Part 8.1: Girls in Refridgerators: Not just a problem in comics.Lets get back to our Puzzle Robo, and try Stealthboy's solution.
...Oh dear.
Okay, no big loss, lets try Sucrose' version.
Muuuch better.
Our pilots are levelling up now and some of them need their stat points allocated. It can be hard to know just where to put some since almost all the stats are useful. Increasing Hit might seem pointless now, but we haven't yet seen the bosses who need it, and pumping a Real Robots defense might seem a bad move when dodging is the smarter option, but you must recall that support pilots like to Support Defend.
When I don't feel like optimising, I like to decide by putting point into stats that are close to a multiple of 10, to even things out.
Ability is a hard stat to know whether to pump since its always kinda useful, but not directly so. On its own, all it does is increase your chance for a critical hit and decrease the chance to suffer one, useful but not overpowering. However, in the right mech with the right equipment, its very handy as it improves the chance of your special defenses activating. I put this module on Kira because I couldn't think of anyone else who could use it better, but I should have checked for whose mech has Shoot Down and Sword Cut.
Another useful part dropped into our laps, an Apogee Motor which combines a Servo Motor with a Booster. I put this one on Kira because he's front and centre this mission, but there are other options, such as treating it as a third booster and swapping them onto the Layzner Formation or the Three Angels. Something to consider for next map?
The Nadesico gets priority for accuracy-boosting parts because it has no Spirit commands to boost it other than Scan, while the Archangel at least has Murrues Focus.
I give the Bellzelute one bar of Mobility and two each of HP and Armor, but even this modest upgrade eats up a lot of our funds. Theres just enough left to increase the Strikes dodge and improve the Blue Earth a touch.
The thing about ZAFT is that they're not wrong, per se. It is the UEFAs fault the war started and they are the ones forcing Kira to fight etc. The thing is, they're being kinda....genocidal about it. "The UEFA are assholes" is not a good excuse to remove all nuclear power from earth and cause thousands to freeze to death over the winter due to power shortages. Nor is it an excuse to blow up Heliopolis. ZAFT have a point, but they refuse to be any better than their foe.
Dun dun dun.
1) Why are you holding a memorial service 7 months after a disaster as opposed to, say, one year or 6 months later?
2) Why are you holding a memorial service in the middle of the war, at a location that is not your extremely safe HQ that has an adjoining Remembrance Garden?
3) Why are you holding a memorial service in the middle of a non-descript pile of trash orbitting the earth, as opposed to one of the Lagrange point where I presume Junius 7 would have been? Is this specifically the pile of debris left by Junius 7, or where the Junius 7 remains drifted to? If so, its not brought up, in fact its implied this rubbish is mainly wrecked spaceships. What is the significance of this trashheap that you sent a major political figure there in the middle of a war when your forces are tracking dangerous enemy units through the same area?
Goddammit, SEED, I don't ask for much. A little thought about your bullshit coincidences isn't that hard to ask, is it?
...Classy, Rau.
Anyway, on to our heroes digging through the trashpile:
No. Fuck you, Hyoma, I'm not doing this. I marked Gaogaigar down for shoehorning enviromental issues in at the start and the end, you sure as hell don't get away with it.
And its in fucking space! Theres infinite fucking room to throw our trash around if we want to!! Sure, you have to make sure you fling it hard enough in the right direction, but other than that, theres no possible way you can compare a cloud of space wreckage with landfill!
And need I remind you that it doesn't make sense for this to be manmade?! This debris field only makes sense if its made solely of ruined colonies and space fleets, which you imply later on is the case...So why complain about sustainability? Its the mark of war, not mankinds inability to clean up after themselves! End the fucking war and set up the relief efforts, and if they don't get around to it in a few years, THEN complain! Jesus...
How long has it been, a few days? How are we using up supplies that quickly? The Nadesico presumably had enough to last it for the trip to Mars and the journery back, so it should still have 50% of its stores regardless. Are their delicious foodstuffs just not compatible with UEFA stomachs or something?
You're such a barrel of sunshine, Calvina.
"I just fly robots and kill people for the hell of it."
This almost-characterisation is interrupted by Kira doing what he does best: Adding more annoying characters to the mix.
David hungers for more fangirls.
[Cue canned laughter]
Wait, his names Murdoch? I didn't notice that before...Guess I can make A-Team jokes now!
And then, with a burst of rainbows and joyous song from the heavens:
Are you saying the pink robot beachball is wrong, Murrue? Are you really sure you want to disagree with it?
Oh, smurf me...
Yes, Natarle, thats what he said. I know its hard to listen to Akatsuki sometimes, but basic
english japanese shouldn't be that hard for you yet.
So? They obviously gave her more Princess genes, not that difficult in this world of made-up science.
Of course, there was only one pod on the entire ship. Because sense? In our SEED spaceships? Not bloody likely.
Bullshit! The UEFA would never have the resources to take one a ZAFT ship and win without apocalyptic casualties!
Good question. Whats your answer princes-
....Or the game can cut to random bullshit. 'Kay.
They bitch for a while about the Archangel not being a five-star hotel with a warship attached like the Nadesico is, then Kiras friends come along to chat, who can't beleive all the people their own age flying robots.
Wait wha-
At this point I'm surprised someone hasn't accidentally set the self-destruct trying to get the coffee machine to work in there.
Silly Lacus, thinking Flay cares what you have to say.