Chapter 1: Genesis, part 1: The Government Meeting

Players: Scott Hartford, Vane Hawke, Mia Atkins, Edward Trantin, Relena Peacecraft, Benjamin
Redmann, Gustave Steiner, Julian Lockener, Trent Retting, Akira Goto, Leila Winner

Scene: Government Council Room

Note: I didn't write most of this, this is a compliation of all the RP sessions of Gundam:
Earth's Fall, because I'm paranoid that ezboard will go under and all of my beautiful RP sessions
will be no more. ;_; *sniffle* I don't even want to THINK about that....



The scene is a large room, with benches and tables all in a circle, on varying levels. People in
fancy dress suits are standing around, conversing and chatting. Two young men are sitting next
to each other, one with tanned skin and rusty brown hair, wearing a brown suit; the other with
dark hair in a black suit. The young man in the black suit is reclining back, his hands behind
his head. The other one looks more nervous, somewhat uptight. Lowering his voice to a whisper,
he asks his compainion a question.

"Is Goto really going to be here?"


"Supposed to be. He's the whole reason we're having the meeting." Vane notices how apprehensive
his friend looks. "Calm down, Scott. What are you being so uptight about? This'll be just like
all the other meetings, just with another leader," he said, making a motion with his hand at a
girl across the room talking with some other people.


"Just another leader!? He's a PSYCHOPATH!" He tries to calm himself after attracting some looks
with his sudden outburst."And I'm not uptight, I actually care about what's going on, unlike
you."


Vane arches an eyebrow and gets out of his reclining position, coming eye to eye with Scott.
"Hey, I care too, but right now you're sweating too much of the small stuff. So relax and try
to look professional would you. Damn," he responds about to go back to his reclining position
before he notices a figure on their way over. "...Cause there's someone coming now."


Relena walks over to the two, smiling. "Hello Vane. Good to see you again." She extends her hand
to him. "Who've you got with you today?"


Scott's eyes widen. :Relena Peacecraft....I didn't know she was supposed to be here......: he
thought to himself."Uh..."


Vane gives Scott a pat on the back."This is Scott Hartford, he was promoted to Commander a few
weeks ago ma'm." He looks at Scott then back to Relena and smiles. "Though he still seems a bit
green to me."


Relena laughs and shakes Scott's hand. "Nice to meet you Scott. I'm sure you'll get the hang of
it soon enough." She sits next to Vane. "Akira Goto's supposed to be joining us today."


Vane nods to himself, closing his eyes."I'm aware Miss Relena, hopefully this won't get too out
of hand. But if it does, well, they're gonna have to deal with me.." He smirks and looks at
Scott. "...and Commander Hartford."


Scott gulps. "Who, me? Tangle with Oz?"


Relena smiles at Scott, struggling with herself not to laugh. "I'm sure everything'll go
smoothly, Scott."


"I hope for the peoples sake your right Miss Relena." Vane looks once again, another arrive to
the room. "Well look who's showed up.."


Walking in with a commanding strut that only he could pull off, Benjamin Redmann ignores the
looks from all the others in the room with him, having business to contuct, he felt he had no
reason to socialize. He takes a seat across from the UEF officals at the table, opens his
briefcase and begins taking out a few papers, reading them over one last time.


"Benjamin Redmann....." Relena frowns a bit.


Scott looks over at Benjamin, then at Vane. "Who's Benjamin Redmann? He's from OCD, right?"


Vane has almost the same look as relena, but with a sort of amused quality to it as he responds
to Scott. "Right. We don't think of him the same way as Goto, but as you can tell from his
'persona' he's not easily trusted." He turns to Scott. "Don't worry man. Of course you're gonna
meet people you don't trust, you're part of politics now." He says with a wide grin.


A young woman walks towards the group, her hands folded in front of her. "Hello Vane, Relena."


Relena looks up at her. "Mia! I didn't think you'd be able to make it. I thought they cancelled
your shuttle?"


"They did, that's why she went with me in mine." An older man walked up behind her, smiling.
"Which is also why we're late."


As soon as he notices Trantin, Vane shoots up from his seat and salutes. "Sir!" Kicks scott from
under the table and motions to the UEF leader with his head.


Scott stands up, and after almost tripping over his chair, salutes Trantin as well. "S-sir!"


Edward smiles at the two commanders*. "As you were gentlemen." He walks around and sits down next
to Mia's seat in the chair designated for the Leaders of the governments, with a podieum-like
desk in front of him.


"Goto's supposed to be here. Is he here yet?" Mia looks around.


"No, not yet. It will be interesting to see what he is here to speak about," Edward answered as
he shuffles through some papers in his briefcase, much the same as Redmann was doing.


Leila walks in, accompanied by several men in uniforms, and takes her designated seat a few
tables away from the UEF officials.


"Well it seems all we're missing is Goto," Edward said, finishing up with his papers.


"Not any more sir." Vane points to the doorway were Goto and his party are entering the room.
"Speak of the Devil..."


A man wearing a blue suit and blue tinted glasses walks in, carrying a briefcase and quietly
exchanging words with a middle-aged man. In front of the main group, a pale man in a black suit
with yellow trim and long white hair walks slowly toward his position in the room, enjoying a
smoke as he went. His eyes were unseen from the public by the hat's brim. As if on cue, Akira
Goto walks into the room. Nodding and saying short responses to what Trent is saying, he keeps
his eyes to scanning the room. He was watching the others in the room, as if to measure them up.
All 3 of the men and the rest of their group sit at the table and wait for discussions to begin.


Scott frowns at the group, muttering under his breath. "Oz scum...."


An elderly offical opens disscussions, after awhile, it's Goto who speaks first. "As you all have
heard from RUMORS, you're assuming I am contructing Mobile Suits for a secret attack of some
sort. This is entirely false, and you're fools to believe we would after the Eve war!"


"Thats tripe Goto! We've had informers in our department who have sightings of unidentifiable
mobile suits being tested in your district."


"Those are Space Pirates, Redmann. We've been hunting them, same as you. If you weren't so bias
against me, you'd look at the obvious before accusations are made! I haven't seen the Colonial
Defense working toward their capture, as well as Earth."


Leila leans in closer to her microphone. "But considering Oz's past actions, I believe the
accusations are perfectly reasonable. Mobile suits have been seen testing, and you can't say that
space pirates are perfecting their propulsion systems at your facilities. That's just not true."


"Miss Winner, those were not tests, those propulsion units were stolen from the facility from
Space Pirates that were posing as mechanics there. They were captured before escaping, thus a
report was not needed, it was MY business after all. And as for OZs past actions, that should
have no baring on what we are doing now, we are run under a new administration."


A young man with sitting at the OCD table with blonde hair fixed his eyes on Goto. "If zat is so,
zen vhy do you not have your mechanic's show zeir ID cards before entering the facilities? All
vorkers should be assigned their own ID number, vhy did that not cause alarm when zeir appearance
did not match zat of zeir cards, hmm? Can you explain zat, Mr. Goto?"



Akira rolled his eyes at Gustave. "These Pirates are not idiots with guns, they are capable of
going the distance to achieve their goals, thus making false IDs able to impersonate our staff.
Our security has tightened sufficiantly since this theft and will not happen again." He looks
over to his own officals for a moment and then, as if glaring, stares at his fellow gov leaders.
"Is there any more questioning of my motives, or would you like to look at your own problems and
try to accuse you of starting them?"


Scott watches as Gustave shifts uncomfortably in his seat, waiting for someone to speak up.


Trent adjusts his sunglasses, looking over some notes and whispering to Julian.


Julian, who happens to be basically ignoring Trent, pulls a pack of cigarettes out his pocket.
Lighting one, he inhales the smoke, slowly breathing it out as he motions for Trent to shut up.


Goto pauses, then says, "Now if you're all done tearing apart my organization, I'd say this
meeting is over." Goto steps down from the podium, before anyone can object. He exchanges a few
hushed words with Trent, and they walk out together, Julian still sitting in his spot.


"Well that was quick," Vane remarked.


"I'd say we made about, zero progress," Scott said sarcastically. "Everyone knows he's lying...."
Scott glares at Julian. "Isn't there a no smoking rule for here.....?"


"He can't leave yet, I don't buy his story." Relena stands up quickly, making her way past the
people and out the door.


"No one does Miss Relena, but-" Scott turns to where Relena was sitting.

?

"W-wait, Ms. Relena!" Scott stands up. "Should I go after her?"


Edward shakes his head. "She won't listen. Don't worry, she'll be fine." Edward leans over and
whispers something into Mia's ear. Mia nods and starts writing something down on some paper.


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