Descent. One was notably larger still. The majority were Union class dropships, each carrying a company of mechs. If you tried to count them all and did some quick napkin math, you'd realise the invasion force the AFFC had put together numbered well over six hundred units. Likely all mechs.

That was before any aerospace fighters or artillery or other assets.



The dropships grew in size until they were seemingly surrounding the Angels' tiny fleet of four dropships. It was daunting until you remembered they were the allied force. Every now and then a faster moving and smaller vessel shot by the window or between the allied dropships. Aerospace fighters. There was, in particular, a small cloud of them around the largest dropship. That was probably their headquarters then.

[Mei-Ling Zhou]

"It'd do good. But it all depends who's in the cockpit. Prolly be a waste for me to pilot it compared to lots of other folk."

It's got battle fists so maybe not. If your good with heat management you could fire all three ER-PPCs at the start then move in and just use everything else point blank while you wail on the enemy.

[John Slaktare]

"Yeah. But every mech does different with different pilots. Has some decent firepower. But put me in a light, honestly. I want to lighten up my Hatchetman, boost its speed."

[Yoko Lee]

Yoko looked over all the ships; She knew relatively nothing about spacecraft, but it was a terrific sight certainly. It was like nothing else she'd ever experienced before, the might of a military and official force, and it wasn't after HER even.

[Mei-Ling Zhou]

"Yeah. But every mech does different with different pilots. Has some decent firepower. But put me in a light, honestly. I want to lighten up my Hatchetman, boost its speed."

"You want make it lighter? But that would just take force out of the attacks. I figured a guy like you would be wanting to move into an Axman eventually."

[John Slaktare]

"Sure. But the Hatchetman is slow for it's class. Being able to move better would help," he says with a shrug. "But whatever i can do to improve it I will."

[Mei-Ling Zhou]

"Sure. But the Hatchetman is slow for it's class. Being able to move better would help," he says with a shrug. "But whatever i can do to improve it I will."

"Shit if I was you I would drop the AC/10 and both medium lasers for an LB 10-X, a medium pulse and a flamer. Tonnage is the same." She looked up thinking for a second. "Yea tonnage is the same."

[John Slaktare]

"The number of weapons is already small enough, I would prefer to go with stuff that don't use ammo. Just get rid of the danger of it blowing. Maybe get a second hatchet," he says.

[Alex Kovac]

Yoko looked over all the ships; She knew relatively nothing about spacecraft, but it was a terrific sight certainly. It was like nothing else she'd ever experienced before, the might of a military and official force, and it wasn't after HER even.

Alex noted Yoko and moved closer. " Have you ever seen this kind of fleet?" The warrior kept the cool but inside worry reigned. The mind of a calculating person watching such number of ship was worrisome.

[GM Yuusha]

A coal coloured Union dropship was now just visible below them. It was the other big spheroid dropship that Angels had. Those looking at it would see four small dark aerospace fighters swing around it before zooming past the Angel's Descent. A particularly sharp eyed viewer might have even glimpsed the Obsidian Angels' logo on the side of one of them.

It seemed the flyboys and girls were enjoying themselves.

[Mei-Ling Zhou]

"The number of weapons is already small enough, I would prefer to go with stuff that don't use ammo. Just get rid of the danger of it blowing. Maybe get a second hatchet," he says.

"That would be fun to watch but I would hate to see it charging at me. If that's what you want to do though then you're right you do need to get faster. Hmm. I mean if you REALLY wanted to get lighter you could drop the AC/10 entirely, that would give the space for a bigger powerplant but man is that putting all your eggs in one basket. You would really be relying on you lance to protect you till you got into the shit."

[John Slaktare]

"I don't know. I just pilot them, I don't build them. Make the best of what I have," he says. "And beat the insides out of anyone that gets in my way."

[Mei-Ling Zhou]

"I don't know. I just pilot them, I don't build them. Make the best of what I have," he says. "And beat the insides out of anyone that gets in my way."

"Not a gearhead huh? So what DO you get up to in your free time? You strike me as the tea and poetry type." She said with a playful smile.

[John Slaktare]

"Spend most of my time volunteering to do more work or taking care of fitness. Like a good spar, run or pump," he explained. "You?"

[Mei-Ling Zhou]

"Spend most of my time volunteering to do more work or taking care of fitness. Like a good spar, run or pump," he explained. "You?"

He spends his free time doing more work? ZzzZZz


"Well I knit and sew, I play drums but I don't have room to keep a kit on the ship, I like to cook and of course lots of time in the simulator. If we're docked and have leave you can probably find me shopping for clothes or at a club wearing those clothes. You wanna hit a club together some time?"

[John Slaktare]

"I tend to pick clubs based on music, since I don't drink. Somewhere I can mosh, headbang or fight a bit and I'm in," he says with an affirmative nod. "But if you need me along to just watch your back I'm up for that too. Don't really matter where for that."