Now she lives up to her song's title

[prismphantom]

[1]

[Team Jelba... gone.  Just... gone.  Captain Symphonia.  Alfredo.  Vasquez.  Rubio.  More than her friends, her family.  The people she'd been intending to catch up with after months separated from them.  People she knew and trusted and fought hard to avenge.  Hard enough that the Gesterben is just barely more than a pile of scrap.]

Why, Captain...?

Why did you have us all march into that deathtrap?  You wouldn't have sold us out so... why...?

[2]



And you're SURE?



Absolutely!  'Operation Doll's' orders are dated after Ingram's defection and the files aren't fabricated!

[The other two surviving members of Team Jelba are handling this... a bit better.  Not much though.]



... Of all the rotten luck then... Those files are probably only going to raise more questions and never provide answers even if we get them cracked.  Ingram's going to pay for this.  Him and his 'friend'...

If you still have the schematics for the AS in you... it might be wise to make the most of them.  Selena's going to need something if she's going to keep fighting, and I'd rather she have the best we can give her.

Start salvaging everything you can from everyone's machines.  The ground team's mechs should still be fine, so that means that the Captain's Prism Phantom'll at least be an option for her.

Comments

[prismphantom]

Files on Operation Doll are stored inside of me. They were all encrypted, for that 'need to know' thing... even I can't be able to access them unless there was some sort of "trigger" to grant me clearance.

Seeing that woman who looked like Ingram did unlock some of the data though. Audio files between Symphonia and Ingram.

[tiger_ken]

Would you be able to play any of them back? I wanna hear exactly how these orders were given.

[prismphantom]

I'll try... bringing up the files now-

[Elma's eyes shift color, and suddenly the somewhat static-y message begins playing. Albhard's looking with rapt attention too, and sure enough Ingram and Symphonia are heard talking, discussing orders. If it weren't for the traitorous revelation about Ingram, there'd be nothing bizarre about this at all...

[Until suddenly long periods of static begin selectively edit out key words and phrases. "Go to the station and investigate for ----------". "The security of ------------ is something I need to ensure so --------------------". "This needs to be kept secret as possible, but ensure the Unity Group assists so that --------------------". The longer the file goes on, the more frequent and long-lasting the censored segments are, until finally...]



Doesn't paint a good picture.

[tiger_ken]

Hey, hey, hey, what's going on here Elma? Is this the encryption, or are the files damaged, or...?

[Ken puts a frustrated hand up to his face, sighing.]

It does rather sound like the Captain knew exactly who they were talking to.

[prismphantom]

Believe me, I tried accessing the rest of the audio! But it's tightly encrypted... and I have no idea what it would take in order to get full access to these files!



And it could turn ugly for us if word about this gets to the wrong people. If Captain Symphonia gets put under suspicion, then Selena and myself might as well. And unfortunately without knowing the context of why the Captain did this, anyone good enough at spin doctoring could paint it in a damaging light.

[tiger_ken]

'Earth's final line of defence actually allied to the enemy!'. Yeah, I can see that going down pretty bad.

But assuming your Captain was really on our side... What would say would be the reason for this?

[prismphantom]

Who knows? We hadn't seen him in so long... but I'd guess maybe he learned something important. Something dangerous that would make him think he was acting in the Earth's best interests...