And it ALL starts tumbling down.
The Deucalion being forced to retreat is one thing, being forced to go back in what seems to be a suicide mission just goes to show how little the Earth forces command really understands about the situation. Drown them in bodies? Really? What is this, the Imperial Guard?
Also LOL, so apparently Slaine DOESN'T have a plan beyond "Keep Asseylum safe" after all, and just delegates everything to Harklight. Between that obvious setup, not communicating with Lemrina will DEFINITELY bite him in the ass.
edited 28th Feb '15 2:54:47 PM by MyssaRei
Inaho and Marito, et al. did exactly what I would have done, knowing what we did about the M-kats in episode 19. Focus on the lightning kat which not only was the biggest visible threat, but was disrupting the smoke screen Inaho needed to take out the invisible kat.
Now we know that the third M-kat, the "tentacle" m-kat has a "matter duplication" ability, which is a rather odd thing to have since it could do wonders for Mars' food shortages, unless it doesn't work on organic matter for some reason. (Although it does not seem to have trouble duplicating explosives.)
Sadly, the biggest hope Inaho had was that the Orbital Knights would be tripping over each other seeing as they're not used to teamwork, and their M-kats aren't exactly designed to work together. That hope was completely dashed this episode. The Orbital Knights coordinated their efforts perfectly. Our plucky protagonists can thank whatever deity they believe in that the Deucalion got them out of there unharmed.
The Earth forces command thinks they can overwhelm the M-kats by sheer force of numbers? Did they not read the reports about the matter duplication ability? Are they suicidal? Good thing the Deucalion is currently undergoing necessary repairs to regain flight worthy status or they'd be going right into the teeth of the tiger.
Even in episode 19, Asseylum was showing signs that she wasn't exactly fond of Slaine. And here we go again with Slaine's fatal flaw. He really does NOT think things through. His forte is act first, think about the clean-up later. Even he realizes that this leads to A LOT of irreversible mistakes.
edited 1st Mar '15 1:11:16 AM by Harem-author
That's the back half of mkALIEz (mkALIez? M Kaliez?) that you're probably thinking of.
Where'd you get that from? Slaine never gave them to her, he dumped them on the ground when he realized he's been NTR'd.
My Megaman and MegaTen RPG LiveblogsThat's an interesting Call-Back there, Asseylum, throwing back the answer that Inaho gave way back in the first season.
So, the jig is up, both princesses are against Slaine, so he throws puts both of them under house arrest. Also it looks like the spoilers ARE true, as we see Crutheo's son Clancain appear at the end of the episode (spoilers say he's loyal to the Royal Family, and WILL help Asseylum escape).
As for Inaho, well now, 3 Martian Kats down? So much for the vaunted cooperation. I had to laugh at the multiplying Kat though — it's basically doing Funny Valentine's ability from Jojo (at least some people interpret it as). They're all real? GET RID OF THEM ALL AT THE SAME TIME THEN!
Let's give credit to the rest of the army here at least, the invisible M-Kat was a basically a non-Inaho takedown. But against the lightning M-Kat though, gonna be honest I have absolutely no idea why he needed to attack from the sky for that to work.
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Being on land and not sort of changes the electrical charge of an object. It's the reason why birds can perch on high-tension electric cables without frying, or for that matter, maintenance workers on said high-tension cables.
Had Inaho faced this thing on the ground from the start, it would have turned out differently.
Inaho says that all of the copies appear within a certain (short) distance of another copy. There seems to be a range limit.
Though, that said, there doesn't really seem to be anything stopping him from daisy-chaining copies out until he reaches the battlefield, then creating a giant concentration of them there. Like a flail!
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Also, the plan of tagging the duplicating Kat was fairly on point, and it would have bee an army kill if the duplicating Kat wasn't really duplicating itself via quantum teleportation. That's actually fairly horrific, though. What happens when it's de-duplicating? A bunch of copies have to die — which means that actual people die.
I do have to say that for a show that prides itself on ridiculous amounts of science, the multiplication guy was pretty stupid. If Aldnoah has that kind of power Mars has no business having a food shortage.
That said, the rest of the episode was pretty good. It's worth noting Slaine may have jailed the princesses, but not the count Inaho sent to investigate.
I'm disappointed, Tropers. Very disappointedCopies can't be inferior though by the principle of "they're all the original." Unless there's some amount of steady degradation involved, in which case the living human pilot would have to be also steadily degrading.
Maybe they intentionally kept this Kat simple otherwise as a way of making the replication quick? Like, suppose the greater the complexity/mass of an object, the longer it takes for it to manifest?
deviantArt | TwitterWell, I mean, there's no possible way the whole 'jailing the princesses' thing is going to work out for Slaine. He was mostly able to strong-arm the knights into following him because he was in control of who gets Aldnoah privileges. They're going to start questioning where the princess has gotten to pretty soon, and he's pretty screwed the moment anyone finds out.
Re: Duplication abuse: Something I'd like to see addressed is the extent to which the powers are Mech-specific. Like, I get the impression each Aldnoah has a different ability, but Dioscuria sure stole the powers from three others mechs despite having none of other powers before. So, I mean, I get the feeling there's a reason they didn't use that to solve their resource problem, but I'd like to know what that reason is.
edited 7th Mar '15 6:56:22 PM by Gilphon

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