C&C desperately needed. PLEASE!
Very well, then! As always with me, please keep in mind that these
comments
are entirely my own humble little opinion. If you disagree, nobody's
making
you listen, okay? ^_^
The same here.
The Battloid slowly stood, a shower of concrete and rubble
falling
from
its metallic shoulders. Still alone in the street, a gaping Ranma
could
see
how it moved its cyclopean "head" this way and that, as if
looking for
something. After a moment, it stopped. Gazing in its same
direction,
Ranma
found out what it had apparently been looking for: the far
explosions of
the
dogfight.
Good recreation of a pretty famous scene for us 'Tech heads : the
first ever
Battloid. Although the "far" explosions seems a bit off. Maybe you
could try
the "far-off", or "distant" explosions. After all, I believe the
battle is
still practically in orbit at this point and time. That's pretty
distant.
Not that far. It's around 50,000- 70,000 feet or so; much, much
lower than orbital altitude. They're low enough for a survivable (if
uncomfortable) ejection from damaged aircraft.
�Another building destroyed. With pilots like this, who needs
enemies?�
Not the Zentraedi, that's for sure. Although he does get about six
million
times better than everyone else. Except Max Sterling. And Myria
Parino. And
Roy Fokker, I guess. And... er... Why was he put in command of a
squadron
again? ^_^
Friends in high places... and it doesn't hurt when the commander
has the hots for you!
Ranma turned at the corners at random, hoping against hope he
would
find
either the restaurant or Minmei. Suddenly, another pod jumped
onto the
roof
of a tall building to his right, and gazed down, noticing him.
�Time for the big guns,� he decided wordlessly. Ranma quickly
crossed
his arms in front of his chest, then snapped them forward and to
the
side.
He didn't even announce the attack. �No need to show off,� he
thought, as
the nearly invisible vacuum blasts soared through the air toward
the pod.
A
moment later, a now leg-less Battlepod lay helplessly atop the
building,
desperately trying to keep itself from rolling over the edge of
the roof.
Picked that one up from Herb, did he?
Nope... that's the vacuum blade attack from the Yamasenken.
�That one won't be moving for a while.� Even as he was
thinking this,
a
Battloid arrived to the place where the alien warcraft lay and
finished
it
off with its Gatling gun.
Technically... (audience groans "enough, already!") Er... let me
just point
out that a Veritech carries a rail gun, not a Gatling gun.
No, it doesn't. It's a 55mm (?) Gatling gun. The GU-11 has
multiple rotating barrels and uses chemical propellents in cartridge
casings, a stream of which you see being spit out the side of the gun
pod every time it's fired. That's a Gatling gun.
Railguns use magnetic coils to accelerate steel-jacketed shells
down the barrel, so they don't need a propellent and don't have
cartridge casings. IIRC, one of the weapons packages carried by the
destroid Monster did have Railguns mounted in the "arms". It was the
only mobile unit big enough to carry them.
Ja ne,
LarryF
http://lwf.tripod.com
"Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?"