NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: This is the extension of my and ZAFT's conflict. Closed to all but UII members, they can jump in at will.

IC:

Commodore Stevens sat in his quarters behind his desk working on paperwork. It had been two weeks since he had engaged the self proclaimed ZAFT forces and he was anxious to get some payback for the death's they had caused.

He had already had Galactica re-supplied and assembled his forces. All the Star Frigates in the Milky Way had assembled here in orbit around Caralon, unfortunately Mockingbird and her Star Battleship escorts could not operate in the coming operations, they had already shut down their main reactors and were running on their quarternary power systems, fission reactors, to keep the life support running and conserve their fuel.

He was finishing drafting his orders, for tommorow his fleet would head back to the area where the engagement had happened and start searching for the enemy.

OOC: Good thing for me after are last encounter I designed two ship classes that can match your ships or should i say eliminate them heh

ZAFT Military HQ
Military command centre

Patrick Zala was once again review the report about the unkown force that appeared at the DMZ "Are you sure these new ships can protect us from this unknown force?" he asked "They should be sir, via sensor readings we found the exact power output needed to breach there shields and hull and with that information we increased the power outpust off these new classes to three times the power needed to breach there shield, and the New Red Dragon class has two main cannons have two times the power needed to breach there hull" Ray Yuki said. Ray Yuki was incharge of the ZAFT military R&D sites and places like L2. "What about the other class, this unnamed super cruiser?" Zala asked " same fire power as the Red Dragon but on a vastly larger scale" Yuki responded "So is its main weapon the red dragons main cannon?" he asked "yes sir its main weapons are a couple hunred of them" Yuki responded "Excellent" Zala then said

Galactica dropped out of hyperspace in the general area where the battle had occured. She stretched her passive scanners looking for the telltale signs of of planetary bodies orbiting the near by stars. She found one, laid in a course and jumped to investigate.

Military Command centre

A petty officer was monitoring incoming sensor readings from DSSD un-manned Surveillance satellite located near the former DMZ now known as sector S. A blip appeared on the screen "ah Lieutenant I think i got something" he said, the Lieutenant on duty walked over "what is it?" he asked "checking library now" he said "looks like it is one of those unknown ships reported earlier" he then said "Alright keep a eye on it, it just might be a trap" the Lieutenant said

The fleet dropped out of hypersapce three light-seconds from the habital planet in the system. They began a passive scan of the planet as their telescopes panned over the surface, searching it in every wavelength from radio to gamma-ray.

If there was anything there they would find it.

Military Command center

"sir the 509th Medium combat fleet will be ready within the hour to move in on this ship" a officer said to Patrick Zala "Thats the fleet with the new ships right?" Zala asked "yes sir it is 45% of the fleet is the new ships" the officer said putting a piece of paper on Zalas desk "I want this new class that we have no name for to be called the clyne class in honor of Siegel Clyne who you know helpped me create ZAFT years ago am sure the chairman wont mind" Zala then said "I'll get his approval for it sir" the officer said before saluting and walking out of the room.

Finding nothing of worth on the planet's surface, the fleet jumped to their next planet.

OOC: Short I know, I just can't think of much right now.

OOC: dont worry about it some times you dont have much to work with

"There gone sir" the petty officer reported "for a second there i thought operation serpent tail would have to be called off oh well just mean Blue Cosmos has numbered days" the lieutenant said "Alright bring us to condition blue" the commander of the facility said.

Three more planets had been searched and still nothing. Stevens sighed, things would be so much easier if they had a survey ship with them.

"What's next?" Stevens asked.

"Planet four, spectrograh shows large quantities of ice, very little of the trace chemicals present on a habitable planet. It's atmosphere is barely breathable, probably a lot oxygen producing extremophiles." The officer of the deck read from his report.

"Jump us there, standard protocol."

OOC: The world is Kanaker if you didn;t figure it out.

OOC: when you scan the planet you will mostly find signs of weapons testing like large creators, depending on your sensors you might find the base, the planet produces a unusual megnetic field that can mess with sensors keep the base hidden


Kanaker
ZAFT Under ground research base

a Private was monitoring the weather outside there was a powerful ice storm right above them, the storm messured 30 kilometers in diameter untill the storm passed they could not get supplies in and the comm was no good to them. " Any idea when that storm will end?" the base commander(whos official rank is Major) asked " no sir the tempature is continuing to decrease it keeps setting and break records. Currently the tempature is at -52 wind chill is passing -70, sir another 12 degrees and the weather station will freeze" the Private then said to him "atleast its some what warm down here no where near out there" the Major said "Wonder what those guys in the labs are doing now with all this cold weather?" a Warrant Officer commented "who knows they always are doing something" the Major then said

"Cold and windy seems to sum up that planet. We have however detected some gravitational and density anomalies on the crust, we're doing a thorough look at those as we speak sir." The sensor tech reported.

"Very well. Report back when you have the results." Stevens responded.

"sir we just lost contact with weather station three looks like it froze" the private said "damn hows the generator holding up?" the major asked "they are still in the green sir we are far enough down that its not being effected how ever the hanger reports gates 1-3 are frozen shut and will not open" the Warrant Officer told him "not like we want them open any way" the major said.

The map was hovering in the air over the operations table, the hologram showed the overall shape of an underground complex.

"This complex is likely to be somewhat related to the enemy forces we fought two weeks ago." Stevens said to the officers and enlisted crew present, "Obviously we could just blast it from orbit, but that wouldn't gain us any new information. I have thus authorized an intelligence gathering ground mission. Lieutenant Colonel Maxwell will continue the briefing."

"Thank you sir." Maxwell spoke, he touched a switch and the hologram swirled to represent the storm that had grown to almost hurricane proportions that was covering the facility. "This storm will provide excellent cover for our dropships, we've modified one of Galactica's Valkyries to hold a sqaud of Orbital Drop Shock Troops led by Major Nicole Young, a Spartan commando." Maxwell pointed to the Major standing across from him. "You will infiltrate the facility, copy their computer data and return to Galactica." The hologram switched again, "This is your extraction point, you have four hours after you are inserted to complete your mission. The rules of engagement are..."

***

Major Young examined her sqaud of ODSTs, like her they were wearing standard self-contained combat suits in arctic camoflauge. Young could have worn her vastly superior Titan armour, but it would generate too much of a thermal signature, even with its stealth systems, with the ground temperature as low as it was.

Her troops had just finished their final gear checks, parachutes and a canister of kinetic energy absorbing gel that would quickly evaporate even in the low temperatures would slow their descent and had to be tripled checked. HALO jumps were a serious business.

Finally the time for their drop came. "Opening drop door in three...two...one." Came the pilot's voice, the light turned green and the load-master motioned for the troops to disembark. Young took a deep breath and leapt after the last of her troops had done the same.

They had been dropped from high above the storm to help avoid being detected. Now they fell headfirst into the blizzard, the winds rocked them and spread them apart, but they managed to fight and stay within the drop zone. Their suits had managed to collect a layer of ice, they breacjed the cloud cover and a quick flash of heat vapourized the ice covering them. At 150 meters above the surface the chutes were explsoively opened, the shock of sudden deceleration slammed the troops against their harnesses, a split second later the chutes cut free at 75 meters altitude. When the troops were a mere 20 meters above the ground the canisters fired and piles of gel sprang into being on the ground. The ODSTs and Major Young slammed into the gel and slowed to a crawl coming to the ground a safe speed. Seconds later the gel was nothing more than a mist lost in the storm.

The ODSTs had arrived in their 500 meter diameter drop zone and quickly organized. "We have, thee and a half hours left people," Young said, "Let's not waste them."

The troops nodded and set off towards the entrance.

"odd....just had a split second break in the cloud in grid delta" the private said "probably just a meteor or two dont worry about it, how are the other two weather stations holding up?" the major asked "theres holding sir but not much longer" the private then said. The Warrant Officer stood up "When will that other guy get here? my shift just ended" he said then a Sergeant walked in "starting my shift" he said before sitting down the Warrant Officer then left the room for his room.

OOC: your men will gain acess to the base via a hatch near the first hanger gate (you might need to move some snow to find it), after that you can take maintenence shafts to the data core, the base is mostly research so dont expect a large military presence. once you reach the data core and download it you will expect to find research data, personal files, information on supply drops including the next one, and since the map has not been updated you will find the former location of where the L1 cluster used to be, but all you would find there is whats left from the battle of L1 where ZAFT and Tarsonis forces fought to defend the colonies from the Oblivion Cult so alot of destroyed ships only thing that would seem out of place there is the memorial to those that died in the battle which would be a entire small station which you can go in side, in side you would find the names of every one who died and reifs that had been layed.

Major Nicole Young spotted the pile of snow that hid the entrance first. She gave the hand sign to move forward and the squad moved in behind her and raced to the entrance in a crouch.

Lance Corporals Julian and Carpenter broke out their entrenching tools and quickly cleared the metallic hatch of the snow cover. Young unslung her battle rifle and covered the entrance along with Corporals Georgeison and Xavier as Carpenter and Julian opened it. The path was clear.

The five person squad moved down the passageway, they reached the first maintence passage their scans had identified, a tech was there. Young nodded towards Xavier, he raised his rifle and shot from the underslung sedative dart launcher, they weren't to kill anyone unless fired upon with lethal force. The dart whistled into the tech's neck, he toppled over unconscious with his short term memory erased. When he woke up in a few hours the last thing he'd remember was showing up for his shift.

They encountered three more techs before the reached the computer core, all of them were left sleeping peacefully behind them. They had also taken care to disable the security cameras they found as well.

Georgeison took out his computer and accessed the base computer core. "We'll be here for at least forty-five minutes while the program deciphers their computer programming language and works through their security systems."

Young nodded and the rest of the team took up defensive positions.

"Sir some one is trying to hack are data core" the private said "let them take the information nothing much there also ave all personal diverted away from there escape route" the major said "yes sir" the Sergeant said before turning to his console.

"I got it. Let's go." Georgeison said as he closed his computer. Major Young nodded and lead the squad back through the complex.

They encountered no resistance, Major Young noted the abnormality but was thankfull for it none the less.

They made it to the extraction point with time to spare, they boarded the Longeye and raced up through the storm back to Galactica.

***

"There isn't too much useful information. Just supply runs, research information on their rediculous humanoid fighters, which are strangely actually called Mobile Suits. It turns out Flapjack was right when he named them."

Stevens nodded, "Back to the relevant data please."

The computer specialist quickly continued, "Sorry sir. We also retrieved some data on the location of a colony cluster located at the first LaGrange point of this planet moon-system orbiting this star here." The specialist pointed to the star map that displayed said bodies.

Stevens nodded again, it seems he was developing a habit of it, "Alright, so we go there and check it out." He turned to the crew in the CIC, "Remember we're here to fight their military, we do not fire on colonies unless ordered by the President herself. You all know that, don't you ever forget it."

Stevens paused, "Now take us there." The fleet jumped towards the colony site.

"looks like what ever it was has stopped and i just detected another hole in the storm" the private said "most likely that was them leaving so lets get things back to normal, hows that storm can we get a communication out yet?" the major asked " not yet but it seems the wind has died down a little just enough for us to de-ice the hanger doors for the next supply run" the sergeant said turning around in his seat before getting up to go grab coffee for them all "taking drink orders" he said "coffee, black with cream" the major said "jcoffee black for me as well" the private said. The sergeant left the room to get the coffees.

The system was filled with wrecked colonies of an odd design. Debris from starships drifted lazily in their orbits, they looked as though they were the design lineage of ZAFT's current ships of the line.

Stevens wasn't particularly phased by the scene of mass death. He had scene whole city planets turned to molten rock and beaded glass before his eyes, this was minor compared to that. "Looks like we found out where they used to be. Have you entered that colony design into the computers?"

"Yes sir, we should be able to find them with our optical interferometry if we get some recon ships out in this area."

Stephens performed his now customary nod, "Good work Petty Officer. Nevin, get me a channel to Farpost two thirteen."

The comms specialist did as ordered, "Open sir."

"Captain Freeman, I want four of your recon frigates out to my co-ordinates ASAP. We have enough firepower here to protect them, don't worry about it."

"Roger Commodore, I'll dispatch them, ETA one-hundred fifty minutes. Freeman out."

P.O. Nevin closed the comm line, Stevens nodded to her to acknowledge her good work, "Now we just have to wait."

A group of ship captains and ZAFT admirals where in a planning room to discuss a planned operation to acquire information on this unknown force, "Alright listen up people the plan is we will have a small patrol fleet move through sector echo zero five seven two it will lure then enemy force in" he paused to take a sip of water " then once the unkown force has jumped in ten of our battle stars, three red dragon and, along with 2 sakura class, and one deadalus class, during combat the deadalus will heck into the unknown ships computer and download its database it should give us great insight into who they are" he finished speaking and sat down in his chair.

"sir if I may say what are we to do after we have the info just fight till the death?" a captain asked " not at all as soon as the deadalus has the information all ships are to get out of there" the admiral said. "sir considering this unkown ships power what is the chance that will will come back alive?" a captain asked consirned for the well being of his crew. The admiral turned to him knowing no mission was never 100% "I've been told 93%" he said sturnly "piece of cake then" another captain said "alright you knwo what to do I'll leave you all to brief your pilots and crew" the admiral said and then stood up and they all saluted and left the room.

The recon ships had finally arrived. They had deployed their telescopes to form a square an AU on a side composed of 100,000 one-hundred meter diameter folding reflector telescopes. Their rough equivalency working together was a single telescope with the diameter of a gas giant. They were now searching the nearby systems for colony clusters.

It was slow going but much faster than Galactica and her escorts scouting out each system. So far they had no luck, but they had found some shipyards and other military installations. They would be visited in due time, but for now the recon ships kept searching the skies.

"Sir DSSD has some looks like the unkown force a new known ship class looks to be some recon ships trying to find us" a chief petty officer said on the floor of military HQ "Where are they?" his CO asked "sector bravo two seven seven the old L1 site seems there alone those other ships seem to be patroling some of our sectors" he CPO said "contact all orbital installations and have them cloak we need new plans now" he said before leaving to tell the admiral in charge of the up coming operation. The admiral thanks the lieutenant commander and then gathered the captains who he planned the original operation with "Looks like we will need to send more forces I want to send some more red dragons and the 208th Light combat fleet, and the 167th Assault combat fleet that gives us 1683 ships we will use a FTLi to trap them destroy the escorts and cripple that main ship you have a go to use Tri Thortanum missiles and I will give the fleet enough for 3 salvos we end this here and now also we are giving you a Jormungand Mk V high energy fusion plasma gun its got power that not even there ships will survive" the admiral said "then its settled we will launch operation divine thunder in the morning" he said. They all salute and left the room to there ships and crews they had the power to wipe this enemy out.

OOC: you wont see my colonies or orbital military bases now

"So most of these facilites are already four years old?" Stevens asked the commander of one of the recon ships.

"Yes sir, none of the systems are closer than four light-years. So a closer look is still required, but it is still a good start."

Stevens nodded, "That it is. Start packing up and head back to Farpost 213." The commander saluted and shut of the comm screen.

Stevens walked back to the holo-plot and looked for the new entries.

"Sir we have TRADAR contacts! FTL signatures... FRAK there's at least a thousand of them!"

Stevens' heart leapt into his throat, "Sound General Quarters Level One! Nevin tell the recons to kill the scope recovery and hyper out now!"

The GQ alarm sounded with a racket that could wake the dead, blast doors shut throught the ship, shields were raised, guns were loaded and the marines jumped to don their battle armor.

"Shall we launch the alert fighters?"

Stevens shook his head, "They wouldn't stand a chance out there. Seal the flight pods." At his orders heavy armour plates closed over the launch tubes and flight pod openings.

"The recons are away sir! They had to blind jump but they'll get back to Farpost 213 eventually."

"Spool up our hyperdrives. We're likely going to have to get out her fast!"

"They've dropped out of FTL. TRADAR counts sixteen hundred eighty-three vessels!." The OoD read off, "And they're projecting an artificial-grav field towards us. Current strength at nine point eight seven MPS squared. We can't jump out unless it's nine or less!"

Stevens cursed as the enemies started filling space.

EDITED to clarify.

The ships held position they did not launch fighter or mobile suits. They sent a message alone with a text document "Attention unkown ships the text document we are sending you is a official message from the PLANT supreme council we will give you the time you time to think about it" was the message from the flag ship.


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To: unkown ships
From: PLANT supreme council

We the supreme council do not know why you continue to fire at our ships after the dispute that took place during a battle with Blue Cosmos we do thank you for saving our people and regret the all deaths in the battle please tell the families of those that died that we are sorry. We also must apologize for our defence force (ZAFT) because our captain are not ones who like to loose even if it means there death. But in the interest of peace we request you erase all locations of our civilian colonies from your database this is for the security of our people. After that we ask for our two sides to go are seperate ways and hope to never meet again facing each other in armed combat. If your government wishs to open diplomatic relations we will allow for a ship and a escort to be taken to the capital by a ZAFT fleet for formal talks. We hope to hear from you soon enclosed in this document is the location of where to send your reply.

Signed

Gilbert Durandal Chairman of the PLANT supreme council

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the fleet de-activated the FTLi as soon as the message was confirmed recived by the unkown ships and the fleet hypered out in a gesture of good faith.

Stevens was nervous, they ships weren't firing. "Sir we're getting a transmission." PO Nevin spoke, "It translates as 'As for unknown of note we where we are you official message from the plant highest national assembly which gives the time when in order to think concerning that time is measured ship the text document which is sent.' We've also got a text message."

"Sir, the fleet is jumping away." The OOD said.

"Nevin get me a hard copy of the text message."

"Yes sir." She keyed in the command and handed Stevens the printed message.

Unknown ships the empty: The highest national assembly of plant

You do not know why it continues to discharge by our boats after the dispute which happens during fight of the blue outer space where as for us because the highest national assembly we rescue our people appreciates dead everything of fight as for us being regrettable informs those series which dies in order to regret and. In addition as for us our defense capacity (ZAFT) for the sake of our captains meaning death there, in order to loosen, being not to be the thing, you must apologize. But we with this which is turned off for guaranteeing our people require position everything of the colony of our ordinary citizens from your database which is with interest of peace. Rear us our both parties there is no method or desire of the thing seperate which meets to mutual facing of the battle which never arms the fact that it goes for the second time and asks. Us wishs of your government which opens the diplomatic relations which are permitted because of the boat and the guard which it should you take in the capital city with the fleet of ZAFT for type story. The fact that you hear from position you of somewhere in order to send your response we surrounded directly are in this document and is desired.

The chairman of Gilbert Durandal of the plant highest national assembly which signs

Stephens sighed, "It's going to take me a while to figure out what this says. Helm, take us to Farpost 213. We'll see what their AI can make of it."

A moment later Galactica jumped out of the system, leaving the ruined colonies far benind.

"lets just hope they understand" the captain of the lead ship said to one of his officers as they dropped out of hyper space "sir do you think it was wise not to destroy them?" his XO asked "I dont argue with the supreme council I just follow there orders" the captain said "helm taking is at docking station 14 alpha" the captain ordered "aye sir" the helms men responded. Mean while In his office chairman Durandal was wondering why we were fighting this force? could it be a failure in communication or perhaps translation? "It has to be one of those two" he said. He reached over to the communications panel "I want to be told the minute a response comes in from that unkown force" he said "yes mr. chairman" came the response.

"All right we've all had time to look over the message by now." It was Farpost 213's AI Herbert, he had chosen a tall black furred wolf as his avatar, speaking. "I've arranged the message into parts to facilitate easier translation of teh context."

Stephens nodded along with the other officers present. "First we look at the header 'Unknown ships the empty: The highest national assembly of plant.' The unknown ships likely refers to Galactica and escorts as we are the ones who received the message. The second sentence is also likely who the message is from as evidence by 'the highest national assemby'."

Captain Juolan, CO of Farpost 213 spoke next, "That would make their nation name Plant. Odd choice but no odder than Xessmithia, I guess I'm just used to ours."

Herbert chuckled, "It took you that long to figure that out?" Joulan laughed along with the AI. Herbert continued, "I concur with both of your statements, how about you Captain Reynolds? Mockingbird?"

Mockingbird and Captain Reynolds were present in the form of utility robots used for telepresence, they were communicating from Caralon, "I agree as well." Answered Reynolds.

"You really think I haven't already made up my mind about what it means Herbert?" Mockingbird teased.

"Not for a second love, but protocol is protocol."

Mockingbird laughed, "Real smooth, but not gonna happen. I only go for guys who can level planets."

Stephens intervened, "You two can trade barbs after we're finished, we have work to do." The AI's apologized and Stephens continued, "The next section we are looking is 'You do not know why it continues to discharge by our boats after the dispute which happens during fight of the blue outer space'. Now the only thing I'm certain of is that boats means ships anf that fight means fight."

Reynolds spoke next, "Discharge as weapons fire makes sense, so that first part would go 'You do not know why our ships keep shooting.'"

Joulan continues, "And 'blue outer space' wasn't that what one of the sides of the first battle called themselves?"

Stephens nodded, "It was. That would make the whole thing read as something close to 'You don't know why our ships keep firing after the dispute which happened during the fight with Blue Outer Space.'"

Mockingbird spoke, "I think we know why they kept firing, they attacked us and wanted to finish us off. But the rest of the message confuses that a bit. The next part is 'where as for us because the highest national assembly we rescue our people appreciates dead everything of fight.'"

Herbert spoke, "The whole message is confusing, I'd rather they were speaking ancient Drednen. Our records of that dead species' language makes for a better translation than we have now. But this is a rather self explanatory chunk, 'As for us we fought because we don't leave our people behind and appreciate their sacrifice.' I left out the part where they say it's their leaders view. That doesn't need to be said."

Stephens nodded, "I agree. We should take a short break for now. We'll meet back here in fifteen minutes. Dismissed."

20:36 zulu
Karlon
Training area 42
Athrun Zala's Special Forces Team

Athrun and his team sat down "Alright guys" he paused as he put a map of the area down "We where inserted here" he said pointed to a spot on the map "We are here, and our mobile suits are sitting behind enemy lines here" he said as he circled the location of the mobile suits "How far is it to the target?" Matt asked.

"We are looking at a long walk I'll tell you that much" Athrun said directly to Matt. "Expected resistence?" Jade asked "Heavy we got armor all around us" Athrun then said in response "I suggest we take this river vally here to hide are tracks and get us near the target" Lee said "But there are atleast 3 guarded bridges along that path" Jack noted.

"Either way its the shortest lightly defended route" Matt said in response to Lee and Jack. Athrun pointed over to a point a few kilometers from them "We will head there now and make camp we head out in the morning" Athrun said he then foled up the map and put it away and they walked into the darkness.

"All right welcome back everyone." Stevens started, "Our next section is 'As for us being regrettable informs those series which dies in order to regret and.' I think it's safe to move the 'and' to the beginning of the sentence."

Joulan shook his head, "No that would be redundant as they already said 'As for us', they wouldn't say it again. It must be extraneous."

Mockingbird spoke, "I agree with Captain Joulan. I think it has more to do with remorse about killing our people. 'For us being regrettable' and the 'in order to regret' show that the 'regrettable' should be understood as 'Since we have compassion.' Which makes the sentence 'Since we have compassion we regret the deaths in this series of events.' After some re-arranging of course."

Captain Reynold's robotic avatar nodded, "I agree. Most cultured sapient societies recognize that killing other sapients is an act to be avoided. Mockingbird has told me quite a few times she thanks people who died for what they believe in, no matter what side their on."

If Mockingbird's robot could have blushed it would have, "Okay Captain, you managed to embarrass me. Mushy sentiments don't look good on warships."

Stevens interrupted, "No, it's a good quality. Helps keep you grounded so you don't snap. We've had warship AIs do that in the past and they destroyed whole worlds on a whim."

Herbert spoke next, "Back to the document, we're now on 'In addition as for us our defense capacity (ZAFT) for the sake of our captains meaning death there, in order to loosen, being not to be the thing, you must apologize.' I'd break it into smaller parts but this is all related and should be worked as a whole."

Stevens nodded, "Good idea. The first phrase gives us the name of their military 'ZAFT'. I think 'in order to loosen' refers to losing a battle when taken in context with the previous phrase, 'for the sake of our captains meaning death there'."

"So that would mean they didn't want to loose the battle and die when looking at 'being not to be the thing'. Well no one wants to lose and die." Joulan spoke.

"And that want us to apologize for killing them." Herbert finished.

"Like hell." Stevens said, "They opened fire on us, we have nothing to apologize for, we were defending ourselves."

Herbert brought up the next sentence, "'But we with this which is turned off for guaranteeing our people require position everything of the colony of our ordinary citizens from your database which is with interest of peace.'"

Mockingbird was first to answer, "This is another easy one, they want us to remove the location of their civilian colonies from our computers in the interest of peace. I personally wouldn't get rid of the data even if we had found their active colonies, it's not like we go around killing civilians with abandon."

Stevens nodded, "I agree with you, but this also shows they're interested in talks. We can work with that." He paused, "Take another fifteen everyone."

The team arrived at the location they were to set up camp "Alright I'll take first watch" Athrun said "Non-sense we can't have our commander being exausted in the field" Matt said to Athrun after making sure the area was clear. Jade stood up "where are Mu, and Rusty?" she asked "Advanced recon we will meet up with them in the morning" Athrun responded "alright you guys get some rest, if there a problem i'll wake you guys" matt said picking up he gun which was lying by a tree. "Alright see you in about 3 hours then" Lee said there by volenteering for second watch. As the other went to sleep Matt sat against a tree infront of the warm camp fire, he looked around it the calm cool night sky, it was quiet he even juped when the fire crackled because of how peaceful it was.