Arknights: Starsfall I

Chapter 81

United States Government Intranet

[ Welcome to the Executive Branch of the United States, Ms. Mayla Hawthorne ]

Who is this? Is this the president of our Earth counterpart?

- President of the Columbian Union

Good afternoon everybody, I am Mayla Hawthorne, former Advisor for the Department of Homeland Security.

I look forward to taking good care of the United States of America till elections properly come around. And trust me, I will lead this country through these trying times.

- POTUS, Mayla Hawthorne

The Upgrade package for the M1A3, Bradley, Stryker, and several other systems for the U.S. Military is coming up soon. It is going to be a technological leap in almost every aspect.

- Department of Defense Announcement

[ Commander on Deck, Communication uplinks established, all facilities are ready to work ] - New San Francisco, Columbian Union

For the record, who gave the UN forces on Terra our CROWS and CSAMM Kits and said, "Go nuts?"

- Director of the CIA

DARTs did, they said that we need to keep as much distance from Casters - Gun or pure Arts - as possible. Although I'm not sure how we are going to achieve that, because we are operating almost entirely in cities where close quarters is completely unavoidable.

Unrelated, we are still interrogating "Skullshatterer" and "W". W is continiously mentioning a figure named 'Ines', we are trying to get more out of her.

- Eliza Cohen, 'Ash'

Okay, I finally took a look at some of the engines ya'll are using in the DoD... and I got this confirmed by General Electric and Dynamics; How the fuck is the Gas Turbine engine the most long-lasting engine as of late? The fucking thing can take Gas, Diesel, Vegetable oil, jet fuel. Even H Y D R O G E N.

This engine is eternal and I'm convinced that it will stay with us till death do us part.

- Secretary of Energy.

"Hot pot and a dragon"

December 29th, Earth Time, 2055
October 30th, Terra Time, 1097

Nian

Lungmen. The main bits of the city, where all the fun is to be had.

On a street, in the downtown sections, there walked a woman. She had a unique appearance, and it made her mostly stand out in the crowd of people moving out and about to get some food for the Afternoon.

Her eyes were purple, with red eyeliner all around her eyelashes and eyebrows. She had somewhat pointy ears that each had an ornament that hung down. Her hair was weight, 2 large bits sticking down alongside her face, reaching her upper body. She also appears to be wearing a pony tail and letting some of her hair in the back rest on her upper shoulder blades.

She had 2, prominent horns, shade of red that hung on each side of her face.

She was dressed in a large jacket. mostly white with ancient-Chinese-like markings on parts near her shoulder and the lower bits. A prominent mix of Red and white was the color scheme. On herself, she wore a red sports bra. She also wore a pair of sport-like shorts, with what looks like a camera on it.