they’d better be numbered, for everyones sake, at the very least his pilot status should be revoked pending investigation in the next episode.

btw, with the scoreboard is lee zejhang included in jihad-kun’s kill score?

Oh no, she thinks like Ranka…

She’s about as useful as Ranka too and by that I mean she isn’t.

As much as the personnel in the high orbit station were on the ball monitoring things, the anchored counterweights releasing was most likely still part of the autopurging. If if the autopurge failed, or they’d needed to cut loose remains of the low orbit station, then they’d likely be the ones making the decision. Weighing potential survivors over the needs to rebalance the elevator would be a decision the engineers would be puting in human hands, not a computer’s hands.

Anyways I say that they intended a direct hit that cuts the tether in part because it’d almost be safer than an indirect hit that leaves the tether intact. A direct hit would chop off the bottom most segment of the elevator. Elevator gets lightened, releases some anchors to compensate, done (save for the falling debris, but that’s a different problem). With an indirect hit you’ve got a bunch of unsupported, unbalanced weight swinging around at the bottom of the elevator if the autopurge fails and the high orbit station can’t purge it manually.

You’d also run the risk that if the low orbit station wreckage needed to be ejected to keep the center of mass at geosynchrous orbit the high orbit station commander wouldn’t be willing to do so without a search for survivors. That episode back in season one showed that provisions were made for decompression and such.

The flip side is that cutting part of the tether makes it harder to rebuild things. They might even have to entirely replace the tether cables, which would be difficult, time consuming, and expensive.

@Jarmel
I still think it implausible for the whole thing to have shifted from a beam saber no matter how big it was. If you are right colony dropping yourself puts us in SEED territory. It’s fine if you want to kill off part of the population, but you don’t colony drop yourself to do it…

@Czarina
Patrick, Prince Ali just needs a Nu-Arche.

@Kururu
Here here!

@Epi
It could have been better if they did not set up Divine’s last sortie so poorly, as epic as it was colony dropping yourself is still epic, epically stupid.

If Marie spares Andrei she will be worse than worthless.

Everyone knew Sergei was going to die, so I guess this was an appropriate death. Now Marie/Soma is going to fight again, cause she has to kill Andrei.

SERGEI!

Oh, Andrei, you are NR. 1 target of Soma/Marie and if you are target of this supersoldier then you are Alleliujah’s target too.
No one ordered Andrei to kill his father. He has done this by his own free will.

@Czarina:
Patrick can’t pilot mobile suits, because his captain doesn’t allow him to pilot them. And if Patrick will get something to pilot it perhaps will be just his old Enact without any new toys.

If Ribbons faced a full rebellion by A-Laws and his own Innovators I have no doubt he would do a colony drop to shut people up. Personally if I was trying to take over the world, killing 90-95 percent is a good way to start. Trying to control roughly 7-8 billion people would be way too hard.

If Ribbons hit the reset button now, then I have to say we gave him more credit than he was due.

@mel
It was sad, but I still think Andrei is a creepy guy who Googled Louise…

Andrei also knows that when “you have to shoot, shoot! Don’t talk!”. I hope Louise will act the same against Saji… oh, who am I kidding.