# E17 - I Won't Forget
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***SIGN*** August 27th, Stellar Year 2149
**[02:28] Shin**
Are you okay?
**[02:29] Theo**
I guess...
**[02:30] Kurena**
Where are we?
**[02:32] Raiden**
Their target's the forward base.
**[02:34] Shin**
Yeah.
**[02:35] Raiden**
Shit!
**[02:36] Frederica**
What's going on—
**[02:37] Shin**
Don't look.
**[02:40] Soldier**
Someone, come help!
**[02:42] Soldier**
Over here, too!
**[02:44] Soldier**
My arm!
**[02:54] Shin**
Anju, please.
**[02:56] Anju**
Of course.
**[02:58] Frederica**
Kiri did this...
**[03:01] Anju**
Let's go.
**[03:02] Frederica**
Shinei, you're not going
to do this, right?
**[03:07] Frederica**
You're not going
to end up like Kiri, right?
**[03:12] Shin**
Yeah.
**[03:14] Reporting soldier**
The first barrage hit the 8th Mechanized's
forward operating base, FOB14.
**[03:18] Reporting soldier**
Seventy-two minutes later,
FOB13 was struck.
**[03:23] Reporting soldier**
Fifteen hours later,
the 5th Infantry's FOB28 and FOB30 were struck.
**[03:29] Reporting soldier**
The artillery strikes wiped out all FOBs.
***SIGN*** August 28th, Stellar Year 2149
**[03:32] Reporting soldier**
The four regiments stationed at these bases—
**[03:35] Reporting soldier**
approximately 20,000 people—
**[03:37] Reporting soldier**
were wiped out.
**[03:39] Reporting soldier**
The ultra-long-range artillery behind this
is believed to be a new type of Legion,
**[03:43] Reporting soldier**
that we will refer to as the "Morpho."
**[03:45] Reporting soldier**
Its estimated specs are as follows:
800 mm caliber,
**[03:49] Reporting soldier**
effective range 400 km,
**[03:51] Reporting soldier**
initial velocity 8,000 meters per second.
**[03:54] Reporting soldier**
This would be impossible
for a normal cannon.
**[03:56] Reporting soldier**
We believe it to be a railgun.
**[03:59] Ernst**
A railgun.
**[04:01] Ernst**
This was in their report
when we took them in.
**[04:04] Man**
Yes.
**[04:05] Man**
It's incredibly powerful.
**[04:08] Man**
We believe the 15 hours between the second
and third strikes were used to replace the barrel.
**[04:13] Man**
During this time, the western front's forces
loaded up every cruise missile they had
**[04:19] Man**
and launched a saturation strike
immediately after the fourth volley.
**[04:23] Man**
The strike seems to have dealt some damage,
but did not destroy the railgun.
**[04:32] Zafar**
*With regard to the damage,*
***SIGN*** Crown Prince Zafar Idinarokh
The United Kingdom of Roa Gracia
**[04:34] Zafar**
* our autonomous units infiltrated Legion-held territory*
* and managed to observe the Morpho.*
**[04:40] Zafar**
* You didn't land a direct hit,*
* but you severely damaged it.*
**[04:45] Bel**
*If you could get that close,*
***SIGN*** Lieutenant General Bel Aegis
Alliance of Wald
**[04:48] Bel**
* couldn't your machines*
* have eliminated the Morpho?*
**[04:54] Zafar**
* Unfortunately, they can't carry*
* that kind of payload.*
**[04:57] Zafar**
* And many have to be destroyed*
* just to get one in.*
**[05:03] Bel**
* I see.*
* So you spent quite a lot on this.*
**[05:06] Zafar**
* We're all about to embark*
* on a joint operation.*
**[05:10] Zafar**
*There's no sense in hiding anything.*
**[05:12] Zafar**
* Mutual trust is the most powerful way*
* to bind two humans, or two nations.*
**[05:20] Enrst**
The issue at hand is how we deal with the Morpho
and these supposedly sentient Legion.
**[05:29] Bel**
* Sentient Legion commanders.*
* We've seen them here.*
**[05:33] Zafar**
* The Legion's weakness was that*
* they rely on their numbers and strength,*
**[05:37] Zafar**
*but are tactically simple.*
**[05:40] Bel**
* That large offensive may have been an attempt*
* to lure more troops to the front lines.*
**[05:47] Both**
*It makes my head hurt.*
**[05:52] Reporting soldier**
Continuing...
**[05:53] Reporting soldier**
From its movement speed
and last known firing position,
**[05:56] Reporting soldier**
the Morpho is likely a train-based weapon
that uses the old high-speed railway network.
**[06:01] Reporting soldier**
Given the available routes
and its movement radius,
**[06:06] Reporting soldier**
every one of our nation's capitals
could be within its firing range.
**[06:10] Reporting soldier**
Its current location
is the train terminal in Kreutzbek City.
**[06:14] Reporting soldier**
We estimate it will take
a minimum of eight weeks
**[06:17] Reporting soldier**
for repairs and for it
to become combat capable again.
**[06:20] Reporting soldier**
If we can't find some countermeasure by then...
**[06:24] Reporting soldier**
we will be defeated.
**[06:27] Ernst**
What countermeasures do we know will work?
**[06:30] Willem**
No we know of.
**[06:34] Willem**
Our anti-air guns aren't fast enough
to shoot it down, and we don't have enough to try.
**[06:40] Willem**
We're bringing in more cruise missiles
from the other war zones,
**[06:43] Willem**
but Legion jamming means
we can't guide them.
**[06:47] Willem**
And their slow speed makes them
easy targets for Legion AA.
**[06:51] Willem**
The Morpho itself seems
to have powerful AA weaponry.
**[06:56] Willem**
Another air strike likely would not work any better.
**[06:58] Willem**
Without air superiority, an air-to-surface
attack will be extremely difficult,
**[07:04] Willem**
and yet it lies far outside
our artillery range.
**[07:08] General 1**
Then we'll have to eliminate it directly
using ground troops.
**[07:18] General 2**
An all-out offensive by every soldier
in the western theater into Legion-held territory.
**[07:24] General 2**
A strike 100 km deep into enemy territory,
swarming with Legion.
**[07:32] General 1**
Even if we bring in
all our immediately available reserves,
**[07:36] General 1**
we lost 26% of our forces on that front
in the last attack.
**[07:39] General 1**
Pulling troops from the other
battle lines isn't an option,
**[07:43] General 1**
so we'll have to do it
with what we have here.
**[07:46] General 3**
We've brought down the numbers of Legion
in that area by roughly the same amount, but...
**[07:51] General 3**
They outnumber us by so much
to begin with.
**[07:54] General 3**
Their manufacturing plants are unharmed.
**[07:57] General 3**
In two months,
there'll be even more of them.
**[08:01] General 1**
It's a handy thing to have...
**[08:03] General 1**
The power to predict destruction,
but nothing else.
**[08:06] General 3**
Whatever unit we choose
to eliminate it will die.
**[08:11] General 2**
Yes.
**[08:13] General 2**
That's why we should choose those
who are most likely to succeed,
**[08:16] General 2**
and least likely to be missed.
***SIGN*** August 29th, Stellar Year 2149
**[08:25] Willem**
So you're the Eighty-Six?
**[08:28] Willem**
Of course, I've seen your ages,
but you really are still kids.
**[08:35] Willem**
I'm sorry.
I've read the reports.
**[08:38] Willem**
You have incredibly strong combat abilities
and aren't even afraid of death.
**[08:44] Willem**
But you're not in the Republic anymore.
**[08:47] Willem**
Don't do anything reckless.
**[08:50] Willem**
The Federacy isn't like the Republic.
**[08:52] Willem**
Nobody here is replaceable.
**[08:56] Willem**
For better, or for worse.
**[09:00] Frederica**
Shinei, what's wrong?
**[09:03] Shin**
Nothing.
**[09:04] Theo**
You still tired?
**[09:07] Theo**
That last fight was
probably really noisy for you.
**[09:11] Theo**
Didn't you get overwhelmed near the end?
**[09:14] Anju**
You didn't even notice the Legion's retreat.
**[09:17] Frederica**
I knew it.
That's not how you usually fight.
**[09:21] Frederica**
I synchronized with you,
but you didn't respond at all.
**[09:26] Shin**
Synchronized?
**[09:27] Frederica**
You didn't even notice?
**[09:30] Frederica**
You should all get some rest,
especially Shinei.
**[09:34] Frederica**
You know at the bottom of your hearts
that you're all exhausted.
**[09:38] Theo**
At a time like this?
**[09:39] Theo**
That'd be rough.
**[09:42] Frederica**
Maintaining a soldier's mental health
is an important part of the military.
**[09:45] Frederica**
Especially since you're Eighty-Six,
you'll be given some special consideration—
**[09:52] Kurena**
I don't want that.
**[09:54] Kurena**
I don't want to be treated
differently out of pity!
**[10:00] Soldiers**
Eighty-Six...
**[10:03] Raiden**
Kurena.
**[10:04] Kurena**
I much prefer to be looked at that way.
**[10:06] Kurena**
I'm used to it.
**[10:09] Theo**
Well...
**[10:09] Theo**
We got lucky this time, but the whole base
could be blown up at any moment.
**[10:15] Theo**
Everyone's on edge.
**[10:17] Anju**
They said that it would take two months
to repair the Morpho,
**[10:20] Anju**
and we shouldn't expect any attacks
until then.
**[10:23] Theo**
That estimate's based off five seconds of footage
**[10:25] Theo**
from some shady foreign country
and some weird psychic power.
**[10:28] Theo**
I bet they feel like they can't trust it.
**[10:32] Kurena**
But Shin knows the truth.
**[10:34] Theo**
They didn't believe it
till they heard that voice.
**[10:37] Anju**
Yeah...
**[10:39] Raiden**
But still, there's been
no major trouble or confusion.
**[10:42] Raiden**
The Federacy trains its soldiers well.
**[10:46] Theo**
The Republic's soldiers
would turn tail and run.
**[10:50] Theo**
I wonder if the Major's still alive.
**[10:54] Anju**
Theo!
**[10:55] Theo**
Oh...
**[10:56] Kurena**
She wouldn't run.
**[10:58] Anju**
Kurena!
**[11:05] Shin**
What?
**[11:06] Theo**
Don't tell me he doesn't realize it...
**[11:10] Anju**
Is there anything we can do
about the Morpho?
**[11:13] Raiden**
We've got two months
to come up with a plan.
**[11:15] Raiden**
Even if we do,
it probably won't be a good one.
**[11:17] Theo**
It'll probably be us again.
**[11:20] Raiden**
Probably.
**[11:21] Frederica**
Are you okay with that?
**[11:24] Kurena**
I just told you!
***SIGN*** August 28th, Stellar Year 2149
**[11:32] Marcel**
You want me
to give it to him again?
**[11:35] Nina**
There's no answer.
**[11:38] Marcel**
Can I take a look?
**[11:50] Marcel**
It's easier to blame it
on somebody else.
**[11:56] Marcel**
Be careful on your way home.
**[12:03] Marcel**
I'll make sure he gets it.
***SIGN*** September 1st, Stellar Year 2149
**[12:33] Nina**
Why did you abandon him?
**[12:36] Nina**
Why didn't you save my brother?
**[12:42] Nina**
You killed him, right?
**[12:46] Shin**
Yeah.
**[12:48] Nina**
I was waiting for him to come back!
**[12:51] Nina**
You knew I was waiting!
**[12:54] Nina**
Give my brother back!
**[12:57] Man 1**
Why is it always you?
**[12:58] Man 2**
Why should you be the one to survive?
**[13:02] Man 3**
You have no reason to live!
**[13:05] Man 1**
You have no one waiting
for your return!
**[13:10] Shin**
That's right.
**[13:12] Man 1**
If you'd died instead of him...
**[13:17] Lena**
*I won't forget!*
**[13:22] Shin**
Major...
**[13:26] Grethe**
Lieutenant Nouzen,
General Richard wants to speak with you.
**[13:30] Shin**
All right.
**[13:37] Richard**
You can hear the Legion's voices.
**[13:40] Richard**
You know where they are.
**[13:43] Richard**
Do I understand that correctly?
**[13:45] Shin**
Yes, sir.
**[13:46] Richard**
Where are they?
**[14:10] Richard**
Forget the Republic.
**[14:13] Richard**
That's enough.
**[14:14] Richard**
It seems you're telling the truth.
**[14:17] Richard**
If you have that ability,
you're even more suited for this operation.
**[14:21] Richard**
It's quite simple.
**[14:24] Richard**
Our three nations will launch
a full assault as a decoy,
**[14:28] Richard**
lure the enemy's main forces
to their respective fronts,
**[14:31] Richard**
and then withdraw.
**[14:32] Richard**
A special assault force
will then make an aerial entry
**[14:35] Richard**
into Legion-held territory,
which will now be less defended.
**[14:39] Richard**
They will destroy the Morpho.
**[14:41] Richard**
I'm assigning Lt. Shinei Nouzen and the 15 members
of Nordlicht to this special offensive.
**[14:49] Richard**
You'll be at the vanguard
of the largest joint operation in history.
**[14:53] Richard**
The edge of the spear
that pierces the Legion's defenses.
**[14:57] Richard**
Spearhead.
**[14:59] Richard**
Give this your all.
**[15:02] Grethe**
Permission to speak, General?
**[15:05] Richard**
What is it, Wenzel?
**[15:07] Grethe**
This is a suicide mission!
**[15:10] Grethe**
Why them—
**[15:13] (Flashback) Hart**
Because you're Eighty-Six!
**[15:16] (Flashback) Kaie**
I don't think that's what he's saying.
**[15:18] (Flashback) Daiya**
Well, it's what he means.
**[15:20] (Flashback) Kujo**
We can't assign anybody with a family
to this insane mission, huh?
**[15:26] (Flashback) Myna**
I guess Eighty-Six aren't welcome,
no matter where they go.
**[15:30] (Flashback) Mikuri**
She knows that,
and she's still getting mad.
**[15:32] (Flashback) Mikuri**
She can't change it!
**[15:34] (Flashback) Mikuri**
Like that princess.
**[15:36] (Flashback) Kujo**
I don't know anything about that!
**[15:38] (Flashback) Rekka**
Wow, I can hear the voices of the Legion
all the way in the Republic's capital.
**[15:42] (Flashback) Chise**
Did the white pigs all die?
**[15:45] (Flashback) Kino**
They're on their way to hell!
**[15:46] (Flashback) Kuroto**
I don't know if hell exists,
but it's all the same when you're dead.
**[15:50] (Flashback) Daiya**
Die as scum.
Or die with pride.
**[15:53] (Flashback) Daiya**
It's how you live that's important, right?
**[15:56] (Flashback) Haruto**
We lived with pride!
Right up to the very end!
**[16:01] (Flashback) Kujo**
But that was only
because of you, Undertaker.
**[16:06] (Flashback) Kujo**
Our Reaper!
**[16:08] (Flashback) Kujo**
Don't forget that!
**[16:10] (Flashback) Kujo**
Thanks!
**[16:13] (Flashback) All**
Thanks!
**[16:21] Shin**
I'm left behind... always.
**[16:27] (Flashback) Lena**
I won't let you die.
**[16:32] Shin**
Then I wanted you to live longer
than we did.
**[16:35] (Flashback) Lena**
Don't leave me.
**[16:37] Shin**
That was my wish.
**[16:45] (Flashback) Lena**
I won't forget.
**[16:53] Shin**
Goodbye.
**[16:59] Richard**
Somebody has to do it.
**[17:02] Richard**
In that respect,
you have experience in Legion territory.
**[17:06] Richard**
If you've done it once,
you can do it again.
**[17:09] Richard**
The Federacy saved you
from the battlefield.
**[17:14] Richard**
If you've come back to it,
**[17:18] Richard**
it means you were willing to do this.
**[17:20] Richard**
War is a soldier's job.
**[17:23] Richard**
Dying in battle...
**[17:27] Richard**
is part of the job.
**[17:32] Shin**
Understood.
**[17:37] Grethe**
Are you disillusioned, Lieutenant?
**[17:40] Grethe**
That the world you ended up in
was no better than this?
**[17:44] Shin**
It's the best solution
to the problem at hand.
**[17:47] Shin**
Without taking out the Morpho,
no matter the cost,
**[17:50] Shin**
it will be difficult for the Federacy
to maintain its battle lines.
**[17:53] Grethe**
Yes.
**[17:55] Grethe**
But all we need for this mission
is your power.
**[17:59] Grethe**
As long as the Morpho is destroyed,
I'm allowed to say how the operation is done.
**[18:04] Grethe**
I'm sending the other foreign units
on this mission.
**[18:08] Grethe**
You don't have to go yourself.
**[18:11] Grethe**
You and your friends must stay here.
**[18:13] Grethe**
And when this is over,
quit the military.
**[18:18] Grethe**
You've fought more than enough for your homeland,
which refused to protect you.
**[18:24] Grethe**
So—
**[18:24] Shin**
So...
**[18:26] Shin**
You want us to cease being
who we are,
**[18:29] Shin**
for the sake of your "pity"
and your "sense of justice"?
**[18:32] Shin**
Is that right?
**[18:34] Shin**
I'm grateful that you saved me.
**[18:37] Shin**
But that does not give you
the right to pity me.
**[18:41] Shin**
It doesn't give you the right
to tell me not to fight,
**[18:44] Shin**
or to run from the battle
and make someone else fight for me.
**[18:47] Shin**
I refuse to be like the Republic
**[18:50] Shin**
or turn my eyes from the war
until the day the end comes!
**[18:54] Shin**
We...
**[19:04] Shin**
There may be a time lag
that causes the mission to fail.
**[19:07] Shin**
I'll take direct command
of the assault team.
**[19:19] Ernst**
I guess we can't keep quiet
about it any longer.
**[19:25] Willem**
I'm sorry for making you
do the hard job, General.
**[19:30] Richard**
It's fine.
**[19:31] Richard**
This is a division commander's responsibility.
**[19:35] Richard**
Do you think he'll be able
to come back? Even alone.
**[19:39] Willem**
Strategic Planning HQ says the odds
of survival are close to zero.
**[19:43] Willem**
The soldiers would be furious if one of their friends
was sent on a mission like that.
**[19:49] Willem**
But they'll accept it
if we send the Republic's monsters.
**[19:53] Willem**
They'll smirk and say it's an
appropriate mission for the Eighty-Six.
**[20:00] Willem**
If you're a match for a monster,
that means you're a monster yourself.
**[20:04] Willem**
If death is so attractive to them,
then why don't we let them have it?
***SIGN*** September 2nd, Stellar Year 2149
**[20:23] Grethe**
Any questions?
**[20:36] Bernhold**
Commander,
**[20:39] Bernhold**
I appreciate you not abandoning us, but...
**[20:43] Bernhold**
I can't just watch kids the age of my and
my relatives' children going off to die.
**[20:52] Bernhold**
If you change your mind,
that's fine.
**[20:54] Bernhold**
Tell us to go without you.
**[21:12] Raiden**
Well, it's a bad enough plan
that they're saying that.
**[21:17] Shin**
The Lieutenant Colonel has told us
we're free to refuse.
**[21:21] Kurena**
No way.
**[21:22] Kurena**
If we run now, we're no different
from the white pigs.
**[21:25] Anju**
You snapped at her, too, right?
**[21:28] Anju**
We feel the same way.
**[21:33] Theo**
But we were chosen for the most dangerous part
because we're Eighty-Six, right?
**[21:39] Raiden**
Yeah.
**[21:40] Theo**
Well, we're going 'cause we're Eighty-Six.
**[21:45] Theo**
But I feel kind of lonely.
**[21:52] Raiden**
Yeah.
**[21:57] Raiden**
Shin!
**[21:58] Kurena**
Let's go eat!
**[21:59] Anju**
What's for dinner today?
**[22:01] Theo**
I want something hot.
**[22:02] Theo**
This place is cold.
**[22:04] Kurena**
Right!
**[22:05] Raiden**
You think?
**[22:06] Anju**
It's too cold for girls.
***SIGN*** September 2nd, Stellar Year 2149
***SIGN*** Special Visual Commentary Episode