>Mariner Main Line, Car #7
>Outside Tithon City, Mars
>January 14, UC0090
You are Carrina Marseille O'Hara, a powerful Newtype serving as a Captain and mobile suit pilot in the recently-formed Colony Transit Fleet, and you're a bit out of your element.
The half-terraformed bottom of the Mariner valleys rushes by outside the windows as the cold Martian night closes in around your train car, which is devoid of any passengers but the six unnamed assailants who have blocked the doors at both ends. Their weapons are drawn, though you and your fellow Newtype officer Rossweisse managed to draw yours and position yourselves first to take the best possible advantage in this situation.
In here there's no magnetic array to simulate the effects of gravity, and so your body feels lighter by around two-thirds. But after a decade of space combat you're keenly aware of what even most spacenoids take for granted: momentum. And despite the smoothness of the ride there are still moments where this train bumps and sways along its tracks.
You've adopted a low stance at the center-line of the train car, which minimizes any jostling to give you the best possible shooting position. You really want the first shot to count, if it ends up coming to that, and this also gives you the option to move left or right once the bullets really start flying. Combined with your inhuman reflexes and the slight precognitive abilities most Newtypes develop after exposure to combat, this position gives you and your partner the best possible chance to survive this encounter. You keep your eye on one set of three gunmen in your direction, while behind you Rossweisse faces the other three.
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