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LOADMAP cyclonemap

SETMAPICON 0 file=AyakoIcon location=5
SETMAPICON 2 file=IvessaIcon location=5
SETMAPICON 3 file=IzumiIcon location=3
SETMAPICON 4 file=MelanieIcon location=1
SETMAPICON 6 file=ShiranuiIcon location=4


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ACTION FADEIN
PLAY MUSIC VAmbient_Light2.ogg

Self "--USDF Cyclone - Bridge--"
Self "Soon after our debriefing, I headed to the bridge to talk about these aliens to Alice and the Captain."
SHOW Alice actor=Alice x=60 from=RIGHT 
SHOW Shiranui actor=Shiranui x=90 from=RIGHT 
SHOW Ayako actor=Ayako x=15 from=LEFT
Ayako "Have the analysts come up with anything yet?"
Alice "I've got an analysis, it's definitely aliens."
Shiranui "I'm inclined to agree with Alice. Judging from your gun-cam footage, I'm pretty sure the shapes and signatures of these ships do not match anything we've ever encountered before."
Ayako "Could it be the Cassydri? I heard they're an elusive bunch."
Shiranui "Can't be, they've shown to be quite peaceful in the past. Besides, they definitely don't use that much blue in their construction. This seems to be more of a crystalline race."
Alice "What I'm wondering is why they decided to immediately open fire on us. They didn't even bother attempting to contact us."
Shiranui "Maybe it's paranoia, or they're extremely territorial. We won't know for sure until we manage to establish communications with them, so we're stuck on just speculations for now."
Ayako "It'd be pretty awful if we got dragged into a full blown war with these... things."
Shiranui "To be fair, our war against the Glisean Pact is going very well so far. As long as this doesn't blow into a full scale defensive against these unknowns, we should be able to maintain even a two-front war like that."
Alice "Awfully optimistic there, are we? Though I do hope that this was just a very badly lost scouting wing that got a little scared and opened fire at us, and not some prelude to a massive alien invasion force."
Ayako "What do you think we should do about it?"
Shiranui "For now? Nothing. We'll have to wait on an official response from Federation Command still. Any hasty action could potentially worsen the situation. so we'll just wait and see. Maybe this really is just an isolated incident that won't happen again."
Alice "For now we'll just continue onwards with our offensive against the Glisean Pact. We're getting close to their home turf, so the war should be over in a couple months hopefully, with the progress we've been doing."
Ayako "I see. Is there anything I should tell the others? They've probably got a lot of questions themselves."
Alice "Eh, I guess you can tell them that yes, it's aliens, no, we don't know who it is, and no, we shouldn't go blow them up... for now."
Ayako "Alright, thanks. I'll be on my way then."
HIDE Ayako
HIDE Shiranui
HIDE Alice
Self "I leave the bridge and immediately head over to the Common Area where everyone else is."
SETBG file=commonBG
SHOW Ayako actor=Ayako x=35 from=LEFT
SHOW Maribel actor=Maribel x=10 from=LEFT
SHOW Ivessa actor=Ivessa x=65 from=RIGHT 
SHOW Phobos actor=Phobos x=90 from=RIGHT 
Phobos "So, what do they say?"
Ayako "Well, it's definitely aliens that we've encountered. New, unknown ones, that is."
Maribel "So it couldn't be an accident with the Denebim and the Cassydri. Well, of course, their ships look vastly different anyhow."
Ivessa "Did they come up with any reasons as to why they suddenly shot at us?"
Ayako "Yeah see, that's the tricky part. Since we've never encountered them before... it's hard to tell how they think. Their current leading theories seem that it's either extreme paranoia from some lost scouting wing, or maybe some probing for a possible invasion."
Maribel "I hope it's not an invasion. We know the extent of the Glisean strength, but this is some completely unknown party..."
Phobos "Yeah... this doesn't sound like the best of news. Their shields and armor seemed far tougher than the Glisean stuff as well."
Ivessa "Well next time we encounter them, we just gotta hit them harder until their hull cracks! No armor is invincible!"
Ayako "I wouldn't do that if I were you, we also don't know what these aliens actually think of us. If this is all just a freak incident, then actively hunting them might actually trigger a full blown war."
Ivessa "Aww... I guess you're right though. Fighting both the Gliseans and those aliens probably won't end well for us."
Maribel "So, did they tell you of what would be happening, going forward?"
Ayako "Alice basically said that we'll just continue business as usual for now until we either get a direct response from Federation Command, or the aliens make another move. Which I think might be for the best."
Maribel "Agreed."
Phovos "Yeah, let's focus on finishing the current war before starting one with some outer space aliens."
Self "With that said, we exchange a couple more words of smalltalk and then go our seperate ways."


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