3.
I'm keeping pretty good pace, slow but steady through the hills. So far, 50 klicks out and not a blip on my rader. I'm only going along at about 70kph, but that's due to the lack of heatsinks. All of a sudden, I see a pulse from a medium laser miss me by about 50 meters. I check my radar and nothing's lit up on it. I turn my mech at the hips, keeping an eye on the way my legs are going and increase magnification on my HUD to see what I can see. "2 clan Ravens," I mutter to myself. This is going to be fun.
I check my armament and take a quick inventory, making sure to switch my weapons grouping so I don't have to waste my MRM's to take out these little scags. My display is kind of glitchy, but this is what it shows me:
Active
1. ER-Lg. Laser
ER-Lg. Laser
2. MRM (125)
Non Active
1. Med. Pulse Laser
Great, this is just what I need. The attention of 2 fully armed (probably) Ravens with their radar's passive and myself with only 2 ERL's and a small amount of MRM's. Switching displays on my HUD and I realize that the techs at the MFB's fixed my targeting computer. That just helped out a lot. If I can manuever fast enough, I can always pull a trick which has helped out in the past. Aim for the hip actuator and pull an Alpha strike and fire everything at once, taking their leg out almost and slowing them down to a limp. The only down side to this is that there are 2 of them, and one of me. That one strike is going to just about overheat my mech. I do have a full tank of coolant though to help out, but the weapons need to recycle though and that takes time. I can fire at one, knock it down and flush my system while on the run, making a second pass to take the other one out. These clowns already proved that they can't aim too quickly, which gives me a small advantage.
Right about then, my system flickers like my main CPU is trying to short out. "C'mon baby, keep it together for just a little longer," I talk to my mech. I know what you are thinking, I must be nuts talking to my mech, but if you ask any seasoned mech driver, you'll see that its not uncommon. I swear these bastards have feelings or souls or some thing like that. My system rights itself, and I switch my weapons for an Alpha strike, and start stalking in full speed to one of the 2 Ravens. I train my scanners on the Hip Acutator of the mech on my left and keep him targeted. The clanner's try to both flank me, leaving a gap in between them, something I can use to my advantage. I bolt in between them, rotating my torso to the left and fire a quick Alpha strike directly to where I was targetting.
"Heat level critical, shutdown Emminant," my Computer tells me. Not what I wanted to hear, but its what I have been expecting. I hit the flashing button marked "Shutdown Override" and start flushing my system with coolant. "Shutdown Overridden." Music to my ears. I check my heat and notice it drops into the normal range, my weapons are almost done recycling. Looking back on my cam, I see the mech I dropped getting up, the hip shot rendering the mech's leg useless, slowing him down to a crawl. I circle around for the second strike and fire as soon as my weapons are able to. The mech falls over backward as my shot hits him head on. This is going to be a little easier.
I start to hightail it out of there, but I forgot to flush my system to get rid of the heat. "Shutting down" is the last thing I hear before my mech stops in its tracks and shuts down. Great, I'm neck deep in crap in unfriendly territory. I desparately try starting my mech back up, trying everything from soothing words to rapid fire cussing as I hit the power up switch repeatedly, giving the mech 5 seconds in between hits to give it a chance to start up. My mech comes alive once more. I flush my coolant level and bolt as fast as I can toward the location of where the dropship is suppose to be.
Thank God for small miracles.
I'm keeping pretty good pace, slow but steady through the hills. So far, 50 klicks out and not a blip on my rader. I'm only going along at about 70kph, but that's due to the lack of heatsinks. All of a sudden, I see a pulse from a medium laser miss me by about 50 meters. I check my radar and nothing's lit up on it. I turn my mech at the hips, keeping an eye on the way my legs are going and increase magnification on my HUD to see what I can see. "2 clan Ravens," I mutter to myself. This is going to be fun.
I check my armament and take a quick inventory, making sure to switch my weapons grouping so I don't have to waste my MRM's to take out these little scags. My display is kind of glitchy, but this is what it shows me:
Active
1. ER-Lg. Laser
ER-Lg. Laser
2. MRM (125)
Non Active
1. Med. Pulse Laser
Great, this is just what I need. The attention of 2 fully armed (probably) Ravens with their radar's passive and myself with only 2 ERL's and a small amount of MRM's. Switching displays on my HUD and I realize that the techs at the MFB's fixed my targeting computer. That just helped out a lot. If I can manuever fast enough, I can always pull a trick which has helped out in the past. Aim for the hip actuator and pull an Alpha strike and fire everything at once, taking their leg out almost and slowing them down to a limp. The only down side to this is that there are 2 of them, and one of me. That one strike is going to just about overheat my mech. I do have a full tank of coolant though to help out, but the weapons need to recycle though and that takes time. I can fire at one, knock it down and flush my system while on the run, making a second pass to take the other one out. These clowns already proved that they can't aim too quickly, which gives me a small advantage.
Right about then, my system flickers like my main CPU is trying to short out. "C'mon baby, keep it together for just a little longer," I talk to my mech. I know what you are thinking, I must be nuts talking to my mech, but if you ask any seasoned mech driver, you'll see that its not uncommon. I swear these bastards have feelings or souls or some thing like that. My system rights itself, and I switch my weapons for an Alpha strike, and start stalking in full speed to one of the 2 Ravens. I train my scanners on the Hip Acutator of the mech on my left and keep him targeted. The clanner's try to both flank me, leaving a gap in between them, something I can use to my advantage. I bolt in between them, rotating my torso to the left and fire a quick Alpha strike directly to where I was targetting.
"Heat level critical, shutdown Emminant," my Computer tells me. Not what I wanted to hear, but its what I have been expecting. I hit the flashing button marked "Shutdown Override" and start flushing my system with coolant. "Shutdown Overridden." Music to my ears. I check my heat and notice it drops into the normal range, my weapons are almost done recycling. Looking back on my cam, I see the mech I dropped getting up, the hip shot rendering the mech's leg useless, slowing him down to a crawl. I circle around for the second strike and fire as soon as my weapons are able to. The mech falls over backward as my shot hits him head on. This is going to be a little easier.
I start to hightail it out of there, but I forgot to flush my system to get rid of the heat. "Shutting down" is the last thing I hear before my mech stops in its tracks and shuts down. Great, I'm neck deep in crap in unfriendly territory. I desparately try starting my mech back up, trying everything from soothing words to rapid fire cussing as I hit the power up switch repeatedly, giving the mech 5 seconds in between hits to give it a chance to start up. My mech comes alive once more. I flush my coolant level and bolt as fast as I can toward the location of where the dropship is suppose to be.
Thank God for small miracles.