Chapter 17: "The Records of a lost war Part 1"

*Now back on the archangel, the entire fleet lifts off to lead the assault back to mars. The fleet now consisted of 3 battle groups, A1 was the scouting force led by the Girty Lue and the 7th autonomous mobile battalion. A2 was the secondary force led by the Archangel, finally there was the A3, a taskforce being sent up to them from earth using the old panama mass driver.*

*Now with a fleet strength of 600 ships the 8th fleet move out and heads directly to mars, the trip will take nearly 2 months, even if they used mass drivers to assist them they would take 1 month. But with only 6 mass drivers it would take too long to go that way.

*With nothing to do, Artemis and Holly decided to try their luck on one of the old "Skygrasper" simulation units from when the Archangel was an aircraft carrier. Because of their possible connection to the hostiles, the Archangel upgraded the combat data to use the more recent "G-Falcon" support craft or the "Freedom Burst".*

*Artemis selected the G-Falcon and launched out (simulated launch) this is a record of his repeated failures in the simulation*

The Systems begins: *a large black screen surrounds Artemis, which slowly lights up with red warning checks. These are soon replaced by green checks. "Simulation Start"

AI: "Battle stations, battle stations, all hand prepare for launch, ZAFT vessels approaching. Confirm 1 NAZDA class, 15 GINN, 5 BuCUe, 25 support choppers. All hands to level 1 battle stations. G-Falcon on catapult 1 you are cleared for launch, re-configuring for launcher equipment, 125 MM anti-ship Gatling cannon attached, 563 MM Linier cannon, 9.1 Meter anti-ship swords loaded."

AI2: "Catapult all green, brakes all green, Nucleo-Duturion beam reactors online, skipping safety check 363 through 500, all systems prepped for launch catapult all clear. Transferring controls to pilot"

Artemis: *reading what his response is supposed to be while going over the checklist himself "All systems clear, ready for launch. I have control"

*An out of cockpit camera turns on, as it shows what is occurring from a camera directly above him. His aircraft looks like an F-14, with larger engines, and smaller wings. The weapons being loaded on him are extremely large. The cannon extend over the back of the plane, but also end's right next to the cockpit. The same goes for the sword but that is below the wing instead of above. The Gatling cannon cover the top of the wing that the sword is on. Resulting in a balanced unit.*

*In front of him light can be seen as the simulated archangel opens its catapult 6 lights overhead turn green, then the simulator shows its true colors, an unforgiving realistic simulation. As the plane accelerated to Mach 1 in .576 seconds, just as the real archangel would the gravity manipulators in the cockpit made it seem to him that he might actually be accelerating, especially when he almost blacked out from the surprise.*

*When he launched out he was immediately thrown into a simulated battle where his side was completely outnumbered. His plane and a few MS were defending the island of Onoguro, the homeland of the Archangel. This was a battle in the dark history recorded as the first battle for orb. It is given that there is no way to actually win in this mission, you are only able to survive, not win the battle. *

*As he sped up to Mach 2, he was locked onto by a GINN, and saw a large amount of tracers pass his window, he cut power, hit the airbrakes and pushed himself into a rolling scissors with the GINN until finally he managed to get behind it and take it down with a single shot form the linier rifle*

Artemis: "One down, moving on to next target."

AI: "Confirm, score is now 100/ 3750"

Artemis: "… This is gona take some getting used to…"

*He heads back into the fight, and spots a team of 5 choppers. As he heads into them, he overtakes and nearly takes a hit form the BuCUe's supporting them. After this he checks what's worth more… as that was ridiculous those being more difficult than the MS to kill. *

The score sheet reads: "100 points- gin, 150 points- chopper, 200 points- BuCUe, 1000 points- NAZDA"

Artemis: "What the heck? I thought MS where better than conventional weapons!"

Lt. Romius: "Sorry for the intrusion, but at the time of this simulations creation MS were new to the battlefield and the primary attack was still performed by ground units supported by choppers or fighters. Thus you will get more points for getting rid of the primary attack then you will for taking out the aces in the GINN's."

Artemis: "Alright, back to this then."

*Artemis rushes in again to take out the BuCUe's this time, as he approaches the BuCUe's notice him and switch to tank mode where they speed up using rocket boosters as they fire rockets at him. He evades but misses his chance to take them out in one go. He was forced to double back and fire on them with the Gatling cannons, hitting 3 of the BuCUe's. As he does this he is shot down by the choppers supporting the BuCue's and the simulation ends.*

AI: "Damage Critical, ending simulation"

*Disturbed by his failure he does this over and over again until finally he manages to take down everything but the NAZDA, which he is unable to do with the firepower the G-Falcon has, without support.