Sobek's Blessing

Cornelius had arrived on the bridge shortly after the moon had become visible to the eye and had stood there quietly until he heard the bulkhead open. He had been lost in thought on his past days and how he had wound up here. By the time he was being paraded as an ace and an example of the fighting spirit of Zeon and it’s people he had become disillusioned with the notion and would have happily disappeared from this had circumstances not put him aboard a ship destined to come into the possession of Zeon remnants. By the time of Operation Stardust he came to accept that the only way he could ever return to a normal life was if there was some kind of major change. He had considered doing his best to find a normal life on the colony they had just abandoned but his conscience had made it impossible for him to just abandon his colleagues.

He turned his head to look at Sig while he entered before turning his attention back towards the moon for a moment, holding his tongue silently. This was as close as he had gotten to his original home since the time of the One Year War when he had found himself bivouacked in the sleepy little town he had been born in only to feel like some kind of invader rather than a person returning home. Given the chance he would have happily found a new life there, someplace where himself and the rest of the crew could retire and start up a normal life but there were those among the crew that never would have accepted that. He wasn’t quite sure if he himself could ever return to a normal life after what he had been through, but a chance to retire was an idea he still occasionally toyed at. Life back on the colony had been something he had almost managed to acclamate to until he had been forced to return to old habits at the drop of a hat.

Now that the lunar city was in view he glanced at the captain and wondered what it would have taken to get her to agree to live a normal life but it was clear she never would have agreed to that. Part of him hoped that they would somehow fall under the shady umbrella cast by the monolithic corporation they were meeting but the notion felt like changing one form of bad fate for another.

Sig looked back to Clara and smiled his feelings warm and partially excited as they made their approach. He gently would grip Clara's hand back appreciating the gesture. While he had not been there for Operation Stardust, and in fact had been held back for some time Clara had gone out of her way to make him feel like a part of this unit. Gently Sig ran his thumb over the top of her hand letting out a gentle breath. Looking back towards the moon he would watch for some time. While Sig was not familiar with the reasons behind why they were being given a safe place to dock, it was a load off the shoulders of the mind.

" They must think we can be of use." Clara replied back without putting much thought on the answer. AE was a company and their reason to exist was to gain profit. If they were willing to extend their hand to help then it was because they certainly had something to gain from even a rag tag group as themselves. On automatic pilot, the Tivvay was perfectly capable of fitting through the port, after all Granada was the place where the Sobek had been laid down.

Their hosts at Anaheim had arranged for them to have access to these underground facilities without much restriction. There were no armed guards or anything so they were responsible of their own security. A company representative greeted them, showing the three of them the full extent to this underground depot. The company had no qualms letting them use all of the spare parts that had been left over after the war.

Cornelius had noticed as the younger newtype slipped off and hardly spared it a glance over his shoulder. He could already feel the direction the boy was heading and would be sure to check out whatever he’d seen later. It was difficult to get away from the older newtype unnoticed since he was almost always on guard after living on the run for so long. He held no illusions about whether or not he would have been able to handle the forces at the Titans base or the runin with the federation ship all on his own and had been meaning to thank the boy for it. The Captain had desired his attentions before he had gotten around to it.

“Upgrading the reactor and applying magnetic coating to the Rick Dom II are the most intensive upgrades we have for the time being. There are others I have considered but for the meantime those two are the most pressing. You’ll see a list of spare weapons I would like to have available as well but those shouldn’t be an issue.” He handed the representative a small shief of paperwork he had filled in advance. It detailed a list of progressive changes he wanted to make in the machine as well further equipment that would be needed for some of it. The list was a bit odd but not too peculiar, but as one looked at it the document began to seem as if the pilot had begun to speculate on the implications of what he was considering and began to feel like the start of some type of development plan. “I have the personal finances at hand in order to fully pay for the first steps in retrofitting out of pocket but tell me something. A few years ago I managed to talk some information out of a tech who had been on your company’s payroll and they mentioned something about what sounded like a spherical cockpit. This type of technology sounds useful but would it be possible to arrange a hands on demonstration before I decide to purchase?”

Sig glanced back beyond the mobile suits as his comrades spoke to the AE representative. Then he looked back up to the two strange mobile suits before him. He walked up to the foot of the MSN-01 Kikeroga and placed a hand on it. Running his hand over the foot of the machine for a moment he breathed out. He wasn't sure what it was, what it was meant for, or anything like that though the MS-06Z Psycommu System Zaku next to it seemed somewhat familiar. Turning around he would head back to the group as the Rep would tell them that they were here to help in their fight against the Titans. There was something fishy about this, why would a corporation want to get involved? Regardless he walked up to the rep with a curious look in his eye."Excuse me but... What are those?" he asked pointing beyond the Zaku F2 to the pair of prototype mobile suits."Can we have them?"