c2 part2 (1/2)
[translation] Frozen Teardrop, Chapter 2 part 2
Van Khushrenada effected similar reforms in the Alliance Headquarters as he had in the Foundation He re steeped in senility For the surpeme coeneral; and for the OZ Specials, in battle he awarded thee of independent action at any time [and for any reason] Kyrie who held the post of coht that Treize Khushrenada fulfilled that capacity
If you think of this as ”pure potential” instead of ”harvesting fruit to green to be picked” then this was the only time where Van Khushrenada could have made all those decisive reforms Van distributed the wealth of the foundation very nearly equally and this made for more powerful cooperation within Romefeller However, Treize's enrolliven to OZ from the Foundation They [OZ] were undoubtedly the ones who could use the mobile suits with profitable results and no one could complain about the economic benefits [made possible by the use of mobile suits]
During those six months, Van's reforms stayed on track for the e and] said [Van was taking] it too fast By this time, however, the Khushrenada family had vast poithin the Ro system whereby objectioners iardless of [social] standing, if it was soainst Romefeller, they ultimately either received a sinecure or were driven out of the Foundation
Why did Van continue this out and out refor
Similarly, Treize completed his own syste the fighting, the Alliance's overwhelestion of tactical level mobile suit use permeated [OZ and/or the Alliance] and nearly all disputed and internal conflicts were concluded with much the same results as his first battle [that is to say 'decisive' and 'total'] However, the Rebellion was also establishi+ng aother ht] with the diverse tactics Treize would, in those situations, devise a new strategy and give new instructions without regard for the Alliance staff officers From the [new] data collected he would knit his [new/revised] plan (lit: tactics) Naturally, as the instructor at Lake Victoria, he taught his cadets these new tactics and effective strategies Furthermore, that practical application was put into actual practice in mock battle and Treize drilled the cadets to think on their own [about strategy, presu, they accumulated valuable experience equal to that of real battle It was certain he was raising excellent soldiers
Take action as you deem appropriate
For future soldiers
This was the slogan Treize delivered without exception In the future, Zechs Merquise and future Lake Victoria instructor Lucretia Noin learned the drills at this time Those words were comprised the most helpful phrases [they learned]
That point would becoe difference between the Alliance mobile suit corps and the OZ Specials
AC 186 SUMMER
Essentially, tactics and strategy are not [set in stone (lit: coather, arnered from the history of war, military theory, battlefield analysis and the like and see if all that could be put into actual practice That hat Treize advocated in class As such, even withmainstream, the principle [theory and rules] of past battle actions [ new tactical plans, he added
A good example of this was the Ocean of Storht between mobile suits
The laborers at the Marius Plant had been the ones to start the war Despite Van's refor for extended periods of tireat (lit: the epito on the ravity can be pleasant for the first several days However, after about a month, the stress builds up and sleep and rest lose all er lived with those same conditions, they did not sy conditions and did not [even] discuss it with the laborers Antagonisement and laborers became violent and eventually, an accident at the fusion reactor lead to a strike and that becaeeap between the] ement requested Alliance forces stationed at the Silent Sea on the moon to take control of the situation The Alliance, for the purpose of currying favor with the Romefeller Foundation, was quick to send three Chimera ((Leo II)) and they suppressed the laborers deed the laborers who then took ten of the new model Chimera ((Leo III)) and attacked the Alliance's Chimeras, which were summarily defeated
There were leaps and bounds of technical innovation The newly manufactured Chimera that the laborers piloted were more excellent than those the Alliance soldiers had Of course, that the laborers piloted a greater number of machines than the soldiers was also a predominant cause their success There was also a repertoire the laborers had with their tools [the mobile suits] borne of a daily use that even the professional soldiers couldn't match As a result, the laborers caean to arrive at the Marius Plant Especially from colonies L-1 and L-2, which were closest to the hjacked shuttles and assembled [on the moon] by the dozens They didn't need weapons; even if they arrived eet brand new Chimera at the plant The plant could roll out ten mobile suits a week so it took two h suits to equal the forces of the Alliance The problem wasn't the machines but the pilots; however, there were already some fifty terrorists and anti-Alliance soldiers and it wasn't more than a few days before there were some one hundred pilots for one hundred Chimera and the corps was completed
The lunar space forces at the Silent Sea base were indignant about the rebellion
”This is no laughing matter,” said the commander, General Million Liddell-Hart He was the supreme commander of the lunar space forces ”The moon will fall into the rebel's hands”
He iadier General Kyrie at the Alliance Unification Headquarters for permission to mount a full attack with the Alliance space forces The extent of the firepower at the lunar base consisted of the following: 40 space-worthy Chios (Tragos II); a Sagittarius, a battleshi+p so huge it should have been called a mobile fortress; and its sister shop the Centaurus General Million believed that even if he faced an opposing force of 100 Chimera at Marius Plant, with those two beheain an easy victory Those battleshi+ps were not capable of flight Honestly, they were not (battleshi+ps), nor were they even (boats) They were iant tanks that ation of the lunar oceans (which were actually ”seas” of sand and rock that had accumulated in craters) that made General Million refer to them, almost entirely out of his own personal tastes, as ”battleshi+ps” Nonetheless, with its twenty-five triple barrel 260 un towers; two 1300 uns; and a total length exceeding three hundred lythe lines of fifty Chiittarius and Centaurus could both face one hundred mobile suits [easily]
”Just looking at the numbers, it's plain that in!” That is what General Million planned Liddell-Hart believed, he was the last of the great [dreadnought blockade advocates 1] of the late AC era [oh, so would seeinal run of GW Also: AC is definitely after the Common Era and ere almost 200 years into AC history at the start of GW At the start of Frozen Teardrop, we're in MC-022 Whichall these references to Napoleon and Hitler and scores of historical ures Not just to explainthere was solish military dude in the late 18th century na of the nauess it's ”accurate” but honestly, who the fuck knows? Ijust supposed to reinforce that history repeats itself?]
At the same tihters-- battleshi+ps equipped to both navigate space and attack [there]-- in an effort to help piracy fro Until that time, while there had been space convoys (troop shi+ps) a space battleshi+p had not existed That was due to the fact that both the Alliance and OZ decided it [ie the space battleshi+p] was no necessary It was only natural to think that and up until that point in history, there had never once been a [ement where space served as the battlefield Both space [worthy] battleshi+ps and fleets of space worthy craft were things relegated to [science] fiction-- a drea a plan to make that dream a reality To draw up the plans for the construction of space fighters, he asked Mike Howard, resident technician instructor [instructor of technology?] The name of the vessel had already been decided: Peacemillion Superficially, the na of peace for all mankind, but the na to sell hie battleshi+ps of this type were thereafter referred to as being in the ”Peaceinal] Peacemillion was completed, six years after [the Lunar Wars] Howard, as in charge of the [blueprints], was very particular bout the propulsion engine and delay after delay in the plans was caused by slow progress in achieving the kinds of power (lit: ability) necessary to carry the shi+p beyond the solar system General Million didn't live to see the completion of the shi+p which bore his nao on to be piloted [used] by Milliardo Peacecraft and Howard; and even later, as a supply and preparation aircraft carrier for the undam pilots
At the Alliance Unification Headquarters on Earth, they were desperate for finding soor Of course, the Marius Plant's being occupied by its laborers and rebels was so they wanted to take care of immediately However, the problem like in General Million's personally He was fauns [this is the same expression as appears before at note 1], [he would] probably use the giant beam canon on the lunar battleshi+ps, blow the whole plant to kingdoood old days], it was clear he was thinking of (opening) war on the moon
”That,” Van was the first to speak froic point of vieill not lead to victory,” he cooly judged ”Our prioal is to recapture the Marius Plant If the plant is destoryed, by enemy or ally, it will be a failure on our part”
”Mr Van, if we had Romefeller's power [influence/money], surely we could [simply] rebuild a plant or three,” said Lieutenant General Venti as sitting [across] (lit: confronting/holding his own) from Van as per usual
”The Foundation's budget cannot afford the luxury of being entrusted in the incompetent hand of military personnel”
”Then is there another effective means to work out this problem?”
”We shall have the Specials head directly to the site I wish General Liddell-Hart would refrain fro hostilities until they arrive”
”In that tier],” said General Noventa aptly after considering the situation The Chimera's would increase at a rate of 10 per week For Treize to leave Lake Victoria and arrive at the moon and prepare for battle, it would take at least seven days The enemy would be in possession of 110 brand ne model) Chimera They would be overwhenlmed by the [sheer] size [of the rebel force]/
”[If ait for the Speciats, t]he e could win [noill become impossible to win [then]
”” Van said nothing It was classified Romefeller information, but [actually,] there was an important resources deposit at the Marius Plant At one time, the place where the Marius Plant was located was called the Marius ill of the Ocean of Storh which a lava tunnel passed, called ”Marius Hills Hall” There, the neo-titaniuathered)] for use in nearly all h they had yet to successfully refine the coundaniuundanium alloy complete, mobile suits would become a more perfect weapon)) Van looked to General Kyrie, supreme commander
Please, protect the plant somehow Van implored with his eyes
General Kyrie slowly nodded
”Allow the Alliance forces at the lunar base to (sally) [attack] under the command of General Million Liddell-Hart”
”What?!” Van made as if to stand; he looked at Kyrie who spoke the folloords with control:
”However, using the Sagittarius and Centaurus are prohibited”
”General, Liddell-Hart will be lost without them!” the usually courteous Noventa even raised his voice at [Kyrie's pronouncement]
”Without the Sagittarius and Centaurus, they'll be fighting with nothing but mobile suits!”
”Just the numbers show that the enemy [will have or already has] superior numbers!”
”It's the sa them to their deaths!”
”Mr Van just said our goal is to recapture the Marius Plant, or have you forgotten?” General Kyrie said with a sharp glare ”If we periant battleshi+ps and beae”
”Then we prohibit the use of the beam canons only We are not the one ill die on the battlefield, the solders will,” said Noventa It was only natural to think of [sparing] his subordinates
That was one of his arnered respect from the officers under his command
”Hm,” for a moment General Kyrie's resolve wavered at the proposed compromise He also was a e] cool-headed ht be worth considering”
”Just a moment!” Van couldn't help but stand up ”You erous disposition!”
It was then that Alliance tactics aide Lieutenant Colonel Septuone into service on Earth and was [now] seated in the end seat as an Alliance Unity Headquarters assigned advisor Normally, this as not a position from which one could speak
”Mr Van, if you think tactically about this-- sending out the Centaurus and Sagittarius-- I predict the enemy will not easily leave the plant In other words, we'd co a war of attrition”
”A war of attrition?” Van, too, stumbled over the word If he stalled for time, Treize and the Specials may arrive on time ”Very well, but they cannot use the beaotiable,” Van compromised
As a result of the , a declaration of full as iven the order to attack wit the full force of the Alliance's space unit
However, that sort of coically and tactically unbelievable It was the sa: it's okay to take weapons with you, but don't use the positions, even General Million would not attack rashly-- but that likeas a war of attrition Furtheroal, action, and strategy of the mission, it was clearly labeled with the naic point of view, it was not strictly necessary to take out the ene tiotiations was supposedly a possibility Compromises and concessions were not just rhetoric held in a conference room, but for the soldiers in the battlefield, they were the utmost form of trouble [annoyance]
Kyrie and Van's decision then could be called their fatalreforue There was no one to blame for that [but themselves]
When General Million received the orders and read that last line, he was so enraged that he nearly smashed the monitor
Please ittarius and Centaurus must not be used
Million ground his teeth and his eyes were bloodshot
”Don't use the beam cannons?! What madness is that Earth bunch on about! Don't screiththe order
Made a decision on the battlefield, I'll fire theht to be obvious!
He thought [to himself]
An aide worried about General Million and attempted to soothe him
”But, General this is an order from Headquarters”
”All units, deploy for battle! Send the ittarius and Centaurus!” he ordered promptly At the same time at Lake Victoria, Treize Khushrenada was also requested to make a sortie Treize was perhaps the sole level-headed person on the Alliance's side Treize seemed to address the full moon which was visible from his ; ”For this sortie, we must be as prepared as possible”
I will die
Send out the corpses
Enemy and ally alike
”Fighting in space is so on Earth”
The newly deployed cutting-edge suits were (even more) improved space-worthy Leo 'Chimeras', aka 'Gryph (Leo IV)' ((Ger ht with him twenty five Gryphs and twnety four excellent cadets Naturally, a these twenty four cadets were the saadishu: Zechs, Lurectia, Izumi, Solak, and Elv For this ned three or four cadets to co let the cadets lead] Ultimately, whether or not they had battle experience would prove to be a ht of as the responsibility of those who fought for the future soldiers
At Marius Plant, a thin, ed woman by the name of Artemis Sedici held co uprising of AC 195, was a general serving as a front line commander Her naht to be a nickna in her 30's, she was a knockout and in a plant full of netic personality To her credit, she de to her clarity of mind She was certainly worthy of the name Artemis
”We have received data showing that the Alliance space forces are on the move We shall present a united front and show the of the revolution in space”
As a strategist and knowledgeable commander both, she possessed intuition and a calmness like that of the pale moon
”We have the power of 100 Chiht units of ten suits We'llsquadrons out of our best mobile suits, surround the Marius Plant in a double square formation and form the perfect defense”
This battle formation positioned units of ten ht point star Nested within the center of that star were four units of five le square and provide the pivotal defense This formation was called the [layered square formation (lit: multiplex square formation) and was theenemy fire from any direction Foot soldiers froht of a mobile suit as a foot soldier, this was the best formation even from a tactical point of view
In response to that, the Alliance forcesPattern” and at the tip of both the left and right wings were the highly roups of ten In the s] were units of twenty Chi force- and in the apex [of the V] were both the Sagittarius and the Centaurus withch were accoos, five to either side This could be considered classic, but this was the natural result when Treize's tactics were applied to a large corps For the reater importance on the individual ease of movement and mobility, it was an ideal formation On a tactical level, both formations were equal, but as far as war potential, the Alliance had a significantly better formation A basic breakdown of the firepower on the battlefield yields 100:170 100 rebel mobile suits to 170 Alliance mobile suits If it did become a war of attrition, there was no doubt that the Alliance would coittarius and Centaurus at the center, there was no way [for the rebels] to break through If Million maintained the formation and proceeded to slowly [and with caution], there was a possibility of victory without needing to use their iant beam cannons
However--
A small smile pulled at Artemis' lips
”So, you've arrived” she said, at the ti fully aware of the Alliance's order for Million to not use the beam cannons [That was information which] she had learned that from an infor because Treize told Mogadishu about his forthco attack while it seems that Kyrie and Van did not infor attack Was it because Kyrie and Van assumed all the civilians had left?]
”They really aren't going to shoot [the bea off to the side
”What would you do?”
”If it was an order, then I would not fire”