**11**
Traffic around Stellvia, what little there was still flying, was in a holding pattern. Everybody was watching the feed from The Gauntlet.
Including the entirety of the command staff, using the 50" screen in the boardroom.
(And including half the other people on the station, but only because there wasn't room for anyone else in front of the big monitor in the Hotel Stellvia's theatre.)
"Kagome. Tactical analysis."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Scott, but I have no idea what the 'Laevatein' unit can do. It exceeded the design specifications in the source material known to me when it went space-worthy."
"Thank you anyway. Kohran...?"
She didn't let Noah finish. "From what I've seen, I think A.C. can shrug off anything short of an area-effect attack with extremely high explosives. I don't know whether Tama could take her on without resorting to kaboomite."
"You and your toys," Jake muttered under his breath.
"Let's not run the experiment," Noah answered his chief engineer. "Yuu, any thoughts?"
"Can't talk - drawing."
"Right. Yayoi, what do you think?"
There was no answer. Noah turned to his vice-president and best friend, and immediately started worrying.
Before that moment, he had never seen Yayoi trembling in fear.
**11**
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Traffic around Stellvia, what little there was still flying, was in a holding pattern. Everybody was watching the feed from The Gauntlet.
Including the entirety of the command staff, using the 50" screen in the boardroom.
(And including half the other people on the station, but only because there wasn't room for anyone else in front of the big monitor in the Hotel Stellvia's theatre.)
"Kagome. Tactical analysis."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Scott, but I have no idea what the 'Laevatein' unit can do. It exceeded the design specifications in the source material known to me when it went space-worthy."
"Thank you anyway. Kohran...?"
She didn't let Noah finish. "From what I've seen, I think A.C. can shrug off anything short of an area-effect attack with extremely high explosives. I don't know whether Tama could take her on without resorting to kaboomite."
"You and your toys," Jake muttered under his breath.
"Let's not run the experiment," Noah answered his chief engineer. "Yuu, any thoughts?"
"Can't talk - drawing."
"Right. Yayoi, what do you think?"
There was no answer. Noah turned to his vice-president and best friend, and immediately started worrying.
Before that moment, he had never seen Yayoi trembling in fear.
**11**
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012