I was in the process of stamping this out since before yesterday. Although anything not explicity featured can and will be modified because I'm bound to come up with something better, or someone's bound to disagree with something. Chunks of this have appearred in Saber Chase and Raising Project, or might be background to it. Other elements are cribbed from Candle in the Dark, or unfinished remnants on the cutting room floor, or ideas barely fleshed out.
Although considering the response to Shinji Ikari as of January 2023. An unfinished epilogue for Saber Chase showed the 4th Caster Gun, but the story was best left with the bar ending. . If anything, Noah's indirectly responsible for Shinji's positive development by knowing who to contact and who would be able to do the right thing.
Hopefully the idea is that it comes across as a group of people gathering momentum with their lives and putting things together. Maybe a decade late or so but finally getting out there and getting things moving . Screwing a few things up along the way (a lack of foresight seems to be a common thread , they're at a more immature level where 'Screw it, Try it' is almost a mantra. ) and generally reaping what was sowed way back when someone Jet respects deeply told her that they will get what they deserve when the war is over.
--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
Although considering the response to Shinji Ikari as of January 2023. An unfinished epilogue for Saber Chase showed the 4th Caster Gun, but the story was best left with the bar ending. . If anything, Noah's indirectly responsible for Shinji's positive development by knowing who to contact and who would be able to do the right thing.
Hopefully the idea is that it comes across as a group of people gathering momentum with their lives and putting things together. Maybe a decade late or so but finally getting out there and getting things moving . Screwing a few things up along the way (a lack of foresight seems to be a common thread , they're at a more immature level where 'Screw it, Try it' is almost a mantra. ) and generally reaping what was sowed way back when someone Jet respects deeply told her that they will get what they deserve when the war is over.
Quote:Jan 2014: Jet missed Port Phobos victory celebration due to mop up operations________________________________
Alphacon: Gives Panzer Kunst demonstratins
Aug 2014: Jet posts 'I am a Kunstler, Ask Me Anything' on reddit. The smart ones figure out who's giving it by cross-referencing some of her statements about capabilities.
Nov 2014: A mysterious raid on two Panzer Kunstler escorting a shipment of valuable materials leads to the discovery of 'Ghost Hacking' technology. Both Kunstler have had their memories partially wiped through exploitation of firmware bugs.
Jan 2015: Jet spends the the Second Port Phobos Invitational on the surface of Nehallenia installing recording devices.
Feb 2015: Quattro Incident on 2462 Nehallenia.
Ford Sierra realises that Jet isn't so much burning the candle at both ends, but has thrown it bodily into the furnace, and threatens to tell her friends and force it to stop if she doesn't do anything about it. When Ford asks her what she wants to actualy do, Jet's answer is 'I want to be a Knight Saber'.
May 2015: With sponsorship from numerous fen engineering concerns, the Highway Star ridden by a local motorcycle journalist sets a new Land Speed Record for motorcycles. Highway Star will be the last record set without the assistance of Handwavium.
Bubblecon 2015: Metaverse released publicly. Jet and Benjamin Rhodes drag race down the the main city highway. First appearrance of Lunatic Fringe....
August 2015: Eddie's waved Highway Star gets a run at 543C in interstellar space. Jet rides it.
September 2015: Race to 400 held at Bonneville, United States of America. Jet earns notoriety for being photographed riding on the hood of a rental truck. Benjamin Rhodes takes part, as do three other teams attempting to break the 400mph barrier. Highway Star barely makes it, despite an extensive rebuild and engine modifications. Highway Star retired soon after.
Feb 2016: Jet purchases her puppet body from AC, ostensibly for a 'puppet party'. Metaverse incident on Genaros follows. Someone used the Party to contact Jet anonymously, and inform her so she can go to the authorities.
Mar 2016: Thanks to a case of mismanagement bad enough to be mentioned in future editions of Rockhounds training manuals as a prime example of 'how not to do it' New Birmingham mining corporation goes into administration, followed by ultimate liquidation.
Jun 2016: Jet agrees to allow Catgirl Industries analyse her Panzer Kunst techniques. Jet attacks drones using Hertza Haeon and Hertza Nadel techniques, blowing them up with bare handed strikes. Jet explains it as a form of vibration and shockwave control, and believes it to be similar to how Rogue Waves form in the open ocean. However CGI and Cortana remains unable to account for the excess energy gain after the initial hit, and writes it off as a 'wave effect'.
Apr 2016. Stingray Motor Engineering bought by Sylia Stingray. It becomes a quietly successful mundane company, with enough modest turnover to keep the wolves at bay. Earns a little early notoriety for an advertisement that compares a Police Helicopter and a Stingray RE1300T on top speed.... .
Sept 2016. Jet Jaguar and Ford Sierra outbid a madboy and buy the claim to Frigga 77 at bare rock prices. Sylia Stingray makes a public appearance, discouraging the madboy from bidding.
(Jan 1st 2017 to Dec 31st 2019) Jet Jaguar and Ford Sierra work as contractors for the Roughriders to pay off the Frigga loan. , providing training an mechanical services. Jet trains the A-team.Jet builds JF-21. Continues GJ missions. Uses A-team as prototype for the Knight Sabers and their equipment. Ford prototypes the motorslaves....
March 2019: Mackie awakens in the KnightWings computer as a result of Jet telling the squirrel's to 'Prove it's not safe' and pushing ahead with an NI test aboard the unfinished KnightWing. Jet's memory warped, to believe that Mackie is her brother. Connection interrupted before her identity could be overwritten, but some damage is done. Jet has to see herself as Mackie's sister.
Jan 2020. Officially move to Frigga... it's reasonably habitable again after years of work on weekends.
Knight Saber recruitment, ~2020 or so. Hardware finalised as each Saber is hired.
May 2020: Survival Shot opens for business.
Oct 2020: First UBA sponsored Raid on Frigga. Discouraged while in orbit. Nobody remembers to replace the missiles fired. They're expensive anyway.
Feb 2021. Anika escapes from William Flint. One of the first Knight Saber missions is to recover the battroid she stole. Knight Sabers learn the truth about Anika. William Flint arrested. Anika joins Knight Sabers.
March 2021: Survival Shot wins it's first major contract, training Stellviacorp Personnel.
Aug 2021: Anika goes bounty hunting with Ford aboard the brand new Dragon Wagon II. Anika is tricked by the prisoners and knocked out while Ford attempts to recover the blackbird. Prisoners hijack the Dragon Wagon II. Recovered soon after....(After Anika secretly allowed the prisoners to use the ship's weapons and chase off a rival group of bounty hunters seeking to claim the new Wagon as a prize. Ford knows and warns her never to get caught pulling stunts like that...)
Mackie receives an actual body from Vulpine Fury's puppetworks. Never looks back.
Sept2021: Jet takes 'oath of Venus' ceremony at the request of the other Knight Sabers. She pleads her case asking for acceptance as female before the court Aphrodite (Daryl) and Venus( Kotono), with Ford as her advocate. Mackie acts as the advocate of Mars making an impassioned speech for his sister's manhood, but the court rules in Jet's favour.
Drunken fun follows. Jet files paperwork with GJ asking for her official identification to be changed to match... but nearly a decade of putting out the meme that she still considered herself inherently male means most assume that the change is an error of some sort.
Late 2021. Knight Sabers Mission on Genaros filmed by Maico Tange. Knight Sabers burst into public view. Speculation begins.
Jan 2022 - Sept 2022. Maico Tange hunts the Knight Sabers.
February 2022: Serenity II arrives on Frigga to inspect Survival Shot, as part of a tendering process to supply training services to the Militia. Serenity runs through an exercise and is soundly defeated by TITANIC.
Second UBA-sponsored raid on Frigga mistaken for an assassination attempt on Queen Serenity II. Missile defences are still not replaced. Serenity II Forbidden from fighting by her bodyguards, much to her personal frustration.
Jet handles the attacking mercenaries personally. Genuinely believing it to be an assasination attempt aware of who and what they were attacking and not a raid, Jet responds with overwhelming force.
Analysis of surviving computers and Patrol interrogation of the survivors reveals they were hired by a UBA representative, didn't even know Serenity II was present, and believed that Frigga was mostly an ordinary backwater.
Serenity II mentions re-opening the mineworkings on Frigga before departing. Daryl Haur made official SAM representative on site.
March 2022 onward: Knight Saber missions against UBA step up.
April 2022 First Caster Gun built by Ford Sierra. Ford's Heavyarms begins soon after, using the tooling normally used for weapon maintenance. A few people buy them.
Second Caster gun goes to Benjamin Rhodes. 3rd Goes to AC Peters. A quiet thank you for their help with the Knight Sabers.
May 2022: Plans for the Frigga Defense Force first laid. Jet plans spacecraft squadrons and a proper human OpFor for Survival Shot.
2022 Convention: Frigga exhibits Havoc and Hokum choppers. Ford Introduces Driver Coil Compensation using the same technology. A busty Yoko cosplayer demonstrates the rifle variant. Maico misses Soviets joining the Federation. Plans for a Frigga 500 race using conventional wheeled vehicles first discussed among gearheads at the convention over copious quantities alcohol.
Sept 2022. Maico Tange arrives at Frigga investigating the Knight Sabers. 3rd UBA sponsored attack on Frigga, attempting to kidnap someone. Shoot down Anika and Maico on their way to Stellvia. Knight Sabers intervene, rescuing both. Knight Sabers KnightWing makes spectacular public appearance at Stellvia, photographed my multiple people. Maico aware of who's behind the Sabers. Convinced to keep quiet by Noah Scott.
Oct 2022: Noah Scott on Frigga for training contract negotations. 4th Caster gun given to Noah for assistance with the Sabers. 5th one donated to the Nikaido foundation, to be auctioned at a fundraiser. Ford sees the value of the reputation boost it gives her. 6th original weapon retained by Survival Shot.
November 2022: Sylia Stingray and Stingray Motor Engineering win a workplace conditions award. SME is noted for hiring 'new' workers and favouring those with little experience. SME launders Knight Saber funding, and disguises hardware payments as patent licencing fees and Business to Business transactions. Jet realises that 120 people will lose their job and livelihood through no fault of their own if the Knight Sabers little game of secrecy ends.
Holiday on the planet 'Arcadia' in Epsilon Eridani. Mackie runs into the ruins of the Iconian Gate while riding a jetski. And brings a chunk home. Discovery kept quiet by the Federation to deter souvenir hunters and alien artififact trading, which may destroy valuable archaeology.
December 2022: Frigga Defence Force plans fall through. Nobody really wants to move that far out for anything more than a few days. It's too much of a ghost town. Frigga left holding the hardware. Budget for their appearrance at the 2023 convention eaten up... the Berkut project stops halfway through.
Jan 2023: Catgirl Industries Survey team investigates the possibility of establishing a factory on Frigga in empty space.
Shinji Ikari wakes up at Anika's request, after his body is built by Jet and Ford as practice.
Crystal Osaka memorial ceremony on Venus.
Feb 2023: Shinji decides to depart Frigga and live on Stellvia. He works in the restaurant and as an occasional session musician. Weekly therapy sessions with Kat Avins. Visits to Rei on days off.
Final cruise through Fenspace before he leaves. Shinji meets AC, given a clean bill of health and put through the standard tests. Results 'surprising'. Kotono spends time at Kandor renewing qualifications. Learns that SHIELD knows what she's really doing on Frigga. Daryl meets with higher-ups among the militia on Venus for 'secret northern spy' business.
Anika left minding the fort as she's the only one who couldn't think of an excuse to go. Party with her friends.
A.C mentions to Jet that with ShockSkin and ten years of technological advancements in miniaturisation, it's now possible for Jet to retain the majority of her current capabilities while appearing normal... Jet needs time to consider.
March 2023: Mackie builds his own racer. Daryl finally finishes her F-104 based machine. They enter the Solar Regatta. Mackie finishes respectably with Anika as Co-pilot, even managing to win a single stage. The 104 is too heavy, but stable. Mackie unleashed Fusion Boosting addon kits for BAT Cuke engines onto the wider market, selling them under his own name. A few people use them on BAT-derived racers...
A sample of the Tanalloy battery used in Shinji's Judy makes it's way to Kohran li, who's able to confirm that it's almost certainly a crude copy of the Tannhauser Gate metal. Frigga learns they aren't the first to succeed in replicating it, just the first to do so publicly. Others had done so before, but preferred to study it first and understand the physics behind so they could be sure it was safe for general consumption.
Some think them reckless for using an alien technology they don't understand so readily. Tanalloy becomes a common name for gate-derived metal.
Frigga admitted to Elerium consortium on condition that they share their research, and withhold a full public release until after the consortium agrees it's safe. Research is more into practical application than the theory behind it
'Skuldium' proposed as the name for the element previously known as Unbihexium (126).
Apr 2023: Jet finishes the construction of 5 more Android frames. Decides against awakening them, on advice from Myk El Miller. "Jet, I appreciate that you feel there's a void that needs to be filled... but given what we've seen out there, is playing God again really the right answer? Remember the issues you had with Shinji." Frigga may be lonely, but that's the wrong way to solve it. They get set aside for spare parts, or until living conditions improve.
Daryl mentions that Crystal Millenium has been in contact with her about solving that problem in a mutually beneficial manner. Jet objects, worrying that she would be ceding control over the Knight Sabers to someone who might order them to do something they disagree with.
Shinji meets Yuu Inagawa for the first time. They get on well.
Ford's plans for the Frigga 500 morph on the mailling list into 'Motorcon'... a small convention for the gearheads and gasoline lovers of Fenspace where their vehicles can be run up to full speed in Frigga's tunnels. Motorcon committee forms with Ford as chair to establish the event. Sponsors are found.
CGI signs contract to construct a factory in one of Frigga's empty chambers.
2023 Convention: Frigga demonstrates a type of fusion powered spacecraft cannon. The prototype fails. Ford's Cosmo Dragoons using the same basic mechanism in a handgun boost her reputation as a gunsmith. 4 and only 4 are sold.
The Motorcon committee makes its official event announcement. Membership fee is set to cover the cost of providing medical care onsite, fuel.... and paying to ship any potential guests. The venue is provided by the committee, as is accomodation.
Shinji spotted together with Yuu Inagawa. There's nothing happening between them, they swear.
Serenitycon anniversary.
August 2023: Knight Saber mission. Hired by a commander of the Sammie Merchant Marine to figure out why his ships keep getting attacked on the way back from their extrasolar colony. It's a straight up hire, not a GJ mission. She tells them he suspects someone on the inside is giving convoy details, since only she and the crews know the course. Knight Sabers in SAM uniform, aboard a Q-ship fitted out with a big expense account.
Convoy attacked. Pirates knew exactly which ship was the Q-ship. Knight Sabers aided by one of the freighters which was also quietly armed without telling anyone. Since only two people knew they were a Q-ship, and one just rescued them....
Long story short. The commodore was crooked. She needed to be seen to be doing something about the pirate problem, so hired the Knight Sabers and threw them to the wolves. She gets arrested by another Troubleshooter on the foot of gathered evidence moments after paying the Sabers....
Sept: 2023 Motorcon Runs for three days of gasoline fueled smog-creating speed. Manages to pay its bills and get enough money for the next year. Jay Leno spotted amongst the crowd on a jetbike. Sylia Stingray spotted with Ford Sierra in a compromising position..... a few eyebrows raised, then quickly forgotten.
Mackie leaves home to study Mechatronic engineering at NIT.
MAGI upgrade to TITANIC postponed.... again. It works, but not in any reliable manner.
October 2023: Shinji Ikari writes to Jet. He's transfered to Ultima crew and is doing well. Inside is a picture of him with Yuu. The seem happy.
Catgirl industries finishes phase 1. First thing produced are a series of FR-15 rifles for Survival Shot. AR-15 variants manufactured almost entirely out of carbon composite structural battery, with an integrated smart gun system.
Sold under Ford's heavyarms brand.
Jet dissapears to Prometheus Forge for 'upgrades'. Returns 7 days later looking the exact same, only cleaner. "This is who I am, armour and all." Top speed increases, reaction times drop, Radio and radar frequency and sen processor upgrades, software alterations and general maintenace . Jet gains a full sensor array in place of the original radar using. Jet also now mounts racks for knuckle and ankle bombers, with an external safety interlock switch.
Puppet interface lag is 'reduced' through a tachypsychia control system that can slow Jet's natural reactions to the point where the lag would be imperceptible. Which keeps jittery sensations and responses from 'spoiling the mood'. It can be turned off when not needed. The idea was Jets... after reading about a swordfighting game that used the same approach ... even if the implementation wasn't.
November 2023: Daryl, acting as an official faction representative, conveys an offer from the Crystal Millennium. They wish to re-open the old mineworks on Frigga. Using modern equipment makes the old ore economical again, and they believe it to be cheaper and easier than establishing a fresh settlement from scratch.
Jet restates her objection. Ford disagrees with Jet. Frigga is dying slow, even after Motorcon. 7 people isn't enough for a Settlement. Negotiations are traded back and forth... the Knight Sabers issue is skirted around, while the definition of who owns what takes time. Frigga is, after all, legally private property, not a faction state. If there was one thing Ford and Jet were careful of... if Survival Shot failed, nobody could take Frigga.
December 2023: Arrangements finalised between Crystal Millennium and a final draft agreement is made. All that remains is to vote. 7 Owners of Frigga vote on it, after Anika insists on a secret ballot. Vote passes to accept the offer, 5/2. Shinji votes by mail.
Projections 2024 onwards: - Now they have to figure out how to run a Government. They have to figure out who gets to be Baron every year. Jet feels her life is getting a little more stable, her plan to build interpersonal connections is working. She is finding things to do that aren't combat related, if only for balance in life. Ford is starting to make it as a gunsmith/mechanic and having more people on Frigga will only be good for her business. They are starting to produce products for sale internationally and people are starting to buy them, but not to the point where they can actually live off it yet.
They try not to take sides politically, and won't appreciate being forced to back one 'friend' over another. Ford distrusts Stellvia since Islandcon, to the point where even she laughs at how its come back into fashion again. Otherwise they try and avoid the usual politics and carry on. They know if they enter the arena, they'll just get hammered by those who know how to play the game.
Daryl is getting known within her faction, and the rumour mill has already piped up around a potential 'Sailor Frigga', but she's done nothing public which warrants the distinction. While Kotono is being watched by those in SHIELD aware of what she's actually doing on Frigga. She may yet receive a job offer she can't refuse. Anika is making a name for herself within the Hackers Underspace as someone who can get things done in a quiet and workmanlike fashion without flourish or obvious skill.
Shinji is explicity dating Yuu Inagawa. Against all expectations they have carved out a relationship based on clear communication and mutual respect. Both are very cute together. They haven't gone that far, taking the time to trust each other first.
Mackie is doing exactly as expected at Nekomi. He could do better if he was actually able to apply himself to problems, but he's smart enough to coast through. If a subject interests him, on the other hand.
The Knight Sabers continue to operate. Maico Tange continues to watch.
Depending on how the deal goes, and how life develops on Frigga, the Final Five will be awoken. Jet has five specific individuals in mind...
Ford is looking forward to Motorcon 2024, a few guests have been approached. Replies are being waited upon.
CGI's presence begins to be felt. On top of them, the first group from Venus settles in and begins turning Frigga into a living place again.
Jet believes that, for the next while at least, the future will be exactly what they fought for. Shinji Ikari and the response to him from groups that otherwise publicly distrust each other, is proof of that. All the interfactional waffle that's happening is just hot air. Fundamentally, the people are still decent human beings. She's starting believe that she has genuinely avoided the fate she's seen others of her kind succumb to...
But that all changed when the fire nation attacked.
--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?