(http://www.thatanimeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/snapshot20080628030214.jpg)<br/>Captain Harlock enters the Bridge ahead of you, and walks over to peer over the back of the navigator's chair.<br/><br/>"Bring up the forward Lance Battery on the main viewscreen, will you, Vanessa?"  He asks her quietly.<br/><br/>Turning his back to the main viewscreen as an image of a titanic undermounted turret carrying a pair of enormous Laser Lances comes up on the main viewscreen. "This is the Everest's new main cannon.  A Sunhammer Lance Battery.  I've had matching Sunhammer Lances put into each of the  port and starboard gun mounts, and they're backed up by a Sunsear Laser Battery on either side of the ship."  He shrugs  self deferentially.  "I know that Commodore Aquairre promised you that the Everest would be fully operational, save  it's weapons when it was turned over to your command, but a Cruiser with no teeth is hardly anything more than a target for capture.   So I used what contacts and pull I had to locate this matching set of weaponry for the Everest, and had them  shipped here at my  own expense.  They've got a bit better range then the old Everest's guns, but I'm afraid they're not  in the best of condition.  They'll  work, of course, but my engineers tell me that they've lost about 10% beam strength off  of their original testing specs.  Still, they'll make mincemeat out of most targets regardless."<br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://www.kent.net/robotech/characters/macross/bridge_bunnies.gif)</div>Jason Harlock then calls his crew to attention, and several women stand up from stations around the bridge.  " These are my bridge crew.  The old bridge was hit during the battle of Ares, so most of the original bridge crew died with the old captain.  The Harlock family sponsors some of the best and brightest to the naval academy each year, and I put in a request for a new bridge crew to be formed from the best of the best.  Sammy, Kim and Vanessa here were in the top 2% of their graduating class, and they're rapidly adjusting to the systems here on the Everest."  He smiles and nods at them.  "Keep up the good work, Ladies."<br/><br/>Captain Harlock goes over to his command chair, and the "bridge bunnies" quickly take their positions as well.   "I had prepared a little demonstration of the destructive power of our new forward lance... a bit of debris... a large hull plate, actually,  from the battle has been clogging up the space-ways in the area for awhile... and I've made sure that all traffic in the immediate vicinity is clear."<br/><br/>The captain taps the right arm of his captain's chair once, and a complicated looking joystick controller rises from it.  "I had the firing controls slaved to my chair... I happen to be a pretty good shot, actually.  They threw in a imput pathway for someone with a Mind Impulse Unit as well...."  He shrugs.  "Unfortunately I don't know a good cybernetic  qualified surgeon I can trust in the area, or I'd had one put in myself."<br/><br/>He moves the joystick slightly, causing the enormous Lance Battery on the forward viewscreen to move in sympathy, before suddenly turning to his guests.  "But of course, I am being rude.   Would one of you like to take the shot?"<br/>