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Intermission - Project Durango

Leanbox, La terre de Vert pâturages.
Also known as l'arc des œuvres intellectuelles (the arc of intellectual works)
For better or worse, the very epithet itself is the embodiment of Leanbox's history itself, for softwares is more than just a series of binary codes.
It is a work of art, the work of engineering both abstract yet precise. And all works of arts and engineering needs to be compensated, one way or another.
With this philosophy and the quality software that helps setting the standard of software programming, it is no exaggeration to claim that the Leanbox is the very extension of Planepiciel itself.

The history dates back to the alliance of Leanbox and Planeptune, an alliance which helped Jaune, Violette and Lilac Heart to eventually reclaim the land of Planeptune from Lastation, which would eventually became the independent nation of Planepiciel.
The relationship between the Green and Lilac Heart became increasingly distanct since the Lilac Heart had manipulated Jaune, the founder of Planepiciel (and Vert's favourite little girl) to spare the black goddess from a certain ruin in the past, as her empire would require the three nations to be intact at the time.

In her Gamindustri, she can easily reach the flight speed of Mach 2.56 and more even with the stealth mode on.
But in this Gamindustri, it seems that she isn't going to go unnoticed if she ever move even a centimeter faster than sound.
It's even worse in the national capital, where unauthorized CPU flight is very much explicitly banned.
In fact, a goddess flying around at supersonic speed is probably a real quick of a way to get the nations to be hostile at you in 8th-gen Gamindustri.

Why did you ask of this explanation, you ask?
Well, the treaty here basically left the Platformer-type CPUs cooped in their own nation, using their connection to Planepiciel to communicate with each other.
The treaty didn't explicitly banned them visiting other nations, but it has become an unwritten rule of sorts that a CPU invading another nation's airspace will render the whole treaty null and void, giving them an excuse to take away Planepiciel's shares by military force.
Apparently this extends even if a foreign CPU were put into the equation.
Given the advent of Idol-type CPUs which makes Planepiciel's fairly large shares all the more lopsided now that Planepiciel alone hold well above half of the 8th-gen Gamindustri's shares, at least right now.
Then again, she's no longer considered as a foreign CPU in this world at this point. She is well aware of how she ends up being considered "the true mastermind of Planepiciel" due to how 8th-gen Peashy... uh, Jaune is often seen as a mere figurehead girl, and the other two CPUs of Planepiciel only existed because of her, indirectly or not.
In other words, the treaty only grants a peace as fragile as a filter paper, made worse by Lilac Heart's alleged "conquest plan" and the lopsided shares of Planepiciel.

Unlike the Lastation, where she can simply took a motorbike there and reach the border in a few hours, she had to get to Leanbox from the Lastation's airport, because the Leanbox land is isolated from the rest of the mainland, not to mention that it took at least half an entire day cause not only the supersonic flight is banned in the entire Leanbox airspace (as in the entire continent itself), the customs are very tight for anyone who wishes to go there, for both travellers and diplomatic figures alike.
In fact, her own Gamindustri has several bridges and high-speed rails that connects the Leanbox to the rest of the land.
It would've been way cooler if she could rent a VF Argent for the flight, but of course, fighter aircrafts are pretty much a no-go.

Well, the Lastation has a very well thought-out name for their new Basilicom, so, how about the Leanbox's new one?
Well, turns out she haven't moved at all. Or rather, there's no need to move.
Plus, considering how "hueg" she and her collection and her Basilicom is, hauling it around would definitely be a nightmare.
The largest church (Basilicom) in Gamindustri, well, at least before Planepiciel built a skyscrapping Basilicom like the Neptower a few years ago.
It's name is... XBMC. Yes, just XBMC, otherwise known as Midgard Church.
Of course, XBMC is the recursive acronym for XBMC Base Mediality Church.
The Mediality comes from the word Median, which in turn refers to its pre-completion name : Midgard.

"Hard to expect fidelity from someone who looks like the first Valkyrie, now isn't it, Lumiere?"
Zeige... no, she's... a gender-flipped Tony Stark, for the lack of more famous billionaire playboy.
"That's pretty awesome of you to come with the Vista Sisters as the flower of both hands, Vista-oneesan."
Yup, the girl here is none other than Madobe Nanami herself.
And the maiden in each arm is none other than Madobe Ai and Madobe Yū, the surname is there just in case someone mistakes it for Kana Ueda.

The internals of the Midgard Church is known as the Hall of Valhalla... though I would very much refer it as the Hall of Fólkvangr instead.
The goddess of the land of green pastures here is known with the epithet of "the Liberator of Planepiciel" and is given the nickname of "Freya", by G.C-kun no less.
The Vert of this dimension certainly dresses a lot like Chika Hakozaki from her dimension.
Unlike the late Vert from her dimension who would be all too happy to have Nepgear as her little sister, this woman in particular didn't think highly of Lilac Heart.
All her charms as Nepgear is still there, at least physically. In fact, under more amicable circumstances, this Vert in particular would treated her just like all the other lolis she adored, Jaune, Lumiere, Eclair, the Vista Sisters, Miyuki Seika... yes, even Internia-chan fits the bill, but her absurdly youthful-looking mother don't.
Because said absurdly youthful-looking mother has way too dissonant of her innards for her adorable exterior.
Not to mention that this wolf-in-sheeps-clothing Nepgear had foiled Vert's "big plan" to dye the Gamindustri in her colour. Many times.
With that in mind, it's pretty much a given that Vert no longer think of her as an adorable girl, but as a 'troublesome' goddess who's out to dye the Gamindustri in their colours.

"Why, of course I recognize your black suits everywhere. Especially if your buxom never sags."
"You're a real sinful women to bring this many women into your church, aren't you Freya?"
"That sounds pretty rude coming from you, considering that you have your shares of harems of young ladies under the guise of an Idolmaster."

"This, is the supposed policies for the Durango? Are you even sane enough to actually sign it for real?"

"That is such a stupid move. You're practically giving your hardcore gaming market away to Lastation with this."

"Well, if Lastation could ever create a console that can top out mine, they can have it. They're practically crumbling nowadays."
"Plus, I have a new, more promising market waiting for me."
"Not to mention how old is the gaming industry by now? You of all people should know how last-season the market is."

She can barely object at all.
After all, she's relying a lot of the Internia and Etoile Idol Group to generate shares from the 8th-gen Gamindustri, and even her own Gamindustri for that matter.
Additionally, the biggest supporter of hardcore gaming markets, Lastation and Lowee, had become the shadow of their former glory as of late.
Their shares goes not to Leanbox, but to the land of Planepiciel, as they continue to deliver newer, more powerful computer parts one after another.
What's more, the consoles they call as "PCs" has a market that is more than the gaming sector with the price to match, and of course, are just as widespread.
And the icing of the top of the Planepiciel is that it is the home of various high-profile games companies, few more so than her own.
Indeed, the Gamindustri probably will become an artifact title should all the flags were triggered.
But still... throwing away their loyal customers? For a ruler like her, who has always answered to its people's call, such a thing is almost equivalent to killing her own citizens away.
Also, she seems to be somewhat underestimating the buzz of the Playstation 4, considering how Noire rebranded it so from its codename that means circle and orbit, as in the circular patten that the moon follows as it floats across the earth.
That alone was enough to show that the Lastation is on its last leg... if only Vert wouldn't be stupid enough to underestimate the power of Lastation.

"Any businesswoman with a sane mind should know better than to throw its existing customers away. "
Hearing these words, the black Vert countered:
"And any ruler with a sane mind should have a far and ambitious sight to keep the country flowing."
"So you're fine with feeding off Planepiciel's fortunes?"

Well, Vert having a lot of "reclaimable shares" in Planepiciel is hardly a news to her, let alone a secret.

"What can I say~? You of all people should knew that money is power, after all."
The Lilac Heart froze. She's utterly speechless about it.
"Well, good luck trying to get your investment in working order."
"You have a truly impressive concept for your new console. Truth be told, I thought you would be most likely to prosper out of all three nations."
"That is why I chose your nation to extend the fame of the Internia Idol Group, and bringing the concept of Idol CPUs to this world."
"But I've no intention to clean up for any of your mess. for I have an empire to run back in my homeland."
"That being said, good luck communicating your ideals to the people."

She once considered trying to advice Vert to drop such an idea, but dropped the idea as she's a bit drunk on money right now.
Because in truth, it doesn't really matter much to her if Leanbox falls apart, well, unless if the Leanbox citizens are in danger, at least.
Of course, she can try to take over Leanbox and turn it into a new Planepgear using her authority as one of Planepiciel's CPU when the time comes.
In fact, having her own nation built from ashes of Leanbox sounds attractive, as it would allow her to gain much more shares here than she did right now.
In the case of Black Heart trying to claim a piece of Leanbox's land, she can call off the "land protection" treaty and bring in Violet Heart to deal with Black Heart.
Violet Heart's superiority over Black Heart is all but given spec wise, at least for now.
However, there the recent news about Black Heart's new Processor Units made by AMp from Planepiciel, which understandably worries her, as Noire managed to get the same Processor Units "contractor" as Lilac Heart, not to mention, they're known for their world-leading Processor Units as of late.
Even the founder of Planepiciel, known only as Jaune, was known to have some of her Processor Units made by AMp.

In fact, it would probably be in her best interest to kept the current CPU of Leanbox intact to kept the status quo.
The reason being...
If the 8th-gen Leanbox falls into ruin, then it would be harder to hold a concert for Internia Idol Group there.


Reference:
- Durango is Xbox ONE's codename, named after a state in Mexico (which has a state capital named Durango as well). Funnily enough, Texas has what the Wikipedia defined as "unincorporated community" named Durango as well.
- Jaune means yellow in French. This Jaune in particular sounds a lot like Flonne (=love freak) to the point that even Nepgear feels uneasy around her, by the way.
- VF, short for Variable Fighter in Macross Frontier, The first unit goes by the name of Valkyrie, which eventually extends to subsequent units. Oh, did I mention that every CPUs in 8th-gen Gamindustri, including the Lilac Heart can transform into their own Variable Fighters? The Valkyrie here stands for Variable Aerospace Linkage... whatever backronym fits the KYRIE here. Lilac Heart can transform into the VALKYRIE Lilac (Excalibur), but she can also pilot the VALKYRIE Argent (Avalon) as well.
- The original Xbox is, well, Xbox Hueg, infamously so at the weight of 3.9 kilograms, with the hardware power (it's the most powerful 6th-gen console, hardware wise) to back up it's size. Where else do you think Vert got her huge, thunderous tits from?
- Midgard, in its Old Norse form Miðgarðr, is the land where the Valkyries go and recruit the Einherjars to be sent to Valhalla... which is the codename for the motherboard used in the Xbox 360 Slim, so the internal hall is known as the Hall of Valhalla.
- Madobe Nanami 『窓辺 ななみ』 is the main mascot for Windows 7 (at least in Japan, due to OS-tan popularity there), which means "seven waves of the windows" if her given name Nanami is intepreted as 『七』 "na" in nanori and 『浪』 "nami" in kun'yomi. Considering who she is, she's probably even stronger than Vert herself outside of 4 Goddesses Online. Oh, and they had Windows Neptune too, by the way.
- Madobe Yū 『窓辺 友』 and Madobe Ai 『窓辺 愛』 have their names derieved from Yūai 『友愛』, which means friendship, love and fraternity, representing the two GUI shells in Windows 8. Madobe Ai had a longer hair, so she is often assumed to be elder sister, even though there are chances where it might being the other way around. As for why these OS-tans are called Vista Sisters, it's because the Windows NT version number for Windows Vista is 6.0, Windows 7 is 6.1 and Windows 8 is 6.2. Someone need to get a draft for Madobe Aoi 『窓辺 青い』 (Windows NT 6.3 = Windows 8.1 Blue), the youngest of the Vista Sisters.
- Freya is the nickname given to the Vert in 8th-gen Gamindustri by G.C.-kun, for a number of damned good reasons, among these being the Liberator of Planepiciel whose lancing skill is as good as Lancer of Fate/Stay Night, being a busty blonde chick and the leader of the land of green pastures (which fits the fertility goddess), and a damned good really-gets-around memetic molester lesbian women (which fits the love goddess bill in both the romantic and sexual sense).
- The Vert in 8th-gen Gamindustri is actually a lot wiser than this, but thanks to (real-life) Microsoft's meddling, the Xbox brand has become little more than a convienient platform to vent out their questionable ideals. This, of course translates into the idiocy the "black" Vert (who represents the Xbox aiONE - as in all-in-ONE) is suffering right now. Seems like she got it as bad as F-35 Lightning II (it's not even a freakin' secret).
- Leanbox actually did sponsor several Idol-type CPUs in Planepciel. And that's before mentioning the large market share of her OS in desktop computers which she can reclaim via the Chronicle of Creation.
- Admit it. even you won't bother to save a company, let alone a kingdom in peril if you will only get an underrated reward for it, that is exactly why Nvidia aren't making their own processors for Playstation 4. That being said, don't be an ass to expect to get a princess just because you saved one... without reaching to her heart at all.