6 - Steel Step Suite

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    With her death, Asseylum Vers Allusia, loyal
    countryman and beloved family member,
[00:08] ---
    has revealed the truth to us.
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    Through her pious act,
    she has opened our eyes.
[00:18] ---
    We are meting out justice. The Earth
    has spat upon our good faith,
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    heaped insult upon insult,
    and now committed this atrocity!
[00:27] ---
    This is divine retribution
    brought down upon them!
[00:29] ---
    Today, the Vers Empire
    declares war against Earth!
[00:41] ---
    All clear in Block 63B.
[00:42] ---
    All clear in Block 63C.
[00:45] ---
    There's no sign that he has
    escaped from the castle!
[00:46] ---
    Track him down!
[00:48] ---
    Yes, sir!
[00:49] ---
    Damn that boy... How dare he use the
    audience chamber without permission?
[00:53] ---
    When he's found,
    execute him on the spot!
[00:56] ---
    Abide a moment, Count Cruhteo.
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    Milord Saazbaum.
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    He is the son of Dr. Troyard.
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    I wish to question him regarding
    his father's Aldnoah research.
[01:08] ---
    Might I trouble you
    to take him alive?
[01:14] ---
    All right... Please tell me
    what happened after that.
[01:18] ---
    Tell me about the orange Kataphrakt
    that Sir Vlad had been pursuing.
[02:58] ---
    Grandfather... Why?
[03:02] ---
    A formal declaration
    of war, huh?
[03:05] ---
    Just when we heard there was going
    to be a cease-fire, too.
[03:08] ---
    The war never stopped.
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    Lt. Marito...
[03:13] ---
    We all pretended not to
    notice, that's all.
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    Just like the old fart said, that princess'
    death opened our eyes to the truth.
[03:22] ---
    That isn't true! I...
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    Princess Asseylum has
    no desire for war!
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    She tried to act as a bridge of friendship
    between Earth and Vers!
[03:34] ---
    And she ended up being
    the spark that set it off.
[03:39] ---
    This is what they've
    always dreamed of.
[03:42] ---
    Some righteous cause that would
    let them pull out all the stops.
[03:44] ---
    Are you saying that the Martians
    sacrificed their own princess?
[03:48] ---
    Everyone, your attention, please!
[03:50] ---
    Everyone assemble in
    the briefing room!
[03:52] ---
    What's up, Yuki?
[03:54] ---
    Please address me as
    Warrant Officer Kaizuka.
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    We're now officially at war
    with them, too.
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    As of right now, you are drafted
    into service as soldiers.
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    That means that you are to adhere
    to military rules and regulations,
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    and are now obligated to carry out whatever
    duties you are ordered to perform.
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    I look forward to seeing you
    put all that you have learned to good use,
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    go into battle
    with courage in your hearts,
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    and come into your own as warriors who
    safeguard the peace and order of Earth.
[04:28] ---
    This ship will now resupply and make
    repairs at Tanegashima Base.
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    Afterwards, we will most likely
    head for United Earth HQ in Russia.
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    All right, everyone, man your
    stations immediately.
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    That is all. Dismissed.
[04:45] ---
    Soma Yagarai, age 28. My specialties are
    surgery and psychosomatic medicine.
[04:50] ---
    If you ever need counseling,
    my door is always open.
[04:53] ---
    Thank you for your help. We can
    use all the doctors we can get.
[04:54] ---
    So you see, my big sister Seylum has been too
    sick to go to school for the longest time.
[04:58] ---
    If you'll excuse me, then.
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    Oh, is that so?
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    Isn't that right, Your Highness?
[05:02] ---
    Y-Yes!
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    That is why Her Highness never
    received any military training.
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    She is far too frail
    to be a soldier.
[05:10] ---
    Oh...
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    I, on the other hand,
    can pilot a Kat!
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    When you're all grown up,
    please do, okay?
[05:18] ---
    I will! 'Bye, now!
[05:20] ---
    Why do you call your sister
    "Your Highness"?
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    B-Because to me, Seylum
    is my beloved princess!
[05:32] ---
    P-Please forgive my
    familiar tone, Milady.
[05:34] ---
    That's quite all right, thank you.
[05:38] ---
    And what about you?
[05:40] ---
    How old are you? Everyone who had military
    training in high school is being drafted.
[05:46] ---
    I was kept out of school...
    for family reasons.
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    I see. Well, even if you're not
     fighting at the front,
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    there are plenty of things
    you can help with at the rear.
[05:54] ---
    If you like, you could even support
    everyone as a volunteer.
[05:59] ---
    Don't you want to do your part to
    defend Earth from the Martians?
[06:12] ---
    Why am I a maintenance worker
    instead of a pilot?!
[06:15] ---
    You did flunk piloting, Calm..
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    Mechanics are just as crucial to the war.
    Without them, the Kats won't work.
[06:23] ---
    How am I supposed to waste those
    guys if I'm stuck in the hangar?!
[06:27] ---
    Hey, don't be so gung-ho.
[06:30] ---
    These past 15 years, no one's
    seen any real action.
[06:34] ---
    Those who did are all dead.
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    On the Martian side, too.
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    Meaning that friend and foe alike
    are all virgins, same as you.
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    Not all of us.
[06:46] ---
    Inaho, are you saying you-
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    You lived through it, Lt. Marito.
    Isn't that right?
[06:53] ---
    Oh, you mean that.
[06:55] ---
    The scorebook says otherwise.
[06:57] ---
    The Tanegashima Report
    I wrote got buried.
[07:01] ---
    Tanegashima Report?
[07:04] ---
    It's where the fragments first fell
    when the Moon was destroyed
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    during Heaven's Fall 15 years ago.
[07:10] ---
    Yeah... But something came down there
    before the Moon did.
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    Martians.
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    We went up against those monster Martian
    Kataphrakts in obsolete tanks.
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    We were wiped out.
[07:29] ---
    Right after that, the Hyper Gate
    went out of control on the Moon,
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    Heaven's Fall was set off
    by the spacetime quake,
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    and those Martian bastards
    wiped out the entire battlefield.
[07:39] ---
    There's no physical evidence.
[07:41] ---
    My report was made out to be the ramblings
    of a madman written in terror.
[07:46] ---
    But it was the truth.
[07:48] ---
    Mars' Kataphrakts are way beyond what
    Earth's technology can produce.
[07:52] ---
    Either way, the end result
    will be the same.
[07:55] ---
    Because Earth doesn't have
    Aldnoah drives.
[07:59] ---
    Aldnoah drives...
[08:07] ---
    Fugitive located! He's in
    the Sky Carrier hangar!
[08:10] ---
    Do not let him escape.
[08:21] ---
    Damn him... How long is he going to
    continue making me look the fool?
[08:29] ---
    The basics are the same as the trainer...
    Even with the higher output,
[08:33] ---
    if gravity and surface hardness
    remain the same,
[08:36] ---
    its agility will only decrease to
    the extent that its weight increases.
[08:42] ---
    I'll just have to acclimate.
[08:53] ---
    So this is where
    you were, Inaho.
[08:56] ---
    Yes.
[08:59] ---
    It truly is lovely...
[09:03] ---
    Is a blue sky
    that unusual to you?
[09:05] ---
    Yes... Are you studying?
[09:09] ---
    I'm brushing up. I'm not sure
    how useful it will be, though.
[09:13] ---
    Why is that?
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    Because we don't
    have Aldnoah.
[09:18] ---
    What's this "Aldnoah" thing, anyway?
[09:24] ---
    Aldnoah is technology belonging to a supercivilization
    that was discovered in ancient ruins on Vers,
[09:31] ---
    the world your people call Mars.
[09:34] ---
    The first Terran to make
    contact and awaken it
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    was Dr. Rayregalia Vers Rayvers,
[09:42] ---
    my grandfather
    and ruling emperor of Vers.
[09:48] ---
    Aldnoah, activated after
    so many eons,
[09:52] ---
    recognized Grandfather
    as its rightful heir
[09:56] ---
    and burned the Aldnoah activation
    factor into his very genes.
[10:01] ---
    Which means that...
[10:03] ---
    Yes. The only ones with the innate ability
    to activate Aldnoah are grandfather
[10:08] ---
    and his descendants.
[10:13] ---
    In exchange for the knights
    swearing fealty to him,
[10:17] ---
    he gave them Aldnoah
    and its activation factor.
[10:21] ---
    Using that power,
    the knights created
[10:24] ---
    mighty castles and Kataphrakts
    and ruled over the colonies.
[10:32] ---
    And now, those who settled the desolate
     lands of Mars have set their eyes...
[10:39] ---
    on Earth.
[10:40] ---
    The cradle of all humanity, a land blessed
    with water and air in such abundance
[10:44] ---
    that they refract light to make
    the sea and sky appear blue.
[10:49] ---
    That isn't true.
[10:52] ---
    The blue sky isn't caused by diffraction, but
    through the effects of Rayleigh scattering.
[10:57] ---
    But Slaine said it was caused
    by light diffraction...
[11:00] ---
    The sky is blue from Rayleigh scattering,
    clouds are white from Mie scattering.
[11:06] ---
    Your friend was mistaken.
[11:19] ---
    Excuse me!
[11:21] ---
    Would it be okay if I took over?
[11:23] ---
    You're a real go-getter, aren't you?
[11:25] ---
    I just want to
    get a feel for it.
[11:27] ---
    What did you get in Docking?
[11:30] ---
    Um, A-minus... sir.
[11:33] ---
    When we come into port,
    stand next to me and watch.
[11:35] ---
    Also, take your hands
    out of your sleeves.
[11:37] ---
    Y-Yes, sir! Sorry, sir.
    Thank you, sir.
[11:42] ---
    Aren't we going to get uniforms?
[11:44] ---
    We don't have enough. I'm hoping
    we can stock up at the next port.
[11:53] ---
    It doesn't really feel right...
[11:55] ---
    Why go to Tanegashima, though?
[11:58] ---
    I thought this area
    had been sealed off.
[12:00] ---
    With our intel on their
    Landing Castles so spotty now,
[12:03] ---
    we'd like to avoid any areas
    that are likely invasion targets.
[12:06] ---
    Tanegashima is an area that was devastated so
    badly that the very landscape was altered.
[12:12] ---
    Even now, there is no
    civilian population here.
[12:15] ---
    So you think the Martians
    that came down in Tokyo
[12:17] ---
    won't bother attacking
    anything this far out?
[12:31] ---
    I never thought I'd come
    back here like this.
[12:38] ---
    Isn't it a bit early for that?
[12:41] ---
    This isn't for me. It's for the ones
    who can't drink anymore.
[12:49] ---
    Like John Humeray?
[12:58] ---
    And...
[13:00] ---
    This one is for me.
[13:02] ---
    I'm jumping off the wagon.
    Want a belt, Doc?
[13:07] ---
    I think I will.
[13:08] ---
    Mind if I join you?
[13:11] ---
    Capt. Magbaredge.
[13:17] ---
    The Tanegashima Report. I've heard
    rumors about it, of course.
[13:23] ---
    But I never once believed
    it was a fabrication.
[13:27] ---
    And that's exactly why, Lt. Marito...
[13:31] ---
    That's why I have a particular
    dislike for you.
[13:37] ---
    That battle on Tanegashima...
    My big brother fought in it, too.
[13:43] ---
    He was killed in action.
    Murdered, rather. By you.
[13:50] ---
    Magbaredge is the name of
    the family that adopted me.
[13:54] ---
    My birth name was Humeray.
[13:58] ---
    Your best friend was my brother.
[14:22] ---
    Enemy craft above Tanegashima!
[14:23] ---
    Anti-air combat! Take us out
    to open water!
[14:26] ---
    Maximum combat speed,
[14:27] ---
    hard right rudder!
[14:29] ---
    M-Me, ma'am?!
[14:30] ---
    Damage report!
[14:32] ---
    Missile impact, Block 18!
    No detonation!
[14:35] ---
    Appears to be a dud-
    No, wait!
[14:38] ---
    What is it?!
[14:39] ---
    It's moving... It's alive!
[14:50] ---
    What the hell was that?!
[14:52] ---
    It's coming back!
[15:00] ---
    Helm not responding!
[15:02] ---
    We're going to collide!
[15:03] ---
    All hands, brace for impact!
[15:33] ---
    Entering my territory without
    so much as a by your leave?
[15:37] ---
    Such atrocious manners.
[15:40] ---
    I must rake you over the coals.
    Rather hot ones.
[15:46] ---
    What is it doing
    this far out?
[15:48] ---
    This must be a different Martian
    than the one in Tokyo.
[15:51] ---
    Order the shipboard Kats to launch.
[15:54] ---
    Friesian Platoon, launch!
[15:56] ---
    Raising elevator 1.
[16:01] ---
    Calm!
[16:03] ---
    This one isn't powering up.
[16:04] ---
    Sorry! We're running
    a systems check on that!
[16:06] ---
    Give us a minute!
[16:15] ---
    It's kinda cramped in here...
[16:19] ---
    Inaho?
[16:22] ---
    Force feedback
    checking program, start.
[16:25] ---
    Ejection seat functional.
    IFF confirmed.
[16:29] ---
    Tactical datalink, activated.
[16:31] ---
    All systems green.
[16:39] ---
    Mustang Leader to Mustang 22.
[16:41] ---
    Nao, you're in a trainer,
    so you be our marksman.
[16:44] ---
    Yuki? But your arm is still-
[16:46] ---
    If my newbie is fighting,
    I can't sit this out, can I?
[16:49] ---
    Warrant Officer Kaizuka!
[16:50] ---
    "Yuki" is fine.
[16:52] ---
    Over and out!
[16:58] ---
    Unbelievable.
[17:02] ---
    Mustang Leader, Warrant Officer
    Yuki Kaizuka, now launching!
[17:06] ---
    Raising elevator 2
    and vehicle elevator.
[17:09] ---
    Friesian Platoon, deploy on the bow.
    Mustang Platoon, you're on the stern.
[17:13] ---
    All units, intercept airborne
    flying weapons!
[17:19] ---
    I almost feel sorry for you,
[17:22] ---
    you inferior race that does not
    possess the Aldnoah drive.
[17:26] ---
    Cower before my power,
    bow down before me,
[17:29] ---
    and then despair and die!
[17:35] ---
    Fly, my messengers!
[17:52] ---
    Spread out! If you're clustered
    too tight, you'll be sitting ducks!
[18:00] ---
    Damn, they're tough!
[18:01] ---
    My fists are transformed into a single molecule.
    Your bullets are useless against them.
[18:06] ---
    Mustang Leader to all units! AP rounds
    ineffective against enemy's armor!
[18:09] ---
    All units, switch over
    to HE rounds and attack!
[18:12] ---
    - R-Roger!
    - Roger.
[18:14] ---
    Crap!
[18:16] ---
    Lt. Marito!
    Where are you going?
[18:18] ---
    I'm playing my home field again!
    I can take to the field, right?
[18:27] ---
    Or maybe this is
    an away game...
[18:38] ---
    Inko, watch our back!
[18:40] ---
    Roger!
[18:51] ---
    On your feet!
    You're a sitting duck there!
[18:54] ---
    Y-Yes, ma'am!
    Sorry, Inaho! Are you okay?
[18:57] ---
    I'm fine.
[18:59] ---
    Is this one good to go?
[19:01] ---
    Lt. Marito? No, that one's
    still being tuned!
[19:05] ---
    But it runs, right? I just
    need it to fire one shot.
[19:08] ---
    Get a heavy barrel ready for it!
[19:13] ---
    Damn... it....
[19:25] ---
    Oh, come on! What the hell?!
[19:34] ---
    Block 24 hit! Blocks 23, 24,
    and 25 taking on water!
[19:39] ---
    Evacuate the affected
    blocks immediately.
[19:42] ---
    But if we don't seal
    the bulkheads, we-
[19:44] ---
    It's all right.
[19:45] ---
    The ship is done for, anyway.
[19:48] ---
    Abandon ship,
    noncombatants first!
[19:51] ---
    Get the landing craft
    prepped for launch ASAP!
[20:00] ---
    What?
[20:03] ---
    This way, everyone!
[20:05] ---
    Please be careful, Milady!
[20:07] ---
    Thank you.
[20:13] ---
    Enemy unit overhead
    is in a nosedive!
[20:15] ---
    Three others closing in
    from our flanks!
[20:18] ---
    They appear to be accelerating from
    a distance to build up speed!
[20:22] ---
    It's on a collision course
    with the bridge!
[20:23] ---
    I have toyed with you for
    long enough. Now, die!
[20:29] ---
    Here it comes!
[20:46] ---
    What happened?
[20:48] ---
    Direct hit!
    Next, 3 mil right!
[20:51] ---
    Not even HE rounds can destroy
    those things' armor plating.
[20:56] ---
    But...
[21:02] ---
    ...from this range, we can use the
    blast pressure to throw it off course.
[21:05] ---
    No sign of movement in
    primary enemy craft!
[21:07] ---
    Next! Left 7 mil!
[21:12] ---
    Direct hit! Last!
[21:23] ---
    We won't make it...
[21:30] ---
    Out of ammo?
[21:31] ---
    Captain...
[21:33] ---
    This is the end.
[21:41] ---
    What was that?!
[21:45] ---
    Huh? We're alive?
[21:59] ---
    That's...