Re: The Dividing Line - Space
"What the..." Ko mutters to herself again, nearly hitting the thrusters in a twitch reaction. Then she saw the Mantis as they began to stir once more. "What...? N-no way!?" Hurriedly reloging them as active targets once again as she struggles to understand what's happening. "Kars! The Mantis are moving again! There was a... a yellow thing, that touched them, and they're moving!" She stammers into her coms, seeking guidance.
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Kars groans and puts up the sensor information on his HUD. The vague dull image the cameras caught told him nothing of worth. "Well tell em to stop it then. Their armour is already cracked so go to HE and Incendiary rounds. Keep your eyes open. Pay attention to prox, don't let anything close." He responds directly back to Ko.
Having not heard it from Nadia yet, he then makes sure that their lead was aware of the situation, speaking to the group in general. "Hey Commander. You getting this? The Mantis we killed outside aren't staying dead. Unidentified "yellow thing" is messing with them. My fighter is engaging."
Switching back to Ko's channel as soon as a gap in coms comes up, he adds, "Remember. Mind the debris. Avoid cross fire. Thrust to compensate on recoil. Fly short and sharp."
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"r-Rodger. Moving to explode zombie bugs." Ko replies, blasting the engines to engage. She didn't know what was happening, nor how or why, and the sight of those things she loathed so much coming back to life like this, was a special kind of terrifying for her. But they'd been able to kill them once already, and if Kars said in a straight voice to kill them again, then that was what she'd do. Swallowing her fear and priming the guns. She could ask about the details later.
"Short and sharp. Acute ascending into boost. Wide into roll on strafe. Tumble and D5 if pinned..." Ko whispers to herself inside her helmet, reciting past lessons and instruction as she nears optimum range with the reanimated Mantis.