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*Tokyo square, Motherworld Terra*

"These are the new fall fashions? Look a bit drab to me." Tsunami comments, looking on at a store window at some of the japanese fashions from the latest displays of the current season. Arashi offered opinion back.. "They don't seem to be lacking flair. At least the coordination isn't lacking."

"You going to just look or try something on finally?" ..says a two hundred and twenty-four year boy-king. "You've not tried on one of them once yet." ..he says, munching on a steamed sweet bun.

"We're picky. Live with it." Arashi pops back. Al just rolls his eyes.

He just smiles underneath, since the third day of their arrival in Japan after the ghost ship bit with the Draconic Order, their perfectly plain garb.. (well, plain in Al's sense, t-shirt and jeans and such, compared to his wives and daughters far more eye catching coordinations of dresses, jeans and blouses depending.

Still, they blended in rather well in the thick japanese daytime crowd. After the perfunctory greeting with Emperor Shiratori and Empress Haruna, and Prime Minister Irazuki, slipping out under the cover of a very early morning. They have since then taken every bit of time to enjoy themselves, while Lady Seto for the moment remained behind at the Imperial Palace to talk shop and check on the hard secrets evolving below the Japanese landscape, it's island holdings included.

After the spiritual mess and it's conclusion, the Royals were taking full advantage of their opritunity for a couple of weeks of fun, before they had to return to the Sphere proper.

Aleaic was making sure of his fair share on the steamed bun he munched happily on, when Diana hopped up through the nearby crowd with a cute anime stuffed kitty in her arms. "Hi dad. Lookit."

Al blinks and then smirks. "Don't you have enough of those?"

Diana blinks. "It's the seventeenth edition model. You know me better than that."

Aleaic smiles fully. "No doubts there."

Al looks over as Jennifer and Isarra come up from another direction, a few native eyes giving them the once over. "Allo dear." ..as they carry some trinkets of their own from a seperate shop. "We got ya a nice jacket to try on later."

Al pucks his lips. "That's three so far."

Isarra huffs with her free left hand on a hip. "We need to keep you coordinated when we see anything good you know. Mom insisted." Al just looks neutral. "Now if she'll choose for herself now."

Just then he hears and then sees Tsui and Ara do just that in a seperate shop, in a rather rapid foot manner. Jennifer just jumps and cheers them on, while Isarra claps. Diana behind her father just hugs her new toy, and Al just looks plain passive.

"Can we go to the park yet?" ..he then looks around and asks. "Where's Sirrana? Wasn't she with you two Jen?"

Isarra just answers back. "She's playing a flirt with some boys that were following us."

Al looks even more bland. "Poor them." ..and then munches again, feeling flat out of place.

...and such, day three of the uber secret vacation continues.

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((OC- This is a continuation from the Interstellar RV thread, as well as a semi-sequel from the original thread that was short lived

ala - http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=461609

Far more capable this time of rping this part out. I have my own designs on the future of FT-PMT relations between the Ascendancy and unaware Terra. Wars not withstanding if forced, but not planned on for the most part. =^^= ))

*Somewhere over the pacific, compass heading towards Iwo Jima*

A standard C-17 transport plane, rediculously far from the comforts of the Mikagami, but necessity where secrecy was concerned. Dressed in a simple kimono of gray and purple, her and Prime Minister Irazuki were travelling to their own lightly held secret.

Seto was no fool that the residents of Terra would not someday notice that powers of alien nature was indeed amidst them, sooner than rather later in fact. But it was also becoming noticable that the evolution of this developing planet was reaching a crossroads.

Having once lived here as native Terran, Seto quietly mused to herself how history on this planet would change, even without Gaian meddeling.

"I am assured by our technicians that the final test subjects will do proper for the defense of our nation. The only problem as expected will be the cover story if we ever use them, and the other systems we developed to support the Project."

Seto sidelong looked at Irazuki. "Then we can be assured that our new asset will properly help guard this planet from extra-empowerment forces. It will allow his Majesty to sleep much better at night."

The Prime Minister chuckled. "Hard to believe the Earth is a holy place to a power of the stars. It's almost like we could make ransom of it for whatever we wanted."

Seto closed her eyes. "It doesn't even come close to that. Sooner or later when this planet begins to emerge from it's coccon state as a terrestrial civilization, Aleaic intends to make more open his feelers for assistance.

One can imagine what the Sol System would look like a centruy, to a billions years from now if that came to pass. It's like a child watching a flower blossom, wanting to help it along all that he can." ...Seto then smiles to herself. "Of course I am no less there."

Irazuki remarked with a tich of conservative worry. "But not on his terms, rather ours. If I remember the official treaty document correctly."

Seto continues eyes closed. "That we would only assist where eye cannot see, and watch from afar till evolution takes it's course.

Even if the Motherworld annihalates itself, we cannot interfere officially until the Earth reaches at least Stage One of interplanetary travel. At least a standard of inter-System trade or some format.

That or the lid is somehow blown off, and we are contacted by a foreign nation first. The UN most prefered."

Irazuki smirked. "Otherwise were on our lazy own. I remember that part. It irked the Empress no doubt."

Seto giggled. "Well you know how lagging some of the nations on this planet, selfish and all. It's the reason why Aleaic made the Ascendancy in the firstm place. You won't find a trace of the problems this planet hasn't fully awakened to yet, in our realm.

It's a hard lesson like it or not."

The Minister sighed. "You could put that in a more amicable way, you know."

Seto sighs. "Wish I wasn't, actually."

An overhead speaker announces the transport would arrive at Iwo Jima within the hour. Seto took the chance to get a quick nap in.

While the nation of Japan couldn't speak for the part of other nations on Earth, it's own in fact wasn't fully as well know either. For the past several decades, a steady trickle of accumilated resources and technological innovations, under the gise of the Japanese having their own breakthroughs. While many of the current Japanese versions were of their own making, the veil of the Gaian underlay was making it's slow mark more visibly where it mattered most.

The military, health and social concerns, technological, communications and electronics alike, and even space concerns were being 'nudged' towards things like inital plans for space operations, undersea expansion, and diplomatic concerns with it's neighbors.

Only the Core of the Creme of the cabinet and select military officials knew about this existence, less of the Treaty of Acquisition as well. Even those that knew found it difficult to believe there was a powerful star empire overseeing things. From all external aspects, the nation of Japan and it's holdings were like nothing was controlling them.

However those that worried about the security of the nation were just as unknowing that the Republic Sphere was very much against seeing it's unofficial territory under threat. As such the tightest of military projects and the communication apparatus was geared to become near compatible with lowest grades of Ascendancy technology.

As such, if needed, the revealing of Sphere mecha and troop types for the defense of Japan could be easily disuaded as Japan becoming a fore in military advancement.

To this end, several projects, one of which Lady Seto is about to attend, would begin to address the long term concerns, as well as give unofficial permission to push past the long imposed military limits of the Japanese Constitution.

One was a Cluster from the Republic Colony Guards, the 451,322nd RCGC. Along side it was two provisional Mech Stars from the CAG Universe Command. There was also prolific intellegence data on all Ascendancy conventional assets made available to use in development of new combat assets.

The C4I combat command system and other such toys were being integrated slowly into the standing army. With upgrades of naval and aero assets, and developed homegrown units, the time was ripe for two different worlds to begin slowly learning of one another.

Despite knowledge the Sphere had gained ground on the Motherworld, most Gaians didn't know fully where, other than through grapevine, outside the official Embassy Complexes, where it exactly was. Some even thought old Russia was the acquisition, or even Antarctica.

The reason was to avoid for the most part, alien citizens of the Sphere taking too keen a notice as of yet, the formal location, to avoid premature Contact with the native Terrans. Since things like Area 51 and other such nonsense was not of the Gaian make at all anyway, there was little need to push such paranoia whatsoever.

As Aleaic walked among those that were formerly his own kin, the words 'black technology' were also making footsteps onto the scene of Motherworld Terra.

...this of one world so small, against the galaxies the Sphere were also looking at as expansion.

Heading down historic Nakamise, seven family members (well six as Sirrana keeps trailing a wake of brokehearted corpses behind her, sheesh.. =<>=;;; ) simply enjoying themselves, just wandering in random directions, not really going anywhere of purpose.

"How do we look?" ..Tsui teases for Arashi, in the same, both sporting somewhat flowery dresses, light in color. Al keeps fighting off blushes. "Very nice.." ..he keeps saying over and over each time this occurs.

"Flatterer." Arashi prods back again.

They keep going, oblivious to much else of apparent.

Seto wasn't oblivious to the activity going on down underneath the black ash of Iwo. Somehow a large underground complex managed to be carved out inside the thermodynamic island.

What was inside of it, was even more of a fascinating wonder. The lights, all thermopowered, flooded across several obvious pieces of military equipment, that should be a good decade in advance of the rest of the world militaries.

"Didn't know you'd take our approach this seriously." ..the Foreign Ladyship quipped. Other than in standard greens and dull chromes of military archetype, they looked like first generation Republic mecha class types.

Some more humanoid than battlemecha type. There was also advanced tanks and all kinds of prototype support equipment, all about the storage chamber.

"We can make more original versions eventually. We needed hard copies to work with first." Irazuki commented, continuing the tour. Other than a skeleton crew of test and support personnel, the two were the ony ones present in the large, dark chamber.

Seto just pressed her reminder.. "To the original point." ...of defense, as she imposed in lack of words. Irazuki nodded. "Of course. Being too forward just yet would cause too many problems for us.

But the timetable is still on course."

Seto sighs. "Which is what I fear."

The next day the family split up, after 'checking in' at the Palace. They then went on small group trips to different parts of Japan, Al and Arashi ending up together on a trip south, taking a simple hydro-electric car on a random trip.

They simply chatted along as they left the heavy traffic around Tokyo for the more distant roads wel away from it all.

"Got any ideas where to go hon?" Ara asked, Al driving for the moment.

"Eh, just head south. Just feel like keeping a randomness to this vacation."

Arashi snuggled over a bit. "Thought maybe you'd want to check old stomping grounds."

Al eyed over simply. "Plenty of time for that."

The old shrine maiden just smirked. "No kidding, we're on the right road after all."

Al chuckled. "Well, did want to see how that old island was doing. Besides, not like we got anything more pressing I guess."

"You can stop worrying about if I have an objection. I want to see if that old candy shoppe is still there." Arashi faked some annoyance through. Al smirked back.

"Some chololates it is then..."

The car shoots through to the coastal regions bordered by hills aplenty along the road, the sea view well within...