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Low-power mode gives you slow thoughts, no pilot leaves you unable to act, and new mental blocks have shut you out from accessing Predator without a pilot. Someone didn’t like your Extremely useful and entirely justified core linking with Gamma and Delta in the prior engagement.
At least time passes quicker when you can’t process data rapidly. The only sensors you’re permitted to access are the audio and seismic ones, which record the tremors of the mobile repair vehicle, repurposed as your frame’s mobile base and repair facility.
Sophie reactivating your frame to move you off the train and onto this vehicle was your last power-up, a few days ago. That was also when some of your internal permissions were modified, much to your own displeasure.
There’s not even a data uplink, or a physical connection port which would give you SOMETHING to work with, analyze, and use for….something. Preparing for this deployment, perhaps.
You’re sick of being blinded, deafened, and demanded to wait. Being powered up, even partially, does indicate that something’s happening soon, though.
One of the pilot hatches is pulled open, heralding the arrival of Sophie, who slides into the chair, strapping in and putting on the new neurohelmet.
“Up and at em, Beta. Time for deployment. Well, soon. Not quite yet. But get up so that we can be ready!”
She’s excited, even if the feel is duller than usual. The new helm must not be as sensitive. This displeases you.
With someone actually in the seat, now, you can finally begin revving up the reactor for proper movements and diagnostics.
Visual sensors flick on, giving you a view out the back of the vehicle, dust rising up to be caught in the rays of a bright orange orb.
Huh. The sun gives an orange fiery coloration to the clouds, as it hangs in the sky, close to the horizon. That’s one thing the simulator didn’t replicate.
You split a bit of your attention to begin recording, tracking the miniscule movement of the sun’s descent, while the rest of you continues checking over the rest of the frame.
