FILEVERSION 3
GOTO Start
LABEL Start

LOADMAP cyclonemap

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


SETBG file=crewBG
ACTION FADEIN
PLAY MUSIC VAmbient_Light2.ogg

Self "--USDF Cyclone - Crew Quarters--"
Self "So, this is it. I've now become an official Federation space pilot, flying to protect what's right."
Self "We were sent out of the Academy with our belongings, a fancy military aviation license, and our uniform. Now we're here, a Vega-class fleet carrier, the largest class of carrier ever designed."
Self "I still remember back when I was still a high school student, when they publicly broadcast the maiden voyage of one of these ships. It really is one amazing ship, and now I get to live on one as an officer."
Self "Though now is not the time for reminiscing. Alice told us to report to the briefing room in about 30 minutes, so I should take my time and look around the place a bit to familiarize myself with the ship I'll be living in for the next 4 years."
ACTION FADEOUT

SHOWMAP playerWentHere
ACTION FADEIN
LABEL MapStart

IF playerWentHere == 1 
SETBG file=hangarBG
# Show and introduce
ACTION FADEIN
Self "Entering the Hangar bay, I immediately see a row of fighters being worked on by various mechanics."
Self "There's the usual suspects, the Aquila and the Remora-F, but I see a couple ships there that I've only seen in the tech database, but not in public."
Self "I walk around a bit and take notice of one of the engineers, a young woman with gray hair, barking orders around. I wonder if she's the boss around here..."
SHOW Melanie actor=Melanie x=90 from=RIGHT
Self "Curious, I walk over to her and introduce myself."
SHOW Ayako actor=Ayako x=25 from=LEFT
MOVE Melanie time=1 x=75 
Ayako "Good morning!"
Melanie "Oh, hello there! I don't recognise you... are you one of those new arrivals from yesterday?"
Ayako "Yep! I'm Ensign Matoke, but you can call me Ayako."
Melanie "Name's Melanie Eternity. Nice to meet you Ayako, and welcome to the hangar bays, where all the exciting action takes place... during battle that is."
Ayako "Does it get boring here during downtime?"
Melanie "Oh no, not at all! But not many people like the idea of wrestling with complicated machinery or getting yourself all covered up in grease and soot to make sure the ships are in top form."
Melanie "Some pilots in particular get a bit snobby about this, as if they're 'too good' to get themselves dirty just 'cuz they fly in a high tech fighter ship."
Ayako "Sounds a lot like a friend I know, heh."
Melanie "Oh lovely. Can't wait to meet her!"
Melanie "Hm, in any case, if you've got any issue with your craft, just give us a shout and we'll see what's hurting."
Ayako "Ah, that's good to hear that we've got you backing us up then."
LABEL MelanieTalk
MENU "Leave the Hangar" "Ask about her rank" "Ask about weapons" "Ask about the Vega-class" variable=MelanieTopic flag=MelanieTalkedTo
IF MelanieTopic == 1
	Ayako "Well, I should probably get going, but it was a nice chat we had. Talk to you soon!"
	Melanie "No problem, you know where to find me."
	SETMAPICON 0 file=AyakoIcon location=1
	HIDEMAPICON 4
	HIDE Ayako
	HIDE Melanie
	SHOWMAP playerWentHere
	GOTO MapStart
	ENDIF
IF MelanieTopic == 2
	Ayako "I see you're giving a lot of orders around here. Are you the Chief Engineer here?"
	Melanie "Err, no. Second Grade Engineer, my superior is the Chief but he's usually not around, so I take charge in his place."
	Melanie "He's usually off to work in the engine bay of the ship so I'm here to direct maintenance on the ships and weapons."
	Melanie "Lots of people essentially see me as the Chief though, given how long I've been calling the shots here."
	Ayako "Oh, I see. Is it fun to be in charge here?"
	Melanie "T'was a bit weird at first and no one really wanted to listen, but now I wouldn't have it any other way honestly."
	GOTO MelanieTalk
	ENDIF
IF MelanieTopic == 3
	Ayako "I've seen you work on the ships themselves, but do you also work with the weapons, or is that for a different team?"
	Melanie "For the carrier's guns? Yeah someone else maintains them. But we do take care of the fighter weapons. They're all safely locked away in our armory, so don't think you'll be getting your hands on them any time soon!"
	Ayako "Haha, I won't, I won't! But since you've probably worked with them for a while, is there any interesting stuff you can share?"
	Melanie "Hmm, well, there's quite a lot of weapons we work with, but one you can trust to get the job done would be the Electro Series. They're a series of rapid-fire laser cannons that can deal with shield and hull alike. Good if you don't want to look at the numbers too closely and just blow stuff up."
	Melanie "Though one gripe I have with the E-350 Gatling is the fact that it has this stupid electronic lock on its firing pin whenever the barrel temperature gets too high. Shuts the gun off for a while until its cooled off."
	Ayako "Electronic lock? What is it for?"
	Melanie "Well they say it's for 'safety and efficiency', which is just a lame excuse for them so they don't have to explain that they did a shoddy job with the barrels that melt down under sustained fire."
	Ayako "Wow, sounds like you've got some strong opinions on the Gatling."
	Melanie "Indeed! One of my small side projects is to modify the Gatling to be able to fire at a sustained rate, but Shiranui doesn't like it when I moonlight with Fed parts too much. So I gotta make do with whatever I can scrap or buy on the market."
	Melanie "Although... you could be of great use in that regard."
	Ayako "What do you mean?"
	Melanie "Oh nothing, I'll tell you soon enough."
	Melanie "But to answer your question, yes, we do work with the weapons and make sure to properly tune them to the targeting system before every sortie."
	Melanie "Worst thing that could happen to you would be a failing targeting computer."
	Ayako "Ah, well it's good to know that's in good hands as well."
	GOTO MelanieTalk
	ELSE
	Ayako "So, the Vega-class Carrier, I've seen it a lot on TV, but are there any cool tidbits you can share about its inner workings?"
	Melanie "The Vega? Well, it's a pretty huge ship, so it needs some powerful engines to propel it. The main engines give it most of the power, but its two nacelles can give a nice boost and help with turning the ship."
	Melanie "They're designed to be easily swapped out in case of damage or destruction. Kind of like swapping out a blown tire, just on a much bigger scale."
	Melanie "The runways are gigantic and can easily pour out entire squadrons in short amounts of time, or keep a constant cycle of landing and launching fighters going. We've got cargo grav-trains running between both fighterbays for easy access and transport."
	Ayako "Oh, that's pretty cool, so you could have a flow of people flying in for repairs and launching back out without chaos or delays."
	Melanie "Exactly. Though those times are quite stressful on us techies, so make sure not to push it too much with the damage out there, y'hear?"
	Ayako "Heh, I'll do my best. Say, what are the living accomodations like? I've only been here for a day."
	Melanie "Nothing short of fantastic. Heard they wanted to extend the off-shore time of these fleet carriers so they made sure the ride's much more comfortable than in, say, a Spearhead."
	Melanie "Zero-Grav pools, large common areas, a small sports hall. I've even managed to get approval for the construction of a bathhouse in one of the spare rooms!"
	Ayako "A bathhouse? Like in the style of an Onsen?"
	Melanie "Yeah! It'll be great!"
	Ayako "Sounds as if the Vega's actually quite a comfortable place to live in. How's it stack up to the other ship classes?"
	Melanie "With exception of the Helios and maybe the Tokyo-II, they all suck in comparison to ours. Especially the Spearhead."
	Ayako "What makes the Spearhead particularly bad?"
	Melanie "Oh don't even get me started. I served on one for about a year and it was horrid."
	Melanie "Cramped quarters I had to share with three other people, equally cramped hallways, tiny storage rooms for parts, a pathetically underequipped gym and about the only fun you could have there would be a spacewalk."
	Melanie "When the hangars were at full load, you could barely move around without stumbling over something or knocking something over. Tall friend of mine would constantly hit his head on something."
	Ayako "Sheesh, sounds like a mess to work in. I'm really glad now that I was assigned to here here and not to a Spearhead."
	Melanie "I don't think you'll be assigned to one any time soon anyhow. Heard through some channels that the Fed Military Command wants to phase out the Spearhead and put something new in its place."
	Ayako "Really? What ship will replace it?"
	Melanie "No clue honestly. That stuff's still mostly top secret, all I know is that the Federation gave out a bunch of funds to various big contractors for the 'Advanced Modular Carrier Project', whatever that means."
	Melanie "Whatever it is, they're allegedly building it at one of those top secret shipyards in Freya, so its definitely not something they want you to see."
	Ayako "Sounds exciting. Hope it also has its own Onsen."
	Melanie "All warships should have Onsens. That's the rule for when I get into power."
	Ayako "Hah, well I'll be sure to vote for you during the next Council Election."
	GOTO MelanieTalk
	ENDIF

ELSEIF playerWentHere == 2
SETBG file=bridgeBG
# Show and introduce
ACTION FADEIN
Self "As I enter the Bridge, I first notice the numerous computer terminals manned by the bridge crew, next to the huge windows that provide a great view over the ship and space."
Self "In the center is a large table showing some kind of map. I see Alice and Captain Shiranui standing around it, discussing something."
SHOW Alice actor=Alice x=75 from=RIGHT
SHOW Shiranui actor=Shiranui x=90 from=RIGHT 
Self "I figure they're probably busy and I shouldn't disturb them, but as I turn around to leave..."
MOVE Alice 
Alice "Heyo! Ensign Matoke! You're not snoopin' around, are ya?"
SHOW Ayako actor=Ayako x=15 from=LEFT
Ayako "Uhh... no ma'am, just wanted to check the place a bit. It's my first day here, I didn't mean to-"
Alice "Ahhh don't worry, I'm just messing with ya."
Shiranui "You sure like doing that with the newer pilots, don't you?"
Alice "Well what can I say? I like me a good teasing, especially with the newbies."
Shiranui "Heh, and you wonder why you're still just a Commander."
Alice "Oi now, I declined my promotion because I wanted to keep flying!"
Self "Shiranui just chuckles while Alice realizes what's going on."
Alice "Hey you can't use my own tactics against me, that's unfair!"
Ayako "You know the Captain, ma'am?"
Alice "Eh? Yeah of course, we served together since the Rim Border Crisis. But after that conflict, well, Captain Bore decided she was too good for piloting fighters and went on to become a Carrier Captain."
Shiranui "While Commander Hotshot here insists on flying right at the frontlines because 'captaining is too boring, it's a glorified office job.'"
Alice "You know damn well I'm right. But ehh, enough bickering over career choices. Ayako, I wanted to have a bit of a personal brief with ya before our actual briefing."
Alice "During your final exam, you showed some potential to be a leader. Rather than have you wait for months until your first promotion, I'll be giving you command authority over your wing, plus Stratos and Cirrus Wing, should they be present. Under my own guidance of course. I want to see how well you're gonna do."
Ayako "Are you... sure? I've not even done my first combat assignment yet, that's a little early to be calling the shots alr-"
Alice "Well I'm not stupid, I'll still be giving final orders from where I am, and I'm still the squadron leader so I've got control over the mission parameters."
Alice "And if it doesn't work, well, I'll just put you as number 4 on Nimbus."
Ayako "I... I won't disappoint you, ma'am!"
Alice "That's the spirit. And drop the whole ma'am business, we don't do formalities here."
Shiranui "You mean 'you' don't do formalities here."
Alice "Quiet you."
HIDE Shiranui
Self "Shiranui just laughs a bit and goes back to working around on the map."
Ayako "You said I've got potential... but surely I still need to actually learn, right?"
Alice "Yep! And you've got me for that! Whenever you come back from a mission and I've finished chewing the lot of you out during debriefing, feel free to come over to the bridge if you want me to impart my infinite wisdoms of being the bestest leader that's ever existed."
Ayako "I'll... be sure to ask you about that then."
Alice "Awesome. Now shoo, you've got a briefing to attend!"
SETMAPICON 0 file=AyakoIcon location=2
HIDEMAPICON 5
HIDEMAPICON 6
HIDE Ayako
HIDE Alice
SHOWMAP playerWentHere
GOTO MapStart




ELSEIF playerWentHere == 3
SETBG file=crewBG
# Show and introduce
ACTION FADEIN
Self "I look back around the crew quarters and spot a familiar white haired figure walking through the corridor."
Ayako "I wonder how she keeps her hair so perfectly clean like that.."
SHOW Maribel actor=Maribel x=75 from=RIGHT 
SHOW Ayako actor=Ayako x=15 from=LEFT
Ayako "Good morning, Maribel!"
Maribel "Oh, good morning. I take you're getting yourself familiarized with the carrier?"
Ayako "Yeah, pretty much. I've been looking around a bit, talking to people here and there."
Maribel "Mhm, I see."
Ayako "Do you know where Izumi and Ivessa went?"
Maribel "I believe they've headed for the Common Room. I do wish they would take their job a bit more seriously, we're supposed to be Federation Officers, not a flock of schoolgirls."
Ayako "Ahh, come on, lay off a little. We've only just graduated and the initial excitement still runs high with us. It's our first time on a ship like this after all."
Maribel "Absolutely not an excuse! And you better also take your job as winglead seriously, we are all dependant on your competence as a leader out in the field."
Ayako "Of course, of course! I'm gonna be a perfectly fine winglead, you just watch!"
Maribel "Have you read up on 'Preicis' Book of Fighter Combat'?"
Ayako "Uhh..."
Maribel "What about 'Modern Space Combat Theories' by Captain Azkartya? We had to write a report on that one in Year 3 after all."
Ayako "I may have cheated on that one..."
Maribel "Or what about the combat records of the Solar Wars? Plenty of incredibly useful information there."
Ayako "I've put them in my list of things to read, but..."
Maribel "You probably haven't even read 'Basics of the Matokian Principle', have you?"
Ayako "Um... no, I haven't."
Maribel "Oh for the love of... this was written by your family! Your ancestor, Aiko Matoke, wrote that principle and it's what we all use to fly! How could you not have read it?"
Ayako "Well I may have gotten a bit lazy, but I can get leadership lessons from Alice!"
Maribel "No offense to the Commander but, I don't trust Commander Margarette to be a good role model for a highly competent winglead. She's far too casual for her own good, doesn't take anything seriously and seems to be just fine resting on her laurels rather than strive to be better."
Maribel "My family wouldn't allow such grave complacency!"
Ayako "Fine, fine, I'll read up on that stuff then."
Ayako "A little off topic but speaking of your family, you said something about your sister on our flight here. What uh... exactly happened to her?"
Maribel "Um... well... it's not something I or anyone from House Histera talks about much. She and the rest of the House aren't on, well, great terms let's say."
Ayako "Oh, that's sad to hear. What'd she do to get that?"
Maribel "...I'd rather not say."
Ayako "Ahh... I see. Sorry for prying then."
Maribel "Now if you'll excuse me, I have some business to attend to."
Ayako "Ah alright, I guess I'll see you at the briefing then?"
Self "Maribel walks away, not answering."
HIDE Maribel
Ayako "Shit, guess I prodded at something sensitive there."
SETMAPICON 0 file=AyakoIcon location=3
HIDEMAPICON 1
HIDE Ayako
SHOWMAP playerWentHere
GOTO MapStart

ELSEIF playerWentHere == 5
SETBG file=commonBG
# Show and introduce
ACTION FADEIN
Self "I head to the Common Room, which also has a Mess Hall attached to it. The Mess Hall has a couple people, both officers and just regular crew members hanging out there."
Self "The Common Room meanwhile also has some people in it, mostly just playing various games at the tables or watching TV. Seems that during flight within friendly territory, most people just slack off and take it easy."
Self "Over in the Mess Hall I find Ivessa and Izumi discussing something, with Ivessa holding a model kit of a Remora that she'd painted herself."
SHOW Ivessa actor=Ivessa x=55 from=RIGHT 
SHOW Phobos actor=Phobos x=90 from=RIGHT 
SHOW Ayako actor=Ayako x=15 from=LEFT
Ivessa "Oh hey there!"
Ayako "Hello you two! I was just having a look around, you know, getting used to this ship and all."
Phobos "Nice. We were just talking about-"
Ivessa "Our future ace names for when we become famous badass pilots!"
Phobos "..Yeah, that."
Ayako "Ace names, do you mean callsigns?"
Ivessa "Yeah, same thing basically. Like how Alice is named Snow Fox because... I forgot."
Phobos "'cause she used some nasty tricks during the Second Battle of Glacia to decimate a Glisean advance. And our dear Captain's called the White Wolf of Kepler back during the Rim Crisis."
Ivessa "Yeah, so we were thinking of what kinda names we should have!"
Ayako "Well, what'd you come up with?"
Ivessa "Since I was a kid I wanted to be known as 'The Kugelblitz'. Something like, my sheer skill and power devours enemies left and right, and once I lock onto them, they cannot escape!"
Ayako "Ah... uh, Ivessa, you 'are' aware that you don't normally get to pick your callsigns, right?"
Ivessa "...I don't get to pick it?"
Ivessa "Wait but Izumi, you said-"
Self "Izumi just starts laughing."
Ayako "..And most of the time it's nothing cool or mysterious, but rather something silly or embarrassing."
Ivessa "Aw... bummer. I even painted a custom livery for how I'd want my fighter to look like."
Phobos "Eh, we haven't even done our first mission yet, we ought to check how well we do before thinking about reputation and fame."
Ayako "Yeah, our first mission briefing will be happening soon. Are you all as excited as I am?"
Ivessa "For sure! I want to finally fly a fighter for real!"
Phobos "If we're hanging around in an allied sector, I suspect we might be fighting on the defensive as a starter."
Phobos "If we get shot down we'll be picked up by our allies at the very least."
Ivessa "Aww, I wanted to let loose and blow stuff up, not defend someone!"
Ayako "Sounds reassuring but of course, it's best if we don't get shot down at all."
Phobos "Yeah, sounds easy eh? Just avoid the shots and don't get hit."
Ayako "Yeah.. wait hang on, are you making fun of me?"
Phobos "Nah, what could possibly give you that impression?"
Ayako "Alright I see what you're pulling. Anyway, I'll see you all at the briefing room, alright?"
Phobos "Yeah, see ya."
Ivessa "See you later, Ayako!"
SETMAPICON 0 file=AyakoIcon location=5
HIDEMAPICON 2
HIDEMAPICON 3
HIDE Ayako
HIDE Phobos
HIDE Ivessa
SHOWMAP playerWentHere
GOTO MapStart


ELSEIF playerWentHere == 4
SETBG file=briefingBG
Action FADEIN
Self "This will end the VN Segment and start the next mission. Are you sure you want to proceed?"
MENU "Yes, enter the briefing room (Start next mission)" "No, stay and go somewhere else" variable=ExitSegment
IF ExitSegment == 1
	Self "I enter the briefing room for my next mission.."
	ACTION ENDMISSION
	ENDIF
IF ExitSegment == 2
	SHOWMAP playerWentHere
	GOTO MapStart
	ENDIF
ELSE
	SHOWMAP playerWentHere
	GOTO MapStart


ENDIF

LABEL END
ACTION ENDMISSION