Transcript:Damage Control

The following is a transcript of Damage Control. The English translation was provided by Project Nemo.

MISSION 15

Damage Control

“Leader of The Beginning”

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Operation location: Port Edwards

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Prior to mission

EAPN [GN rushing into hostilities]

Reporter	Yes, on location flying a few kilometers away from the skies of Port Edwards....
	.
	Oh, we’re live?
	A lot of black smoke is rising from Port Edwards.
	.
	In the skies above it,
	the shapes of countless fighters that sortied from both the Neucom and General Resource corporations’ bases are... oh!
	.
	.
	It’s another explosion!
	What a dreadful sound that was!
	Everyone, if my voice reaches....
Announcer	Yes, this is the studio.
	To sum up the reports here once more,
	we will repeat that.
	This afternoon, at Port Edwards, USEA, General Resource and Neucom have broken into a state of hostilities.
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	And that battle is still ongoing.
	The NUN—the Neo United Nations,
	in order to resolve the situation,
	has decided to dispatch UPEO’s peacekeeping forces....

Briefing

State of emergency!

General Resource and Neucom have broken into all-out war.

To defend the city, you must repel all forces.

At present, the battle’s airspace is extremely disorderly;

journalist helicopters among other things are flying there.

Once the mission is accomplished, use all due caution for these civilians.

Furthermore, starting this mission,

you will be boarding state-of-the-art Berkut birds.

We put our hopes in your work.

...out.

Mission start

Erich	This is an actual war!
Rena	But just fighting is....
Erich	What is UPEO...!?
	What can we do, besides murder?
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Engage

Rena shoots enemy aircraft down

Rena

Got one.

Hit from behind

Erich	Watch out behind you!
Rena	Watch your back!

Craft touches the ground

Erich

Eeeesh! What’re you doin’?

First wave of targets annihilated

Commander	Catching new bogeys on radar!
	Number unknown; stay alert!

Update Target

* Second wave of targets appears

Second wave of targets annihilated

Mission Accomplished

Debriefing

General Resource and Neucom...

...have both been successfully and substantially weakened in force!

After mission end }

GBS [Terrorist outbreak]

Weatherman	In the Meriton region, the chance of rain within the next hour is 76.5%.
	.
	The high is 20 degrees Celsius,
	and the low is 15 degrees Celsius....
Reporter	It started with the ATM’s.
	In the control systems of the Electrosphere’s core routes,
	a large number of interrupts occurred;
	it seems that all information coming forth from the Sphere is garbled.
	.
	For this reason, banks and many other such institutions related to both General Resource and Neucom have gone out of service.
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	.
	In theory, an accident like this is supposed to be impossible with the Sphere, but
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	I think we’ll want to wait on an investigation into the cause.
Caster	This is no accident.
	According to information just in,
	a letter claiming responsibility from a group calling itself “Ouroboros” for setting off this series of panics
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	was delivered to General Resource headquarters.
	However... the company’s PR is denying access to information concerning this item.
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SENDER UNKNOWN [Awaken!]

(Ouroboros)	As far as we are concerned, this attack was necessary.
	The world is ruled by materialistic desires that cling to that curse known as flesh.
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	At the point in time when the economic strength of joint-managed-style giant multinational corporations exceeded the governing structures of the government and justice systems of the so-called old world order,
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	we should have awakened.
	However, as long as we are in the flesh,
	to refuse control by materialistic desire
	is also difficult; that, too, is a fact.
	And so... due to the limit insofar that it is hard exceed the flesh,
	our lives, being thus maintained,
	are always being bound by desires.
	—desires for food; lusts; sleep!
	In order to maintain life, even if only the bare minimum, these must be obtained with currency or not at all.
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	.
	We of mankind would obviously suspect that there will never, ever, ever be any perfect release from this curse.
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	The limit of mankind is the flesh, bound by countless desires!!
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GBS [Terrorist damage follow-up report]

Reporter	Yes, this is the airport.
	Here, air lines connecting to all sectors have suspended all mail services.
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	There is still no announcement as to the reason.
	There are even rumors that in one sector, General Resource’s air superiority has been completely compromised; the airport is showing the extremes of disorder.
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Reporter	Everyone.
	I’m broadcasting from a location about 50 kilometers away from the Geofront.
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	Can you see me?
	In the skies above me, countless fighter formations
	have caught numerous figures headed for the Geofront area on camera.
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SENDER UNKNOWN [The true meaning of revolution]

(Ouroboros)	Our rise to action... many people still seem to be misunderstanding.
	.
	Certainly, the things people are seeing at the present point
	are little more than that mutual killing so familiar to mankind, after all.
	.
	However... that is all we shall say for now.
	The forces that the organizations known as General Resource, Neucom, and UPEO and
	.
	the war they carry out even now,
	are the entrances for the revolution we hope for.
	...indeed.
	For us, the true enemies
	are not the powers known as General Resource and Neucom, much less UPEO and such.
	.
	When this revolution is complete,
	what we—no, all mankind will grasp
	will not be powers like these at all!

NVS [Uncensored news.]

Caster	On General Resource-affiliated news outlets,
	there was an announcement that at present, keyword censorship for broadcast contents has been included in delivery systems.
	.
	.
	A large-scale restriction of the press like this being enforced is a first.
	.
	This current program is being broadcast from an independent personal base station.
	.
	That being the case, here you will see our independently-received images uncensored.
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SENDER UNKNOWN [Sublimate!]

(Ouroboros)	We already possess the technology for the purpose of allowing all mankind to exceed its limits, and
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	are preparing it.
	—cast aside the flesh!
	This is a revolution done to set lives free.
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	And now, we will declare.
	Sublimation of all mankind—that is
	the one and only truth that will advance our lives into a new generation!
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	This technology is not a dream.
	Perhaps we should show you a piece of evidence.
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	—Dision!
	This man, due to a General Resource trick 10 years ago, completely lost his flesh.
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	...and yet, as a life in the Electrosphere,
	he certainly exists even now.
	Indeed, the “Will”, organized by the powers that came to be called by the names of “Life”, “Mind”, and “Consciousness” which we all equally hide from the start,
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	made not a limit of the frail existence known as Flesh and such, after all.
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	And this truth we
	came to hand down as information from prehistoric times.
	We need not look back to history——.
	As for the existence of Life without the limit of Flesh,
	we transformed in this way.
	That is, “the new image of mankind.”
	And so, above human history,
	Dision was reborn into the first life without flesh.
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	We install him as the Leader of the Beginning, and
	put this revolution into action!

Park [To the ladies and gentlemen of SARF]↵

Park	Well, I am thanking all you of SARF for the great service you have poured your hearts and souls into.
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	Until now, we have been demanding the reward of the vague, intangible feelings known as peace and such, so
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	it is to be expected that there have been many who shed their blood in vain, as well as dire times.
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	However, today... the curtain closes on times like those all too soon.
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	And so, from now on, I will be sending word to you SARF-affliated aces individually.
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	Now, stand up, and
	participate in our revolution.
	As of today, SARF is dissolved.
	A revolutionary of Ouroboros,
	under the command of Leader Abyssal Dision....
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Rena [I can’t believe it....]↵

Rena	It’s not true....
	He’s the leader of the coup!?
	It can’t be true!
	The cause of all these battles was... Dision.
	Everybody... I’m sorry.
	I’m going to make sure of it with my own eyes.