The battleship hangar is quite similar to what you are used to, what makes the differences all the more jarring. Anyway, with Octo Squad and the ATX team already docked, you open the cockpit and step outside, onto the catwalk.
You change out of the spacesuit onto a spare uniform that is your size, and are presented to the rest of the pilots. You note that Ensign Browning's voice remind you of Scirocco's aide, what was her name? Sarah Zerov? Anyway you go to the bridge, where you hope to get some answers.
But everything is in chaos in the bridge when you arrive. Apparently, a bigshot in this Earth Federation called Bian Zoldark has started a rebellion against the government. His reason? The leadership of the Earth Federation was about to sell Earth to the aliens who had just attacked the Hiryuu in exchange for their safety, the real reason of the ceremony in the Antarctica. You don't find it too difficult to believe, thanks to your own experience.
While Zoldark drones about the Divine Crusaders mission (idly, you note that he sounds a bit like Ryu Jose at times), you got a moment to check some bits in the civilian infonets. Yep, it seems that your hunch was correct. The story of this world is considerably different than your own from the last third of the XXth Century AD onwards, although there are some repeating patterns like space expansion and Earth-colonies conflict.
"Commander Ray?" says commander Webley as you shake your head. "Captain Lefina want to talk to you in her office." You look and see that the captain is in the back of the bridge, accompanied by Major Zomvolt
You follow him into a nearby cabin, which has a small table with an incorporated computer, a chair behind it and seats folded against the wall facing the table. After the captain sits, you wait for permission to sit down. You wonder for a moment why the Major is here, but you realize that as the higher ranked pilot in the complement of the Hiryuu, he would the Commander of the Mob... Personal Trooper Group, or in pre-MS terms, the Commander of the Air Group.
"Why are you still standing?" she says in surprise. You realize then that both Commander Webley and the Major had sat in the folding seats.
"Ah... I was waiting for permission to sit down, captain. At least that is what I'm used to..." you debate with yourself for a moment, but you decide that honesty is the best policy "...in my Earth."
You see an absolute lack of surprise in everybody faces.
"You did know this." You accuse
"We had a good hunch after I got one of the technicians to make an examination of the exterior of Nu Gundam." Said Commander Webley, with a smile. "In short words it's either the most unnecessarily detailed hoax ever built, or it's truly from another world. Add that I noticed what you were looking in that console."
"Well, I was hoping to join your forces, but..."
"You are worried that the EFA may have start out as an ensign, or worse, as a enlisted crewman." Says captain Lefina with a charming smile "Don't worry about that. We can register you as an Auxiliary Combatant and you will be part of our complement..."
"...With a reduction of one in rank." Completes Major Sanger, and then explain "It's a holdover from the days where militias and irregular units regularly supplemented the EFA. They didn't want any two-bit warlord to outrank a EFA senior officer."
You keep talking for a while,after that you get out and decide what to do.
Choose two options (this cover the next 8 hours period):
[] Timeskip to the orders
[] Socializing with the pilots
[] Working on replacements for the weapons
[] Research more about the world
[] Go to sleep
[] Write-in
