[Passing by Izuru after returning from some of the funeral duties for the fallen pilots Yuuya pauses and turns to the younger pilot with a semi-complicated look on his face.]
Hey Izuru, come on sit down over here. [he guides the pilot to a seat in a semi-out of the way side corridor.] You have to realize that sometimes these things happen, it's never pleasant but it's a reality of what we do. Any one of the things out there could kill us just as dead as the Kaiju or we may be called upon to sacrifice ourselves like Kanade, TSFs carry extremely powerful self-destruct charges for dedicated anti-BETA operations, mostly Hive assaults but they are standard equipment.
Yancy died trying to save more lives, which he succeeded in and Kanade saved pretty much everyone who was present in that mission with her sacrifice. Nobody is happy that these things happened and sadly there isn't anything we can do to fix it but as long as you remember them then that's the important part.
Eishi get their name from a Japanese word that roughly translates as "guardian". It's not uncommon for a unit that has been too depleted to give up any chance of escape to buy other units to retreat or to complete a critical mission objective. I at one point said that the pilots involved with the UG group qualified for that name after their first encounter with the BETA but it would seem that it was a more appropriate name then I originally expected.
They died knowing the risks and what could or, in Kanade's case, would happen to them. You can be sad and there's no shame in crying over lost friends but remember that they stood proud even through to the end and that their sacrifices gave others the chance to live.
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Hey Izuru, come on sit down over here. [he guides the pilot to a seat in a semi-out of the way side corridor.] You have to realize that sometimes these things happen, it's never pleasant but it's a reality of what we do. Any one of the things out there could kill us just as dead as the Kaiju or we may be called upon to sacrifice ourselves like Kanade, TSFs carry extremely powerful self-destruct charges for dedicated anti-BETA operations, mostly Hive assaults but they are standard equipment.
Yancy died trying to save more lives, which he succeeded in and Kanade saved pretty much everyone who was present in that mission with her sacrifice. Nobody is happy that these things happened and sadly there isn't anything we can do to fix it but as long as you remember them then that's the important part.
Eishi get their name from a Japanese word that roughly translates as "guardian". It's not uncommon for a unit that has been too depleted to give up any chance of escape to buy other units to retreat or to complete a critical mission objective. I at one point said that the pilots involved with the UG group qualified for that name after their first encounter with the BETA but it would seem that it was a more appropriate name then I originally expected.
They died knowing the risks and what could or, in Kanade's case, would happen to them. You can be sad and there's no shame in crying over lost friends but remember that they stood proud even through to the end and that their sacrifices gave others the chance to live.