I think that's it. Rest time

You're sleeping in the mech.

Silence 2025/10/20(Mon)06:18 No. 1115318 ID: 6d1406
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>>1115200
With some difficulty navigating the new layout, you find some old barracks, the beds are unmade but you'll be fine. You've slept in worse places.

>>1115217
With your augmentations, that'd be a bad idea, the mech might pick up on stray thoughts while sleeping and twitch.

You rest for the night.

Silence 2025/10/20(Mon)06:22 No. 1115319 ID: 6d1406
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You awaken after some hours, the voice of your handler ringing in your head.

Good to see you're alright Fox. It seems its your turn for guard duty, negotiations are still ongoing so far so for now, we just pull our weight.

You will need to outfit your mech, reviewing all parts, what will you want to do for guard duty today?

The ITA has also approved some extra mechs and weapons into your arsenal. It'll cost us a little bit but they want you to be as outfitted as possible as well.

You recall the mech parts.
>>1072959

And they also just added tetrapod legs to the rotation, we're really ratcheting up for this, that Monarchy assault has rattled everyone.

What build will you make?

long range would be good, maybe missiles and rail gun.

Fluffy changes our entire playstyle. Krieg body to prevent insta-kills, Critical head and limbs for lowering weight everywhere else. Our mech's new objective will be to paint targets for Fluffy to eviscerate.

Weapons will be a Rail Rifle as primary, Submachine Gun as secondary, and two Kinetic Shields for maximized defense.

Ask for special railgun target marking ammo.

Krieg long range for sure.

>>1115319
tell us about the tetra leg models available real quick??

Silence 2025/10/22(Wed)06:47 No. 1115423 ID: 6d1406
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>>1115323
>>1115344
>>1115362

You select your loadout, but the Legs bring up an error, seems the Critical can't carry all this weight. It is a light recon mech after all, you'll have to swap it out with some other parts.

Silence 2025/10/22(Wed)06:49 No. 1115424 ID: 6d1406
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>>1115397
Tetra Model legs are quad-leg units usually used by industrial models, rarely seen in combat due to their slow speed.

However for a job like guard duty and carrying extra weight they'd be pretty much perfect if you wanted them.

oh yeah, quad it up

We have the booster for emergency movement so the slow legs are fine.

Silence 2025/10/24(Fri)06:50 No. 1115479 ID: 6d1406
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>>1115438
>>1115442
You load the Quad Legs and become a tetrapod mech. You are ready for your guard rotation.

You get to choose which other pilot you get to join for guard duty for now. Sadly there's only one name you'd recognize. Tien of the Junk Division. I'll still list the others and what their mechs are called.

We have
1. Gamma - Medium Mech Sharpshot
2. Ken - Heavy Mech Glacier
3. Klara - Light Mech Glaive

Not a lot, but it's up to you 637.

Klara, a melee unit would be helpful if any monarchists manage to get the jump on you

Join the light mech, you can act as heavy support and they'll compensate for your low mobility.

Silence 2025/11/03(Mon)07:35 No. 1116297 ID: 6d1406
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>>1115512
>>1115517
You choose Klara and get yourself marched out to her post to meet her.

Hey there! Welcome to the shitbox! Ready to stand out here and stare at the horizon for several hours?

Yes.
But don't forget to look up and down too once in a while: We don't know how stealthy the enemy can get.

Well, doing nothing is probably better than getting shot at. We should probably experiment with the alien mech a bit while nothing's happening. See if it has any kind of "mind" at all; like can we ask it to draw art on the ground? If that works at all, we can ask it to draw images of things it enjoys doing.

After everything it will be nice to do nothing for a while
which certainly won't jinx it

Silence 2025/11/05(Wed)07:31 No. 1116395 ID: 6d1406
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>>1116303
>>1116305
>>1116319
You inform Klara you're ready for your shift.

You get positioned out on the south side of the spaceport, staring out at the horizon.

So, you're with Wayne Kowalski right? Always wondered about them, can I ask some questions?

>>1116395
go ahead, but confidential stuff is confidential.

Sure, but there's not that much I know and probably even less I'm allowed to tell.

Don't see why not

Silence 2025/11/07(Fri)06:49 No. 1116530 ID: 6d1406
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>>1116396
>>1116401
>>1116421
You agree, but no confidential stuff.

Great to hear! So, I hear you courier guys are usually indentured because of heavy augmentation, is that true?

>>1116530

Is that not normal? How did Klara get planetside, if not a long term contract and loads of debt?

More just regular debt. I mean we still are down an eye

Silence 2025/11/10(Mon)06:18 No. 1116675 ID: 6d1406
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>>1116544
You ask how Klara got planetside if not for debt.

No I got debt and all, it's just that it's regular debts, I'm a career soldier and merc anyway. My current contract is with Watanabe Heavy Electronics, they provided a shuttle and me and the other mercs under their contract got shipped here. Damn you're really screwed up.

>>1116561
You point out you're still missing an eye.

I noticed! Freaky stuff! So you are heavily augmented, that stuff helps you control your mech right? Most pilots these days have a neuro-jack or two but damn you're like heavy outfitting. What does that stuff do?

She's asking the wrong girl. You just got the stuff you didn't build it. It helps you control the mech yes. It also causes amnesia, so you don't remember much else about it.

You don't know the details of your contract, to be honest, but you know if you work with your handler, you'll have your own life again in no time! You don't know how you know that, though.

Silence 2025/11/12(Wed)07:16 No. 1116835 ID: 6d1406
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>>1116757
You tell her you have some bad amnesia from your surgery and don't remember much about your old life. Just that working with your handler and doing the job here might get you your freedom.

Daaaaaaaaamn. Hannibal right? What's he like, I've only heard stories.

He's strictly business. No personal connections allowed.

But he's been reliable so far

>>1116835
There's rumors that Hannibal is a party animal when he's got some alcohol in him, but we've never seen it ourselves.

Also heard that he's married and has a kid, but we've also heard that he's never been married and doesn't have kids, so we can only speculate that Hannibal is purposely spreading misinformation to hide details of his personal life.

With how he keeps things professional, there's to suspect he lost a charge at least once and wants to avoid attachment since.

Been a very reliable handler, in any case.

Silence 2025/11/17(Mon)09:35 No. 1117103 ID: 6d1406
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>>1116836
>>1116840
>>1116903
You've heard a bunch of conflicting things but Hannibal is a reliable if impersonal handler. You're not certain what else to make of him.

Damn! Well, lucky you got a good handler then. Keeps you up to date on the details and all.

To make things fair, do you have any questions?

How's the campaign been for her?

And how are the corps faring in this? We barely know about our own and its immediate friends/rivals.

Silence 2025/11/19(Wed)06:16 No. 1117275 ID: 6d1406
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>>1117128
Rough. I've been fighting hordes of Box Walkers a lot, the Monarchy has the numbers advantage compared to the ITA and the mercs, those things may not be much of a threat 1 on 1 but they're hell when they get swarming.

>>1117212
Oh that's a deep dive question, the short of that one is they're making money. The slightly longer answer is they're wasting material. See the big ones here are Wilson Scrap, Wantanabe Heavy Electronics, Oroburus Heavy Industries, Cain Electronics, and of course... Kowalski Wayne Mercantile. I've done jobs for all of them so I'm a little locked into the nonsense they spew.

What do you want to know about first?

We've heard a tiny bit about Oroburus Heavy Industries and Cain Electronics, but nothing yet abot Wantanabe Heavy Electronics. So let's start with the latter.

>>1117283
sure.

oh yeah, gossip

Silence 2025/11/21(Fri)08:51 No. 1117390 ID: 6d1406
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>>1117283
>>1117285
>>1117325

Wantanabe Heavy Electronics pretty much has a hand in everything robotics in industry. Those legs your mech is outfitted with are a WE product, from prosthetics to heavy machinery. Where Cain Electronics supplies advanced computers and navigation systems, Wantanabe does all the actual physical stuff.

It's pretty neat. Though they mostly work in industrial stuff, haven't seen them really make weapons.

Ask if she's in her usual mech, and what kind of parts she usually uses

Silence 2025/11/24(Mon)07:54 No. 1117555 ID: 6d1406
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>>1117444
Oh this? Glaive? Yeah it's my mainline mech, it's maintained and upgraded here and there but it's pretty much the same thing. You know by Ship Of Theseus Standards and all. It's just a lightweight speedster with two shotguns, but for the missions I run, it's pretty much all I need.

You notice that your shift is surprisingly, nearly over.

Ah well, time flies when you're having fun. Any last questions before we trade out?

are there any rumors going around about that fancy alien mech?

Silence 2025/11/26(Wed)06:53 No. 1117735 ID: 6d1406
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>>1117605
You ask if she's heard anything about rumors about the alien mech.

Alien Mech?

Seems she doesn't know about it, maybe the amount of people who are in the know are limited. Maybe she's not even from the same Campus you were on, this is a planetary operation.

Tell her the basics: A merc team seized a monarchy train rumored to transport a new mech, and it turned out to be made of alien tech.

Silence 2025/12/01(Mon)07:07 No. 1118211 ID: 6d1406
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>>1117757
You inform her of the basics, keeping your involvement out of it.

Damn, actual alien tech. I know this planet is full of it, but damn the Monarchy actually made something like that? Man my employers would love to get their hands on that.

'pretty sure EVERY corp would. it'd probably start... what galactic war are we on again? 3 or 4?'

I'd say its definitely what we're here for, but we've got it and we're still here. Seems as though the corps think the monarchy has something even better

Silence 2025/12/03(Wed)07:55 No. 1118348 ID: 6d1406
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>>1118213
Yeah, there's always some form of conflict isn't there? Dropdrives kinda fucked that up and let everyone get everywhere huh?

>>1118264
I mean have you seen the giant door down there? There absolutely is something down there even better than a mech made out of alien technology.

What do you think are the odds whatever's in there will drive whoever looks at it mad? The old cosmic terror beyond comprehension