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Little White Inhibitions; Character Development
Topic Started: Nov 29 2007, 03:04 PM (197 Views)
DarkAries
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An outdoor cafe was a security risk to hell, and plenty of coffee shops had been bombed on Earth and the Colonies to constantly ring in the back of her mind that it was a bad idea, but Captain Haruka Osanne Piquet of the Imperium Military never quite got used to sending underlings to fetch her a cup of coffee.

Vascillia had always annoyed her in some respect or another. As she sat at an outdoor table, under its parasol, she thought for an instant that she figured it out.

She glared distastefully at her tall caramel latte with extra foam. Damned colonists never knew how to make a proper cup of coffee.

Setting her cup down with a dainty, shockingly pale hand, she turned to look towards the street and propped her chin up on one arm, her red eyes immediately searching out snipers' nests or potential car bombs just by reflex, never even pausing her thought process. She was probably spoiled, anyway...the French on Earth seemed to be the only people capable of making decent coffee, and she had been raised on the stuff. In fact, technically, Vascillia had been her first destination off-planet, her posting on Mars was her first time off Earth.

The cold Martian wind ruffled her downy white hair, kept out of her face by a red headband. She shivered all the same and sank a little deeper into her coat. I really hope the Imperium never occupies Mars permanently, she thought. The people are belligerent, the climate's six degrees cooler than it should be, and nothing about this place looks the way it should.

Yes, Mars was terraformed now, but its soil was still reddish, and its distance from the sun made it noticeably colder than Earth. And truly, yes, the people were belligerent, even when she was out of uniform.

Haruka had been transferred to Mars as part of an Imperium half-covert counter-insurgency team, with the job of stomping out rebel cells and mercenary units. And the Martian people were all too willing to harbor such miscreants, and yet all too willing to inform on them as well. The very duality of the people annoyed Haruka.

We don't technically even own this territory, she thought. But with its proximity to Earth, maybe it makes sense to make sure it stays stable.

So maybe it made sense why she was even out here...what didn't make sense is the transfer order she had just received from Command. She was shipping out tomorrow to return to Earth, especially baffling considering that she was on the verge of uncovering a serious unitary movement that had been poking around old military depots, buying up supplies and recently had the gall to raid the Phobos Research Facility that she and others had spent careful time and effort quietly setting up shop for the Imperium's covert Martian operations through. Mars was easy to keep contained as long as it was fragmented. A coalition of the Martian Colonies could prove upsetting.

At least for as long as it took for the Imperator to bring the force of the military around and down on its neck. Her job was to make sure it didn't get to that point.

She picked up her coffee and sipped it again, then grimaced. All this effort for people who couldn't even make coffee.

I swear, I'm going to teach these people the proper way to brew...well...the second they ship me back here to take care of this little problem. She shook her head in disappointment. We're not even sure if this Rebellion is for real or not yet, and they're already abandoning threats that we've got just about pinned to go and chase it. Jeez.

She stood up, looking at her coffee cup, then turned and left, jamming her hands into her coat pockets and joining the small throng of people on the street. Not worth it.
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Character: Col. Hatario Takanaki
Affiliation: Imperium, 1st IEU
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Total Destruction: (Imminent)
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Londenar Fu
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Londenar wandered around Vascillia after his meeting with the Chief Representative, taking mental notes on how he could probably improve performance on hover vehicles. As he walked around the city, he noticed a woman who was sitting down at an outdoor cafe. There wasn't anything unusual about her appearance, but he noticed that she was constantly looking around, as if searching for something. Only trained combat personnel did that, and he knew every former Empire soldier living on Mars. She had to be either an Imperial officer or a Rebel spy. As she grimaced into her cup of coffee and got up, Londenar moved after her, making sure he stayed more or less inconspicuous. As he caught up to her, he grabbed her by the arm, and before she could respond, moved close and whispered under his breath, making a guess at her allegiance.

"So...how can I help an Imperial officer make her way around Mars? You're too twitchy to be just a civilian, and I happen to know just about everyone on Mars who was a soldier. Come with me if you don't want the people here to start getting edgy. People here don't particularly like anyone off Mars right now."

Keeping a grip on her arm, he moved to a small cafe that was set near one of his company's repair shops. When they were inside, he let go and moved up to the counter.

"Hey, Vince, two of the 'special'."

Picking up the two cups of coffee, he placed them down on a small table in the back of the cafe.

"Come on now. Its not poisoned, you know. I brought you here because the cafe you were at is known for its tea...not its coffee. Should have tried the black tea. Very tasty. Anyway, this is a dark blend of martian-grown beans. I've tried some of the coffee from Earth and this stuff is as close to a good french-roast as you'll find on Mars.

Now. Sit down. I want to know what an officer from the Earth Sphere is doing on Mars."
Pilot Designation: Londenar Fu
Military Allegiance: Martian Colonial Alliance
Mobile Suit: N/A
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DarkAries
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Haruka's red eyes narrowed as she cut past Londenar and sat down, keeping both her hands in her coat pockets.

"Currently training a nine-millimeter at your solar plexus," she said coldly.

The front of her right coat pocket bulged subtly.

"I don't like just being swept off my feet, thank you," she said, the threat plain in her voice.
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Londenar Fu
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"Hmph. Like I havent had that one pulled on me before. You're better off aiming for my face you know. Besides. If I had wanted to kill you, I would have."

Picking up his cup of coffee, he spooned some sugar into it and took a sip.

"Ahh...go ahead. Drink. It only takes one hand to take a shot at me anyway. Now. I take it you're with the Imperials. Someone from the Preventers would have taken a shot by now, from what all the rumors flying about are saying. I am Londenar Fu, right hand of Seth Skyblast. If the Imperial Intelligence Agency has any brains in its command structure, you'll have at least heard of him. Now then. What are you doing on Mars?"
Pilot Designation: Londenar Fu
Military Allegiance: Martian Colonial Alliance
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"Considering opening a corporate outpost for a Colonial burger chain," she said sarcastically, leaving her coffee untouched deliberately.

Inwardly, she ran down all her information, matching names on dossier sheets to half-reliable intelligence reports. The name 'Skyblast' had come up once or twice. 'Fu' had been mentioned with a bit more regularity. She remembered with a concealed smile how she had thought both names stupid upon reading them.

Her weapon never wavered, although her eyes flicked about the area subtly, checking the escape routes, or possible monitoring devices. Her eyes settled on the steaming cup in front of her and suddenly a scenario clicked into her head with almost an amusing sense of irony.

"Come now," she said chidingly. "You should know the answer to this sort of thing wouldn't come easily unless it was a lie."
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"I guess its not going to be easy getting answers out of you. Not that it matters. I can take a guess. The Imperium plans on controlling Mars one way or the other. If we manage to unite the provinces and the moons into one cohesive unit, it makes it that much harder for the Imperium to exert political pressure. And you are probably one of the people they sent here looking for rebels and whatnot."

Londenar watched her carefully, and took note as her eyes flitted around the shop and onto her cup of coffee, if only for a split second. He sighed into his cup before taking another sip.

"Look. We arent out to usurp the Imperium's position in this sector. We'd just rather not be subject to its rather harsh law system and its lack of oversight at the higher levels. And I know the Sulaymaan Republic isn't happy with the Imperium right now. How the Union managed to keep an alliance with them two decades ago is beyond me. By the way, you are free to leave anytime you wish. Just don't waste the coffee by throwing it at people. I just wanted you to know what our goals are. Without having to sit through one of Seth's 'peace for Mars' speeches. Now then. Is there anything you'd like to say before you make that cliched dignified walk out the door?"
Pilot Designation: Londenar Fu
Military Allegiance: Martian Colonial Alliance
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Damn, I'm going to have to stand in front of a mirror for a while, until I stop being so damn predictable, Haruka thought, annoyed at her transparency. "Not especially," she said instead, considering throwing the coffee at him anyway.

She stood, then looked at him out of the corner of her eye. "But how do you know I'm here to exert pressure on you? I could very well be here ensuring your security...checking your progress."
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"Phft."
Londenar nearly spilled his drink because he was laughing so hard.

"Hahahaha. You really want me to think that don't you? Why would the Imperium willingly bolster the unification movement? After all, putting pressure on each province individually is a lot easier than trying to push around an entire planet. And for all you know, we could be secretly talking to the Preventers, or the Republic, or space aliens from Alpha Centauri. You couldn't risk it, not unless you had a guarantee that'd we would throw ourselves into your camp after unification. Not that something like that isn't in the works...and besides. We have our own security forces. We can take care of ourselves. If a full-sized mobile suit battalion suddenly appeared on-planet, there'd be an uproar and the enemies of the Imperium would bring down their wrath on this planet as well as throughout the Earth Sphere. And nobody can afford that. Especially the Imperium. The citizens of Mars could live with being ruled by another power, but if concentrated attacks started happening all over Imperial space, it wouldnt be good.

I'm not stupid. I was a mechanic during the Empire-Union war. If you didn't have a brain while fixing up a mobile suit, then any number of things could make sure you'd never get the chance to get one. And drink the coffee already. Its going to get cold."
Pilot Designation: Londenar Fu
Military Allegiance: Martian Colonial Alliance
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"I've had better coffee, frankly," she said. "But you misunderstand me. It was a hypothetical. Just like your presumption that I'm here in any official capacity at all."

She leaned a little closer. "But I've been stomping out your sad little cells for a while now, and you're absolutely right, we simply can't trust you people. Seems to be bred into your bones."

Smiling, she leaned close enough to where her lips nearly brushed Londenar's ear. "And the second I get my superior to see that, I'll be back to deal with you," she whispered.

She slid a hand out of her coat and slipped the disconnected microphone head of the wire she'd been wearing into the front pocket of his shirt.

Stepping back with a smile, she winked at him, already walking out of the shop. "Ciao."
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Watching from behind the wall near to the cafe, Kenji stepped out, or to be exact, Tri stepped out. He had watched the entire chat between Lond and this unknown woman. Doing as Seth had instructed, after the meeting Lond had with the Chief Representative, he had shadowed Lond, a bodyguard and backup in the shadows. It was to deal with unwanted visitors if they showed up and would keep the total number of their group in the city unknown. However, upon hearing that this woman was a member of the Imperium, Tri had managed to come to the surface and gave a slight, devilish smile. Stepping out, hands in his pockets and head down, he bumped into the woman as he passed by her. "Next time, remember that I had my gun on your head," he whispered to her as he passed. The gun could be seen clipped to his side, close to where his hand now rested. He gave her a slight glance back as he moved over to Lond, a sneer on his face. Walking up to Lond, he spit on the ground then sighed. "Are we done here? Or is there matters that still require attention?"
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