"Alpha 6-1, this is New Tokyo Listening Post 1-1-0. Please set frequencies to KPF-U2-8944 and await further orders"
"Delta 88-4, stay calm. We've received your distress signal. Rescue units are on their way, correct your flight patterns into a holding trajectory."
"Gamma 6.... " the operator clicked his receiver off suddenly as he scanned his screens, his hands held close to his headphones.
Changing frequencies, he urgently dialed through a secure line to his superiors on New Tokyo. "Sir, this is NTLP 1-1-0, we've picked up a dodger. You might want to hear this. Rerouting now."
There was a pause.
"Sir, we're streaming you the intercepted broadcast. We are tracing the feed source."
Quote:Sender: Unknown
Receiver: All transponders on frequency YAK-SK-8317W1F
To whom this may concern,
the traitor to the Blood Dragons that leaked invaluable information about both my personal whereabouts in hiding and of our order as a whole to the vile Kusari has been eliminated. May that filth, Yuji Matsumoto, be cursed for eternity and his family bathed in dishonour.
He was a fool to imagine we would not find him. If the Kusari did not kill him, he should have known that we would. Let that be a message those who dare betray us.
The feed momentarily muted, as the operator chimed in, "Sirs, we have traced the feed to an area of space in Sigma 13, approximately 23 clicks off of Yanagi Depot. Streaming video feed now."
The broadcast continued, this time with the image of a frightening, armoured man followed by footage of a large force of assembled soldiers.
A squad of Admiral Yamato's Falcon Battalion Centurions, which constitute the bulk of the force, filmed during a training exercise on an unspecified planet.
Quote:Regardless, this broadcast is to inform you all that I am assembling a small army/fleet to assist in the return of the Yakuza. Those of my personal guard that have remained loyal to me have rallied to form my new shock troops. Behold the 800 centurions and legionaries of the Falcon Battalion! They will bring terror to the heart of Kusari.
But more importantly, I have reason to believe that despite Nakazawa's listing as wanted, he is in fact under the custody of the Kusari. We will rescue him. That is a promise.
But, surely the Kusari intelligence officers have intercepted this broadcast. To the Kusari scumbags, I advise you to run and hide. Your true colors will show when we are at your doorstep and you have nothing but cowardice.
A squad of Falcon Battalion Legionaries, the elite, veteran shock troops of the force, in a boarding pod during a training exercise.
"Sir, we've already dispatched a chimaera attack squadron to the source position. Should I wipe all logs of this transmission and delete all files? Our media suppression team is on the ready."
*****
Back on New Tokyo, several government officers discussed the situation.
"Do you really think he even knows where Nakazawa is?"
"X776 is resourceful. I would not underestimate him."
"I, Tokei-tai General, would not overestimate him either. A paltry 800 men cannot hope to overtake our defenses."
"Just to be safe, Tokei-tai Admiral, we should continue to transfer Nakazawa throughout our secret detention centers regularly."
"And we should also increase the number of soldiers stationed at this posts."
"Nonsense, colonel. You ought to stick with you ground troop strategies, colonel, as I can assure you with our patrol fleets already deployed, he cannot possibly make an invasion. It would be suicide."
"Pfft, like the Navy knows anything about defense. Are you forgetting that incident in Tau 29? Where was our rearguard?"
"That, General, was a completely different situation. X776 cannot possibly succeed in rescuing Nakazawa."
"Are you willing to bet your life on that assertion, Admiral?"
"SILENCE!" commanded a dark, suited man who had prior to that moment been reclining slightly in his chair. "X776 is an... intriguing subject. I want numbers of both ships and men increased. We need X776 alive, but I think I may have just the weapon to subdue him."
The squabbling officers, though still irritated, grumbled in acknowledgement and dispersed to fulfill their respective duties.
Returning with a Vengeance June 2007 Sirius Universal Time.
We are coming.
Characters:
BDBC-Yamato - Talarca Light Battlecruiser
BDBS-Musashi - Kusari Heavy Battleship (to be stolen)
BDF-Shinano - Blood Dragon Fighter *
FL-Monarch (to be commissioned) **
</span> The 大和, Battlecruiser Yamato, is Admiral Yamato's personal yacht and primary combat ship.
<span style='font-size:10pt;line-height:100%'> The 武蔵, Battleship Musashi, is Admiral Yamato's command center and mobile base of operations for his personal fleet. * The 信濃, Fighter Shinano, is Admiral Yamato's personal fighter and reconnaisance ship, used for backup purposes. ** The Monarch is a freelance freighter captained by Bretonian Navy veteran, William Earnshaw Jr.
Actually, Firefly re-used the Starship Troopers outfits for the Alliance Soldiers.
So yes, it's from Firefly. (I highly recomend getting the 4 DVD box set, it was a very good show that FOX canceled, so you won't see it anywhere else)
This is the real true story of rock and roll; it was not about anything more then, how to live your life, as a gangster, in sartorial splendor, and turning the world into a place where normality would never return again...- Malcolm McLaren
Wolf, Kane and Qunitinius are right. It's from the episode, the Train Job. But you're right too since Firefly directors just used the old ST costumes.
Returning with a Vengeance June 2007 Sirius Universal Time.
We are coming.
Characters:
BDBC-Yamato - Talarca Light Battlecruiser
BDBS-Musashi - Kusari Heavy Battleship (to be stolen)
BDF-Shinano - Blood Dragon Fighter *
FL-Monarch (to be commissioned) **
</span> The 大和, Battlecruiser Yamato, is Admiral Yamato's personal yacht and primary combat ship.
<span style='font-size:10pt;line-height:100%'> The 武蔵, Battleship Musashi, is Admiral Yamato's command center and mobile base of operations for his personal fleet. * The 信濃, Fighter Shinano, is Admiral Yamato's personal fighter and reconnaisance ship, used for backup purposes. ** The Monarch is a freelance freighter captained by Bretonian Navy veteran, William Earnshaw Jr.
Coronel Thomas: And the elusive "Yamato" speeks agen but not to me. I wish he wold alow me to track him down but that wold be stuped on his part.
1st Officer: Sir, do you whant me to send out a public transmition this time requesting privite COMMs with him or do you whant to continue on the hunt and hope we fined him befor the invation must begen?
Coronel Thomas: Lets wait a little longer. Our scouts have yet to locate the General so we still have some time. But lets put out a public transmition stating our gaols to realy skare the Kusari Navy, they whont know what to do with 2 invadeing forces amassing at their door.
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COMMs ID:Coronel Benjamin Thomas
Transmition on All Open Chanels
This is Coronel Thomas of the Lane Hacker Battleship, AARON. I am here by anoucing that "Yamato" is not the only man you have to fear. I have amased an army of 3,000 men and around 200 ships for an invation into your homeland! I have one gaol and if you dont stand in my way then i will spare you but if you do difie me i will be forced to sloter you!
My ship has been outfited with some of the best wepons in the galaxy and so have the rest of my fleet. My men are some of the best fighters in the galaxy. We will not hesitate to kill any one in our way. But we do wish to limit the blood shed to as few as posible. So this is your one and only warning! Keep out of our way!
End Transmition...
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Sir we are resieving vidio feed from the same sorce as the transmition...
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[attachmentid=793] Photos taken during live fire exercise on unknown planet
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.S.: nice story, and lay out