Machine Testing [OPEN]

[kitbashurgundam.livejournal.com]

The battle of Zokez II was proof that the Mobile Suits and the X-Wings were a bit out of their leagues. Overwhelmed by the Ohm's superior numbers, plenty of them got thrashed in their fights. It was time to fix that.

Since the end of the fight and the regrouping, Lowe's been busy in the Sensoriums working on a major project: the fusing of technologies. Realizing that he couldn't afford to work on the actual suits. Lowe went into the Sensoriums and began his work, modifying and remodifying the Astray Red Frame to the X-Wing's engines and power source.

At the moment, though, Lowe was taking his latest attempt to work the two technologies together. At a small hangar, there were at least four scrapped machines that were once the Astray Red Frame. If anyone walked in and saw him, they'd see the Red Frame with the back of an X-Wing attached to the back of the suit.

"YEEEE-HAW!" Lowe cried out. "Man, the speed on this thing is incredible!"

[It is, and so far, we've barely had any energy drained and what we do is quickly replaced.] 8 piped up from his spot in the cockpit. [I think we did it this time!]

"I think we did so, too, man!" Lowe said. "If there was only some way I could REALLY test this!"

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[char-char-char.livejournal.com]

Char had been coming to the Sensoriums, oddly enough, to try something quite similar. Right now, though, he's just watching and appreciating the speed the mechanic is getting out of that red mobile suit.

[kitbashurgundam.livejournal.com]

As the Red Frame continues its little race, Lowe happened to notice the newcomer arriving.

"Oh, hey. Got a watcher!" Lowe said. Turning the Red Frame around, it stopped some distance nearby so that the machine didn't have to crouch down to look at Char. "Yo! 'Sup? Sorry, forgot to lock the door. Got too excited!"

[char-char-char.livejournal.com]

"Don't worry, I'm used to hilariously bad security around mobile suits. At least this one is virtual," he quips.

"So I see you've been working on adding those fancy fusion thrusters to a mobile suit. Think you could manage something like that on something a little less familiar?"

[kitbashurgundam.livejournal.com]

"Hmm... a little less familiar?" Lowe mused. "How less familiar are we talking? Probably shouldn't be too hard, but still..."

[char-char-char.livejournal.com]

"You're from the same world as Kira Yamato and Cagalli Athha, right?" he asks, guessing based on the Red Frame's Gundam-ish build and size. "I think our mobile suits are similar, your world's just seem to lack a Minovsky fusion powerplant. Which makes me wonder why mobile suits were developed there in the first place, actually..."

[kitbashurgundam.livejournal.com]

"We use batteries instead..." Lowe said, landing and stepping out so he could see Char face to face. "In our world, nuclear power's kind of a hard thing to have thanks to what are known as N-Jammers. They pretty much prevent the fission needed to make the power, thus making that sort of thing useless. Only way to prevent that was through an N-Jammer Canceler."

He sighed and rubbed his hair a bit. "It wouldn't be so bad if one side weren't so.... genocidal. Actually, both of them got that way. It was pretty rough..."

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[char-char-char.livejournal.com]

"Mankind has been intent on destroying everything different from itself since we first achieved sapience. We've just moved up from sticks and rocks to more efficient weapons," Char says, sighing.

"Anti-fission devices, though? Those would have been a lot more convenient than having to shoot down nuclear missiles by hand," he adds. "Such is life."

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[char-char-char.livejournal.com]

"At any rate, how close are you to being able to add those X-Wing engines to a mobile suit? I have a reputation for speed to maintain."

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[kitbashurgundam.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. A change of the subject!

"It shouldn't be too much longer. Right now, you can say this is a prototype. I was able to kitbash the two together so that the X-Wing's engine acted as an external power source. It proves it works at the moment."

He looked back at his machine. "All I need to do now is to see if I can replace the engines themselves with the X-Wing's. If it fully works, we should be able to begin work on the conversion when everyone's ready."

[char-char-char.livejournal.com]

"Good to hear."

Char pauses and considers for a moment. "Say, how familiar are you with remote weapons? Free-floating remote-controlled laser cannons and the like?"