Grunting as she slowly woke up. Vita opened her eyes only to sigh as she noticed the headset on her desk. "Enterprise is sleeping..." A moment later, she stood up from her seat and stepped out. taking in the room that was the subconscious manifestation of her Master's mind;A mixture of Cantonese. British and German (Belkan lately due to Vita's influence). She started grumbling as she put her red hat on. the movement being well-practiced from living for centuries. "At least I do have some control over how she and Reinforce chooses it to look..."
Not too long afterwards, she walked down the narrow. steel hallways. The only sounds being the Wolkenritter's bot as she passed various hologram displays and notification boards showing her battles together with Enterprise's and Reinforce's (as much as a Wolkenritter forced into the role of an fully sapient artificial consciousness AI can be). Pictures of her master's friends, historic moments like the targeted surveillance of the Commander after developing support skills (And Helena wasn't even aware they were there at all!) and finally life-sized statues of Reinforce. Graf Eisen. The Book of darkness, Enterprise's ship model and a Quantum singularity reactor.
Opening it and walking in, she found herself in a room that would not have been out of place from a underground futuristic Black mesa-type lab. A projector showing an interactive globe of the world sat in the center, along with symbols showing whether Enterprise and Reinforce were sleeping. merely idling or physically active. documentation and Red Xs marking important targets. various spots on the Grid being marked by their level of estimated danger and enemy activity and crosshair symbols showing friendly self-contained FOB/settlements.
She silently regarded the projector before looking at the globe. bathed in the blue light of the planning room. Vita decided to access something that was important to her as she inputted the necessary voice commands. Enterprise had been becoming more like her lately. and Reinforce was starting to lose the more ice-cold and straightforward portions of her personaltiy. Too much had happened as of lately and she needed to take her thoughts elsewhere."Link start. AEGIS. Access archived databanks up to Restricted information, Any entries that match Tropical storm and who my mistress once used to serve under in her time at Azur lane. Email as well."
The globe projection disappeared to show files scrolling though. some with rather... interesting names and other mundane classification before it settled on one:pacificdownfall. The redhead clicked on the symbol as it began its terminal transcript playback. light filling the room as a heat exchanger vented off condensed steam.
Operation Tropical Storm entry 4
Goal of Tropical Storm:
Naval Invasion of the Hawaiian Archipelago
Apply overwhelming force and numbers to make up for major technological disadvantage in weapons and sensors
Ensure complete strategic exhaustion of Azur Lane Coalition forces in the Pacific/South-east Asia Theater
Enforce complete Pacific trade lockdown
Destruction of 30% of Azur lane's fighting strength and assets
Date:-
Location:Invasion forces originating from Autumn-01 and 'XEDRA' 02-04
Result:Decisive Siren Strategic and Grand-strategic victory-Enemy forces Routed
\nVITA {CRIMSON IRON RIDER}\n\nOPTROSTORMSUMMARY\n\nSUMMARY:\
|||LOADED||| 'I begin this report knowing full well that Master Enterprise will likely never release it to anyone short out of Reinforce and myself, In all likelihood she will have already committed settlement cleansing {Widespread killings} with the goal of simple vengeance and aminosity. I must ensure that this log is of the highest quality if i ever do decide to view it at some point, If i fail in this. How can the United nations not regard my mistress's actions as anything but monstrous crimes without reason?'
'Subject HM-018 Coalition Commander 'Tod Daniel Wolters' is going hot and has the capacity to bring the enemy into the fleet's planned course through the Honolulu Defense line. The Kansens of my task force are aware of the opposing fleet's size and strength:Radio chatter indicates that they have prepared themselves - But with overwhelming firepower and skill anything is possible. I will make sure that {Shipgirl Hunters} do no further damage. Perhaps their current failure will finally allow them to succeed at the task they were originally made for.
|||SUPPORT|||'Enemy chain of command is setting course through exactly where i expected- A direct path from a last stand to their finest hours of glory. Patriotism and complete isolation have made them predictable. If the fates of my spearhead screen ships were not already obvious I would rate their chances of survival at 2.3%.'
'Even though Coalition and Azur lane declaration of hostiles simplified contingency preparations. I do not expect an easy grand battle - I can not afford to lose it. According to mistress. the forces i will be co-commanding with Reinforce are all what our sponsers can risk without nearly exceeding complete strategic cessation and abandonment of islands.'
ساعة||| 'Patton was right about one thing according to Mistress:There is only one way to defeat an force like Azur lane. and that is to execute a sudden. overwhelming level of firepower and superior tactics related to it. And to visit complete and utter annihilation throughout the enemy's strategic depth.
If The Islands and my forces must be sealed off from the outside world and trapped inside {Mistress's world}. So be it.
As The Killing Time and Nanoha Takamachi Demonstrated:Half-hearted strikes instead of complete atomization will not suffice.'
\Цөл風暴\ 'In support of Azur lane's 150+ strong estimated Kansens is a fleet numbering 800+ in all naval assets and 500+ Fast Attack Vessels and likely more:Despite the overwhelming 10:1 advantage i have. I am outmatched completely in technology and fanaticism. I expect losses will be serious, but technology has it own peculiar drawbacks. and in turn my numbers have a issue.
Such a force reliant on information warfare is vulnerable to having its support structure cut at the base and its chain of command severed and destroyed with no supply, And such a force invites many chances for accidental torpedo fratricide and i can't steer such a large force swiftly.'
|Sự sụp đổ|||2913832 'My spearhead torpedo and anti-aircraft/submarine point-defense units are briefly stunned by Prince of Wale's opening move - Hundreds of FACs. 'Evarts' Bulins and Type XXIII Attack submarines ranging from Trawler to borderline destroyer tonnage advance in hopes of overwhelming my dispersed forces. I do not have enough helicopters or friendly targeting systems to target them all!
It is a reasonable certainty that some of them will get through and engage in torpedo and submerged raiding actions, There isn't a single capital ship with this first wave. It seems my enemy's cautiousness has left no room for fast-paced gun combat.'
|||Zero Effect||| 'I could have countered their move if i had released most of my friendly fighters or ordered MAGOPS cells to go sharp. They are ready but idling and patrolling. making the carrier units more attractive high-value targets than the others, Now the first of many waves of guided weapons and munitions surge forward. The first shipgirl from my task force to be struck breaks formation and races into the oncoming units - striking a Destroyer escort in the bow. The hull shatters open and out of it explodes not the expected oil but numerous torpedoes detonating.
Several and final waves of Destroyers. frigates. cruisers supported by Coalition air power and naval assets complete with Priority ships engage my fleet-Another 500+ ships. Some in excess of Heavy cruiser size. engage my seemingly disrupted screens. I continue to fight just well enough to lure them into an false sense of impending victory. MAGOPS units are getting restless but they are under orders to stay put for now.
Tod Daniel Wolters, Or the enemy-New Jersey. Prince of Wales. Bismarck, Nagato. Hakuryu-has been sending chunks of the fleet elsewhere. Good! let them believe they can seize a hammer and anvil attack somewhere in my fleet's path.'
|||XEDRA||| 'Despite all the faults. Azur lane and the Coalition have both fought quite remarkably well.
My spearheads lay in tatters - In some fleets. 40% of their strength has been destroyed and I've lost a considerable portion of my task force's carrier complement, But just as Reinforce and Mistress predicted. Azur lane concentrated on them like they were the key to forcing the invasion to be called off. Coalition's desire to destroy friendly morale and confidence to fight in the field blinded them to the true purpose of my plan to block off the Hawaiian islands from the outside world in another parallel-like world. Enemy combat effectiveness is any case down to 75-85%. Surely Azur lane should realize something is wrong?'
|||Resonance||| 'The Mirror Seas Barrier encapsulates the battlefield before sealing it off completely from the outside world. All communications, GPS. GLONASS. Beidou and radio communications are down. and even designator-based methods are suffering from heavy fog and sudden storm weather changes. At the same time, Krasukha-4's effect strikes our combined fleets along with my simultaneous casting of a supercharged Eisengeheul together with Enterprise and Reinforce. permanently blinding RADAR and sensors along with isolating all enemy groups.
I can trade Wolters one for one and still triumph.'
|||037||| 'Of my land-based air support and naval aviation assets. 85%+ of them are sufficient enough for more than just conventional power projection - Either by turning them into suicide weapons, or by arming them with armor-piercing bombs on one-way trips. and of my MAGOPS units, 90% of them are ready and awaiting orders.
It is best that the Spearhead units perished now, because the battle that is about to ensue would have driven them into madness.
|||040||| 'I throw away all the rules of acceptable conduct:With the MAGOPS units I throw away all the accepted ideas of how Combat Mages are supposed to behave. I toss around B-54 Superfortresses like they are fighters:dimly aware of the fuel tanks and their Anti-radiation glide bombs being crushed to powder. I force fighters to conduct attack runs on even anti-aircraft ships and failing that. use theirselves as napalm. In the meanwhile. Mistress relentlessly casts Starlight Breakers and Diabolic Emissions despite the extreme strain in such a combo. I order MAGOPS units to openly and brazenly kill local commanders dictating the battle. sabotage and inflict chaos and cast Bombardment-type spells. I order battleships and battlecruisers to fight like frigates alike.
For now all my concentration is focused on control and weapons firing, Targeting isn't even a consideration. I will be engaging my enemy at blade's length.'
|||042||| 'Coalition forces and HM-018 abandoned the tactics of using debris and smoke clouds as cover and i am no longer picking up RADAR signals. It seems that 48+ ships lost to Anti-radiation weapons and the burning gasoline of crashed aircraft were lesson enough. Add another 138+ lost to collision. point-defense fire. Structural failure due to Starlight breaker vaporization, and Diabolic emission induced dis-coherence/MAGOPS attacks and i now outnumber Wolters 5:1 locally.
Howe was able to postpone her inevitable annihilation for a few minutes to flee, But the last of coalition forces hangs before me now;Crippled and defeated but still operational. I could spare her, suggest Mistress to tow her and deliver her back to Autumn-01.
But I doubt she, or all of Azur lane would have extended the same courtesy to Mistress and by extension. myself.'