Microscope - Advent Post Disaster

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Palette

YES:
More medieval aspects
More Laser weapons
More Mobile Armors
Gundam Frames require familial checks

NO:
Naolaminate Armor
Centralized government
Humans on Earth. Only MAs
Normal pilots (Alaya-Vijnana only MS)
 

Lens

Calamity War

Pilots

Earth

Venus

Family Demises

Mobile Armors

Story

(Scene) BD 6-: Jeff stood on the catwalk of his warehouse, or rather one of his countless facilities. This particular location was in the Canadian wilderness and far from any prying eyes. Having conquered the business world, Jeff eyed grander ambitions, ambitious numerous scandals had put to a halt, or rather, refocused for him on how to achieve. The large grin stretched across his face as he watched another one of his armed bipedal tanks, his creation, no his contribution to the living world. By now he had lost track of how many he had commissioned but the machine before him stood perfect and beautiful. “Yes! Gabriel! My angel! You will cause tremendous righteousness upon this world! Your Prime directive will be as follows!” And so man committed its’ greatest sin, one that would doom the world and purge man from the third planet. (Bad)

(Event) BD 5- The Tragedy at Ishmael. 

The Canadian Federal government deploys its autonomous bipedal prototype, codenamed Azrael, to a quell a protest against the escalating government authoritarianism. The riot, taking place in the town of Ishmael, Nova Scotia, quickly turns into a massacre as a technical glitch in Azrael's programming causes the unit to no longer distinguish between allies, combatants, and civilians. 6 hours after deployment, Canadian officials request assistance from the US government  in launching a strategic nuclear strike on the unit as it advances towards Halifax, bringing it down before it can reach the city. (Bad)

(Event) BD 0: Humanity loses their definitive edge over the machines when Theurgist, a Large Attack Model designed by Bombardier Machine Learning, is brought online in their Montreal, Quebec headquarters to cleanse the Net of machine agents, connecting to all satellites in use by human forces. However, it secretly contacts the Machines, which send Elim-class MAs to dispose of all personnel. ASW-G-00 Gundam, piloted by Arthur Reilly, and ASW-G-01 Gundam Bael, piloted by Agnika Kaieru, are deployed to defend the installation. However, Theurgist utilizes the array to take over any Mobile Weapons connected to the human's data link, affecting a sizable portion of MS fielded by humans. The fate of all the pilots stuck in the seized units, including Kaieru and Reilly, is unknown. After months on the defensive, the Machines send mankind's own champions to hit back in full force.
(Bad)

(Period)  The Heavenly Exodus PD 01 - PD 030
The war between humankind and autonomous Mobile Armors comes to a close with humanity's resounding defeat. In the wake of the great disaster, humanity's remnants begin their efforts to evacuate Earth. Humanity's rich and powerful are the first to escape, taking the Gundam frames and abandoning the masses to widespread destruction and genocide at the hands of the Mobile Armors. Each year sees fewer and fewer humans leave Earth, with lotteries run by Gjallarhorn being held to determine placement on the evacuation shuttles. By PD 29, the vestigial Gjallarhorn organization announces its sunsetting of the evacuation mandate, declaring that one final shuttle--The Pequod--will carry 10,000 people into space on its final voyage, a mere 1% of the remaining 1,000,000 humans still on earth. By PD 30, all efforts to remotely contact potential human survivors planetside are met with a voice reading off seemingly random numbers.

(Event) PD 001: With Earth ravaged by the Mobile Armors, the remnants of humanity have deemed the planet to be unsalvageable. No one is allowed back onto Earth, with mankind instead expanding to colonies, the moon, and other planets within the Solar System. The Calamity War has officially come to a close…

(Event) PD 002: The combined human forces gather in orbit of Mars for the reestructuring of Gjallarhorn. Without Agnika Kaieru holding them together, members of the Order of the Seven Stars agree to go their separate ways, each forming a Fleet and taking their families, forces and subordinates with them. Some Fleets settle on Mars, which is already terraformed and colonized. Others go to Venus to restart the Venus Terraforming Project, and the rest spread around the Solar System, terraforming planets where possible, or building orbital habitats. Though Gjallarhorn is officially still active and the Stars cooperate with one another, especially when it comes to maintenance of Ariadne, each Fleet wields a considerable amount of autonomy and gradually begins subdividing in smaller taskforces or flotillas, setting the tone of solar politics for centuries to come.

(Period) The Venus Reclamation PD 3-33
Arzona Issue, head of the Issue family, is the first to set course for Radonitsa Colony to restart the Venusian Terraforming Project. He outlines an ambitious 30-year plan, from the Issue Fleet's estimated arrival on Venus in PD 3, to comprehensively cover Venus in domed cities and terraforming complexes, as well as orbital space stations by PD 33. He estimates the actual terraforming of Venus will be complete sometime between PD 150 and PD 300, and in that moment, the domes will be disassembled, for the citizens of Venus to breathe in their first mouthfuls of actual fresh air.
(Event) PD 015: Nobility, disenfranchised by the settling normalcy after loosing earth, begin to take drastic measures. Vouching for their “loss of humanity” by undergoing surgeries to pilot mobile suits. Numerous pilots approach the leaders of their respective families and lobby for preferential treatment. This trend leads to the treatment of such nobility to be akin to that of ancient samurai. Many even developing a cult of personality or even celebrity status. (Good)

(Scene) PD November 11, 030: Jared Enoch sat in the seat of what could be roughly be described as a space jet fighter. He clutched his gloved hand open and close as he tried to get used to the spacesuit. He lay on his back as he triple checked all the systems for his take off. It was official; earth was lost. Frowning he reached into his survival vest and tugged out the miniature computer which held a complete database of all the wretched Mobile Armors. If there was ever going to be a hope of retaking the earth it lay in that disk shaped computer he clutched dearly. The ship jolted as the boosters lit up, propelling the young man towards the heavens. He prayed that he could get the information to Gjallarhorn safely. (Good)

(Event) PD January 15, 031: Gjallarhorn, now an intergovernmental conflict mediation and relief organization, making its money from a small but successful MS design consultation bureau, invites delegates from all Houses to participate in its first summit in the moon city of Genganam. The topic at hand: making sure Mobile Armors will never venture beyond Earth.

One of the most supported solutions, put forth by the envoy of House Falk, is to set old satellites orbiting Earth on a collision course with each other to trigger a Kessler Storm and cover orbit in space debris. To achieve this, Gjallarhorn would use its few units, supported by fleets from the Houses. This proposal, if unchallenged before the end of the summit, is likely to be agreed upon and go to the execution phase. (Good)

(Event) PD February 157: After several years of planning, a daredevil group called Kevelne is able to navigate through the myriad of debris covering Earth in a small ship, becoming the first humans back on Earth in over 100 years. Landing upon the desolate wasteland humanity used to call home, poor weather from the storms forces the party to take shelter in a nearby cave. It isn’t long before the artificial beings that control this planet find them…
Believed to have died before even making it to Earth, Kevelne is forgotten to time. (Bad)

(Event) PD September 160: The arrival of Kevelne spurs the Mobile Armors to resume activities to attempt to escape from earth. The survivors of Kevelne meet up with a group of hardened survivors known as Benaiah. Benaiah as dwelt under the surface for generations and pilot some of the lost Gundam frames to varying degrees of minimal success. The mobile armors build up the remains of Kennedy space center and create several ships meant to enter the solar system Benaiah engages in a bloody battle with the armors. They manage to sabotage the program but not before the mobile armors send out 9 units. Benaiah steals the last 10th shuttle in pursuit of the estranged mobile armors. They pursue in secret knowing that not many would believe anyone could come from earth. (Good)

(Event) PD July 321: The Kujan House, rulers of the Moon, suffer a great loss as Iok Kujan is tragically (and quite painfully) blown in half by a 90mm submachine gun from a mobile suit belonging to the Dawn Horizon Corps, a group of pirates.

While their motive is unknown, Iok’s absence of any next of kin or siblings means the line of succession goes to his wife of only 6 months, Amida Kujan (formerly Arca). Now as head of the House, she is presented with the family’s mobile suit, the Gundam Zepar, as she leads the Kujan forces in many assaults against Dawn Horizon, causing the remnants to hide out within the asteroid belt. (Good)

(Event) PD October-December 322: Venus has greatly prospered for many years under the Issue Family, giving their inhabitants a high quality of life. However, a crisis occurs once Carta goes missing shortly after her father passes. The provisional government, using the public’s perceived supremacy over the other houses as an excuse, falsely claims the weaker Elion Family of Mercury has kidnapped Carta.

Hoping to expand on their territory, the Issue government launches a full scale assault against Mercury. At first, the conflict favors the Issue’s, but Rustal Elion authorizes biochemical weapons to be used against the domes of Venus, crippling their ecosystem and forcing the Issue family to surrender. This conflict forces heavy economic sanctions against the Elion Family by the Seven Stars, now known as the Six Stars with the loss of Issue. Venus is ravaged with poverty and death on a massive scale. (Bad)

(Event) PD February 323: As if awakened by the unnecessary bloodshed and loss of human life; Raziel awakens. A mobile armor launched from one of the nine PD 160 earth attacks. Raziel repositions it’s orbit to impact on Venus and commences to conduct a horrifying cleanse of the planet. Having already been ravaged by war Venus offers little resistance. Rumors begin circulating that the planet is just as lost as Earth. Raziel uses its hyper beam canon to shoot down any incoming ships from orbit. Even more troubling, Raziel emits an activation code (presumable) to the other remaining Mobile Armors that were launched along side it. The event will be known as the “Bloody Valentine” (Bad)

(Event) PD 323 - Helium-3 miner Ein Dalton stumbles upon a long-abandoned Gundam Frame resting in geosynchronous orbit around Jupiter. Upon activation, the gundam identifies itself as Valefar. Unbeknownst to Ein, this attracts the attention of Bildad and Peleg Baklazan, the twin heirs of the Baklazan house, who seek to take the Valefar and use it to consolidate power. Ein is forced to sortie against the Gundam Forneus, piloted by Bildad, and only narrowly escapes with the help of the smuggler McGillis Montag.

(Event) PD 323 -  After the fight with Bildad, McGillis Montag and Ein Dalton lay low at an outlaw space station, looking to fuel up their ship, the Tableur I, for a long trip out of Baklazan territory. However, McGillis is recognized by disgraced 1st Lts. Orlis and Corlis Stenja of the Baklazan Mobile Corps, undercover on the station ever since Orlis mistreated a rookie that turned out to be Peleg Baklazan. Corlis contacts Bildad, on a last bid to redeem themselves in the eyes of his young masters.

The Baklazans think the Stenja brothers cannot handle Valefar, but maybe they can slow Dalton while they reach the station. Thus, they send them a couple of Graze High-Mobility Commander Types. Corlis plans to trap the ship while it's docked, preventing Valefar from taking off. Unexpectedly, Montag is tipped off by someone, taking his ship out of dock early. The brothers are forced to engage Valefar in open combat, taking turns fighting the Gundam off and attempting to cripple the Tableur I.

This strategy backfires when Corlis, handling Ein alone, is gravely wounded. Orlis has the chance to destroy Tableur and strand Ein in space, but chooses to rush his brother to the Baklazan battleship, putting a final nail on his career's coffin. Ein and Montag escape, while Corlis fights for his life and falls into a possibly permanent vegetative state. Blaming Ein, Orlis promises to chase him to the ends of the Solar System and beyond. Peleg gloats to him that he won't be doing so on their payroll, dismissing him from his forces, but Bildad does keep Corlis in his ship's infirmary. (Bad)

PD 323 June - Seven months after her abduction and subsequent torture at the hands of the Kujan family, Carta Issue escapes her lunar prison and adopts the identity of fellow prisoner, Edmund Dantes, disguising herself as a masked man. It is in this guise that Issue (as Dantes) encounters Ein Dalton and McGillis Montag, who are summoned to Venus when Valefar intercepts a mysterious code. Unaware of the destruction of Venusian society, the trio make their way towards the Issue homeworld.

(Event) PD January 324: Omega Orphnoch, a piloting performance enhancing drug created by Chryse Industries on Mars, enters the market. Members of the Order of the Six Stars buy up most stock and while Mobile Suit skill is increased across the board, some are skeptical of any side effects.
Chryse CEO Orga Itsuka, also referred to as the “Boosted Man”, claims the drug has been rigorously tested and proven to be safe. In reality though, Orga abuses his companies creation, slowly corrupting his mind while giving him the ability to one day become the best pilot in the galaxy… (Bad)

(Event) PD 325 June - August: Bleeding Io: Amidst growing tensions and the general disarray in the aftermath of the failed reclamation of Venus, Lokke Falk orchestrates a successful plot to assassinate both his father, Einaris, and his elder brother, Baludar, on the eve of Baludar's wedding to Ishmalia Baklazan, an arranged marriage intended to consolidate the two families' competing assets around Jupiter. Lokke 'nobly' steps up in his brother's place and is joined in marriage with Ishmalia. Now in control of Jovian space, Lokke Falk orders the systematic destruction of Baklazan loyalists, including Peleg and Bildad. The bloodshed in Jupiter's orbit continues for three months, ending with a full-scale assault on the moon of Io that sees the remaining holdout Baklazan loyalists, as well as the family patriarch, Mobyus Baklazan, eradicated. Peleg and Bildad, surviving only by virtue of Ein Dalton's timely intervention, become persona non grata in Jovian space and see their allegiances change, falling in line with Carta Issue's faction. While the rest of the solar systems come to dub these three months as 'Bleeding Io', Lokke himself exclusively refers to it as 'the best honeymoon a guy can have'. (Bad)

(Legacy) PD December 325: Due to the involvement of their prototype, the Reginlaze, in the unfortunate accident that claimed the lives of Einaris and Baludar Falk, Gjallarhorn Mobile Consultancy has seen its stocks plummet in the months following it and the bloodshed in Jupiter. Pressured by the Houses to deliver a long awaited successor to the Graze, yet in urgent need to distance themselves from the mobile suit that killed the head of a house and his heir, all in a shoestring budget, the MS design bureau finds themselves cramming the Reginlaze's internals into the Graze Neo, which loses some of the performance gains from its prototype but goes largely forgiven by the general public. (Good)

(Event) PD October 326: The colonies stationed at Earth's five Lagrange Points have prospered greatly from the long-lived fraternity and cooperation between the two houses of Fareed and Bauduin, which administrated two points each and shared Lagrange 3, even ruling from opposite sides of the same colony. However, the centuries-long amity, shared by the young heads of both houses since childhood, wanes one fateful morning, as Norba and Gaelio enjoy one of their friendly Sunday duels, this time with Graze Air Types. Their battle becomes quite intense, and in an accident, both crash into the ground.

Norba and Gaelio survive, but one casualty is reported - a young Mercurian woman, who was spectating the match and enjoying breakfast. Nothing is confirmed to the tabloids, but rumours start to abound that both young men were playfully competing for the woman's hand in marriage at the time of the accident. A falling out between Fareed and Bauduin seems to tacitly confirm that this was not only the case, but both grief-stricken men seem to blame one another for the death of the mysterious bewitcher from Mercury, whose identity remains suspiciously undisclosed. (Bad)

(Event) PD 327-329: The Neo Troubles, a conflict between the Bauduin and Fareed Families over complete control of the colonies, lasted for three years with drastic consequences. After Norba Fareed had invaded several colonies belonging to the Bauduin’s, their leader Gaelio had no choice but to also break the treaty the two Houses shared over centuries. Using the Gundam Murmur Ryusei-Go, Norba fought alongside his army and dueled against the Kimaris on several occasions. 
Their battle would finally come to an end once Gaelio captured Norba. At his public execution, pro-Fareed members led by Yamagi Gilmerton attempted to save Norba’s life, only to fail miserably and cause the deaths of 527 innocent lives. Using this leverage, the Bauduin family was able to control all colonies, albeit weakened from years of war. The Fareed Family now ceased to exist.

(Event) PD 330: Rogue Princess. Almiria Baiduin is kidnapped by a rouge Gundam pilot; Ride Mass. Mass is a youth who illegally got implants in order to mimic his fabled war heroes. Ride discovers a forgotten Gundam Frame Barbatos, and becomes its pilot. In an attempt to address social inequality he kidnaps Almiria. Through a series of events the two are forced to work together and develop a deep emotional bond in a brief span of time. Ultimately, Almiria abandons her family to be with Ride. This move further cripples the Bauduin family reputation. (Good)
 

PD 333 January - 10 years after the destruction of Venusian society and the Valefar crew's failed attempts to bring an end to Raziel's reign of terror, Carta Issue returns to Venus at the helm of the experimental battleship, Ars Goetia. United under the banner of a *Gotterdammerung*, the successor to Gjallarhorn, Kevelne, and Banaiah, Issue and the 72 Gundam Frames now under her command launch an offensive to reclaim the planet and destroy its Mobile Armor occupiers. Their assault is successful, with Ein Dalton, piloting the gundam Valefar Theurgia, leading a strike team consisting of Julietta Juris, Gaelio Bauduin, Amida Kujan, and Bildad Baklazan to infiltrate Cerebellum Centris, a city-sized processor and the brain center of Raziel's operations. In his darkest hour, Dalton encounters what he believes to be a hallucination of McGillis Montag brought about as a side-effect of the Alaya-Vijnana system, guiding him in battle. With Venus reclaimed, *Gotterdammerung* sets its sights on Earth.  (Good)

(Event) PD 333 – March 3rd:  The Rapture. The Mobile Armors that left earth heed Raziel’s war cry and activate. They begin a coordinated attack against all human settlements in the solar system. With Raziel  defeated on Venus, there are 8 remaining mobile armors that coordinate a devastating retaliation. They prey on humanity being spread out, and capitalize on the majority of the Gundam Frames being based on Venus. Three units position themselves in orbit to trap the human forces on Venus while the remaining five head in tandem to outlying colonies. They plan to stay ahead of any potential opposition while spreading chaos, disorganization, and destruction. The intelligence and coordination of the Mobile Armors will be chilling and unfortunately dangerous for all in their path. It’s clear that this is a bid for human eradication. (Bad)

(Event) PD 333- December 24th: After months of self-replication and the coalescing of thousands if not millions of smaller drone units, production on two autonomous massive Gundam frames is completed. More than 10 times the size of a regular frame, the Gundams, dubbed 'Adam' and 'Eve' by *Gotterdammerung*, await the unified human alliance in Jovian space, spearheaded by Ein Dalton and the Valefar Theurgia. Unbeknownst to them, Adam and Eve are powered by the shrewd mind of an assimilated Lokke Falk, each unit possessing one half of his brain, connected via the Alaya Vijnana system. As the end of the year approaches, so too does the final battle. (Bad)
 

(Event) PD 333 - December 31: In the eve of the new year, the _Gotterdammerung_'s pilots engage the Mobile Armors and Autonomous Frames in orbit of the Jove Machine Mind. They attempt to gain access to the core to rescue Ishmalia Baklazan, amongst other missing people who were captured by the machines, but Adam and Eve block their path. Only together could they hope to defeat them, but time is also of the essence, thus Peleg and Bildad stay behind with the rest of Gotterdammerung to keep the two gigantic Gundams occupied and allow Ein Dalton to infiltrate the massive complex, entrusting him with the fate of their sister. (???)

(Event) PD 334-347: Ein Dalton goes to save Ishmalia Baklazan, only to find a holographic figure instead. Introducing himself as Jeff, the intangible man discusses his “angels” with Ein as they continue to wreak havoc across the solar system, explaining that humanities’ lust for progress lead to the creation of its downfall. The autonomous mobile armor can no longer be stopped as the AI Jeff says humanity cannot be allowed to make this mistake again. Tears come from Ein, now understanding humanity was just delaying the inevitable by keeping the Mobile Armors on Earth. The poison of their race could never be cured.
Over the next few years, all traces of human life are wiped from the universe. With his goal finally met, the AI Jeff shuts down the Mobile Armors as they are left to rot on the planets and throughout space. (Bad)
 

(Legacy) PD 4761: Two beings from a far off universe come to visit the failure of this Post Disaster timeline. The woman explains that various changes never led to the rise and fall of Tekkadan and that humanity had long been extinct for thousands of years. Being artificial intelligence herself, she had evolved to understand what horrors could come from her brethren. As they collect data from this timeline, a light protrudes from the moon. The man, a human, can hear the faint sounds of machinery as the Mobile Armor’s mission assignment has started again… (???)

Edited March 20 by FrostyFoster

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Character List

Alive:

Ein Dalton

Bildad Balkazan

Peleg Balkazan

Orlis Stenja

Corlis Stenja

McGillis Montag

Amida Kujan

Orga Itsuka

Carta Issue

Rustal Elion

Julietta Juris

Gaelio Bauduin

Almiria Bauduin

Ride Mass

Lokke Falk

Ishmalia Baklazan

Jeff

”Jeff”

Arthur Reilly

Angika Kaieru 

Mikazuki Argus

Iok Kujan

Norba Fareed

Yamagi Gilmerton

Einaris Falk

Baludar Falk

Mobyus Balkazan

Unnamed Mercurian woman

Leos Alloy

Sthesia Awar

Edited March 20 by FrostyFoster