This post is way late but *WAVES HANDS*

[urzu2]

[Backdated to after "Run Silent, Run Deep"]

So that's what using a lambda driver is like...

I was surprised it worked at all. It really doesn't feel like a weapon. I think I get why Sousuke doesn't like his.

Comments

[undefeatedseed]

Exactly what happened in the sea? I was kept too busy by the UES forces to get the entire picture.

[urzu2]

Nothing too unusual. The Jovians attacked, we fought them off. The weird thing for me was using a lambda driver. "Thinking angry thoughts at the enemy" should not be a valid attack strategy.

[undefeatedseed]

"Thinking thoughts at the enemy?"

[urzu2]

That's the only way I can describe it. It turns your thoughts into reality, So while it's running it's like, if you REALLY REALLY want to destroy something, then when you shoot at it your shot will be supercharged.

[undefeatedseed]

So then your determination has a tangible effect on your machine's output?

[urzu2]

Kiiiind of. The lambda driver doesn't give your mech more physical power. Like, if I couldn't lift a house just because the reactor can't give me enough power, it's not going to change that.

[undefeatedseed]

So...does it add energy?

1/2

[urzu2]

It...[struggling for words.]

It...causes things to happen...

2/2

[urzu2]

This is the damn problem! I can barely describe how it works or what it does! I'm just glad the Falke is a damn decent AS on it's own, because I don't feel comfortable using that thing at all.

[undefeatedseed]

That's understandable. I know I wouldn't like working with equipment that I couldn't understand. Have you tried asking the mechanics or looking at the schematics?

[urzu2]

Ever heard of "Blackbox technology"?

[undefeatedseed]

That's the technology that comes from the Whispered, right?

[urzu2]

Even MITHRIL's best and brightest engineers barely understand the technology we're working with here. I swear I once heard Tessa mention something about how you could move faster than light by turning mass into gravity.

[undefeatedseed]

The Whispered... If the Whispered did indeed create the Lambda Driver, I'm not sure that even I would be able to understand it. Even with decades of genetic technology, we Coordinators can't replicate the abilities of the Whispered.

[urzu2]

Man I forgot about that coordinator stuff. Must've been weird, getting used to living around mainly naturals.

[undefeatedseed]

I will admit to being uneasy at first, but I got used to it quickly. I haven't seen any anti-Coordinator bias in the GDF.