first trial

[airlockedmods]

[When the announcement sounds and the evidence gathered it’s time for a trial. When the remaining champions are all gathered by the repaired docking bay doors they slide slowly slide open.

There are two lines of robots, silent as sentries, creating a border path from the docking bay doors to the circle of metal podiums. The podiums themselves were made of strange metals in red and gold and orange and black, each one etched with the name of one of the Champions. There are flood lights - like spot lights - in front of each podium, but the lights in front of Shirou, Hamilton, and Albel are dark, and hung on the front of their podiums are greyscale portraits, printed from their profiles.

Blaze Dudely stands on a repair deck on top of his ship, which looms over the proceedings ominously. Rather than the glee the Champions may think he would take in this kind of display, he merely stands there with his arms crossed, expression unreadable and his cyborg eye scanning the Champions with a piercing scrutiny, like he's searching for one of them to act out of line.]

Mornin’, Champions. Here’s how this is goin’ to go: take the evidence ya found, piece together what happened and find who took out the Champion Swordsman. If ya find them, they’ll be dealt with. If ya don’t, they’ll be free to go and the rest of ya will face punishment. Take the time ya need but don’t bore me.

Comments

[tenimuho]

It would be fairly difficult. I don't think most of us would have been able to make sense of the wires at all. You'd have to specialize in that kind of thing.

[induality]

Right... th-that's not something you could learn overnight...

[tenimuho]

Even if you were studying the robotics books here, you'd have to learn from scratch, not just jump to complex bits like cybernetic prosthetics.

[power_of_dominance]

So if this murder has something to do with cybernetics, that narrows the field of suspects significantly.

Unless it's a red herring.

[tenimuho]

That's also possible. But we should keep it in mind.

[power_of_dominance]

Yeah, it's way too early to discredit anything completely. But we also can't put too much weight on any one thing just yet.

[induality]

The fact that the arm was tampered with is undeniable. They were clearly after something... why else would they linger at a cr-crime scene? I-It's risky...

[induality]

Exactly. If they needed that book it was probably because they saw something specific they weren't familiar with. W-we're form different worlds and places... it's not hard to believe they'd still need the book...