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Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 61

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  1. [April 25, 2168]
  2. [STRQ Industries Underground R&D Centre]
  3. [Nagoya, Japan]
  4. [Japanese Mainland]
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  8. Deep underground the city of Nagoya rests STRQ Industries' underground R&D centre, currently being laundered to Jiro Ifukube for his personal Evangelion Project. Unlike most days, however, the majority of the commotion is taking place in a different section of the facility. This one is much larger than the hangar bays where Evangelion Unit-01 and its armour were being worked on, and it includes several features that wouldn't be out of place in a C.D.F. training ground such as barricades and shooting ranges; the scale is simply much larger.
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  10. The most obvious attention-drawing part of the upscaled training ground would have to be the stand-in for a trainee: Eva Unit-01.
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  12. The giant humanoid body has had one of the prototype suits of armour, a simple orange shell to fit Unit-01's body without extra cosmetic adornments and a simple single-lens helmet visor. Additionally, the refit job has not made use of grafting to fuse the biomechanical base with the armour plating. Instead, the prototype armour layer was bolted on so as to allow ease of removal for more advanced testing.
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  15. (Jiro Ifukube): [COMMS] Now that I've finished my call with Wei and Anna, we can get started. Alright, begin insertion.
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  18. On the project head's command, the operation commences. Eva Unit-01's back opens up, revealing a cylindrical tunnel into the centre of the humanoid's body. Several robotic arms slot a long cylinder into this whole; the opening closes up once the rod has clicked in.
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  21. (Jiro Ifukube): [COMMS] Good. Begin activation sequence.
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  24. The helmet visor starts to light up. At first, it only blinks occasionally; this blinking picks up in pace, soon becoming a full red glow after a few seconds. In conjunction with the visor glowing fully, the head of Unit-01 starts to move; it first looks up and down, then side to side. Soon enough, the head is engaging in a full range of motion as it looks around the room; it fixes its gaze on the small windowed room overlooking the entire large hangar bay.
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  27. (Jiro Ifukube): [COMMS] You can move your head, that's a good start. Unfortunately, your vocal chords and COMMS system have been restricted for the time being. Just nod or shake your head, or flash your visor in Morse code sequence if you need to say something specific.
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  30. Eva Unit-01 nods its head in response to Jiro Ifukube's comment. It then turns its attention forward at the upscaled training ground in front of it. While the giant mechanoid seems eager to begin immediately, it's held back by the cables hooked up to its back and limbs, as well as its feet being bolted to the platform it's standing on currently.
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  33. (Jiro Ifukube): [COMMS] I know that the four of you collectively are eager to test out your new body now that you have full control, but we need to start with the basics before we get into advanced training. Let's start by seeing if you can get a handle on your basic range of motion.
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  36. On the project head's command, the bolts keeping Evangelion Unit-01 attached to its platform are blasted off. At first, the unit stumbles forward a bit and would've fallen over were it not for the cables on its back and limbs holding it up somewhat. Soon enough, though, the giant humanoid gains a better grasp of its footing and starts to walk forwards and backwards a little.
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  38. Unit-01 then brings its hands up to its face to get a good look at them; it then waves its arms around a little to see how well it can handle the movements. After a few moments of this, the cables attached to the back of its body and limbs disconnect, allowing it to move around freely now. Eva Unit-01 jumps on the spot a bit and starts to stretch; in general, the mechanoid is getting a feel for how it moves now compared to the simulations. Once Unit-01 is satisfied with its mastery over a general range of motion, it proceeds to the first station of the upscaled training ground.
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  40. The first station looks to be an obstacle course, with sections designed to suit particular skills, such as a long track filled with barricades, low hanging pipes and cables, and scalable walls
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  43. (Jiro Ifukube): [COMMS] Here's the first part of your real-world testing. Try and complete this obstacle course to get used to more advanced movements. BEGIN!
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  46. A siren blares across the hangar bay, the signal to start the first trial. Eva Unit-01 immediately sprints forward, not breaking pace for one moment as it effortlessly weaves around or jumps over barricades. Once the mechanoid comes to its first wall, it immediately begins to scramble up. At first, its massive size and strength prevents it from properly grasping the small handholds without crushing them; eventually, the unit starts to channel its Ki more precisely and begins to climb like a pro.
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  48. Once Eva Unit-01 has finished scrambling over the scalable walls, it drops down with a thud, indenting the floor a bit.
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  50. It then runs forward once again, rolling and crouching underneath some of the low-hanging pipes and cables; it finishes the obstacle course by sliding underneath the last pipe. A siren blares once again, indicating that it has completed the obstacle course.
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  53. (Jiro Ifukube): [COMMS] Excellent. It's good to see that you four as Eva Unit-01 haven't slacked in your training. Alright, move on to the shooting range. I decided to get you acquainted with handheld weapons developed by the Bilusaludo first before we try integrated weapon systems.
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  56. Evangelion Unit-01 walks over to the shooting range. This second station of the training ground has a few different upscaled weapons set up, along with some inactive targets. The giant humanoid picks up the first weapon, an upscaled pistol in essence; in reality, it's actually an extremely large artillery railgun by Human standards. Once Unit-01 picks up the rail-pistol, the weapon immediately lights up to signify that it's now in sync with the mechanoid's Ki, the targets lift up and start moving around.
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  58. At first, Unit-01 aims slowly and methodically to be absolutely accurate with its shots. Soon enough, though, the Evangelion starts to pop off railgun rounds in quick succession whilst maintaining the same precision as before; the target dummies are all destroyed in the span of a minute and a half.
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  60. Eva Unit-01 puts down the rail-pistol and picks up the upscaled rifle. Once again, although it appears to be a standard automatic rifle to the mechanoid, it's actually a modified electromagnetic induction cannon that only Bilusaludo warships use for destroying hardened asteroids. With its mastery over the rail-pistol under its belt, Unit-01 confidently shoulders the pallet-rifle and aims down range. This time, targets layered in Titanium-S armour and coated with hard-light barriers present themselves. As it did before, Unit-01 focuses fire quickly and accurately, collapsing the hard-light and shredding the targets with ease.
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  62. It's good that Eva Unit-01 so easily dispatched the targets, since the pallet-rifle's ammunition in its current pack has been depleted. The giant humanoid puts the rifle down and turns to look up at the room that Jiro Ifukube is in.
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  65. (Jiro Ifukube): [COMMS] Alright, that was good. If only Thomas Scott could see you now. I think he'd be proud of the soldier you've become. Okay, I think that's enough for right now. Come back to the platform, and we'll get you four out of that body so that you can tell me how it felt to really move about.
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  68. Evangelion Unit-01 nods and starts to walk back to the platform that it was resting on at the start of this test trial.
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  76. "Where have you gone?"
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  78. "Your light is familiar, yet also different."
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  80. "You remind me of the three-headed one, but much greater."
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  82. "Please, speak to me again. I can tell you are a Metarch like I, but I must know which one, and how you spoke to me."
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