@Boeing727200F If a Soian unit has already arrived it'll be completely safe. It's the before which is the point of concern.

@Graingy only hope that the locomotive ends up not being the target and just ends up in the cross fire if attacked.

@Boeing727200F Well, the thing that needs to be kept in mind about not just MS units, but about Soia in general, is that to them existence has become a game.
They've won.
There's no further to climb.
If they truly want anything, courtesy of omnipotence it will happen (save one irrelevant detail, but again, irrelevant).
Accordingly, their actions are almost entirely based on their mood. If they're in a better mood they'll play by the "rules". They won't interfere too much with things as watching it play out is more interesting.
If they're peeved, they'll likely still play by the rules but are more likely to interfere in smaller ways.
If their patience has run out then they'll take the direct route. How direct varies, but in this case it'd probably either mean yoinking the locomotive before anything can hit it, or evaporating the bombers in their entirety leaving little more than a puff of hot gas in their place.
The question then is: how are they feeling?

@Graingy also the fact that most of the time, heavy bombers if hit and can no longer sustain flight have been told to just "aim the aircraft at the target and bail out". i mean it works well enough, the aircraft isnt going to make back to base so just crash into the target. so im sure the MS unit (who would most likely devastate a formation) would end up having critically damaged planes just dive down and fly into it.

@Boeing727200F As if.
The Soians will probably just dispatch a single MS unit (the one who knocked the engine into the Tumour to begin with, most definitely).
The power such a unit can put out can range from flashlight to... well, to such a scale that you wouldn't believe me if I tried to tell you. I can hardly believe it myself, honestly.
If it's region-flattening, it'd probably just be a single burst that'd hit like an asteroid.

@Graingy heavy bomber carpet bombing.

@Boeing727200F Bro-
Well, in any case the fireworks will be interesting.
This could go as simply as an equipment neutralization as retribution (e.g. knocking out the aircraft's engine(s)), or as flashy as leveling an entire region.
Which are you hoping for?

@Graingy

Where is it?

active warzone

How dangerous is the area?

yes.

@Boeing727200F Who knows. Where is it? How dangerous is the area?
In any case, Soia will get something, whether it be the engine or someone's skull.

@Graingy who do you think is going to get to the engine first?
soia, or CAS.
put your bets in here.

@Boeing727200F It is probably going to get taken back once Soia catches wind. The game is guessing how long that'll take.
Betting three thumb tacks and a rusty screw on 3 hours.
C'mon baby, win me big.

@Graingy no idea what going to happen to the poor engine.
thing is most likely going to get destroyed by CAS and dumped again along with the wrecked Schnabel car.

@Boeing727200F Oh.
Ohhh.
Oh okay yeah an MS unit is probably about to get in some degree of trouble for that.

@Graingy from what i recall, the engine just more or less appeared out of thin air one day and ATLX (the blue patch job people) just loaded it onto a Schnabel car and just ran.

@Boeing727200F This better be legal...
Eh, that's the sales team's job. I'm just gonna stare at the clown more.
heheh microplastics and hubris hehehehe

@Graingy idk the company who owns the engine powering the train

@Boeing727200F Then... who is?

(besides being the one who painted it on the Schnabel car)

@Graingy im not any bit related in that trains existence on that Schnabel car.

(also I finished the jester thing)

@Boeing727200F Boeing.
Did you or did you not pay for that locomotive.
Answer the question, Boeing.

routes being pre planned and stuff being modified to allow the object to pass is a very common practice with oversized items. a Schnabel car would rather go up and down a mountain then go through a straight away with a single tunnel on it.

@Boeing727200F Alrighty.
That thing was paid for, correct?

@Graingy route was pre planned to avoid issues about the loading gauge.

@Boeing727200F The weight isn't the issue, it's the loading gauge. That locomotive is 4m wide.