Gundam Fire Still

Lucian . Olufie recited the order aloud, and then one of the lieutenants in charge pressed the firing button.

The projectiles trailing the tail flame shot vertically into the sky above the blue canopy, the black vacuum of their opponents, and just on their way they passed by what was falling from the sky. The blazing air wrapped around them, the meteors falling from the sky were not all airborne silos containing ms, and just as the Zaft officers and men in charge of loading and delivering the ships were unaware that the codename of the position being fired at them was Longinus, so too were the officers and men of the Combined Forces unaware that a certain something in the process of landing was the secret weapon of the Zaft, and that its name was, Gungnir, that is. Odin's Sharpshooter.

Perhaps future generations of war history researchers will judge this as a religious metaphor or cultural conflict in this war, but for now, for the warring sides. It was all just a matter of pushing a button.

"Unidentified airborne object sighted, judged not to be a ms drop pod!" In one of the command rooms with a tactical link, the people in the technical team stared nervously at the image on the large screen that was zooming in and becoming clearer.

"Thank God it doesn't look like a nuke." Fred. Young seemed to send a sigh of relief.

"But they dropped something we weren't expecting after all," Director Bloom's voice trailed off, "I don't think anyone would think these are just decoys to distract our air defense firepower."

"Is it possible to get the air defenses to intercept these unidentified objects on a priority basis?"

"Shouldn't the priority be to intercept the MS drop pods to avoid attacking unidentified objects? If it's a WMD inside that was triggered by an attack."

"Then it would also cause damage to their own ms."

"The truth is that neither can be done," Fred . Young spoke up with some irritation, "I'm sure you know that the only guidance we can use when intercepting high altitude objects jutting into the atmosphere is a heat source, but whether the descending ms drop pods or other equipment, the pattern of their friction with the air to generate heat is the same, and the spectrum of infrared vision isn't much different. "

"Even some of the differences are beyond the resolution of the missile guidance heads, they'll just slam into a random heat source." Another technical officer added.

"Exactly, and we can all guess that whatever that is, it's a new Zaft weapon, at best it could just be a new airborne module, at worst it could be worse than a nuke, and to figure that out, our options are limited." The Director's eyes looked a little heavy, "Someone has to go and see for themselves."

A little farther down the front line

"Don't fire blindly, keep an eye on your residuals and your surroundings." Carl said over the squad channel as he set his aiming loop on a running Ginn in the distance. He watched the team shoot particle beams through the air while the Ginn had been running and not firing back in the slightest. He knew it was probably the result of the shock caused by seeing the Combine MS, and a terrified, downed target would be a good practice target for his crew compared to the Dinn, which was piloted by an enemy ace. But the opponent was an adjuster, and such shock wouldn't last long, and fortunately a particle beam ended the guy's evasive maneuver before he realized the counterattack.

"Did I hit it? Captain, I hit it!" Young voices erupted over the team channel.

"Nice shot, Ensign, and you all haven't forgotten the most important thing, you're keeping moving while you're shooting."

"It seemed to fly much better than the previous one?"

"That Dinn was piloted by an enemy ace, so naturally it's hard to deal with.", Carl re-emphasized the advance on the screen, "Don't stop still, change magazines and move on."

"If you see a target as difficult to hit as that Dinn alone, do not hesitate to call for immediate support; if you see friendly forces being attacked by a nimble target and are unable to do an effective counter-attack, keep your distance and engage in holding fire. Do not enter into active melee, your beam rifles have an advantage over their machine guns, but don't go fighting the ace of the adjusters for reflexes."

"If you see a Ginn equipped with a particle cannon, take evasive action and shoot on the move, but don't maintain a direction and speed of movement, those particle cannons can only fire single shots, but they are powerful, don't get in the path of the particle beam, ever."

"03 Captain, do you copy? This is Command." Communications limited by neutron jamming were restored once more as the communications relay drone flew in.

"03 Roger, go ahead."

"Order change, secure access between the following two coordinate points and maintain air surveillance to destroy all airborne enemy ms and secure the unidentified airborne object about to land at the calibrated location, order complete."

"03 Roger, appearance of unidentified airborne object?"

"The image is being transmitted and a team from the Technical Analysis Group and the Intelligence Integration Department is on its way along this road to investigate the object dropped by Zaft, please ensure the safety of this team and the object. Do not allow enemy ms to approach the object, the object is suspected to be a special weapon or ammunition that the enemy ms can use. Be careful not to fire at the object either, it may cause an explosion, in fact we don't know what will happen."

"03 Squadron received, begin movement in the intended direction."

"Very well, instruction over."

Carl scratched his head, it was obvious that this was a troublesome mission, but just as significant.

"Attention Vms03 Squadron, modify course of action, new route has been marked to map, search forward."

11.Revealed

"Look at what we've seen!" FRED. Young jumped out of the jeep that had come all the way down the road and made a hugging motion with open arms toward the large unidentified device. A ms was cautiously guarding the side of the huge unidentified cylinder.

"Please be cautious, because this is most likely a bomb, the kind that could blow us all up," said the bald soldier in charge of the car.

"So we're going to get blown up whether we're cautious or not, aren't we? If it blows up." Jan shrugged, "Captain Blake, is there anything you can tell us?"

"First of all it landed with a counter thrust, suggesting that a straight smash might have messed up this device, and secondly, hell, secondly this must be significant, all the Ginn airborne in the immediate area will be trying to close in on it, really, hell." There were certain murmurs of reply from Carl mixed in, as well as different alarms in the cockpit as a background to what sounded like combat.

"Survey team copy, I'll leave you alone for now, call over."

"Well gentlemen, one piece of information is that the surrounding airborne ms are closing in on this place, which means that this thing, whatever it is, needs those ms to operate on it, or be used by the ms, etc., which means that there is a high probability that it isn't a nuke, or some big bomb like that." , Jan laughed bitterly, "Looks like I was indeed wrong in guessing it was a nuclear bomb."

"No, there's also a low probability that they plan to use Ginn to start the timer, and then this big bomb will detonate after their army is quickly evacuated to a longer distance."

"But that makes no sense, we could evacuate too!"

"But not the base, and they're bound to impede our evacuation, I mean, if they have plans like that."

"Sir, communications from HQ!" The sergeant in charge of security interrupted the technical officers who were almost beginning to scatter their thoughts.

"Look, whatever speculations you have, I must tell you that we are running out of time and Zaft is closing in on every facility that has been airlifted." The Director's tone was grimmer than ever.

"We need a map of the known landing sites of the unidentified objects. We've got some guesses."

"It's being uploaded to you, and whatever you're doing, be quick if you don't want a repeat of the series of fiascoes at the beginning of the war."

"Hell, we're just a couple of tiny technical officers ...." --no reason for us to take the blame for that, Jan complained halfway through the sentence, then shut up.

"In that case, there's a quick test, find the most remote location of an unidentified device with the fewest of our people around, sabotage it, shell it, bomb it, whatever, and tell me what happened. That's the fastest way I can think of."

"You're gambling? It's dangerous, if something happens." Another technical officer raised an objection.

"It's only a gamble, there aren't any elite ms squads anywhere else to guard this thing, the tanks and infantry won't last long, we'd better blow it up first rather than wait for Zaft to initiate it."

Yang pointed in the distance, the sound of MS footsteps, firing sounds, a series of explosions and the slight shaking of the earth that followed in that direction was being heard from time to time.

"It can't be that fast, can it?" Someone thought it was the headquarters and started the shelling.

"Of course not, I think it was a nearby firefight."

Yang was saying that the short sword that was standing in an otherwise alert position suddenly moved and started running in the direction of the explosion coming from.

"Captain, what's going on?"

"One engagement, that's all, the two squads closest to you have purged Ginn." Jan could hear the fatigue, and sadness in Carl's tone on the comm channel, "Four down in total, but we've also lost one plane, hell. Is there anything you guys need help with?"

The short sword captain machine with the green number painted on its shoulder appeared slowly on the horizon, "I see the situation as well, time is running out, elsewhere, their strikers will soon be able to operate some of these devices." Carl was a little worried too.

"Alright, to give you the results of the test, the Army shelled an unidentified facility, nothing happened, repeat, the object after being hit by the shelling did not explode, there was no radiation, no other effects were detected at the moment." A message from HQ suddenly joined the talk channel, "Long-range rockets and artillery are already shelling areas where Zaft is about to, or has, made contact with the unidentified facility, that should buy you some time, but you still need to be quick."

Somewhere on the horizon was the faint sound of gunfire, while other technicians and engineers were physically analyzing the unidentified object with their equipment, cutting open the casing with a welding torch and beginning to study what they still couldn't understand inside.

"I know what you can do to help, Captain," Jan looked at the scarred ms that approached with blunt, heavy footsteps and suddenly thought of something, "cut that thing open with your lightsaber, would you? Cut through the shell and try not to damage the structure inside, I hope, I guess if it's you you should do it."

"I suppose I could try, but you'd have to keep the sappers away."

Karl switched the ms's arm operation mode to precision operation, then drew the beam saber at his waist, set the exertion to the 'minimum' that would almost never be used in combat, and sliced down at the egg-like object.

"Fred, there's a phenomenon I need to tell you about," looking at a melting mark that showed up on the object's shell, Jan's headset suddenly came back from the ms cockpit, "The beam saber's closing rate is a bit abnormal near this object, there's probably something in it Something that can interfere with an electromagnetic field, or a particle binding system."