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[coordination]

CHARACTERS: Yzak and everyone
LOCATION: All 'round the station!
DATE: Various, who needs time
CONTENT: Post-mission stuff
WARNINGS: will note if any come up!


[ Yzak returns from the mission relatively unscathed - save for some general bumps and bruises (a couple of light, healing ones on his face, don't worry about where they came from (it's all Athrun Zala's fault)), so he has less time to worry about burns healing this time around and more time to prepare and await the next mission. Resting, too, but even resting for Yzak Jule usually entails him doing something while he relaxes (reading, chess, lazy Charter symbol tracing to keep sharp). Otherwise, he's out and about as he always is, barely able to sit still for long and shedding his Ti'shaaz getup to default back to his military uniform. ]


01. The Obligatory One (OPEN)
[ There's something about a Gundam character staring quietly out into space and lamenting on recent events that invokes Meaningful Talks. So if any characters happen to pass by or join him and have the need to talk about things - their recent mission, their overall objective, something else weighing on their mind, this is the prompt for that.

Yzak's always got a lot thoughts about those things, after all. After two wars full of blood, death and anguish where many things weren't what they seemed and too many wrong paths that always appeared perfectly fine to walk down at first, these missions, this situation is hardly something new. ]


02. Some Respite (OPEN)
[ If emotional moments while staring out of windows into space isn't your thing, and you want to follow up with Yzak after the mission in any capacity (checking in on him, met him briefly and want to talk to him more?) he can also be found at various points heading into his room. He's got a few fun things in there. ]


03. Giant Robot Time (OPEN)
[ Yzak doesn't really bother with private simulations unless he has a good reason to. So anyone who happens upon it today will find it occupied and showcasing SPACE and MECHA. They'll be standing on a small holographic platform with a few screens and keyboards, with a full 360 view of the space around them.

For those familiar with Earth and its moon, that much won't be new. What might be new to some are the cluster of 100+ hourglass-shaped space colonies in orbit, as well as the manner of fighting going on in the surrounding area. All sorts of different looking space battleships are spread out, though the nearest ones are two of these. Yzak is currently going over a replay of what he was just immersed in for practice, so the focus of the images being broadcast are focused on this white mobile suit specifically. And there are all sorts of other different types and colors of similar machines out there on the battlefield as well - all roughly in the same ~20 meters size area and donning an equal amount of assorted weapons (and there are some other weird looking machines among them too like this thing). Those focused on the overall scene will see many explosions and flashes of light, as mecha are cut down and battleships destroyed in the near distance. Which is probably a pretty grim sight against the beautiful backdrop of outer space behind it.

Wearing a flight suit with a similar color scheme to his uniform and his helmet tucked under one arm, Yzak is engrossed in going over every move he (and every enemy he comes into contact with) just made in the simulation battle, pausing the replay, moving the platform around to get a better look at an angle, taking notes and adjusting things via the keyboard. ]

I'll change and speed up the timing on that Windam, and add three more reinforcements for it from behind...


04. Quali-tea Time (CLOSED to Hermann)
[ During their mission on Braccia, Yzak and Sabriel talked about her newly aquired (and pretty fuckin' cool) tea set and how maybe one day they'd see who wanted to drop by for a little chill out tea time to show it off and relax a bit, maybe even talk and get to know one another some more. Yzak's never really been to a proper tea party himself, but the idea wasn't bad from his point of view (especially since when Yzak says 'not bad' that means he likes it). He knew, for example. Hermann had good taste in that regard, so he'd probably be down with that! Of course, once they're back on the station, the ever astute Yzak realizes he hasn't seen Hermann out and about. So one quiet evening, he decides to reach out to him via the earpieces, opting to just go audio. ]

Doctor?


05. Wildcard (OPEN)
[ I'm literally down to roll with anything. Have an idea? Give it to me! ]


OOC
As always, down with multiple threads so don't be shy. Can throw down a new starter in comments if anyone wants to plan something. Contact by PMing here, at gaignun, or Tara#1768. ♥

Comments

[majorbiotic]

Why? How were you different from people born on Earth?

[coordination]

[ Yzak frowns. Not so much that he's nervous or anything - honestly, if anybody here gave that much of a shit about his being a Coordinator, he'd just tell them to go fuck themself and go back to focusing on his mission. He just doesn't really want to have to bother with that at all. ]

Because myself and my people are genetically enhanced humans. That's what a Coordinator is.

[majorbiotic]

So all your people have... magic? [Or whatever it was that made Yzak be in the collective during the last mission] That's something I've been thinking about. Why was I with the Featherstones when my biotics could be seen as magic, but you were with the collective? How do you think that was decided?

[coordination]

No. Magic doesn't exist in my world. I started learning it here on the station, before we went down to Braccia. That's probably why I was tossed onto Ti'shaaz. I've been working hard at it, of course, which is probably why I was deemed skilled enough for that group.

Our enhancements are physical, mental - we can learn things much easier and in a much shorter time. We're stronger, faster, and illnesses primarily don't affect us.

[majorbiotic]

Oh, of course. I was told anyone could learn magic here. [Which is still a little strange to him, but he doesn't really get the rules of how magic works]

Hm, that's interesting. And that's all just because you were born in a colony?

[coordination]

Coordinators were first born on Earth. But it was only as more time passed, more of us came into existence, and more Naturals that didn't like that, did we have to end up moving into space because it started to become dangerous for us there.

[majorbiotic]

[He thinks this over. Would that have happened to biotics, he wonders, if humans never found the Citadel?]

I understand what you mean. Human biotics aren't very welcome, either. Did your scientists ever look into how and why Coordinators had the abilities they did?

[coordination]

Why? It's because we were genetically enhanced.

—which, yes, that means the first of our people who were born, were enhanced by the same people who ended up viewing us as monsters and who we ended up in two wars against down the line.

[majorbiotic]

[Again, kind of sounds like human biotics] That's awful. I'm sorry it ended up like that. At least here you're more accepted, right?

[coordination]

As it stands, we're currently at a cease-fire back home. But plenty of places on Earth still probably wouldn't be very ideal for a Coordinator. Outside of long-neutral territories.

But so far, being here ... you're right about that.

You mentioned human biotics? Care to elaborate on that?

[majorbiotic]

It's what we call people like me. You can think of it as a psychic: we move things with our minds, create gravitational vortices, even mess with a person's nervous system. Human biotics... we're seen as freaks. A lot of us are rejected by society. It hasn't gotten as bad as sparking a war-- we're too useful to the military for that-- but maybe it would have gone that way if we never made contact with the Citadel and learned about other species.

[He pauses to gaze out over the stars] When my mom was pregnant with me, there was a transport explosion that exposed me to the dust form of element zero. That's the stuff that can give kids biotic potential. I don't know whether it was an accident or not, but there are definitely rumors that fetuses are being exposed on purpose to create more biotic children.

[coordination]

Psychics, okay. [ That's something he can easily follow along with, though Kaidan's explanation is clear enough without the comparison. Useful to the military... there are definitely seedier aspects to his own world where things like that are concerned, Combat Coordinators and Biological CPUs - created and controlled and seen as nothing but tools. ]

And I assume those rumors are connected to the fact that your people are useful to the military?

[majorbiotic]

Yeah, exactly. That and trying to keep up with the other species of the galaxy, I think. But it's all just speculation.

[coordination]

I wouldn't particularly enjoy serving a military if they looked at me like some kind of monster. [ He says that low, as if thinking outloud to himself. But he gives a small shrug after the fact. There might be more to it than that, in whatever world Kaidan comes from. ]

You said a dust? What is that element zero thing? Is it supposed to be dangerous or something, if exposure incidents are rumored to be more than just 'accidents'? Or is there some sort of control over it or ban in place considering what it does?

[majorbiotic]

[More like a weapon than a monster, but Kaidan did end up enjoying his career. Without it, his students might never have gotten the chance they did]

It's the basis for a lot of our technology. It's what allows us to achieve faster-than-light travel. Can't really ban something you need for so many parts of your society. [A brief silence] It's really only with humans that we have rumors of in-utero children are exposed on purpose. All asari are born with biotic potential because the dust-form is native to their planet.

[coordination]

I see.

[ That sounds ... maybe better? Marginally? Still, what did he say? Seen as freaks, rejected by society. Those things happened in his world, too, that led to war. ]

And, what's the Citadel?

[majorbiotic]

It's basically the capitol of the galactic government. All of the embassies are there.

[coordination]

And when you said other species ... do you mean extraterrestrial life?

[majorbiotic]

That's right. There are about a dozen or so other species out there other than humans. At least, where I'm from. We have a few represented on our crew.

[coordination]

A few dozen...

[ The look in his expression is somewhat awed, but not awed specifically in that holy shit aliens are real way. ]

All we've had where I'm from is the discovery of an old fossil around Jupiter. Much less anything alive or agreed to work together on a crew.

[majorbiotic]

It's interesting how different every world is, even if we have the same planets. We found some alien artifacts on Mars, and that's what jump-started our technology and space exploration. I don't think we would've had any contact with our alien neighbors otherwise.

[coordination]

I guess interesting explains it.

[ It still feels so weird to Yzak. Similar pasts and histories with so many small branches that lead to a different reality entirely. ]

Considering the vastness of space, a jump start like that sounds incredibly useful. Our own scope of exploration isn't as far out yet, but ... Coordinators are only going into our third generation. And like I mentioned, there've been too many idiots out there causing problems so we've been too preoccupied with fighting in wars and then cleaning up after them.

[majorbiotic]

War does have a way of putting everything else on hold. I hope some day your world finds peace.

[coordination]

We do have a peace now.

But we've only just agreed to this new cease-fire. So everything is still extremely fragile. [ And then, as he continues, Yzak starts to bristle up a bit. ] And there are a WHOLE LOT of idiots still out there only looking out for themselves! Who care more about their standing and what's going into their pockets than they are about what's actually important here!

[majorbiotic]

Yeah, that's how it is everywhere. When we made first contact, we got in a short war with one of the alien races. It only lasted a few months but it was bad, and there are still aliens who don't care for humans. I don't know what it's going to be like when I get back, but... I want to believe we'll become more united.

It's probably hard to see a future like that where you're from.