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The Earth was in ruins.
Due to centuries of human recklessness and overpopulation, the humanity was forced to begin large cylindrical habitats known as "exohabitats," which are referred to as "colonies" when in groups five of which were placed around the five Lagrangian points, wherein the experienced gravitational force is identical to that on Earth's surface. The first ten exohabitats, known as the "Pioneers" or "Alpha Series" exohabitats, were designed primarily as command/communication (or "CC") centers, acting as governments, a central transport hub, and architects for the later exohabitats.
And how did they build these? By using the powerful mobile suits and mobile workers.
In time, scientists discovered the power of terraforming, eventually terraforming Mars and the dwarf planet Ceres on the edge of the habitable zone. Human colonies were established, ruled by the same United Earth Federation that governed the remainder of the Earth's population as well as the population of the Colonies. Mars and Ceres remained sparsely populated until the fateful day almost two hundred years later when their atmospheres were capable of supporting human life- the day when scientist on Earth discovered a process they called "paidoterraforming"- the ability to return an industrialized and/or urbanized area back to how it was before human interference. With this technique, the Earth was revitalized as it became the center of all humanity one more, with four great superpowers coming into being- the American Union, the African Federation, the Eurasian Empire, and the Oceanic Confederation.
With the Colonies swearing allegiance to one of the four nations, the Ten Years War began and almost destroyed the various Colonies along with the destruction of various Exohabitats. Only with the invention of the Gundam mobile suit did the war come to an end. The great and vast destruction brought about the creation of the Earth Federation, a galactic government to govern all of humanity. While the four nations were given their sovereignty, they soon carved up Mars, Ceres, and the Colonies into quadrants, a solution that worked for the time as a hundred years passed.
The Empire rules its territory with an iron first- a strong shadow supporter of the use of child labor in interplanetary industry. The strongest of the four supernations, many believe that the ruler of the Eurasian Empire- Emperor Vladimir Rebani- is the only one that could threaten the governance of the United Federation and succeed- the man having outspoken multiple times against the galactic government, outside of an intergalactic supreme court system. In fact, many believed that the Emperor was planning to declare war one the Earth Federation and- utilizing the near-zealot level of loyalty and patriotism to the Empire.
However, the four supernations were not the only players in play. Some civilizations had continued to survive- namely the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Israel, and China among less than ten others (the former United States existed as a primary state of the American Union, and Russia the heart of the Empire)- that controlled their ancient territory on Earth although their population was mostly settled in Colonies. These were simply referred to as the "colonial nations." And, for reasons simple, the Vatican was allowed to remain as an independent micronation, serving primarily as an arbitrator between other nations.
Now, in the Imperial Quadrant of Mars, the Sirius Star Security Corporation hosts the Second Security Squadron, which is split into four divisions. In the Fourth Division, one finds child slaves- many of whom are implanted with various pieces of biotechnology- that work with Mobile Workers as well as individual security.
To survive in the Fourth Division, most of the children- many of whom are orphans "rescued" by the company- were required to undergo an operation to have a series of microchips and devices known as the Alaya-Vijnana System implanted into their spinal column. The operation only succeeded between fifty and seventy-five percent of the time, and could only be performed on prepubescent children. If the operation was successful, the Alaya-Vijnana System would create a pseudo-brain lobe in the pilot's body using nanomachines, allowing the pilot's brain to directly process mobile suit data fed through the physical connection. As the pseudo-brain lobe also governs spatial awareness, the pilot's spatial awareness is enhanced. The system also allowed pilot (even illiterate ones) to operate a mobile weapon without requiring instructions or reading a manual. Those who successfully underwent the operation would be whisked away to be trained in using mobile weapons.
However, failure lead to a few different failures. If the operation failed, the subject could request the operation done a second time depending on why it failed. Those who were found incompatible with the Alaya-Vijana System were split between doing utility services (farming, janitorial, manufacturing, etc), and mechanical services (mobile weapon repair, security, facility maintenance, etc). This was also the case for those who failed and suffered no serious side-effects. However, the most common side-effects was that individuals would become paralyzed in at least one limb, which would be amputated and replaced with a prosthetic before adding them to the individuals running utility services.
Those who had any worse side-effects that they couldn't recover from were silently euthanized by order of the company's administrators.
One of those who managed to survive the procedure was Auric Ulises, one of the older members of the Fourth Division and one of the team leaders for the mobile weapons. Auric was one of the first to be implanted with the new model of Alaya-Vijana System wherein the "Whiskers" were no more than upraised bumps on the spinal column- visible but not as drastic as the older model's. With these, the control attachments could be magnetically attached outside of the clothes and thin coveralls the pilots were given as opposed to having to strip down to attach their whiskers to the cockpit. Although it seemed less harmful than its predecessor post-surgery, there were no true studies performed regarding the effects had on those subject to the new system after the surgery, aside from the fact that many of the same surgical side-effects continued despite the fact that this new system had a notably higher success rate than it's predecessor, meaning that- regardless of the surgery's outcome- the patient had a much better chance of surviving.
Auric Ulises was found an orphan, surviving on the street of some small town in the Imperial Quadrant of Mars. He was- as far as the members of the Fourth Division were concerned- well-educated, having attended a public school in that small town where he had survived. He was literate, which was a scarce skill given that, most of the time, the members of the Fourth Division were taken before they learn such and taught to work the fields before the time came to be operated on. Snatched from the streets when he was nine or so years old, he had already discovered a penchant for reading and learning, which the officials among the Fourth Division had always considered a threat to their chokehold on the illiterate and seemingly unknowing workers of the Fourth Division- their free labor.
On multiple occasions, Auric- by now known as "Professor" in manners both of adoration and scorn- attempted to smuggle in books and supplies with which to teach and better their possibilities. And, despite the varying degrees attempt each success brought, every attempt was found out and ended with Auric being beaten by members of the other divisions, who saw the children as less-than-human anyway. The worst of these beating ended with a knife cutting his lip and the side of his face, leaving a long scar.
At the age of twenty, just a few days after his birthday, he and his troops were told to use their mobile workers- which were equipped with flatbeds as opposed to their usually 30mm guns as they departed with a exploratory party to tap some areas for mining potential. They were supposed to get this done quickly since they needed to appear nice and good for some sort of high-class client that was going to see about hiring them as an escort service. At the moment, they weren't too far from the main instillation, which had been built over an old Earth Federation facility from the Ten Year's War. It was thought that most of the facility that had been destroyed, the remainder being what was reclaimed by the Sirius Star Security Corporation.
Well, it turned out that they were wrong.
As the mining team attempted to extract core samples, a large thud was heard, the drill having reached some kind of refined metal they couldn't pierce through with a light core extractor. Being the seniormost member there, Auric decided that should use their tools to try and clear away some of the rock and dirt to see if they could find an entrance. Half an hour later, two of the children found what appeared to be a service entrance, the group grabbing their flashlights as a few remained to watch the area in the mobile workers. Auric, descending the stairway first looked around. It was a large maintenance shaft- with enough room to bring down some supplies.
When he gained some solid footing, he looked around- it appeared as if her was on some kind of catwalk. Heading one way and walking through a door, as it appeared that the maintenance hatch exited through some form of observation deck before reaching the main catwalk, the boy almost fell backwards as he saw what were undeniably mobile suits of some sort, although they didn't look like any kind of mobile suit that he had ever heard of. He asked the others to try and find a way to restore power to the facility, walking over to the terminal of the nearest one, the small label on the console reading, in faded text, "Bay I- Gundam 'Zephyrantes,' RX78-GP01." Instantly, Auric felt some sort of connection with the suit.
As the lights and power flashed on, he had a feeling that they had found the means to their freedom- it was time to keep a secret that could be their salvation.
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