"I will not be fine, that's an Atlantis class cruiser and I am inside it's point defense envelope!" Mobile Suit didn't call it the Discotheque Death Machine for nothing-those turrets were fast traversing, scarrily accurate, and rapid-firing enough to make them the bane of all pilots. Even Mobile Armor had to respect them-all the more so when you had no way to keep them 'honest' by firing back.

Of course, Jacqli knew it was just an Atlantis. Even as she deployed her decoys and sent them spiraling away on evasive courses, she dropped her own targeting radar onto the cruiser and initiated a datalink to Avanti's ship. They might be the bane of all mobile suits, but ever battleship driver dreamed of finding an Atlantis alone in a dark corner, it's lightweight lasers and thin armor spelling the support-cruisers doom.

And then she hit the broadcast with half a second left.