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Backing into the storm, you cease charging Sunburst, letting the system cool and hopefully vanishing off thermals.
“Switching over to E-war.”
An audible command informs Sophie of your intentions. It’s not like she can see the tactical view right now, anyways.
Predator switches off of jamming modes, and over to the more proactive Attack mode, finding and interpreting the signals bouncing off of your attackers.
A good electronic warfare specialist always leaves a backdoor, and you would be a failure of a design if you did not excel in the role.
Icicle company, 101st mechanized, BLKT-09 Heavy Walker. Slightly customized for close-in fighting.
It is strange. The networked targeting system installed on it is tailor-made for you to simply slip in and make a few…adjustments. A glaring hole in security, by design?
The secondary lasers lash out at nothing, a quartet of emerald beams. And fire. And fire. And fire.
It is most entertaining to see the whole machine glow, and more and more power is drawn, expelling in light and heat at nothing.
Under normal operating conditions, Martell 16 Anti-Armor Lasers are reliable, long lasting, and require minimal maintenance, functioning for up to 12 years without replacement. (According to the Martell Arms and Manufacturing catalog, a footnote in the Warbook)
Perhaps it is a testament to their quality manufacturing that the only thing that ceases their functioning is the focusing lenses melting, after 63 seconds of repeated fire at maximum intensity.
The pilot mashed the ejection button, tearing apart the head-style cockpit and launching themselves into irrelevancy.
They never even came close to hitting you.
Now, Headhunter and the two remaining patrol members. Move!
The networked targeting truly is a crippling weakness. Piggybacking on their signals, you ride straight into accessing their camera feeds while they target your ally with missile and autocannon. That will not do.
Setting the actual aiming point of the unfortunate pilots to be 5 degrees off from where their blinking green and gold crosshairs are is definitely not what the system is designed to do, but it does buy you time while the barrages slamming into the grounded Tamar mech cease impacting and instead begin consistently flying past.
There must be something more you can do, though. A flash of brilliance strikes you. The systems in all mechs will automatically force an ejection if it detects an ammo explosion, no matter the size for fear of a chain-reaction. Both of these SHD Shadowhawks have smaller 2 tube missile launcher systems. You wait for a few more ineffective salvos, then move the arming distance of said launchers to literally inside the barrel. Normally impossible, but with the skeleton key of complete access…..
Another 43 seconds later, first one, then two more ejection seats fire into the sky. You think that the results of your sabotage are most satisfactory.
“Done, pilot. Contacts eliminated.”