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Immortality and Empathy; highlights
Aug. 11th, 2016 11:18 amIt’s the day after the latest gauna attack and Izana is keeping Nagate company as he eats his lunch. Izana is still a few days away from needing to eat and so they are reading the news report from the latest attack.
“‘Gauna Cluster ship retreats’? What a sketchy headline…” Clicking their tongue as they continue to read, before stopping at the next article. “‘When will findings on the ena specimen retrieved by 704 Tanikaze unit be mad public?’ What’s this specimen?”
Nagate finishes chewing before he answers, his attention distant, “A Shizuka Hoshijiro the gauna replicated with ena. The three gauna we fought had shaped their ena to be like garde units. They were very difficult to fight."
Shocked, Izana can't help but stare, open mouthed, at Nagate as a sense of dread grows within. For his part, Nagate continues eating, deep in thought.
Izana's sense of dread has only grown in the coming weeks as the gauna encounters continue to become more frequent. Each encounter seems to only be barely won and at a heavy cost as the new gauna which mimic the garde units of Sidonia tear through pilots. Near invincibility, coupled with individual acting pilots seems to be turning to tide for the gauna as the pilots, trained to battle against slow moving behemoths, struggle to adjust their tactics.
And as if that weren't enough, Nagate is called to sortie after sortie. And even when he is not facing combat, he is spending all of his free time with the gauna Hoshijiro at the ET Research Center.
Izana fears both for their friend's health and their continued friendship.
“‘Gauna Cluster ship retreats’? What a sketchy headline…” Clicking their tongue as they continue to read, before stopping at the next article. “‘When will findings on the ena specimen retrieved by 704 Tanikaze unit be mad public?’ What’s this specimen?”
Nagate finishes chewing before he answers, his attention distant, “A Shizuka Hoshijiro the gauna replicated with ena. The three gauna we fought had shaped their ena to be like garde units. They were very difficult to fight."
Shocked, Izana can't help but stare, open mouthed, at Nagate as a sense of dread grows within. For his part, Nagate continues eating, deep in thought.
Izana's sense of dread has only grown in the coming weeks as the gauna encounters continue to become more frequent. Each encounter seems to only be barely won and at a heavy cost as the new gauna which mimic the garde units of Sidonia tear through pilots. Near invincibility, coupled with individual acting pilots seems to be turning to tide for the gauna as the pilots, trained to battle against slow moving behemoths, struggle to adjust their tactics.
And as if that weren't enough, Nagate is called to sortie after sortie. And even when he is not facing combat, he is spending all of his free time with the gauna Hoshijiro at the ET Research Center.
Izana fears both for their friend's health and their continued friendship.
