February 14 C.E 70

A boy lies on a bed throwing a ball up into the air and catching it again. A man on the screen of a communication terminal is talking on and on about nothing of importance. "Larsa are you even listen to me?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm listening"

"What did I just say then?"

"I'll have to come visit you on Junius Seven on my next holidays"

The older man just let out a small laugh "I said that over five minutes ago"

Larsa was about to reply when a loud earsplitting boom echoed through the speakers. "Dad, what happened?" Larsa asks jumping up of the bed and running over to the console. The windows in the room where his dad was shatter, wind begin to blow around the room. Larsa starts to panic, but his father just looked in to the camera and said "I love you remember that." Suddenly the camera goes to static.

In Cosmic Era 70, tensions ran high between the Earth Alliance and ZAF. After the "Bloody Valentine" incident in which nuclear weapons were used to destroy the PLANT space colony Junius Seven, all-out war broke out. However, despite the fact that the Earth Alliance outnumbered ZAFT, the war dragged on for 11 months. In C.E. 71, 18 year old Larsa Abaron travels to ORBs colony Heliopolis in the steed of his mother the owner and CEO of Guardian industries one of ORBs largest defensive military contractors.

January 23, C.E. 71

"Lord Larsa we're reserving a guide beacon from Heliopolis, meaning about 7 minutes and you'll be on the ground Sir" the intercom says waking a young man with long silver hair from his thoughts. He pushes a button on his chair, "thank you, Sairus."

'Ok, not long now'

A few moments later a Marseille III glides slowly into the harbor. The harbor operator voice comes over the radio "this is harbor control, welcome to Heliopolis, Guardian flyer."

"This is Guardian flyer, pleasure to be here harbor control."

As this was going on up on the bridge Sairus an older man about 40 floated back to the passenger compartment. "My lord we're free to disembark now." The young man unclips himself from the chair and stands up. Sighing he starts walking towards the airlock.

After reaching the main body of the colony Larsa is greeted by a group of five older men. "lord Larsa it's a pleasure to see you again" the man at the front says bowing his head. "As it's is you Mr. Higrom, let us dispense with the pleasantries and get down to business" Larsa replies.

"uh... yes sir, where would you like to start?" Mr. Higrom asks slightly taken aback.

"I want to see it" Larsa says as he starts to walk pass the gathered men.

None of the men said a word as IT was the whole reason that he was on Heliopolis. Mr. Higrom, Sairus and Larsa got in to a car and began the long drive to the Guardian Industries colony production factory. After about ten minute of uneasy silence, the car which was set up for tourists begin to talk about the area they were entering "you are now entering the area of the Guardian industries colony production factory, this is one of two large scale factory district on Heliopolis, second only to the Morgenroete, Incorporated factory this is also true for the earth based benches as well. As was stated before Guardian Industries is Orbs second largest military contractor and is responsible a little under a quarter of Orbs defense forces. Guardian Industries is also the sole operate of the Feuer mobile amour which have only bee..." Sairus leans over and turns the system off. Looking back over his shoulder at Larsa and says "I figured you don't need to anymore about your own company." Larsa only response is a smile and turning his head to watch the landscape speed by.

They finally reach the main gate in to the factory, Mr. Higrom pulls a card out of his pocket that gets scanned and starts the gate opening. Once the gate is fully open the car drives forward and parks in front of the main entrance. Mr. Higrom gets out and beckons for Larsa to follow, they walk through the large factory until they come across a metal door at least 10 meters high. Higrom moves over to the console entering a code to open the door, and then leads them all up onto a lead over looking the construction. Larsa stares down at the thing that lies below him, a mobile suit. "Lord Larsa I would like to introduce you to the GIMS-X01 Chevalier." Higrom says proudly.

"What of the op packs?" Sairus asks quickly.

"OP packs A, B, C and D are finished and ready to go, but we're having a lot of trouble with E, I'm sorry it's the best we could do"

"You have nothing to be sorry for, you and you team have done an extraordinary job" Larsa exclaims loudly but what surprised everyone more was the look on the boy face one that no one had seen since the Junius seven incident a true smile and a flame of life in his eyes. They spent the next few hours talking suit and all of it equipment. Sairus looks down at his watch and says "Larsa we have to go you have a meeting board of directors at four and it's all ready half past three." The smile and flame quickly fades away back to nothing before Larsa replies with "Of course we can't keep the BoD waiting, thank you for show me all this Mr. Higrom."

"Uh, no problem come back any time my lord and here take this it's all the data on the Chevalier" Mr. Higrom answers bowing his head and hands Larsa a large data pad.

The rest of the day was spent in a meeting with the board of directors, discussing the need for an increased presence on Heliopolis to aide in the defence of the colony and the fact that the productively of the factory had majorly decreased but its demand for supplies had remained the same.

At around nine o'clock that night Larsa flopped down on the bed in his hotel room, sighing he pulls out the data pad and turning it on, the symbol of Guardian industries – a shield with two wings on the face- closely followed by the blueprints and specs of the Chevalier. Larsa read the data over and over again until he fell asleep with a small smile playing on his lips.