Week 6

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Week 6

[It's been six weeks and with Ricky, Kurumi, and Lightning all dead, the group that was initially 20 strong has dwindled down to only seven. Thirteen Champions have died in about a month and a half, and even the Overseers are beginning to crack. How many more will follow before this cruel experiment ends?

And again at 7 am the mechanical woman's voice chimes to awaken the remaining champions on Sunday morning. After the initial wake-up call there is no new floor announcement this week.

And again the Champions are awakened they have regained one new memory from the ones they've lost. Starting again on Sunday, as well, Jamie and Bolton will be back to their usual office hours in their usual locations.]

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[ooc: welcome to week 6, everyone! Check-in has begun and don't forget to submit your memory regains!]

Comments

[ratherdoweddings]

I don't think so either. Even when they were trying to undermine us after we learned the truth, Nergal and the military started with silly things that wouldn't be out of place on the Nadesico. ...At least until that little girl came.

[kingshaming]

[Seems like there's a long story here, just waiting to be told. He reaches over and pulls another stool towards them, patting it]

Sit. Tell me, if you want.

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika rests her hands on the table, sighs, and sits down.]

Last week, I remembered that the entire war was built on a conspiracy. A hundred years ago, there was a civil war on the Moon that ended in a radical fringe group being exiled from UEAF territory. We were always taught that it was only a local matter, but the rebellion was encouraged by the Earth government so they could take control of the Moon themselves, and the exiles were chased away with unnecessary force -- not just from Earth territory, but from places like Mars that the Earth wanted open to colonize in the future. Our ancestors bombed them out of places just because they wanted them for themselves.

Those exiles finally settled on a gas planet called Jupiter, where life must have been harsh. There's where they found an abandoned factory and blueprints, left behind by some kind of ancient alien civilization. Over the next hundred years, they developed weapons and transporters, aimed at taking back their ancestral homes and all of Earth's territory as revenge.

Because of the cover-up, the UEAF didn't want any of this to get out. When we were first attacked, they told everyone that the fleets from Jupiter were aliens with no relation to Earth and no way to reason with us.

[She bites her lip and looks over at Xander.]

The Jovians were never lizards at all. They're human.

[kingshaming]

[He hisses breath between his teeth]

So every time you fought with them...

[ratherdoweddings]

They used to use drones, but now they're experimenting with Chulips and Chulip Crystals and sending out piloted craft. One way or another, we ended up with a Jovian on our ship, just a child instead of a soldier. Once the UEAF caught wind of it, they demanded that we hand her over for "safety," but that didn't make sense to me -- the Nadesico is the safest place out there. But when I refused, one of our backup pilots shut us down and took the master key.

[She indicates the key she's currently got on a string around her neck.]

This one that I found in my dumbwaiter, so I don't know how the Benefactors got it. It turns out that Akatsuki-san, the backup pilot, was a plant, and he's really the chairman of Nergal. They assigned him to us after we found out that Chulips were teleporters instead of spacecraft carriers, and he just wanted to keep us quiet when it was convenient so Nergal could still profit off the war!