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Singular Quartet wrote:I'll withhold critique until I see more.

Micheal Ryans, Beta pilot wrote:

Singular Quartet wrote:I'll withhold critique until I see more.

There won't be any more, at least until I work out whether this is the 3rd or 14th Angel Zygo spotted.

Singular Quartet wrote:How much firepower can it bring to bear?

Micheal Ryans, Beta pilot wrote:

Singular Quartet wrote:How much firepower can it bring to bear?

A lot. Dictatio's armed with twin shoulder turbo laser batteries, a volcano cannon on the left arm, and a gatling blaster on the right.

Hekate describes nine Warlord Titans as being enough to conquer a world about halfway through Cold Steel, and I don't count that as hyperbole because Hekate wasn't trying to impress anyone, just stating facts (internal monologue, no one to impress).

There's also what happens when Titans engage regular forces in Storm of Iron, which includes Titans atomising tanks and Warhounds playing football with Land Raiders.

Singular Quartet wrote:In other words, it could take on both of them, rip through the rest of the angels, glass tokyo-3, and then quick run over to some nearby city and let the pilot eat lunch.

Guess it doesn't really matter which one you fight, then...

I'd suggest basing it on how much work you want to do. Do you want the damn thing in the entire series or do you want it in only about half the series?

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I honestly could not make any sense of that entire section...

3rd Impact wrote:

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I honestly could not make any sense of that entire section...

He's sticking to the WH40K universe, and adding some angels in, as far as I can see. It wouldn't make much sense unless you know a fair bit about the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I honestly could not make any sense of that entire section...

Micheal Ryans, Beta pilot wrote:Spanky: I'll be digging out some more of the fluff I've got on Titans, both for research and for reading, since Titans are what attracted me to 40K in the first place. Something about telepathically controlled thousand-tonne war machines with their own personality appeals to me .

So, need any info on Titans in particular, or just the 40K universe in general?

Rye wrote:I used to have an Imperator Titan in ultramarine colours, include one of them at some point.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:To tell you the truth, I really don't care.

But I'd be glad to answer any Eva-related questions.

Titan IV – Chapter Two

Hekate touched Dictatio’s machine spirit, bracing for combat.

“Dorn, bring the reactor up to full power and set the servos for striding speed. Voss, power up all weapons, activate autoloaders and prepare to raise shields. Zygo, give me target locks now.”

The command crew raced to follow Hekate’s orders as Dictatio advanced, each step carrying it dozens of meters as power and hydraulic fluid flowed through its artificial veins.

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- NERV headquarters

“Ma’am, Geofront armour levels 1 through 18 breached!” Shigeru Aoba shouted, bypassing damaged systems relays and powering up defences that had never been meant for use within the Geofront itself.

“Damn. Unit Two’s status?” Misato snapped.

“ETD sixty seconds,” Hyuga, the most junior of the ops staffers, called back.

Misato swore inventively in several different languages.

NERV needed a miracle.

And then a miracle happened.

Four blinding streaks of energy slammed into the Angel, searing great wounds in its flesh.

On the main screen, a gigantic shape, resembling only vaguely an Eva, or the failed Jet Alone – and then only because its shape was roughly humanoid – strode towards Toyko-3.

It stood over sixty meters tall, as tall as an EVA and much bulkier. Both arms were weapons, one a giant gatling gun and the other some unknown cannon. The legs were vast flared towers, built to support the huge torso, upon which rested twin gun batteries.

The head resembled a stylised human skull, supported by a ‘neck’ consisting of powerful hydraulic cables.

The screen flickered, and then resolved into an image of a man in his mid-fifties, with a thin moustache and strikingly close-cut black hair.

“Voss, have you got the damn hololith-caster working yet?” he snapped at someone off-screen.

“Yes sir,” the unseen technician – or whatever this ‘Voss’ was – replied.

“Well good,” the man said. “My apologies for my moderati’s tardiness in establishing a communications link. I am Ervin Hekate, princeps of Imperius Dictatio and a warrior of the Legionnes Titanicus. It would seem I and my crew chose a fortuitous moment to arrive.”

“Um, what exactly is that thing you pilot?” Misato said, before she though otherwise.

“It is a Warlord-class Battle Titan, and I honestly don’t have time for this. Do you want my help or don’t you?” Hekate snapped.

“Well, if you’re offering it,” Misato replied.

“I am. I’d appreciate any tactical data you have on this thing, as well as weak spots, known or theory,” Hekate said. “My tactician has more exact details – Wait. Zygo, confirm those readings; they looked like a weapon charging.”

The camera zoomed out, revealing a command centre not unlike the Over the Rainbow’s, except smaller and with only three command stations.

“Readings confirmed sir,” a dark-skinned – not to mention obviously younger – man said, fingers dancing over a control board. “Seems like something of equal power to our turbo laser batteries.”

“Ah. Voss, bring power up to full combat levels. Dorn, I want striding speed and our shields up at maximum. Zygo, I need firing solutions, now.” Hekate commanded, then turned back to Misato. “I wish to know the name of my hunting partner, Ma’am.”

“Major Misato Katsuragi, princeps.”

“In that case, Major Katsuragi, good hunting. Dictatio out,” Hekate said, turning off the holoprojector.

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Within the city of Toyko-3, living Gods clashed, one forged of sacred metal, the other of living flesh.

“Dorn, get those damn shields back up!” Hekate yelled, parrying another blow on the volcano cannon arm and pistoning the gatling blaster into the enemy’s ‘face’.

The Angel, as the tactical data Zygo had received identified it, clawed at the reactivated void shields, sending arcs of lightning flaring all around the Titan – harmless, but spectacular.

Of more worry to Hekate was the information gleaned from this engagement. The enemy’s photon burst cannon, as Zygo had dubbed it, was far more potent than its power output suggested, and had nearly stripped them of their void shields’ protective bubble in one strike.

A mad charge had brought them into close quarters range, which was proving somewhat more suicidal than Hekate had hoped. He was sure a god-engine such as an Emperor-class Titan could prevail, but his already damaged Warlord…

“Have faith!” he chided himself.

“Of course sir,” Voss replied, thinking a reply was need, “’For a warrior’s faith in his commander is his best armour and his strongest weapon,’” the moderati quoted.

Hekate smiled. His crew were the finest, and that quote awoke the warrior’s fury within.

“Truth, moderati. Now let’s kill this monster.”

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Far, far away, a lone figure stared at the stars, looking into the Empyrean beyond.

His name was Aurielius, and he was a Lexicanium Librarian of the Raven Guard.

He was also extremely troubled by what he saw.

Nonetheless, he noticed when another warrior, clad in the black and white of a captain strode into the meditation chamber.

“Brother-Captain Heras. I’ve been expecting you. There are ripples in the Warp. I sense the fleet, and we, are needed somewhere,” Aurielius said, concentrating, trying to follow the thread of his destiny.

“Where?” Heras asked.

“You know the answer to that,” Aurielius replied. “The city we both have seen, in our dreams. There is where we must go, and it must be done quickly. I have never been surer of anything than I am of this; if we do not go now, then billions of the Emperor’s citizens will die, and the enemies who killed them will go free.”

“Very well.” Heras nodded, then activated his vox-link. “Heras to the bridge, change heading to the course Aurielius will give you when he arrives. Inform the fleet to do the same.”

The strike cruiser Kiavahr's Pride altered course, sliding into another warp ‘current’, followed momentarily by the fleet of warships and transports it was accompanying.

None of the captains dared refuse a request for aid from the Space Marines; to them, such was a dire heresy.

3rd Impact wrote:That was interesting.

I'm waiting on the Space Marines vs. SEELE battle...

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I think Aoba would call Misato "Major Katsuragi" rather than "Ma'am."

Which Angel is being featured?

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I think Aoba would call Misato "Major Katsuragi" rather than "Ma'am."

Which Angel is being featured?