solas_ion | ☘ 062; [video]

☘ 062; [video]

Hey. You.

[Leaning his head on one hand with a bored look on his face, Lancer pointed lazily at the Pokegear's camera with the other.]

Yeah, you. If you're listening to this, I wanna hear about what kinda legends and stories your world has. I'm bored out of my damn mind and could use somethin' interesting to talk about.

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Hey, no spoiling the story before you've even heard it.

[Anytime after is fair game, though.]

Angel's destruction was only the beginning. The UE spent the next fourteen years destroying any colony that struck their fancy and capturing any vessel they met. They were unstoppable; their technology was beyond anything the Earth Federation Forces could create, and their tactics were flawless. Whatever fight they started, they won.

Until they decided to attack Nora.

Nora's another colony, I'm guessing. Where was that one, parked somewhere in the vicinity of the sun?

No, it was just as close to the earth as the others. What it had, though, was a survivor from Ovan. The genius heir to an great family of talented engineers, who possessed heirlooms filled with ancient forbidden blueprints that the military intended to use to turn the tide of the war. He'd been working with them to build superior weapons for years.

...The kid was fourteen, by the way.

...Holy shit. I pulled some crazy shit myself at fourteen, but I'm thinkin' this is way past that. Don't tell me, he hopped in a tank or somethin' and took on the other guy himself?

[...it's what he'd do.]

It was a mobile suit, actually. His mobile suit, the only he'd spent years developping. Piloting it, he managed what humanity believed impossible: he took down one of the UE. Pretty much by himself.

Sounds like a tough kid, to say the least. That's pretty damn impressive.

That it was. Impressive enough that the rest of the UE present freaked out, incinerated the remains of their fallen ally, and immediately exited the colony to begin destroying it from outside.

They managed to evacuate the civilians before it exploded, but it was a close thing.

And after all that, they couldn't even find out what was trying to kill them? Damn, that's annoying.

The most popular theory at the time was aliens. Which isn't all that farfetched, considering the information available to the public at the time and even now. If the world's leaders knew more, they kept their mouths shut.

Guess when you're tryin' to move everybody to another planet, the idea that you might've pissed off aliens ain't that weird.

[It's a little weird.]

Even weirdness wouldn't have stopped a good alien conspiracy theory. If anything, it would have been a bonus.

[Many where quite disappointed when the truth was revealed, he knows.]

Besides, in their defense, up until then the survival rate during attacks had been extremely low.

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