She's not going to discuss that in public.
Session 2 - Season 0
We begin a couple of days after the end of the previous session, where the Senshi leadership decide to invite like-minded people to join them and Dr. Drakken inspects the hydroponics chamber of the Silver Millennium settlement. Making a nearly-critical success, he discovers that, while the setup looks like it should work, it will fail in a month if it is not expanded substantially - what is needed is triple the size of the design he had presented to Hephaestus. And some non-Senshi "action girls" have already announced that they want to move in.
There is much agonizing over how the colony can possibly pay for what's desperately needed. However, that doesn't prevent being gracious hosts -
Yayoi Fujisawa has arrived with the order that Drakken had placed with Stellvia Trading, and she's invited to stay for dinner.
Much dinnertime discussion ensues, including discussion on (a) the importance of Fen working together and (b) how some of the best leaders are the ones pushed into the job. Yayoi learns that the colony is on the brink of collapse, calls Hephaestus, and orders the hydroponics gear built, expedited, and shipped to the colony (much to everyone's surprise). This gives her an "in" to
offer advice, which is quickly accepted. By the time dessert is served, a small group have started pushing to make Yayoi their leader - she saw what needed to be done and did it right away, in contrast to how Beverly and Tanith had been taking things slowly. In order to get away from that debate, Yayoi offers to help Dr. Drakken unpack his shipment.
Yayoi opens the crate for Drakken - but she hammers the crowbar into a tight fit in the box with her hand, not with a hammer. Oops. Dr. Drakken learns her
big secret. He's amazed and intrigued (his Xenophilia disad kicked in). She notices he's likely to have trouble keeping her secret (his Easy to Read disad also kicked in), and lets him know her other secret ("'That's right. I'm a gay robot.'") so he'll have something he can "accidentally" reveal. She also makes a clumsy attempt at blackmail to get him to stay quiet (basically, his line of credit comes due if he spills the beans), failing miserably ... but Dr. Drakken promises to keep his mouth anyway.
Back in the colony's main hall, there's a big push underway to elect Yayoi as the first official leader. An election is held; she refuses to stand for office; Tanith is elected with a supermajority. According to how Yoko Kayabuki read the rules that the first colonists had written up, that means Tanith gets to be the Queen. She almost picks "Meimi" as her regal name, but is talked out of that by Beverly because nobody else has seen
Saint Tail. Tanith glances at a map of the Moon, thinks "why not?", and chooses the name Serenity. Her first official act (under pressure from the people behind that push to make Yayoi the leader) is to name Yayoi "Sailor Stellvia" for as long as Yayoi and Stellvia both exist.
Dr. Drakken closets himself away for three days, makes his Artist (costuming) and Jeweler rolls, and designs and creates the Royal Tiara. He puts it on Serenity's head the next day - January 1, 2009.
There is some discussion about choosing a Prime Minister. No consensus is reached, except that it doesn't need to happen right away.
Within the first week of January, the hydroponics tanks are delivered and installed, and Drakken heads to Earth to get some blue-green algae and mangrove plants to get the oxygen cycle going. His Serendipity kicks in: there's an old railway tanker car available to take the algae-laden water, and the
GE999 is in the area at the right time. Drakken hires Matel to take the tanker car to the Moon Kingdom settlement (as some of the newcomers are calling it). He takes some small mangroves with him in his cavorite sphere ... which is challenged by the USAF. He recalls what the current administration thinks of handwavium and handwaved people, refuses to answer, and is fired upon. He discovers that the cavorite doesn't just repel things below it - the missiles are
just barely deflected (successful Dodge roll combined with the defensive properties of handwavium). Not wishing to press his luck, he hurries into space.
Time passes - two of the three new hydroponics gardens work acceptably (marginal successes on the Gardening (hydroponics) rolls), while the third works wonderfully and looks marvelous (a spectacular success on the roll). That garden quickly becomes the Moon Kingdom's relaxation spot.
In late-February, Dr. Drakken gets an email from an address he doesn't recognize in the Main Belt. Thinking it's a request for hydroponics expertise, he reads it and discovers it's from a group on Vesta that's setting up
a post-secondary education facility. They want him to be on the faculty, and offer tenure as soon as he starts. He declines the offer, explaining he has commitments on Luna.
New Background Data for Fenspace:
None.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
