2013-01-21, 09:13
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#39849
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Titans Test Team Pilot
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Elysium
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Spoiler for CSI Academy:
Within the secret basement base of operations, the three instructors Chifuyu, Maya and Kaori look towards the main hologram screen as it projects the radar activity from the previous evening. A single white blip heading straight towards the Academy and is intercepted by two other, one of which collides with it and gets diverted to Kisarazu city’s territory. The remaining blip circling around the other two suddenly shifts its path towards the other two, zipping straight into them and instantly disappears along with the other unknown blips.
“They’re gone!”
“Not quite yet, Orimura. Shortly after the blips disappeared we detected seismic fluctuations originating from Kisarazu… Aegis Two reported an explosion.”
“Explosion? Murakumo, does that mean the city was…?”
“Aegis One confirmed that the explosion occurred on an open area and the nearest infrastructure is well beyond the blast radius.”
“I see… So the unknowns were destroyed in the blast?”
“Actually, that wasn’t the end of it. This happened shortly after.”
At the very spot where the three blips disappeared together, a single blip flashes very dimly, indicating a very weak radar signal was being emitted from the originator at the point of time. The dimly-flashing blip begins to inch away from the location, heading due south. As the instructors watch the blip’s staggering movement, an idea strikes Chifuyu’s mind.
“Yamada, did we archive the unknown radar signatures from the attack few days ago?”
“It’s in the records, yes. Why?”
“Run a cross-reference. I have a feeling that some of these unknowns are the same as the ones present during then.”
Without another word, Maya goes to the operator’s console and begins to bring up records of various radar signatures, projecting the archive onto the main screen as it compares each of the records with the lone blip. The instructors patiently wait as each record that’s being compared does not match with the unknown signal.
*beep—!*
One record matched. It is then pulled from the archive and projected as a separate window on the hologram screen.
“The same signal that was in Ichihara alongside the rogue black IS…”
Kaori raises her eyebrows at Chifuyu, who then puts her hand under her chin.
“We sent Aegis One and Two to investigate the area that day. They found shallow footprints that were barely a third bigger than a typical teenager in their late teens and some armor fragments which we brought over to the Science block staff. According to them, it’s most likely some sort of titanium alloy but they couldn’t determine from the fragments what kind exactly…”
Hearing Chifuyu’s explanation of the unknown unit brings Kaori to recall a separate investigation.
“We lost the unknown’s signal shortly after so I sent Aegis Two to investigate the area where the explosion occurred. She reported mechanical remains littered the area.”
“Mechanical…? You’re suggesting that these unknowns are autonomous units?”
“It’s very likely that they were… including the one that survived.”
And here the Academy suspects that the Minerva is an autonomous robot.
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