He urged his machine forwards, trying to draw another line on it while the reload cycle for his gun started, only to round the corner and see it dashing away over another crushed tank, boosters ignited, then breaking contact down another street. He can see its angular head slightly above the houses around it, but not enough for another shot. And then nothing more, as it blurs out of sight.
Looking left, he sees the blown apart wreckage of the array.
His heart is racing, adrenaline pumping. Deep breaths. Deep breaths. In, out, in, out.
Hands shaking, clicking the comms still gives him white noise.
Fuck. Just….Fuck.
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“I’m surprised you didn’t go for it.”
“The mission to destroy the arrays, pilot. We have one more to go, and still need to pick up Dagger squad. Delays would be unacceptable. And the ‘tally’ still gets two tanks.”
“Fine, fine.”
You’re still tracking the trio of thruster signatures above. One dives down, breaking off to land elsewhere in the city. The other two continue following your trail from above.
Last target is designated Delta array. No relation.
>I need 5 rolls of 1d6, for Defense.Defense base of 3, x1 for low-sync, +1 for Yi, +1 for Burning Eagle.
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>>5831879Keep in mind that while Jamming is up, E-War isn't an option.
Yea, the assault's coming tomorrow. That's what Thea was told. And Command did cut back on the number of deployments since Sophie got burned, especially deployments to territory not within quick recovery range. Most of the prior missions were either behind the Empire's own frontline. Not all, but most.
