Mecha Hearts · Chapter 1
Mecha Hearts · Chapter 1
Clear 3 floors to complete this chapter. Open the spoiler section for the story title, synopsis, encounters and reward details.
Acquisition & requirements
- Unlock Mecha Hearts.
Deployment briefing
Chapter 1. Clear 3 floors. Recommended combat rating: 17. Regular enemy encounters are generated for the mission theme; the exact rolled roster is not fixed.
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Chapter 1: Scavenger Hunt
Phoenix Squad moves through an abandoned foundry, hunting scavenger drones and discovering remnants of an unknown, sophisticated technology.
Encounter theme: scrap.
Authored boss placements
- Howler · Red Wolf Scavenger
Reveal complete chapter story & dialogue
CHAPTER 1 / STORY & CONVERSATIONS
Chapter 1: Scavenger Hunt
Phoenix Squad moves through an abandoned foundry, hunting scavenger drones and discovering remnants of an unknown, sophisticated technology.
The transcript preserves the original speaker names and text. “PILOT” refers to the player character. Mission dialogue and squad-channel comms are separate story layers.
Mission dialogue · 14 lines
Mission start· beat 1
- Major Kenji
- Phoenix Squad, formation Delta-Seven. Main reactor is ahead. Akira has point; hold your spacing and stay out of his crossfire.
- Ensign Asami
- Quiet channel all week, then this foundry starts answering its own drones. I do not like machinery that learns who is listening.
- Ensign Yusuke
- I ran the odds on 'adapting drone signals' before we launched. Didn't love the number. Bringing it up anyway, because somebody should.
- PILOT
- Copy. We clear the route, scan the core, and get out before this rust heap decides to fall on us.
- Lieutenant Nakamura
- This foundry is off the official maps. Drones have been stripping it for weeks, but their signals are adapting. Find out why something is protecting scrap.
- Major Kenji
- Stay sharp. Whatever is in there is not ours, and it is not Aurora's either.
After floor 1· beat 2
- Sergeant Yuki
- Contact high-left. Three drones now, with a larger cluster moving around the cooling towers.
- Lieutenant Akira
- They learned from the first exchange. I will draw them wide. Keep the line and do not let them reach Yuki's flank.
- Major Kenji
- Bulwark has the center. New pilot, cover Akira's retreat. If those cutters breach formation, we lose the corridor.
- PILOT
- On you, Major. Phoenix holds here.
After floor 3· beat 3
- Ensign Asami
- Whoa. Okay, that alloy signature is NOT scrap-yard standard. I'm reading lattice patterns I've never seen outside a Zenith textbook rumor.
- Major Kenji
- Get a sample and get out. If someone is guarding tech this advanced, they will notice we were here.
- PILOT
- This was not a cleanup run. Whatever made this alloy was here before us.
- Major Kenji
- And now Phoenix has the evidence. Good work. Do not make me repeat it.
Squad comms · 11 lines
Mission start· beat 1
- Ensign Asami
- new op chat! naming rights go to whoever survives the first floor. Yusuke, place your bets now
- Ensign Yusuke
- I never bet on outcomes I have not modeled. Give me forty minutes and a whiteboard.
- Major Kenji
- Comms discipline, both of you. This is a live channel, not the mess hall.
- Sergeant Yuki
- transferred in yesterday and already being told off. good sign, right?
- Lieutenant Nakamura
- Yuki, welcome to Phoenix. Kenji yells at everyone equally. It is load-bearing affection.
After floor 1· beat 2
- Ensign Yusuke
- Whiteboard math says this foundry should not have power. It has power. I do not like when reality skips a step.
- Ensign Asami
- reality skipping steps is my favorite genre, keep us posted nerd
- Sergeant Yuki
- first live drone contact and I already lost count past six. is that normal.
- Lieutenant Nakamura
- Normal is a floor two problem, Sergeant. Survive floor one first.
After floor 2· beat 3
- Ensign Yusuke
- Revised whiteboard math: whoever wired this place had a maintenance budget nobody signed off on. That is not a scrapyard number.
- Major Kenji
- Keep the math to yourself until we are out, Ensign.
Story archive sources
constants.tsdata/story/mechaHearts.tsdata/story/comms/mechaHearts.ts
Original story and squad conversations from the released base game.
Source & verification notes
Extracted from game version 2.2.3. Fresh template statistics and catalog relationships are source-verified. Strategies in guides are reasoned from the implemented rules, unless explicitly described as tested.
constants.tsdata/story/mechaHearts.ts