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Gundam Seed Celestial Forge
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Darkchespin
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The Charcters of Gundam SEED Celestial Forge
Orb Union Characters
Orb Nobles
Members of the Orb Union's nobility
Rondo Gina Sahaku
The guy who runs Morgenroete for his dad and dreams of piloting his own edgy black mobile suit. He is a member of the Sahaku noble family and is his father's primary heir, though not his son by blood, as the Sahaku family adopts its heirs. He generally treats people he understands to be experts with respect, though he will go against their advice if he really wants something like payback for badly wounding his ego. Furthermore, he's a Coordinator, but he does not give a shit about PLANT or ZAFT as these institutions are obstacles to his ideal world if anything. He also looks almost identical to his twin sister Rondo Mina Sahaku, they both have long long black hair that goes down anywhere from their collar bones to their elbows depending on when they last got a hair cut. They also have slightly pinkish amber eyes
Rondo Mina Sahaku
Also pretty edgy in terms of mobile suit preferences, she's Gina's sister. Her ego isn't as fragile she's more forgiving and fairly generous. Her hopes aren't easily dashed, and in canon Gundam SEED she still believed Orb and its people would endure even after the deaths of her father and brother. Hair as above is dark/black and her eyes are slightly pinkish amber.
Uzumi Nara Athha
The current Chief Representative (leader) of Orb, which basically makes him godking. It doesn't really, but everyone still did what he said years after he died in canon. He is super down with peace and never attacking others and being neutral. He's the head of the Athha family one of the current five big important noble families in Orb. He has long hair swept back behind his ears that goes down just slightly past his shoulders, and a beard that's so full around his mouth that only his lips are visible.
Orb Union Morgonrote
Employees of Morgonrote
Erica Simmons
The smug credit stealing leader of the Astray project. She has a husband and a kid that she cares about deeply. She has chosen to keep the fact she's a coordinator a secret from most for some reason, which is weird given the fact she lives in a country that has no problem with coordinators. She's also an old friend of the mysterious junk guild member "the Professor". She's the only person involved in the Astray project who actually existed in canon.
Angus Takahashi
An engineer who worked on the Astray project and has since become one of Sai's top four students. He looks the most average human possible, just full on bargain bin dark haired isekai protagonist. He is also a half coordinator a person who has not been genetically modified while still in the womb but one parent who is a coordinator and one who is a natural. Has a phone capable of recording decent audio and video. He is very pleased about Erica being a credit stealing glory hound because now she gets all the blame.
Deep Samuel Morris
An engineer who worked on the Astray project who when Sai joined Morgonrote became one of his best students. He's two meters tall(about 6 foot 7) and has the largest handlebar moustache anyone in Morgonrote has ever seen, it's thicker and fuller than most people's actual head hair. He is very happy with how the OM Project and ORaaR plan are progressing.
Mordred Aramis Gatsby
An engineer who worked on the Astray project and was chiefly responsible for the hand plug designs used in the Astray series. Another student of Sai though she hasn't worked with him as closely as Angus or Deep due to her being assigned to analysing the G Weapons, so the Orb can have all the data. She looks like a stereotypical upper class British woman and drinks tea at every available opportunity. Out of all her colleagues she enjoyed watching Sai dressing down Erica Simmons the most.
Rossana Petteri Admiraal
Another engineer who worked on the Astray project and like Mordred a woman Sai hasn't worked with due to her focusing on the Atlantic Federation's G Weapons. Is really happy Erica stole all the credit for the Astrays now.
Juri Wu Nien
A test pilot for Morgonrote who has a massive crush on Sai. She has blue hair. She looks more like Kira's friend Athrun than any of Athrun's actual relatives.
Mayura Labatt
A test pilot for Morgonrote who has a massive crush on Sai. Has dark red hair.
Asagi Caldwell
A test pilot for Morgonrote who has a massive crush on Sai. Has blond hair.
Orb Union Civilians
Civilians
Kira Yamato
The token coordinator student in Sai's friend group. Spends way too much time watching stuff about the war. In canon, he would have been the protagonist, but that is basically impossible now.
Kuzzey Buskirk
Kid with unfortunate name as a result of having space hippie parents. Has never been to earth and isn't super well-informed about the surface and the ocean.
Tolle Koenig
The only guy in Sai's friend group that's gotten laid.
Miriallia Haw
The token female student in Sai's friend group. She's Tolle's girlfriend.
Misha
Flay's friend. Has brown hair. Doesn't know where to buy cloths from when she's drunk.
Jessica
Flay's other friend. Has black hair.
Earth Alliance Atlantic Federation Characters
Characters from the Earth Alliance member the Atlantic Federation
Admiral Duane Lewis C. Harverton Halburton
Had foresight to advocate for mobile suits prior to the outbreak of the war proper. He is scathing in his criticism of the "idiots in Alaska" aka the leaders of the Atlantic Federation military and arms procurement.
Earth Alliance Eurasian Federation Characters
Characters from the Earth Alliance member the Eurasion Federation
Major General Gerard Garcia
The guy in charge of space fortress Artemis and currently is looking pretty competent to his superiors due to not almost starting a war with a country that might have functioning nukes. He's bald with sky blue eyes.
PLANT and ZAFT Characters
PLANT is the government kinda and ZAFT is the military/militia kinda
PLANT Supreme Counsel
The leaders of the PLANT government
Ali Kasim
Academic Speciality Microengineering.
Tad Elsman
Academic Speciality Biochemistry.
Ezalia Joule
Academic Speciality Aerospace engineering.
Siegel Clyne
Academic Speciality Space Life Sciences.
Yuri Amalfi
Academic Speciality Mechanical Engineering.
Louise Leitner
Academic Speciality Agricultural Engineering.
Jeremy Maxwell
Academic Speciality Chemistry.
Orson White
Academic Speciality Particle Physics.
Eileen Canaver
Academic Speciality Information Science.
Herman Gould
Academic Speciality Political Science.
Parnel Jesek
Academic Speciality Industrial Engineering.
Patrick Zala
Academic Speciality Space Navigation and Control.
Team Nepotism
The idiots who got themselves captured
Fredrik Ades
Captains the first ship.
Zelman
Captains the second ship.
Athrun Zala
Kira's friend. Has blue hair. Built the robot bird Kira keeps around.
Yzak Joule
Angry about a lot of things and quick to criticise non-aggressive actions.
Dearka Elsman
Very blond, very tanned.
Rusty Mackenzie
Looks like someone named Rusty. He has the most orange hair known to man. He should have died during the attack.
Nicol Amalfi
He likes to play the piano. Has green hair.
PLANT Civilians
Civilians
Other
Rau
One of the three main antagonists of the original Gundam SEED anime. He's dead.
Orb Union Characters
Orb Nobles
Members of the Orb Union's nobility
Sai Argyle
The man, the myth, the legend Sai Argyle, the protagonist of this fic. He tries to be a decent human being and do right by his friends. He can't help but rant at times about what he perceives as severe incompetence, and has a tendency to assume people around him have heard at least a little about at least some of what he compares things to. He has darkish blond hair and fair skin. He tends to procrastinate his own issues because he cares about literally anything else more.
The man, the myth, the legend Sai Argyle, the protagonist of this fic. He tries to be a decent human being and do right by his friends. He can't help but rant at times about what he perceives as severe incompetence, and has a tendency to assume people around him have heard at least a little about at least some of what he compares things to. He has darkish blond hair and fair skin. He tends to procrastinate his own issues because he cares about literally anything else more.
Lord Argyle
Sai's dad. Has the power to send people to Africa. He also runs a toy company as a side hustle. Unlike his son his hair has bright blond and he has a bit of a tan.
Sai's dad. Has the power to send people to Africa. He also runs a toy company as a side hustle. Unlike his son his hair has bright blond and he has a bit of a tan.
Rondo Gina Sahaku
The guy who runs Morgenroete for his dad and dreams of piloting his own edgy black mobile suit. He is a member of the Sahaku noble family and is his father's primary heir, though not his son by blood, as the Sahaku family adopts its heirs. He generally treats people he understands to be experts with respect, though he will go against their advice if he really wants something like payback for badly wounding his ego. Furthermore, he's a Coordinator, but he does not give a shit about PLANT or ZAFT as these institutions are obstacles to his ideal world if anything. He also looks almost identical to his twin sister Rondo Mina Sahaku, they both have long long black hair that goes down anywhere from their collar bones to their elbows depending on when they last got a hair cut. They also have slightly pinkish amber eyes
Rondo Mina Sahaku
Also pretty edgy in terms of mobile suit preferences, she's Gina's sister. Her ego isn't as fragile she's more forgiving and fairly generous. Her hopes aren't easily dashed, and in canon Gundam SEED she still believed Orb and its people would endure even after the deaths of her father and brother. Hair as above is dark/black and her eyes are slightly pinkish amber.
Cagalli Yula Athha
The adopted daughter of Uzumi Nara Athha the current Chief Representative of Orb. Has serious issues with men her age questioning her femininity. She has bright blond short spiky hair pointing down and has almond gold eyes.
The adopted daughter of Uzumi Nara Athha the current Chief Representative of Orb. Has serious issues with men her age questioning her femininity. She has bright blond short spiky hair pointing down and has almond gold eyes.
Uzumi Nara Athha
The current Chief Representative (leader) of Orb, which basically makes him godking. It doesn't really, but everyone still did what he said years after he died in canon. He is super down with peace and never attacking others and being neutral. He's the head of the Athha family one of the current five big important noble families in Orb. He has long hair swept back behind his ears that goes down just slightly past his shoulders, and a beard that's so full around his mouth that only his lips are visible.
Orb Union Morgonrote
Employees of Morgonrote
Erica Simmons
The smug credit stealing leader of the Astray project. She has a husband and a kid that she cares about deeply. She has chosen to keep the fact she's a coordinator a secret from most for some reason, which is weird given the fact she lives in a country that has no problem with coordinators. She's also an old friend of the mysterious junk guild member "the Professor". She's the only person involved in the Astray project who actually existed in canon.
Angus Takahashi
An engineer who worked on the Astray project and has since become one of Sai's top four students. He looks the most average human possible, just full on bargain bin dark haired isekai protagonist. He is also a half coordinator a person who has not been genetically modified while still in the womb but one parent who is a coordinator and one who is a natural. Has a phone capable of recording decent audio and video. He is very pleased about Erica being a credit stealing glory hound because now she gets all the blame.
Deep Samuel Morris
An engineer who worked on the Astray project who when Sai joined Morgonrote became one of his best students. He's two meters tall(about 6 foot 7) and has the largest handlebar moustache anyone in Morgonrote has ever seen, it's thicker and fuller than most people's actual head hair. He is very happy with how the OM Project and ORaaR plan are progressing.
Mordred Aramis Gatsby
An engineer who worked on the Astray project and was chiefly responsible for the hand plug designs used in the Astray series. Another student of Sai though she hasn't worked with him as closely as Angus or Deep due to her being assigned to analysing the G Weapons, so the Orb can have all the data. She looks like a stereotypical upper class British woman and drinks tea at every available opportunity. Out of all her colleagues she enjoyed watching Sai dressing down Erica Simmons the most.
Rossana Petteri Admiraal
Another engineer who worked on the Astray project and like Mordred a woman Sai hasn't worked with due to her focusing on the Atlantic Federation's G Weapons. Is really happy Erica stole all the credit for the Astrays now.
Juri Wu Nien
A test pilot for Morgonrote who has a massive crush on Sai. She has blue hair. She looks more like Kira's friend Athrun than any of Athrun's actual relatives.
Mayura Labatt
A test pilot for Morgonrote who has a massive crush on Sai. Has dark red hair.
Asagi Caldwell
A test pilot for Morgonrote who has a massive crush on Sai. Has blond hair.
Orb Union Civilians
Civilians
Kira Yamato
The token coordinator student in Sai's friend group. Spends way too much time watching stuff about the war. In canon, he would have been the protagonist, but that is basically impossible now.
Kuzzey Buskirk
Kid with unfortunate name as a result of having space hippie parents. Has never been to earth and isn't super well-informed about the surface and the ocean.
Tolle Koenig
The only guy in Sai's friend group that's gotten laid.
Miriallia Haw
The token female student in Sai's friend group. She's Tolle's girlfriend.
Misha
Flay's friend. Has brown hair. Doesn't know where to buy cloths from when she's drunk.
Jessica
Flay's other friend. Has black hair.
Earth Alliance Atlantic Federation Characters
Characters from the Earth Alliance member the Atlantic Federation
Flay Allster
Sai's fiancé via arranged marriage though considering she's fourteen, and he's 16 that's at least a few years away, and it could be abandoned by either's parents in the meantime. She has red hair. She's a bit racist.
Sai's fiancé via arranged marriage though considering she's fourteen, and he's 16 that's at least a few years away, and it could be abandoned by either's parents in the meantime. She has red hair. She's a bit racist.
Admiral Duane Lewis C. Harverton Halburton
Had foresight to advocate for mobile suits prior to the outbreak of the war proper. He is scathing in his criticism of the "idiots in Alaska" aka the leaders of the Atlantic Federation military and arms procurement.
Earth Alliance Eurasian Federation Characters
Characters from the Earth Alliance member the Eurasion Federation
Major General Gerard Garcia
The guy in charge of space fortress Artemis and currently is looking pretty competent to his superiors due to not almost starting a war with a country that might have functioning nukes. He's bald with sky blue eyes.
PLANT and ZAFT Characters
PLANT is the government kinda and ZAFT is the military/militia kinda
PLANT Supreme Counsel
The leaders of the PLANT government
Ali Kasim
Academic Speciality Microengineering.
Tad Elsman
Academic Speciality Biochemistry.
Ezalia Joule
Academic Speciality Aerospace engineering.
Siegel Clyne
Academic Speciality Space Life Sciences.
Yuri Amalfi
Academic Speciality Mechanical Engineering.
Louise Leitner
Academic Speciality Agricultural Engineering.
Jeremy Maxwell
Academic Speciality Chemistry.
Orson White
Academic Speciality Particle Physics.
Eileen Canaver
Academic Speciality Information Science.
Herman Gould
Academic Speciality Political Science.
Parnel Jesek
Academic Speciality Industrial Engineering.
Patrick Zala
Academic Speciality Space Navigation and Control.
Team Nepotism
The idiots who got themselves captured
Miguel Aiman
The only veteran besides Rau and the two ship captains in this team and yes Rau is in other, but he is a part of this team. Miguel mainly signed up to pay for his younger brother's medical bills. He is blond.
The only veteran besides Rau and the two ship captains in this team and yes Rau is in other, but he is a part of this team. Miguel mainly signed up to pay for his younger brother's medical bills. He is blond.
Fredrik Ades
Captains the first ship.
Zelman
Captains the second ship.
Athrun Zala
Kira's friend. Has blue hair. Built the robot bird Kira keeps around.
Yzak Joule
Angry about a lot of things and quick to criticise non-aggressive actions.
Dearka Elsman
Very blond, very tanned.
Rusty Mackenzie
Looks like someone named Rusty. He has the most orange hair known to man. He should have died during the attack.
Nicol Amalfi
He likes to play the piano. Has green hair.
PLANT Civilians
Civilians
Lacus Clyne
She's an Idol Singer and Siegel Clyne's daughter. She has pink hair. Furthermore, she's a weeb.
She's an Idol Singer and Siegel Clyne's daughter. She has pink hair. Furthermore, she's a weeb.
Other
Rau
One of the three main antagonists of the original Gundam SEED anime. He's dead.
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Limedalek
Lupus Delenda Est
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The next chapter is being worked on, but Dark and I have been very busy since the last one was released, and we really wanted to improve readability and make it more expressive and easier to understand who was talking at any given time.
Also we decided to start the next chapter with a female POV so yeah.
Akasui
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Now I want someone to sent Kira to act as honeypot.
Sai: Sent in Kira, he will get her to ourside. And someone make sure that he never learn that she is his friend's fiancee.
And when the true is reveal.
Kira: Sai, why did you do this to me, to make me do that to Athran!?
Sai: It's for Orb and the world's peace, Kira! With you as Lacus' fiance and Cagalli as Athran, we secure peace with Plant and with me being Flay's fiance, we got connection with every factions! When Flay's father take control of AF with our backing, we will have peace!
Huh, I didn't watch any drama but how did my brain thought of this.
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You know what they say, Hiveminds think alike.
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It's been so long I forgot Lacus was a weeb lol
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Countries, Companies, and NGOs
A country is a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory. A company is a commercial business. NGO means non-governmental organisation.
Orb Union
The protagonist Sai's homeland and faction. It's often called the land of peace for some reason. The official name of the mainland is Yalafath, where the Orb capital, Olofat, is located. In addition, there are four cities aside from the capital. The Island nation also has its own Mass Driver, called Kaguya, a space colony Heliopolis, which serves as a resource satellite, and a military space station Ame-no-Mihashira. Orb's government consists of an elected legislature and the five most powerful and influential noble families. The head of state is known as the "Chief Representative". The military is called the Orb National Defense Force.
Equatorial Union
They are neutral. Yes, that's all we know from canon Gundam SEED after over 20 IRL years thats really fucking little considering that if the Cosmic era has a similar population distribution they should have nearly a third of all humans within their borders.
Kingdom of Scandinavia
The Scandinavian Kingdom is composed of the old Earth nations of Sweden, Norway, and Finland. It has strong diplomatic relations with the Orb Union and just like them, It's neutral. The company Winslet World Concern is based here.
Earth Alliance
The Alliance functions as the head of a loose international military coalition, composed of countries that are often working at cross-purposes to each other and thus, it's not uncommon for each of them to withhold the key workings of their weapons and other technologies with their erstwhile allies. The combined military forces of the Earth Alliance are officially known as OMNI Enforcer, but it's more frequently called the Earth Forces or the Alliance Forces by pretty much everyone. The Earth Alliance Council is the authoritative body of the EA's political and military branches. The council is made up of representatives of each of the Alliance's member nations, as well as aligned military industries, such as the Azrael Conglomerate.
Atlantic Federation
They are an Earth Alliance member. Its capital is Washington D.C., and its President lives and works at the White House. The Atlantic and Eurasian Federations have long been rivals, and a strong undercurrent of mistrust remains between them. They have been more heavily infiltrated and influenced by Blue Cosmos than any other nation. As with most others power blocks on Earth, the Atlantic Federation was one of the superpowers which emerged as a result of the Reconstruction War, basically WW3. The Federation also cooperated with the United States of South America to construct the Porta Panama Mass Driver. In C.E. 35, it was the Atlantic Federation who built the Ptolemaeus lunar base and unveiled the first generation of Mobile Armors which we know jack shit about. The creators of seed have never bothered showing us what they looked like. Following the destruction of the United Nations leadership in C.E. 70, the Atlantic Federation announced the formation of the Earth Alliance on February 7th of the same year, and declared war on the PLANTs four days later. Following the refusal of the USSA to cooperate with the Alliance, the Atlantic Federation forcibly annexed them. The Atlantic Federation started the G Project that created the 5 G Weapons also known as the Garbage Gundams.
Eurasian Federation
They are an Earth Alliance member. The Federation is governed by a federal council dominated by the nations of the European region, with its capital in Brussels. They are a powerful member of the Earth Alliance, second only to the Atlantic Federation in power and influence. A strong undercurrent of mistrust remains between them. In terms of Coordinators, the Eurasians aren't strongly influenced by Blue Cosmos, and don't mind as much about Coordinators in their own ranks.
Republic of East Asia
The Republic's capital is Taipei in Taiwan. Taiwan is currently being occupied by ZAFT. They are an Earth Alliance member. They let private companies surgically implant bombs into the faces of employees who used to work for countries East Asia has been at war with in order to ensure loyalty.
South African Union
An economic and military union of several countries in southern and eastern Africa and the island of Madagascar. They are an Earth Alliance member. They currently boast the largest known refugee camp in the world with 1.2 million starving people, thanks to ZAFT's constant attacks on the nation's civilians.
PLANT
PLANT is the official nation of the 120 PLANT Colonies located at Lagrange Point 5. Its government is led by the PLANT Supreme Council, whose members were each elected from one of the twelve Colony groups. The 120 PLANT colonies are divided into 12 "cities" which are Januarius City, Februarius City, Martius City, Aprilius City, Maius City, Junius City, Quintilis City, Sextilis City(sex lol), September City(they couldn't be bothered altering the names of the months past this point), October City, November City, and December City. The nation's capital is Aprilius One. The nation enforces strict laws regarding regulated marriages, allowing its citizens to wed only if the two possess a high likelihood of producing children together, how they calculate likelihood is unknown but considering they haven't figured out fucking normal humans would solve their fertility problems it probably isn't very reliable. PLANT is a one party state with the only political party being ZAFT which is divided into moderate, neutral, and radical factions. The name PLANT is an acronym but confusingly PLANT as in the PLANT type colonies is a different acronym to PLANT the country. PLANT the colony type is Productive Location Ally on Nexus Technology while PLANT the country means Peoples Liberation Acting Nation of Technology.
ZAFT
ZAFT or Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty is basically the army of the PLANT and the only political party in the PLANTS and the party is its own paramilitary organisation think like the Nazi party' and it's Sturmabteilung(SA) but if it was all one thing. Its commanders range from weirdly honourable/likeable eccentrics to traumatised morons who throw away troops lives like retards. They have a very "rules for thee but not for me" view of things.
Oceania Union
Its capital is Wellington in New Zealand, that's right Australia got taken over by the Kiwis. Other than the fact they don't hate coordinators, we don't know much about them because the creators of Gundam SEED didn't care about anyone other than not Japan(Orb Union) and PLANT when it came to world building. They are one of the PLANT's two allies.
African Community
The Other PLANT ally. Its capital is Nairobi. The only noteworthy thing about it is that they've gotten ZAFT to fight their rebels for them.
Junk Guild
The Junk Guild is an NGO or Non Government Organisation. Most Junk Guild teams spend their days either going through battlefields salvaging usable equipment or working under contract. Contracts can vary from salvage operations to repair to recovery of equipment. Large contracts may necessitate multiple Guild teams, thus it's not uncommon to see a large contingent of Guild techs working on major projects. The Guild acquired new recruits from all walks of life, Natural and Coordinator alike. New recruits underwent basic training and indoctrination, then were sent to a team for on the job training. After a probationary period, the Guild then accepted the recruit as a Junk Tech, and they were assigned to a team.
Serpent Tail
A prominent mercenary company of high renown. Their big advantages include owning a GINN with a sword for a Mohawk and owning a Moebius with a giant gatling gun. They've done work for Eurasia.
Morgonrote
Orb's only real arms manufacturer, they are as you might expect based in the Orb Union. Its owned and run by the Sahaku noble family of Orb. They are currently helping Sai put his designs into mass production to replace and refit the Orb National Defense Force or ONDF's various ageing and abysmal machines, equipment, and technology.
Winslet World Concern
They are a private company based primarily in the Kingdom of Scandinavia. They helped ZAFT develop and test it's BuCUE series of quadrupedal ground ms. We only know about them due to like one astray manga.
A country is a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory. A company is a commercial business. NGO means non-governmental organisation.
Orb Union
The protagonist Sai's homeland and faction. It's often called the land of peace for some reason. The official name of the mainland is Yalafath, where the Orb capital, Olofat, is located. In addition, there are four cities aside from the capital. The Island nation also has its own Mass Driver, called Kaguya, a space colony Heliopolis, which serves as a resource satellite, and a military space station Ame-no-Mihashira. Orb's government consists of an elected legislature and the five most powerful and influential noble families. The head of state is known as the "Chief Representative". The military is called the Orb National Defense Force.
Equatorial Union
They are neutral. Yes, that's all we know from canon Gundam SEED after over 20 IRL years thats really fucking little considering that if the Cosmic era has a similar population distribution they should have nearly a third of all humans within their borders.
Kingdom of Scandinavia
The Scandinavian Kingdom is composed of the old Earth nations of Sweden, Norway, and Finland. It has strong diplomatic relations with the Orb Union and just like them, It's neutral. The company Winslet World Concern is based here.
Earth Alliance
The Alliance functions as the head of a loose international military coalition, composed of countries that are often working at cross-purposes to each other and thus, it's not uncommon for each of them to withhold the key workings of their weapons and other technologies with their erstwhile allies. The combined military forces of the Earth Alliance are officially known as OMNI Enforcer, but it's more frequently called the Earth Forces or the Alliance Forces by pretty much everyone. The Earth Alliance Council is the authoritative body of the EA's political and military branches. The council is made up of representatives of each of the Alliance's member nations, as well as aligned military industries, such as the Azrael Conglomerate.
Atlantic Federation
They are an Earth Alliance member. Its capital is Washington D.C., and its President lives and works at the White House. The Atlantic and Eurasian Federations have long been rivals, and a strong undercurrent of mistrust remains between them. They have been more heavily infiltrated and influenced by Blue Cosmos than any other nation. As with most others power blocks on Earth, the Atlantic Federation was one of the superpowers which emerged as a result of the Reconstruction War, basically WW3. The Federation also cooperated with the United States of South America to construct the Porta Panama Mass Driver. In C.E. 35, it was the Atlantic Federation who built the Ptolemaeus lunar base and unveiled the first generation of Mobile Armors which we know jack shit about. The creators of seed have never bothered showing us what they looked like. Following the destruction of the United Nations leadership in C.E. 70, the Atlantic Federation announced the formation of the Earth Alliance on February 7th of the same year, and declared war on the PLANTs four days later. Following the refusal of the USSA to cooperate with the Alliance, the Atlantic Federation forcibly annexed them. The Atlantic Federation started the G Project that created the 5 G Weapons also known as the Garbage Gundams.
Eurasian Federation
They are an Earth Alliance member. The Federation is governed by a federal council dominated by the nations of the European region, with its capital in Brussels. They are a powerful member of the Earth Alliance, second only to the Atlantic Federation in power and influence. A strong undercurrent of mistrust remains between them. In terms of Coordinators, the Eurasians aren't strongly influenced by Blue Cosmos, and don't mind as much about Coordinators in their own ranks.
Republic of East Asia
The Republic's capital is Taipei in Taiwan. Taiwan is currently being occupied by ZAFT. They are an Earth Alliance member. They let private companies surgically implant bombs into the faces of employees who used to work for countries East Asia has been at war with in order to ensure loyalty.
South African Union
An economic and military union of several countries in southern and eastern Africa and the island of Madagascar. They are an Earth Alliance member. They currently boast the largest known refugee camp in the world with 1.2 million starving people, thanks to ZAFT's constant attacks on the nation's civilians.
PLANT
PLANT is the official nation of the 120 PLANT Colonies located at Lagrange Point 5. Its government is led by the PLANT Supreme Council, whose members were each elected from one of the twelve Colony groups. The 120 PLANT colonies are divided into 12 "cities" which are Januarius City, Februarius City, Martius City, Aprilius City, Maius City, Junius City, Quintilis City, Sextilis City(sex lol), September City(they couldn't be bothered altering the names of the months past this point), October City, November City, and December City. The nation's capital is Aprilius One. The nation enforces strict laws regarding regulated marriages, allowing its citizens to wed only if the two possess a high likelihood of producing children together, how they calculate likelihood is unknown but considering they haven't figured out fucking normal humans would solve their fertility problems it probably isn't very reliable. PLANT is a one party state with the only political party being ZAFT which is divided into moderate, neutral, and radical factions. The name PLANT is an acronym but confusingly PLANT as in the PLANT type colonies is a different acronym to PLANT the country. PLANT the colony type is Productive Location Ally on Nexus Technology while PLANT the country means Peoples Liberation Acting Nation of Technology.
ZAFT
ZAFT or Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty is basically the army of the PLANT and the only political party in the PLANTS and the party is its own paramilitary organisation think like the Nazi party' and it's Sturmabteilung(SA) but if it was all one thing. Its commanders range from weirdly honourable/likeable eccentrics to traumatised morons who throw away troops lives like retards. They have a very "rules for thee but not for me" view of things.
Oceania Union
Its capital is Wellington in New Zealand, that's right Australia got taken over by the Kiwis. Other than the fact they don't hate coordinators, we don't know much about them because the creators of Gundam SEED didn't care about anyone other than not Japan(Orb Union) and PLANT when it came to world building. They are one of the PLANT's two allies.
African Community
The Other PLANT ally. Its capital is Nairobi. The only noteworthy thing about it is that they've gotten ZAFT to fight their rebels for them.
Junk Guild
The Junk Guild is an NGO or Non Government Organisation. Most Junk Guild teams spend their days either going through battlefields salvaging usable equipment or working under contract. Contracts can vary from salvage operations to repair to recovery of equipment. Large contracts may necessitate multiple Guild teams, thus it's not uncommon to see a large contingent of Guild techs working on major projects. The Guild acquired new recruits from all walks of life, Natural and Coordinator alike. New recruits underwent basic training and indoctrination, then were sent to a team for on the job training. After a probationary period, the Guild then accepted the recruit as a Junk Tech, and they were assigned to a team.
Serpent Tail
A prominent mercenary company of high renown. Their big advantages include owning a GINN with a sword for a Mohawk and owning a Moebius with a giant gatling gun. They've done work for Eurasia.
Morgonrote
Orb's only real arms manufacturer, they are as you might expect based in the Orb Union. Its owned and run by the Sahaku noble family of Orb. They are currently helping Sai put his designs into mass production to replace and refit the Orb National Defense Force or ONDF's various ageing and abysmal machines, equipment, and technology.
Winslet World Concern
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Limedalek
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Your trying to make sense of Gundam SEED and particularly Orb that path leads only to madness and alcoholism
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having just finished chapter 2 this is utterly horrible first off it sounds like the main character of the story has ADHD with how constantly his mind is just jumping all over the place, but what I found utterly horrifying about this chapter the main character suddenly has a key he's never seen before he walks into I believe he said it was a closet uses. The key goes into a pocket dimension finds a mobile suit that he had never seen before with all the equipment that it might need leaves the pocket dimension and completely ignores the fact that he just experienced technology that isn't even present in his universe doesn't question it, and decides to go back to the design. He was thinking of that morning. This is shear Lunacy what part of that makes any sense. i'm trying to give the story a fair chance, but it's just all over the place.
Darkepyon
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Yea I'm done I just finished chapter 5 this story is ridiculous not only does he have access to suits that should not exist and technology that should not exist. But then he starts telling people that he's some sort of expert, even though he's a student, and they take him for his word and then bring him to the top secret mobile suit there building let him edit or as he said it completely replace the Os. then, as he's telling them nonsensical things that don't exist to their knowledge the excuse he breaks out as well. That's new type magic, which isn't even a thing in their universe.
nothing about the story makes sense. The main character of the story doesn't make sense the setting there doesn't make sense not even going to the fact that either two things would happen. Everybody would think he was insane or security would've already arrested him for being a possible spy. The whole concept is nonsensical. I wanted to try and give this story a chance, but it's just completely ridiculous. It's not even entertaining because I find myself halfway through every chapter I'm reading pulling my hair saying what is wrong with everyone in the story.
nothing about the story makes sense. The main character of the story doesn't make sense the setting there doesn't make sense not even going to the fact that either two things would happen. Everybody would think he was insane or security would've already arrested him for being a possible spy. The whole concept is nonsensical. I wanted to try and give this story a chance, but it's just completely ridiculous. It's not even entertaining because I find myself halfway through every chapter I'm reading pulling my hair saying what is wrong with everyone in the story.
krane97
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It's because the story is based on how the celestial forge work, it make you live the experience and even give you physical proof that it happened, so for sai he really studied at Anaheim, the reason he wasn't arrested as a spy is that he come from one of the noble family of orb and his family is known for its eccentricity. Most celestial forge mc already know about it and feel when a new power come, sai don't so he can't differentiate between the different memory.
Slider Zero
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The sad part about this is that you are commenting more on the actual plot of Gundam Seed than you realize. The vast majority of your gripes are actual gripes with the damned series, and the lack of coherence is a legitimate issue with some of the storytelling there. Also, Nobles in Seed are known to be...eccentric, and Sai, being a noble, is no exception to this.
Also, deliberate plot point involved in why they are listening to him and letting him do shit, which gets at least mentioned in chapter 2 and gets explained better later. This is all legit artistic choice. The fact that this is a Celestial Forge fic is, in fact, a major deal in this setup, and something that I think you may have missed when you stepped into this fic.
But, if you don't like it, that is your prerogative, and nobody can gainsay you on it. I wish you safe travels and blessings so that you may find something interesting and fun to read that suits your tastes.
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Perhaps most of Orb is actually artificial? Artificial Islands are a thing now, perhaps Orb is that idea taken to it's natural conclusion...
Well, turns out UC Tech might not be as foreign to that universe as you might think, according to the interlude...
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Arimai
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They would have to ship that sand, gravel and fertile soil from Australia. ORB is the size of New Zealand. Nauru is 8 miles squared. No one in the setting has terraforming and geoengineering technology.
krane97
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Or perhaps at one point the natural geological movement of the continental plate (or something) made the isle bigger just like what is happening to Afrika
Limedalek
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If you guys are talking about the map you guys should know it isnt 100% scaled properly. It's based on the only semi accurate map the creators of SEED have ever given us that even had any country borders. Orb is actually larger on that map than it should be so people can actually see it because it's a small island nation that was a choice me and Dark made so that people would be able to easily see where Orb was.
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Arimai
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I know. I was talking about the few scenes in the cartoon that shows the island. It's the size of New Zealand if we go by stated height of the flying point of view and using math to calculate the size
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Yeah, Orb on Seed makes little to no sense if you assume it's anything similar to reality. My best guess is Seeds earth is just larger or something having to do with Turn A fuckery. It's not helped by Seed having the orb backstory include both a nobility system from the original inhabitants and a random Japanese diaspora for no explained reason which makes it hard to even properly map onto any real location neatly.
anyway, I'll use this to quickly update everyone on the chapter. It's been delayed due to Halo infinite getting good and a surgery I have today. I'll see if I can get it out soon, but I'll be doing stuff like physical therapy for a while.
Chapter 13 - Phase 4: We don’t know how to number chapters
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Chapter 13 - Phase 4: We don't know how to number chapters
Authors note there's going to be some formatting and style changes from here on out to make this fic easier to understand for more people and make its characters more memorable and expressive. This is late because of surgery and my ADHD
POV Flay Allster 2nd February CE 71
Kyle was looking at me kinda funny and… Shocked? Sad maybe? "Sorry I'm late, guys, I had to help Misha out after she partied a bit too hard last night." Seriously, how did they get that much beer and sake? I know for a fact the oldest person there was only 17, and you need to be 20 here.
"Was that the 'I'm glad we didn't die party?'" Miriallia asked.
'No. That was like a few days ago. This one was about how a couple of guys finished their late exams." I actually went to that one, it's an hour I'll never get back.
"Oh yeah, those guys were involved in a work accident from the aftershocks, right?" Sai asked.
"Yeah. How'd you know about that Sai?" Sai's best friend Kuzzey asked.
"I've been very busy. Do you know how much paperwork I've had to do this week? We had a ton of exams for some reason, I've been going over our tactical reports, and had to be involved in the reverse engineering of the enemy units. I'm lucky I have subordinates who could do the vast majority of the work on their own." Sai responded.
"Why are you involved in weapons development anyway?" Kyle asked.
"Our defense force had completely inadequate weaponry. We had mistrals carrying guns. Those are way worse than the Alliance's stupid Moebius, and those things are so heavily outdated that it's criminal negligence to still be using them. Pirates have mobile suits and not like 1 or 2 suits some crews have like a dozen GINNs. Heck, I've heard some of them have custom units and not basic ones either. We've only not been targeted because the Izumo class is severely overgunned, but we don't always have those to protect us."
"What about protecting us from ZAFT?"
"The people of the plants were already losing enthusiasm for the war before this. Preliminary reactions to the Heliopolis incident from there indicate that the feeling toward this conflict is even further down. And ZAFT already is a third of the way to the obvious goal of taking control of the mass drivers, with the second one still being under attack as we speak. If the Alliance doesn't do anything stupid like trying to not get a peace agreement or something, we'll probably see an armistice by April." Sai replied.
"Wait, where do pirates get the parts to maintain their suits?"
"I have my suspicions, but I can't say anything more than that. Can we focus on stuff that isn't related to work?" That's Sai-speak for not knowing. "Now who wants to play Bodymind? Hah, we even have enough people for 3 characters!"
"What's Bodymind?" Seriously, who names a game that?
"It's this game where 2 players control a single character". Sai said while pointing at the TV. "One controls movement and the other controls the character's psychic powers. There can be up to 4 characters on one console, so that's 8 players. We don't really get to play this a lot because we normally only have 5 people." I just nodded to him.
"Hey, it technically works fine. Kira's a coordinator."
"That's not how it works, Kuzzey." But wait, huh? Is his name actually Kira?
"Isn't his name Kyle?" Whoops, did I get his name wrong?
"Ah yeah sorry that's what I meant to say" Oh, thank goodness, I was really worried I had been rude for a second there. Kyle looked like he was going to say something, but didn't.
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POV Sai Argyle still 2nd February CE 71
"So that's a yes for Bodymind?" Honesty I'm pretty conflicted about correcting her about Kira's name, he's my friend, but it's making everyone happy.
"Yeah, sounds like fun, wanna team up again or do you wanna do a couple's thing now that Flay's here?" Tolle did you just imply that Kira and Kuzzey are a couple?
"Yeah sure. It wouldn't be fun to constantly dominate everyone. We have to give at least a little hope that anyone can win."
The game itself is fine. The controls are about as iffy as you'd expect for a party game like this, which is honestly part of the fun. If it worked perfectly every time you'd get stale matches. Kind of like super tight skill based matchmaking does, but at least this is a fun creating mechanic. It kind of reminds me of that one Proto GINN fighting game they released back in 69 which had all the crazy modified versions the devs cooked up, like the one with the meh-dam hammer. The game decided rocket powered wrecking ball was enough, I guess. That doesn't even get into the more speculative ideas like that one giant scorpion style ms with it's giant harpoon shooter tail.
Shame it got taken off store shelves after the war properly started. It's good I got it before then. Maybe I should look into the feasibility of scorpion MS or MA designs…
Thoughts for later.
Bodymind's design philosophy is similar to the Ratchet All 4 One of ages past. But now with an extra player controlling some psychic powers for each of the player characters and level design that takes everyone screwing each other over into account.
Flay gave me a shake. "Hey Sai do you mind running me through the controls?" Oh right Flays a phone game playing casual. Honestly, the fact those are still around following the Reconstruction War at the end of the Anno Domini is impressive. We still haven't gotten around to remaking STEAM outside certain locations on Earth proper. Why no one has really fixed communication networking and the internet across the greater Earthsphere is beyond me. I should probably do something about that…
"Yeah sure, so Y opens up the power select wheel, B does the power you chose, and X interacts neutrally with environmental objects."
Flay nudged up closer to me. "What about A?"
"That won't be needed for these noobs." A is for a tech parry thing, but that's not really going to come up, and Flay is nowhere near good enough to use it. I'd play the psychic, but the actual physical body is a way harder thing to do. I actually have to do all the movement positioning, platforming, and dealing with our friends trying to fuck us over. "If I know Tolle he's probably going to go after Kira rather than us and Kira and Kuzzey aren't good enough to challenge us" I whispered to her.
We started playing and just as I thought, Tolle cannot resist messing with Kira when he presses the buttons on the controller too quickly for it to recognize them as multiple inputs.
Flay was doing alright for a phone game playing casual that hasn't held a controller for at least half a decade. "Flay use the AOE now!"
"Take that Kyle!
Of cucking course she missed. Oh, looks like Kira and Kuzzey just fell into a bottomless void anyway.
"Damn it Kira how? How?"
"I'M SORRY." Wow Kira really does sound five year younger when he screams.
"Sai". Flay whispered to me. "Does he always sound like a crying nine year old when he screams or yells?"
"He hasn't yelled or cried much around me, so I'm not sure". I whispered back. "The only time I was there when he cried I left the room because he started sounding like a dying hyena after a while."
Flay just had this confused expression on her face, due to my newtype senses I could tell she has absolutely no idea how to respond to that.
ooooiiiiiiiidewchikdewchikaooooiiiiiiiidewchikdewchika
"Ok I'm pausing the game what the hell is that?!"
oooorriiioooorriii
"Oh sorry Kuzzey that's my ringtone, someone's just calling me." It's a lot louder than I thought it'd be.
"Why is that your ringtone?!" Wow, Miriallia looks really confused.
"Its loud enough to overcome the sound of work. I got it from one of my coworkers." I did not expect Mordred of all people to make music like this in her spare time. "Hello, who is this?"
"Sai I can't believe I'm resorting to this, but I'm going to have to beg for forgiveness here rather than ask for permission." Is that Cagalli? Why is she acting so weird?
"Ah Cagalli? What are you talking about?"
"Just open the door now." She is really done with this, isn't she.
"Do you even know your at the right house?"
"Your at your friend Kuzzey's house your dad told me." He just told her? I mean no yeah he'd do that.
"Sai um who is it" Kira spoke up.
I put my hand over the mike and looked Kira right in the eyes. "It's the girl you thought was a man".
"I'll let you in in a sec."
click
Miriallia looked at me and pointed. "So Sai that was the girl Tolle thought you were dating right?"
"Who, what when?!" No one told Flay shit that checks out.
"Cagalli the Chief Representative's daughter she showed up to class looking like a paperboy from the early 1900s a bit before the attack happened and Tolle heard something out of context, that's it. Anyway, she's outside the front door and ordering me to let her in."
"The daughter of the Chief Representative?!" I could tell immediately Kuzzey was the only person here who knew what that meant.
"The who Kuzzey?" Kira was so uniformed about politics for someone who actually watched the news.
"The leader of our country, idiot! And she's in front of my house. How do you not know what the Chief Representative is? You watch the news!" I literally just thought the same thing, man.
"I'm gonna go let here in, I'll be back in a minute." I called out before anyone could ask me anymore questions and make her wait longer.
I left the living room and went to the front door.
"Sai." She walked past me before stopping to look back at me. It took me a moment to process her outfit, I mean wow, those are the biggest headphones I've ever seen, and ok when I said big hoodie I didn't mean five sizes too big. "Well, come with me, we need to talk now." I could feel how serious she was.
We entered the living room. "Hey guys this is Cagalli I mentioned her before."
"I need somewhere to talk with Sai privately." She looked over at a nearby door. "That'll do."
"My bedroom?!"
Now everyone is confused and she's dragging me into Kuzzey's room.
Slam
"Huh, he has a lot more death metal band posters in here than the last time I was over."
"I need to ask you some important questions, Sai. Where did you get that suit? All this tech? I want, no I need to know what's going on. I tried to look into that Anaheim group you mentioned, I even called Lord Kiou after father arrived and asked him if he knew anything, but he'd never heard of it." I I….
"Look Cagalli it, it's nothing I don't know I.
"No Sai this is important has anything weird been happening to you lately? Don't lie, don't leave out any details."
"Well, I… I woke up with a bad headache a couple of weeks ago and then became a priest last week and I think two of my friends have been in a gay relationship that I didn't notice."
"What?" Cagalli just looked baffled.
"Look, if I thought about everything weird that's happening to me, I'd just get nothing done ever. Imagine that as a biography, it'd be the worst reading experience of all time."
"You can't just say that and not follow up on what weird things you're talking about. This could be serious."
"I don't know, It's all been so weird and draining lately. I apparently invented fusion according to everyone else, every bit of research I've tried to do on the actual creator just leads to dead ends, and I've had no luck with finding the other reactor's actual inventors. I'm 80% sure there were at least 7 Space wars before this current one, but that also has no goddamn evidence to it outside some flight data I have in the museum of mobile suits. I'm a priest in a cult on Mars that doesn't exist, and I have no idea how or when this happened. I literally have a prayer book about praising some fucking tech god called the Omnissiah. Oh yeah, and half my understanding is based on a theory of psychic evolution that also seems to have no progenitor.
And you know what? I've just ignored all those inconsistencies for weeks. You want to know why? Look at what happened with Junius 7, or Graveyard, or that one colony which voted to fuck off to Jupiter yesterday. The Earth Sphere is a godamn mess. And it's not like weapons technology means anyone in a colony is going to be safe. I can think of like 4 MS types designed to kill colonies. I fucking own one that turns colonies to VAPOR as in heats metal so fast it turns into gas. It doesn't really matter where it came from when the math checks out. This shit by all metrics is possible, and we both know what will happen the second either of the Alliance or ZAFT figures this crap out. Either we push even further into the unknowns of technology and hope we somehow find the most advanced lightwave barriers ever, or we all die within the decade."
"I what Sai what?"
I put the magic newtype key into the lock on Kuzzey's closet. "No before you say anything else follow me"
Authors note there's going to be some formatting and style changes from here on out to make this fic easier to understand for more people and make its characters more memorable and expressive. This is late because of surgery and my ADHD
POV Flay Allster 2nd February CE 71
Kyle was looking at me kinda funny and… Shocked? Sad maybe? "Sorry I'm late, guys, I had to help Misha out after she partied a bit too hard last night." Seriously, how did they get that much beer and sake? I know for a fact the oldest person there was only 17, and you need to be 20 here.
"Was that the 'I'm glad we didn't die party?'" Miriallia asked.
'No. That was like a few days ago. This one was about how a couple of guys finished their late exams." I actually went to that one, it's an hour I'll never get back.
"Oh yeah, those guys were involved in a work accident from the aftershocks, right?" Sai asked.
"Yeah. How'd you know about that Sai?" Sai's best friend Kuzzey asked.
"I've been very busy. Do you know how much paperwork I've had to do this week? We had a ton of exams for some reason, I've been going over our tactical reports, and had to be involved in the reverse engineering of the enemy units. I'm lucky I have subordinates who could do the vast majority of the work on their own." Sai responded.
"Why are you involved in weapons development anyway?" Kyle asked.
"Our defense force had completely inadequate weaponry. We had mistrals carrying guns. Those are way worse than the Alliance's stupid Moebius, and those things are so heavily outdated that it's criminal negligence to still be using them. Pirates have mobile suits and not like 1 or 2 suits some crews have like a dozen GINNs. Heck, I've heard some of them have custom units and not basic ones either. We've only not been targeted because the Izumo class is severely overgunned, but we don't always have those to protect us."
"What about protecting us from ZAFT?"
"The people of the plants were already losing enthusiasm for the war before this. Preliminary reactions to the Heliopolis incident from there indicate that the feeling toward this conflict is even further down. And ZAFT already is a third of the way to the obvious goal of taking control of the mass drivers, with the second one still being under attack as we speak. If the Alliance doesn't do anything stupid like trying to not get a peace agreement or something, we'll probably see an armistice by April." Sai replied.
"Wait, where do pirates get the parts to maintain their suits?"
"I have my suspicions, but I can't say anything more than that. Can we focus on stuff that isn't related to work?" That's Sai-speak for not knowing. "Now who wants to play Bodymind? Hah, we even have enough people for 3 characters!"
"What's Bodymind?" Seriously, who names a game that?
"It's this game where 2 players control a single character". Sai said while pointing at the TV. "One controls movement and the other controls the character's psychic powers. There can be up to 4 characters on one console, so that's 8 players. We don't really get to play this a lot because we normally only have 5 people." I just nodded to him.
"Hey, it technically works fine. Kira's a coordinator."
"That's not how it works, Kuzzey." But wait, huh? Is his name actually Kira?
"Isn't his name Kyle?" Whoops, did I get his name wrong?
"Ah yeah sorry that's what I meant to say" Oh, thank goodness, I was really worried I had been rude for a second there. Kyle looked like he was going to say something, but didn't.
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POV Sai Argyle still 2nd February CE 71
"So that's a yes for Bodymind?" Honesty I'm pretty conflicted about correcting her about Kira's name, he's my friend, but it's making everyone happy.
"Yeah, sounds like fun, wanna team up again or do you wanna do a couple's thing now that Flay's here?" Tolle did you just imply that Kira and Kuzzey are a couple?
"Yeah sure. It wouldn't be fun to constantly dominate everyone. We have to give at least a little hope that anyone can win."
The game itself is fine. The controls are about as iffy as you'd expect for a party game like this, which is honestly part of the fun. If it worked perfectly every time you'd get stale matches. Kind of like super tight skill based matchmaking does, but at least this is a fun creating mechanic. It kind of reminds me of that one Proto GINN fighting game they released back in 69 which had all the crazy modified versions the devs cooked up, like the one with the meh-dam hammer. The game decided rocket powered wrecking ball was enough, I guess. That doesn't even get into the more speculative ideas like that one giant scorpion style ms with it's giant harpoon shooter tail.
Shame it got taken off store shelves after the war properly started. It's good I got it before then. Maybe I should look into the feasibility of scorpion MS or MA designs…
Thoughts for later.
Bodymind's design philosophy is similar to the Ratchet All 4 One of ages past. But now with an extra player controlling some psychic powers for each of the player characters and level design that takes everyone screwing each other over into account.
Flay gave me a shake. "Hey Sai do you mind running me through the controls?" Oh right Flays a phone game playing casual. Honestly, the fact those are still around following the Reconstruction War at the end of the Anno Domini is impressive. We still haven't gotten around to remaking STEAM outside certain locations on Earth proper. Why no one has really fixed communication networking and the internet across the greater Earthsphere is beyond me. I should probably do something about that…
"Yeah sure, so Y opens up the power select wheel, B does the power you chose, and X interacts neutrally with environmental objects."
Flay nudged up closer to me. "What about A?"
"That won't be needed for these noobs." A is for a tech parry thing, but that's not really going to come up, and Flay is nowhere near good enough to use it. I'd play the psychic, but the actual physical body is a way harder thing to do. I actually have to do all the movement positioning, platforming, and dealing with our friends trying to fuck us over. "If I know Tolle he's probably going to go after Kira rather than us and Kira and Kuzzey aren't good enough to challenge us" I whispered to her.
We started playing and just as I thought, Tolle cannot resist messing with Kira when he presses the buttons on the controller too quickly for it to recognize them as multiple inputs.
Flay was doing alright for a phone game playing casual that hasn't held a controller for at least half a decade. "Flay use the AOE now!"
"Take that Kyle!
Of cucking course she missed. Oh, looks like Kira and Kuzzey just fell into a bottomless void anyway.
"Damn it Kira how? How?"
"I'M SORRY." Wow Kira really does sound five year younger when he screams.
"Sai". Flay whispered to me. "Does he always sound like a crying nine year old when he screams or yells?"
"He hasn't yelled or cried much around me, so I'm not sure". I whispered back. "The only time I was there when he cried I left the room because he started sounding like a dying hyena after a while."
Flay just had this confused expression on her face, due to my newtype senses I could tell she has absolutely no idea how to respond to that.
ooooiiiiiiiidewchikdewchikaooooiiiiiiiidewchikdewchika
"Ok I'm pausing the game what the hell is that?!"
oooorriiioooorriii
"Oh sorry Kuzzey that's my ringtone, someone's just calling me." It's a lot louder than I thought it'd be.
"Why is that your ringtone?!" Wow, Miriallia looks really confused.
"Its loud enough to overcome the sound of work. I got it from one of my coworkers." I did not expect Mordred of all people to make music like this in her spare time. "Hello, who is this?"
"Sai I can't believe I'm resorting to this, but I'm going to have to beg for forgiveness here rather than ask for permission." Is that Cagalli? Why is she acting so weird?
"Ah Cagalli? What are you talking about?"
"Just open the door now." She is really done with this, isn't she.
"Do you even know your at the right house?"
"Your at your friend Kuzzey's house your dad told me." He just told her? I mean no yeah he'd do that.
"Sai um who is it" Kira spoke up.
I put my hand over the mike and looked Kira right in the eyes. "It's the girl you thought was a man".
"I'll let you in in a sec."
click
Miriallia looked at me and pointed. "So Sai that was the girl Tolle thought you were dating right?"
"Who, what when?!" No one told Flay shit that checks out.
"Cagalli the Chief Representative's daughter she showed up to class looking like a paperboy from the early 1900s a bit before the attack happened and Tolle heard something out of context, that's it. Anyway, she's outside the front door and ordering me to let her in."
"The daughter of the Chief Representative?!" I could tell immediately Kuzzey was the only person here who knew what that meant.
"The who Kuzzey?" Kira was so uniformed about politics for someone who actually watched the news.
"The leader of our country, idiot! And she's in front of my house. How do you not know what the Chief Representative is? You watch the news!" I literally just thought the same thing, man.
"I'm gonna go let here in, I'll be back in a minute." I called out before anyone could ask me anymore questions and make her wait longer.
I left the living room and went to the front door.
"Sai." She walked past me before stopping to look back at me. It took me a moment to process her outfit, I mean wow, those are the biggest headphones I've ever seen, and ok when I said big hoodie I didn't mean five sizes too big. "Well, come with me, we need to talk now." I could feel how serious she was.
We entered the living room. "Hey guys this is Cagalli I mentioned her before."
"I need somewhere to talk with Sai privately." She looked over at a nearby door. "That'll do."
"My bedroom?!"
Now everyone is confused and she's dragging me into Kuzzey's room.
Slam
"Huh, he has a lot more death metal band posters in here than the last time I was over."
"I need to ask you some important questions, Sai. Where did you get that suit? All this tech? I want, no I need to know what's going on. I tried to look into that Anaheim group you mentioned, I even called Lord Kiou after father arrived and asked him if he knew anything, but he'd never heard of it." I I….
"Look Cagalli it, it's nothing I don't know I.
"No Sai this is important has anything weird been happening to you lately? Don't lie, don't leave out any details."
"Well, I… I woke up with a bad headache a couple of weeks ago and then became a priest last week and I think two of my friends have been in a gay relationship that I didn't notice."
"What?" Cagalli just looked baffled.
"Look, if I thought about everything weird that's happening to me, I'd just get nothing done ever. Imagine that as a biography, it'd be the worst reading experience of all time."
"You can't just say that and not follow up on what weird things you're talking about. This could be serious."
"I don't know, It's all been so weird and draining lately. I apparently invented fusion according to everyone else, every bit of research I've tried to do on the actual creator just leads to dead ends, and I've had no luck with finding the other reactor's actual inventors. I'm 80% sure there were at least 7 Space wars before this current one, but that also has no goddamn evidence to it outside some flight data I have in the museum of mobile suits. I'm a priest in a cult on Mars that doesn't exist, and I have no idea how or when this happened. I literally have a prayer book about praising some fucking tech god called the Omnissiah. Oh yeah, and half my understanding is based on a theory of psychic evolution that also seems to have no progenitor.
And you know what? I've just ignored all those inconsistencies for weeks. You want to know why? Look at what happened with Junius 7, or Graveyard, or that one colony which voted to fuck off to Jupiter yesterday. The Earth Sphere is a godamn mess. And it's not like weapons technology means anyone in a colony is going to be safe. I can think of like 4 MS types designed to kill colonies. I fucking own one that turns colonies to VAPOR as in heats metal so fast it turns into gas. It doesn't really matter where it came from when the math checks out. This shit by all metrics is possible, and we both know what will happen the second either of the Alliance or ZAFT figures this crap out. Either we push even further into the unknowns of technology and hope we somehow find the most advanced lightwave barriers ever, or we all die within the decade."
"I what Sai what?"
I put the magic newtype key into the lock on Kuzzey's closet. "No before you say anything else follow me"
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Limedalek
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New Gundam SEED Freedom Trailer
also to the people who were talking about Nauru a while ago. Me and Dark caught up on Gundam SEED Eclipse recently and Nauru actually is completely separate from Orb its a bit west of the Orb homeland and a part of the Equatorial Union.
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Locavore
Know what you're doing yet?
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I am so lost... I get that the protagonist is lost in what is happening as well (which I find idiotic) but so many references and other ranting that just confuses me even more. So he is building space-era mobile suits while we havent even left earth, ok so what? This guy is speed rolling an all out war which from the little i've read will happen because it's in Gundam anime-land people blood.
N-Jammer map
Limedalek
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Gundam SEED N-Jammer Distribution map
This is a map of N-Jammers dropped onto earth by ZAFT.
If you wanna have fun compare it to the "Index: map as of chapter 11"
Also each of these dots likely represents more than 1 N-Jammer within walking distance of each other
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chapter 14 - Phase 5: Sai and Cagalli in the closet
Darkchespin
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A/N:: i just wanted the chapter out before the new Seed movie comes out.
POV Sai yes its still 2nd February CE 71 no time skip yet
"I said follow me, we don't have all year." If we did, I wouldn't be working four jobs.
"I'm wait… what what is this place?" Cagalli felt noticeably shocked, which is not surprising at this point. The part of the hangar closest to the entrance looks kind of like an Argama-class ship's hanger. Practically empty besides the MS and all the spare parts and other random shit that's shown up in here. Besides the giant central pillar with the railings that is. Where the power comes from for the lights, I have no idea. The wires don't lead anywhere accessible, and when I tried cutting them to see what'd happen, the lights stayed on.
"I think my newtype abilities are creating a physical space connected to history when combined with this small piece of key shaped psychoframe."
"I understood maybe half of that sentence, what the fuck is this place? How the fuck did we get from your friend's bedroom to this place?"
"Basically, I think it's a psychically manifested museum created by that weird key and my space-psychic powers. At least that's my best guess, I haven't really had the time to do a clinical study or any real research into this since I work four jobs. How this actually works is very low on my priority list, given half of those are vital to the defense of Orb. I'm going to get some visual aids to help me explain this better." I have them prepared for when I plan to explain this to Dad, so it's not much of a bother to use them in this dry run.
"So what I am I supposed to do till then, just sit on the floor?!" She ran her hand though her hair and then down her face.
"It's a museum, look around a bit, have fun or whatever. Oh, and if you need to go to the restroom don't go through the door with toilet written on it, there aren't any in there, it's just a room with a book in it. I haven't gotten around to relabeling anything yet, very low priority. Don't worry, everything is turned off, it's safe."
The cork boards and whiteboards I'd been planning to use were stored next to the Exo-womb because that was the place with the room for like 10–20 whiteboards and red string I'd been using to try and figure out the story behind what the hell is up with everything.
That… hasn't been going well. I thought it would only take one whiteboard when I started. I'm on whiteboard twenty-three now, corkboard five, and binder twelve. Not including all the miscellaneous pages I left in a pile on top of the Exo-womb that I haven't put in a binder yet.
"I'm not satisfied with these explanations of yours, Sai and what with all this crap?" Cagallia justured at all of my notes and documents. "Why do you have a doodle of a giant UFO mobile suit attacking Las Vegas?"
"Hey, you were supposed to wait while I got this stuff."
"Wouldn't it be faster if I just walked over here?"
"Yeah, but I'm embarrassed about how much of a mess this is." I vaguely gestured toward all my notes and binders and corkboards. They honestly looked like something a conspiracy theorist would have.
"Yeah no kidding like why is that one pink?" She pointed toward the Geirail.
"I have no idea. That one's definitely new." How did I miss the giant metallic pink painted mobile suit sitting next to my stuff? Was I that deep in thought I forgot to observe my surroundings? Dad would kill me if he realized I did that.
I don't remember that one being here. I don't remember any of the MS being anywhere near the exo-womb since the battle. I'd remember the hot pink mobile suit with a non-nuclear reactor. I'd have made a note if it was a thing. I have taken stock of everything in here before, so it shouldn't be hard to find the inventory list.
The inventory list was a practical necessity. I had 4 mobile suits and a bunch of spare parts. Not having inventory of that would probably fuck me over when the Jegan eventually gets outclassed, and I don't know what I have or don't have. It'd mess up my special orders for parts. It'd be much worse if I'd have used the Gundam X. We don't make luna titanium.
I really need to make these notes less messy. Can't find shit between all the theories on random Tau tech, the O-D textbook, and postulations on Draneri crystal shit. Why do I do my important work in the same place I'm doing less serious work?
Let's see, Random device inventory, information inventory, ahh yes MS inventory, 1x Daughtress, 1x Jenice, 1x Gundam X, 1x Jegan with spare parts to convert it to most other variants. Yeah, no Geirail listed.
Wait, she asked, why it was pink not if it was new. Why would it be metallic hot pink?
Geirail, single Ahab reactor, armor is mostly functional due to gravitational waves and the paint. Pink's high visibility, so good as a test coloration. Nanolaminate is priced on usefulness…
"Hello, Orb to Sai? Do you read me? You were looking at bright pink mobile suit that's missing half its armor for like two full minutes."
"Oh yeah sorry, um nanolaminate is cheaper in high visibility colors! Ahh, it's a budget thing."
"But why does it have a giant golden spoon?"
"I don't know. Probably to scrape armor off of other machines or something? I literally just saw this thing for the first time when you pointed it out."
"How does that work?"
"I wish I knew. It'd make my life so much easier if I could figure out how or why this works. Maybe it'd stop giving me clothes and useless shit like that artificial womb over there."
"It gave you an artificial womb?"
"Yeah, that's what this thing is. It was the first thing here that wasn't the Jegan if I remember right. It's probably the best thing I've been given. I could probably end the issue with third generation and later coordinators if I got this thing mass-produced."
"Seriously? Why haven't you?"
"Well, I'm spending most of my time training new mobile suit engineers, studying the G weapons and the CGUE and GINN, drafting up our new military designs, being there for the testing of the completed OM-01 Den'an Zon, training our MS pilots, training myself because I frankly am only average at best as a pilot, and theorizing brand-new technology based on information in the various archives and books I've found here. The little free time I have is spent trying to figure out how everything connects to each other on a non-tech level."
"What about the required therapy post combat?"
"Why do you think I have so many notes? They said I needed to do something to keep my mind off the battle, so this was my something." I gestured towards the board covered in notes that were connected by lines of string. "I've been trying to figure out how all my tech connects and how to rationalise all of my conflicting memories."
I could have made this with something digital, but our computer tech is quite frankly bad. Sure, it's all quantum computers, but the interfaces and baseline coding is complete shit. Our phones look like something from the Middle Ages.
"Does any of that mean anything? Wait, conflicting memories, what are you talking about?"
"It's very simple, let me break it down for you. So, there was the One Year War, and they invented MS a bunch more wars happened, then we had space mad max for a while. After that, things get messy. There has to be like something weird given the suits got bigger again, but I don't really know what that was about. Then maybe the seventh space war goes off and that's the impetus for the X, but that's a guess. After, that, the colonies set up a fighting tournament on Earth? I think they solve the whole second mad max era first, but I don't know for sure. I just know that tournament had fighters who could 1v1 mobile suits with their fists, and the MS got super stupid. Like, holy shit, most of those units are so far beyond everything we commonly think about. Then I think an AI revolt happened and people's phones and tablets, which commonly had AI on them, got giant Titan Mobile Armour bodies and started killing everyone. That's not labeled on here yet, but I think that's how it connects. Now, Mars is a shithole and there are some people who pray to washing machines and burn incense. Oh, and I'm one of them somehow!
Also, like Aliens. Like honest to god bipedal aliens, they keep attacking New Jersey in the Atlantic Federation. I think I was on vacation in Tokyo when that was going down. They think we have an Imperium where we worship a guy in a golden chair. No idea how or where that connects to the rest of this. And like this other alien group of little green men keeps trying to go to our moon for some reason? Or is it their moon?"
"What the fuck? Sai that makes no sense!"
"I know! I'm not even done yet. There's like one precursor civilization that exists, but it connects to jack fucking shit. Like, most of this is wild speculation based on facts I know for certain, but there's at least a fucking connection to be drawn most of the time. I for the life of me can't figure out why the Rakatans exist, or why I know, or why they are even relevant to history. Like, it is practically standalone and utterly disconnected beyond psychic power being a thing I know to be real."
"Sai, slow the fuck down."
"There's also weird shit with apes with coconut guns or something? And there was that time Pokémon was real with those weird bug things. That's probably psychic fuckery we forgot about from all the random apocalypses. That's probably around when we were more psychically advanced than technologically, given that rune stuff I can do was made for a medieval age."
"Sai, please slow down."
"Oh yeah, and the fucking alien demons. Can't forget those. This completely different species of aliens called the eredar or something had to run from their homeworld because of a demon invasion or whatever. They had a couple demon gods, I think. The Tau mention killing one of them, which was called Slannesh. It's in the Tau database due to I think theology study? I dunno, the stuff in there is almost exclusively science related, but it includes stuff like sociology, so it can't really be super stringent. "
*SLAP*
"Sai, seriously, slow the fuck down. I lost you at Space Mad Max."
"What about that made me lose you?"
"I don't know what a 'Mad Max' is."
"Ohhhhhhhhhhh. I was referencing an old 20th century movie series my dad made me watch. He's obsessed with old entertainment. I mean post apocalypse. Like for the first one, Earth just fucked off to let the colonies do whatever, and then things just massively devolved. Most engineers were dead or old as fuck. Everything was falling apart. It was so bad that Anaheim Electronics went out of business for like a decade or two."
"What's Anaheim?"
"Imagine Morgenrote, but like instead of just Orb, it was literally all the Earthsphere. Wait, that's not really accurate. Anaheim Electronics had a practical monopoly on everything except shipbuilding for decades. From consumer electronics like ovens and computers, to vacation plans and credit cards to even such monolithic things as Space colonies and military equipment, you could name any field and they either had a large hand in it, or an outright monopoly. These are the guys who bankrolled the V project. They bought out Zeon's mobile suit manufacturing firms postwar and created a duopoly with the in-house military manufacturers until their production got gimped when the Titans blew up Jaburo which forced them to outsource production to Anaheim. They got Axis Zeon's designs from Char before he did the Axis thing. Not only that, but they dominated most mobile suit manufacturing for thirty years until SNRI beat them once in a single mock battle to decide who would get to make the next generation Earth Federation mass production mobile suit. SNRI never delivered the promised F90 mass production type. Anaheim technically did it with the Hardygun, and they didn't even have the data for all 26 packs or however many there were!"
"What's SNRI?" Cagalli looked like she had way more questions than that, but she was intentionally slowing this conversation down. She'd done that back when we were kids in the homeland.
"The Earth Federation's in house mobile suit development team they formed from all the batshit insane people that worked at the Newtype labs, which is a complicated subject I don't feel like talking about right now, some weirdo from Papua New Guinea, and some other guys. SNRI never really delivered mass production units. Outside the Flint, which went to a terrorist group or something, and like ten toned down F91s. And I guess the Gustav Karl and Loto, but those were spec ops machines for the most part, so they weren't really mass production models."
"Don't you mean the Earth Alliance?"
"No."
"What do you mean no?!!?"
"It literally can't be the Alliance. The Earth Federation had Minovsky type nukes, which are pure fusion. The Alliance would have used those by now if they had them."
"Why don't we know about this then?"
"I'm going to be honest, this is all me trying to connect stuff as best as I can given the relative lack of shit I know. Like, the Rakatans are something I understand practically nothing about. I'm assuming the Tau are the ones attacking New Jersey, given some of the descriptions of the enemy's units sounding vaguely like these Tau battle suit things I have data on. I'm assuming that Imperium of Man wasn't a real thing. I'm doing my best with connecting the UC, AW and PD time periods even though that makes no fucking sense given what actual visible real reality is like. Seriously, I have a collective understanding of four hundredish years of MS development history, which contradicts itself multiple times and doesn't mess at all with what I see when I wake up everyday.
I'm only able to connect maybe like a couple of the big things before something massively fucks up my understanding of the universe. I left out a couple of things because they don't add up in any way outside of maybe being from the future, which just fucks up my whole thing where all of this has to be in the past, so I threw all my notes on that into a pile over there. This is revision number 10, and I'm still nowhere near satisfied with it.
For fuck's sake, one of the biggest problems is that the moon apparently got annihilated into a permeant new moon size, but that sure as shit isn't real now. In fact, actually, that might have just been the movie I watched while sleep-deprived at movie night Monday."
"Sai, you're stressed out. Calm down and breathe. We'll get you through this."
Rumble… Rumble
Out of the ether, a giant red flower shaped machine popped into existence.
Right in front of us.
WOOSH CRASH
"Fuck that hurts, I ow I fell on my face."
Wait, since when were we in a completely different hangar? This one is the type that would just dump mobile suits out from the bottom, like that one variant of the original salamis. Those are super outdated. And what's the deal with the RF Z'Gok?
"You o ow, I think I cracked my ass." That's gonna hurt for a while.
"What in the hell is that fucking what?!"
"It all makes sense now."
"How the fuck does any of this make sense?" God, Cagllia looks like someone put her in a drier for an hour.
"It doesn't. I'm just lying to myself."
"We should probably stop talking about this until later."
"Yeah. I'm just going to go insane if I keep going at this any longer. That's what sleeping four hours a max day for a week does to you, I guess."
POV Kuzzey Buskirk 2nd February CE 71 we didn't timetravel while they were in there it's not Narnia
Hm, those two have been in my room for what 15 minutes now? Seriously, what could they be talking about in there? Actually, I don't think I want to know the answer to that.
"Focus Kuzzey and stop sucking at Bombard of Heroics." You're really calling the kettle black Tolle.
"If you weren't so shit at tanking, maybe I wouldn't need all this healing!"
"Can you stop pocketing the tank and heal the dps." Seriously, why does Miriallia have to keep telling Kira that every time we play!
"Why are we shouting!?!?" Flay is the voice of reason. We really need one of those in this group.
"It's just something people do when they play video games Flay!" Miriallia looked at her and said.
"I don't get the appeal at all." Flay spoke slowly.
"Filthy casual." You suck at every game you've ever played that isn't console Toelle.
"Toelle be nice" *pinch*
"Ok ok I'll stop!"
"Whipped!"
"Oh shut up, Kuzzey! You could never get a girlfriend yourself."
"Wanna bet Casual?"
"20 Eards, you got one week."
"That's bullshit man." We know maybe two females between the two of us, and both of them are taken.
"Dude, there's literally a girl in your room right now." Toelle, are you stupid!
"There is no way that would work. She'd kick my ass then bite my dick off if what Sai said is true."
"At least you'd get to third base." What in the actual fuck Toelle.
"Wait, isn't he already dating Kyle?" Wait what?! What wait she looks honest about this! I thought you were the voice of reason, Flay.
"I'm just going to check on those two. Make sure Sai hasn't been murdered or something." Anything to stay away from yaoi fangirls. I get enough shit about that when I'm taking classes with Kira or Sai.
They aren't here. Oh god, were they kidnapped? Fuck! Who should I call the police?!
*click*
What the… oh they were just in the closet. Wait, they were in my closet?
"Oh, hey Kuzzey um, how have things been while we were busy?."
Sai and Cagalli's clothes look really messed up and disheveled. They just came out of the closet together.
"Ohhhhhh" They were having sex. Ok, everything, all of it.
It all makes sense now.
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Mobile Armor (400cp) This is...odd. A MA is a non-humanoid Mobile Weapon, such as the (oh hey) Big Zam, Rafflesia or the Psyco Gundam's MA Mode. Like the last one implied, they sometimes have alternative modes, though those are even rarer. You may purchase only 1 Mobile Armor, and people WILL take notice of you having this engine of destruction.
Mass Production Mobile Suit (One Free All- 100 CP afterwards): The GM. The Jegan. The Zaku II. The Gun-EZ. The Den'an Zon. They are not powerful; they are not the best of the best, for they are designed for the common soldier. Everyone starts out piloting one of these, just gotta work your way up. (Or like the higher-up on the faction ladders, just buy a better one.) RF Z'Gok
POV Sai yes its still 2nd February CE 71 no time skip yet
"I said follow me, we don't have all year." If we did, I wouldn't be working four jobs.
"I'm wait… what what is this place?" Cagalli felt noticeably shocked, which is not surprising at this point. The part of the hangar closest to the entrance looks kind of like an Argama-class ship's hanger. Practically empty besides the MS and all the spare parts and other random shit that's shown up in here. Besides the giant central pillar with the railings that is. Where the power comes from for the lights, I have no idea. The wires don't lead anywhere accessible, and when I tried cutting them to see what'd happen, the lights stayed on.
"I think my newtype abilities are creating a physical space connected to history when combined with this small piece of key shaped psychoframe."
"I understood maybe half of that sentence, what the fuck is this place? How the fuck did we get from your friend's bedroom to this place?"
"Basically, I think it's a psychically manifested museum created by that weird key and my space-psychic powers. At least that's my best guess, I haven't really had the time to do a clinical study or any real research into this since I work four jobs. How this actually works is very low on my priority list, given half of those are vital to the defense of Orb. I'm going to get some visual aids to help me explain this better." I have them prepared for when I plan to explain this to Dad, so it's not much of a bother to use them in this dry run.
"So what I am I supposed to do till then, just sit on the floor?!" She ran her hand though her hair and then down her face.
"It's a museum, look around a bit, have fun or whatever. Oh, and if you need to go to the restroom don't go through the door with toilet written on it, there aren't any in there, it's just a room with a book in it. I haven't gotten around to relabeling anything yet, very low priority. Don't worry, everything is turned off, it's safe."
The cork boards and whiteboards I'd been planning to use were stored next to the Exo-womb because that was the place with the room for like 10–20 whiteboards and red string I'd been using to try and figure out the story behind what the hell is up with everything.
That… hasn't been going well. I thought it would only take one whiteboard when I started. I'm on whiteboard twenty-three now, corkboard five, and binder twelve. Not including all the miscellaneous pages I left in a pile on top of the Exo-womb that I haven't put in a binder yet.
"I'm not satisfied with these explanations of yours, Sai and what with all this crap?" Cagallia justured at all of my notes and documents. "Why do you have a doodle of a giant UFO mobile suit attacking Las Vegas?"
"Hey, you were supposed to wait while I got this stuff."
"Wouldn't it be faster if I just walked over here?"
"Yeah, but I'm embarrassed about how much of a mess this is." I vaguely gestured toward all my notes and binders and corkboards. They honestly looked like something a conspiracy theorist would have.
"Yeah no kidding like why is that one pink?" She pointed toward the Geirail.
"I have no idea. That one's definitely new." How did I miss the giant metallic pink painted mobile suit sitting next to my stuff? Was I that deep in thought I forgot to observe my surroundings? Dad would kill me if he realized I did that.
I don't remember that one being here. I don't remember any of the MS being anywhere near the exo-womb since the battle. I'd remember the hot pink mobile suit with a non-nuclear reactor. I'd have made a note if it was a thing. I have taken stock of everything in here before, so it shouldn't be hard to find the inventory list.
The inventory list was a practical necessity. I had 4 mobile suits and a bunch of spare parts. Not having inventory of that would probably fuck me over when the Jegan eventually gets outclassed, and I don't know what I have or don't have. It'd mess up my special orders for parts. It'd be much worse if I'd have used the Gundam X. We don't make luna titanium.
I really need to make these notes less messy. Can't find shit between all the theories on random Tau tech, the O-D textbook, and postulations on Draneri crystal shit. Why do I do my important work in the same place I'm doing less serious work?
Let's see, Random device inventory, information inventory, ahh yes MS inventory, 1x Daughtress, 1x Jenice, 1x Gundam X, 1x Jegan with spare parts to convert it to most other variants. Yeah, no Geirail listed.
Wait, she asked, why it was pink not if it was new. Why would it be metallic hot pink?
Geirail, single Ahab reactor, armor is mostly functional due to gravitational waves and the paint. Pink's high visibility, so good as a test coloration. Nanolaminate is priced on usefulness…
"Hello, Orb to Sai? Do you read me? You were looking at bright pink mobile suit that's missing half its armor for like two full minutes."
"Oh yeah sorry, um nanolaminate is cheaper in high visibility colors! Ahh, it's a budget thing."
"But why does it have a giant golden spoon?"
"I don't know. Probably to scrape armor off of other machines or something? I literally just saw this thing for the first time when you pointed it out."
"How does that work?"
"I wish I knew. It'd make my life so much easier if I could figure out how or why this works. Maybe it'd stop giving me clothes and useless shit like that artificial womb over there."
"It gave you an artificial womb?"
"Yeah, that's what this thing is. It was the first thing here that wasn't the Jegan if I remember right. It's probably the best thing I've been given. I could probably end the issue with third generation and later coordinators if I got this thing mass-produced."
"Seriously? Why haven't you?"
"Well, I'm spending most of my time training new mobile suit engineers, studying the G weapons and the CGUE and GINN, drafting up our new military designs, being there for the testing of the completed OM-01 Den'an Zon, training our MS pilots, training myself because I frankly am only average at best as a pilot, and theorizing brand-new technology based on information in the various archives and books I've found here. The little free time I have is spent trying to figure out how everything connects to each other on a non-tech level."
"What about the required therapy post combat?"
"Why do you think I have so many notes? They said I needed to do something to keep my mind off the battle, so this was my something." I gestured towards the board covered in notes that were connected by lines of string. "I've been trying to figure out how all my tech connects and how to rationalise all of my conflicting memories."
I could have made this with something digital, but our computer tech is quite frankly bad. Sure, it's all quantum computers, but the interfaces and baseline coding is complete shit. Our phones look like something from the Middle Ages.
"Does any of that mean anything? Wait, conflicting memories, what are you talking about?"
"It's very simple, let me break it down for you. So, there was the One Year War, and they invented MS a bunch more wars happened, then we had space mad max for a while. After that, things get messy. There has to be like something weird given the suits got bigger again, but I don't really know what that was about. Then maybe the seventh space war goes off and that's the impetus for the X, but that's a guess. After, that, the colonies set up a fighting tournament on Earth? I think they solve the whole second mad max era first, but I don't know for sure. I just know that tournament had fighters who could 1v1 mobile suits with their fists, and the MS got super stupid. Like, holy shit, most of those units are so far beyond everything we commonly think about. Then I think an AI revolt happened and people's phones and tablets, which commonly had AI on them, got giant Titan Mobile Armour bodies and started killing everyone. That's not labeled on here yet, but I think that's how it connects. Now, Mars is a shithole and there are some people who pray to washing machines and burn incense. Oh, and I'm one of them somehow!
Also, like Aliens. Like honest to god bipedal aliens, they keep attacking New Jersey in the Atlantic Federation. I think I was on vacation in Tokyo when that was going down. They think we have an Imperium where we worship a guy in a golden chair. No idea how or where that connects to the rest of this. And like this other alien group of little green men keeps trying to go to our moon for some reason? Or is it their moon?"
"What the fuck? Sai that makes no sense!"
"I know! I'm not even done yet. There's like one precursor civilization that exists, but it connects to jack fucking shit. Like, most of this is wild speculation based on facts I know for certain, but there's at least a fucking connection to be drawn most of the time. I for the life of me can't figure out why the Rakatans exist, or why I know, or why they are even relevant to history. Like, it is practically standalone and utterly disconnected beyond psychic power being a thing I know to be real."
"Sai, slow the fuck down."
"There's also weird shit with apes with coconut guns or something? And there was that time Pokémon was real with those weird bug things. That's probably psychic fuckery we forgot about from all the random apocalypses. That's probably around when we were more psychically advanced than technologically, given that rune stuff I can do was made for a medieval age."
"Sai, please slow down."
"Oh yeah, and the fucking alien demons. Can't forget those. This completely different species of aliens called the eredar or something had to run from their homeworld because of a demon invasion or whatever. They had a couple demon gods, I think. The Tau mention killing one of them, which was called Slannesh. It's in the Tau database due to I think theology study? I dunno, the stuff in there is almost exclusively science related, but it includes stuff like sociology, so it can't really be super stringent. "
*SLAP*
"Sai, seriously, slow the fuck down. I lost you at Space Mad Max."
"What about that made me lose you?"
"I don't know what a 'Mad Max' is."
"Ohhhhhhhhhhh. I was referencing an old 20th century movie series my dad made me watch. He's obsessed with old entertainment. I mean post apocalypse. Like for the first one, Earth just fucked off to let the colonies do whatever, and then things just massively devolved. Most engineers were dead or old as fuck. Everything was falling apart. It was so bad that Anaheim Electronics went out of business for like a decade or two."
"What's Anaheim?"
"Imagine Morgenrote, but like instead of just Orb, it was literally all the Earthsphere. Wait, that's not really accurate. Anaheim Electronics had a practical monopoly on everything except shipbuilding for decades. From consumer electronics like ovens and computers, to vacation plans and credit cards to even such monolithic things as Space colonies and military equipment, you could name any field and they either had a large hand in it, or an outright monopoly. These are the guys who bankrolled the V project. They bought out Zeon's mobile suit manufacturing firms postwar and created a duopoly with the in-house military manufacturers until their production got gimped when the Titans blew up Jaburo which forced them to outsource production to Anaheim. They got Axis Zeon's designs from Char before he did the Axis thing. Not only that, but they dominated most mobile suit manufacturing for thirty years until SNRI beat them once in a single mock battle to decide who would get to make the next generation Earth Federation mass production mobile suit. SNRI never delivered the promised F90 mass production type. Anaheim technically did it with the Hardygun, and they didn't even have the data for all 26 packs or however many there were!"
"What's SNRI?" Cagalli looked like she had way more questions than that, but she was intentionally slowing this conversation down. She'd done that back when we were kids in the homeland.
"The Earth Federation's in house mobile suit development team they formed from all the batshit insane people that worked at the Newtype labs, which is a complicated subject I don't feel like talking about right now, some weirdo from Papua New Guinea, and some other guys. SNRI never really delivered mass production units. Outside the Flint, which went to a terrorist group or something, and like ten toned down F91s. And I guess the Gustav Karl and Loto, but those were spec ops machines for the most part, so they weren't really mass production models."
"Don't you mean the Earth Alliance?"
"No."
"What do you mean no?!!?"
"It literally can't be the Alliance. The Earth Federation had Minovsky type nukes, which are pure fusion. The Alliance would have used those by now if they had them."
"Why don't we know about this then?"
"I'm going to be honest, this is all me trying to connect stuff as best as I can given the relative lack of shit I know. Like, the Rakatans are something I understand practically nothing about. I'm assuming the Tau are the ones attacking New Jersey, given some of the descriptions of the enemy's units sounding vaguely like these Tau battle suit things I have data on. I'm assuming that Imperium of Man wasn't a real thing. I'm doing my best with connecting the UC, AW and PD time periods even though that makes no fucking sense given what actual visible real reality is like. Seriously, I have a collective understanding of four hundredish years of MS development history, which contradicts itself multiple times and doesn't mess at all with what I see when I wake up everyday.
I'm only able to connect maybe like a couple of the big things before something massively fucks up my understanding of the universe. I left out a couple of things because they don't add up in any way outside of maybe being from the future, which just fucks up my whole thing where all of this has to be in the past, so I threw all my notes on that into a pile over there. This is revision number 10, and I'm still nowhere near satisfied with it.
For fuck's sake, one of the biggest problems is that the moon apparently got annihilated into a permeant new moon size, but that sure as shit isn't real now. In fact, actually, that might have just been the movie I watched while sleep-deprived at movie night Monday."
"Sai, you're stressed out. Calm down and breathe. We'll get you through this."
Rumble… Rumble
Out of the ether, a giant red flower shaped machine popped into existence.
Right in front of us.
WOOSH CRASH
"Fuck that hurts, I ow I fell on my face."
Wait, since when were we in a completely different hangar? This one is the type that would just dump mobile suits out from the bottom, like that one variant of the original salamis. Those are super outdated. And what's the deal with the RF Z'Gok?
"You o ow, I think I cracked my ass." That's gonna hurt for a while.
"What in the hell is that fucking what?!"
"It all makes sense now."
"How the fuck does any of this make sense?" God, Cagllia looks like someone put her in a drier for an hour.
"It doesn't. I'm just lying to myself."
"We should probably stop talking about this until later."
"Yeah. I'm just going to go insane if I keep going at this any longer. That's what sleeping four hours a max day for a week does to you, I guess."
POV Kuzzey Buskirk 2nd February CE 71 we didn't timetravel while they were in there it's not Narnia
Hm, those two have been in my room for what 15 minutes now? Seriously, what could they be talking about in there? Actually, I don't think I want to know the answer to that.
"Focus Kuzzey and stop sucking at Bombard of Heroics." You're really calling the kettle black Tolle.
"If you weren't so shit at tanking, maybe I wouldn't need all this healing!"
"Can you stop pocketing the tank and heal the dps." Seriously, why does Miriallia have to keep telling Kira that every time we play!
"Why are we shouting!?!?" Flay is the voice of reason. We really need one of those in this group.
"It's just something people do when they play video games Flay!" Miriallia looked at her and said.
"I don't get the appeal at all." Flay spoke slowly.
"Filthy casual." You suck at every game you've ever played that isn't console Toelle.
"Toelle be nice" *pinch*
"Ok ok I'll stop!"
"Whipped!"
"Oh shut up, Kuzzey! You could never get a girlfriend yourself."
"Wanna bet Casual?"
"20 Eards, you got one week."
"That's bullshit man." We know maybe two females between the two of us, and both of them are taken.
"Dude, there's literally a girl in your room right now." Toelle, are you stupid!
"There is no way that would work. She'd kick my ass then bite my dick off if what Sai said is true."
"At least you'd get to third base." What in the actual fuck Toelle.
"Wait, isn't he already dating Kyle?" Wait what?! What wait she looks honest about this! I thought you were the voice of reason, Flay.
"I'm just going to check on those two. Make sure Sai hasn't been murdered or something." Anything to stay away from yaoi fangirls. I get enough shit about that when I'm taking classes with Kira or Sai.
They aren't here. Oh god, were they kidnapped? Fuck! Who should I call the police?!
*click*
What the… oh they were just in the closet. Wait, they were in my closet?
"Oh, hey Kuzzey um, how have things been while we were busy?."
Sai and Cagalli's clothes look really messed up and disheveled. They just came out of the closet together.
"Ohhhhhh" They were having sex. Ok, everything, all of it.
It all makes sense now.
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Mobile Armor (400cp) This is...odd. A MA is a non-humanoid Mobile Weapon, such as the (oh hey) Big Zam, Rafflesia or the Psyco Gundam's MA Mode. Like the last one implied, they sometimes have alternative modes, though those are even rarer. You may purchase only 1 Mobile Armor, and people WILL take notice of you having this engine of destruction.
Mass Production Mobile Suit (One Free All- 100 CP afterwards): The GM. The Jegan. The Zaku II. The Gun-EZ. The Den'an Zon. They are not powerful; they are not the best of the best, for they are designed for the common soldier. Everyone starts out piloting one of these, just gotta work your way up. (Or like the higher-up on the faction ladders, just buy a better one.) RF Z'Gok
TheToFu
ToFu
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sigh, you forget the crack tag. there is so much word vomit and tangents that it's so hard to keep track of and not think it's crack. The fact another character had to slap the main character to shut him up and have him sort that crap out means you are doing it on purpose.
At least put a crack tag as warning or word vomit.
At least put a crack tag as warning or word vomit.
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Silverbladestar
Not too sore, are you?
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Yeah, this chapter gave me a massive headache. There is a good reason I don't read crack works. Watching him meltdown trying to undstand things is not fun, and the last Pov part seems extra pointless.