Dance the Waltz With Me

by Blue September Rain

[Chapter 2 Up] The images being relayed from space were real. Relena watched in horror as her life's work came crumbling down into a pile of rubble from just those few images displayed on the screen.

1. Chapter 00

Dance the Waltz with Me

Prologue

Edited for clarity

A.C. 202

After the Eve Wars of A.C. 196, the world sunk into a comfortable peace time era. On Relena Darlian's eighteenth birthday, she was appointed as the Ambassador to the colonies, and was a crucial part of the formation of the United Space Colonies (USC). From there, she helped establish the Limited Weapons Treaty (LWT), which kept armies from letting their defenses get too large. The rational was that if there was peace, then weapons weren't needed. And with the unification of the Earth Sphere and the Colonies, they managed to come to an agreement about how they would be governed, and they agreed to stay out of affairs that did not directly pertain to the other. But Relena didn't stop there.

After much toil and strife, Relena Darlian had finally managed to start the Mars Terraformation Project (MTfP). The whole purpose of the project was to create another place for human beings to reside. For the first few years, the project seemed to be going well. An area on Mars was established and deemed a suitable environment for humans to thrive in.

Relena invested a large amount of her own hard earned money into the project and she spent her free time planning more individual projects to start on the red planet. A few officials were elected by a committee from Earth to preside over the project while Relena was busy with her duties as Ambassador to the United Space Colonies.

A few hundred people moved to Mars as soon as the atmosphere was created. Most of them were construction workers, scientists, engineers, and a few entrepreneurs who wanted to try their hand at making a living on Mars before it became a booming colony. All reports from Mars were positive, and those who had moved there seemed to really enjoy it.

However, as the years wore on, the President of the ESUN was less in favor of the project, and aside from Relena, he was the biggest political supporter of the project. However, his mind was changed, and he deemed the project "a waste of time, money and resources." He ordered an immediate halt of the project in May of A.C. 202, and forbade Relena Darlian, as well as all the other sponsors, from sending more money for the project's continuation.

Though the President of the ESUN would never admit it, he was afraid of Relena Darlian, and her power she held over the people living on Earth and in the Colonies. As Relena gained I favor among the people, he felt his own power dwindling. Relena Darlian was getting too powerful, and it scared him. To show that he still held some control over what she did with her time and money, he stopped the project to ensure he would always remain on top.

Despite the fact that the project was abandoned, those who had moved there decided to remain. There were quite a few buildings already built, and they had enough supplies to finish building a few of the other buildings. No one really knew how they managed it, but they lived in quiet contentment for three years.

At least, that's what the ESUN and the USC seemed to believe. Because the project was completely abandoned, any activity going on there went undetected. No one knew that their 'quiet contentment' was actually bitter resentment at being ignored as a crucial project for the human race.

--

A/N: This is obviously just the prologue. I'd really, really appreciate some feedback. I'm trying a different approach to my writing, and I'm hoping it turns out better results. So any thoughts on this would be a huge help. Thanks a lot! Peace, love and tacos.

-Blue September Rain