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* When Kalinin is lecturing the Mithril personnel before the first mission in the series, he emphasizes that they cannot risk allowing their technology to fall into the hands of the enemy, and that if they are forced to abandon their machines, they must destroy them completely--"Don't let them have a single screw." He even makes good on this later on, telling the last to leave the battlefield that they are to launch all of their remaining missiles at Kurz's destroyed AS before leaving, even though he has no confirmation that the operator has escaped from the machine. He's evidently ''very'' serious about not allowing Mithril technology fall into the wrong hands. Why is it, then, that he is totally okay with launching the unmanned Arbalest into enemy territory an episode later, hoping that Sousuke would be the one to locate and pilot it? True, they had confirmation that Sousuke was safe and in hiding, but they had no guarantee that he would be the first to reach the unmanned AS after they launched it, and he was both outnumbered and surrounded, drastically reducing his chances of getting to the vehicle successfully. Moreover, the Arbalest represented the pinnacle of Mithril technology at that point, meaning that if his
** Two things. Firstly, it is demonstrated that when it was revealed, the Arbalest had to be activated via a passcode given by Sosuke that was set to his voice. Presumably, the security system was designed so that if Sosuke didn't reach it in time, it wouldn't have activated if another pilot tried to access it, or it might have even self-destructed. Secondly, the first time they do this, it is a good idea to keep in mind the fact that Tessa and Kalinin were bending the rules to begin with by trying to supply any aid to Sosuke and the others, operational procedure dictating that they should've already gotten the hell out of there. Since they were bucking the rules already, they probably figured it wouldn't hurt to take a leap of faith and pull a very risky maneuver that could cause a great deal of trouble if it failed. Fortunately for them, their risk paid off. But I wouldn't be surprised if they had a few contingency plans in place in case it didn't work.
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